Bill > HB2666

This bill amends Arizona law regarding sexual extortion, which is defined as knowingly communicating a threat to force someone to engage in sexual contact, allow their genitals, anus, or female breast to be recorded, or to exhibit those body parts. The key change is that if the perpetrator is eighteen years or older and knows or should have known the victim is fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen years old, sexual extortion becomes a more serious offense, classified as a class 2 felony instead of a class 3 felony. This also mandates that the sentence for this crime must be served consecutively to any other sentence imposed for sexual extortion, and the convicted person faces stricter limitations on early release, probation, or pardon, similar to when the victim is under fifteen.