Arizona legislation · Fifty-seventh Legislature - Second Regular Session (2026)
Arizona HB2665: manslaughter; online advice; encouragement
Status: Chaptered, April 13, 2026
HB2665 - manslaughter; online advice; encouragement
What the bill says
An act amending section 13-1103, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to homicide. Section [DELETED: 1.] 1. Section 13-1103, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to classification; definition A. A person commits manslaughter by doing any of the following: 1. Recklessly causing the death of another person. 2. Committing second degree murder as prescribed in section 13-1104, subsection A on a sudden quarrel or heat of passion resulting from adequate provocation by the victim. 3. Intentionally providing the physical means that another person uses to die by suicide.
From the chaptered text, April 14, 2026:
AN ACT amending section 13-1103, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to homicide. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE) Section [DELETED: 1.] 1. Section 13-1103, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to classification; definition A. A person commits manslaughter by doing any of the following: 1. Recklessly causing the death of another person. 2. Committing second degree murder as prescribed in section 13-1104, subsection A on a sudden quarrel or heat of passion resulting from adequate provocation by the victim. 3. Intentionally providing the physical means that another person uses to die by suicide, with the knowledge that the person intends to die by suicide. 4. Committing second degree murder as prescribed in section 13-1104, subsection A, paragraph 3, while being coerced to do so by the use or threatened immediate use of unlawful deadly physical force on the person or a third person that a reasonable person in his situation would have been unable to resist. 5. Knowingly or recklessly causing the death of an unborn child by any physical injury to the mother. B. A person who is at least eighteen years of age commits manslaughter by intentionally providing advice or encouragement, including by a directed communication, that a minor uses to die by suicide with the knowledge that the minor intends to die by suicide. C. An offense under …