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Representative Aguilar: HB 2995 rewrites domestic-violence framework; elevates child and victim safety in custody cases
Summary
HB 2995 would overhaul Arizona's domestic violence framework used in custody decisions, revising evidence standards, limiting findings of mutual domestic violence, defining coercive control and adding an emergency clause; the sponsor recommends concurrence.
Representative Celiana presented HB 2995, saying it "rewrites Arizona's domestic violence framework used in legal decision making and parenting time cases." She told members the Senate amendment stipulates that child and victim safety are the highest priority in custody matters involving domestic violence, revises required court findings and evidence standards, limits findings of mutual domestic violence, establishes a burden of proof before restoring custody or parenting time to a parent subject to presumptions in the bill, revises related definitions (including coercive control), and adds an emergency clause.
The sponsor recommended concurrence. No amendments, fiscal notes or votes were recorded in the caucus transcript.
