{"bill":{"bill_key":"AZ-HB2589-2026","title":"Unlawful exposure; minors; drag show","side":"anti","state":"AZ","year":2026,"status_cat":"failed","ls_status":"engrossed","summary":"Unlawful exposure; minors; drag show","notes":"Drag reference amended away before Senate passage; Class 4 Felony for exposing a minor to a drag performance - something that meets any of one of 3 criteria including merely a performance with \"A person who uses clothing, makeup, costuming, prosthetics or other physical markers to present an exaggerated and stylized gender expression that differs from the person's biological sex or normal gender…","types_str":"Censorship: Drag Ban","sponsor_mix":"R","final_margin_pct":55.6,"url":"https://legiscan.com/AZ/bill/HB2589/2026","url_kind":"legiscan","source":"legiscan","special":0,"bluebook":{"cite":"H.B. 2589, 57th Leg., 2d Reg. Sess. (Ariz. 2026), https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/84391.","short":"Ariz. H.B. 2589."}},"same_key":[],"sponsors":[{"name":"Michael Way","party":"R","state":"AZ","district":"HD-015","is_primary":true,"href":"/people/ls-25449"}],"citations":["AZ:13-3501","AZ:13-3508"],"text":{"available":true,"credit":"Bill data and text from LegiScan (legiscan.com), licensed CC BY 4.0 and used in modified form. LegiScan does not endorse the Trans Data Initiative.","versions":[{"role":"intro","label":"As introduced","chars":2081}]}}