Bill > SB1018

This bill amends Arizona law to define "foreign law" to specifically include Sharia law and any other law, rule, or legal code that is not part of the United States Constitution, federal laws, ratified treaties, or Arizona's constitution and laws. Furthermore, it expands the definition of foreign law to encompass any foreign, religious, or cultural law, custom, or practice that permits, excuses, or condones actions such as honor killings, forced marriages, marriages involving minors that violate state law, female genital mutilation, physical punishment of minors that constitutes abuse, domestic violence justified by cultural or religious authority, restricting a person's liberty based on gender or religion, denying equal protection or due process, polygamy where prohibited by Arizona law, or any conduct that violates a criminal law in Arizona.