Английская Википедия:Chris Cottrell

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox person Chris Cottrell is the founder of The Reading Initiative,[1] and the student who wrote Chris's Law: Victim's Protection Act.[2]

Chris' Law

At the age of twelve, Cottrell wrote an idea for legislation[3] as part of a homework project for a student legislature that was discovered and introduced by then-Senator Dean Martin.[4] "Chris' Law," along with an amendment to the Arizona Constitution, keeps alleged sexual offenders from posting bail[5] and established the first boundary around Arizona schools so convicted sexual offenders could not live in proximity of schools.[6]

Chris Cottrell and Sen. Dean Martin at the Arizona State Capitol.

The bill was introduced to the Arizona State Senate in 2002[7] by Senator Dean Martin as "Chris' Law - Victim's Protection Act". It passed the Judiciary Committee and the Senate in March 2002. The Arizona House of Representatives also voted in favor of the bill a month later and it was signed into law by Governor Jane Dee Hull on May 17, 2002.[8]

Proposition 103, the constitutional amendment accompanying the bill, was on the Arizona ballot in November, 2002[9] and passed with 80.4% of the vote, one of the most popular ballot measures in Arizona history.[10]

Military service

While still a student at Georgetown,[11][12] Cottrell joined the U.S. Army Reserve. After graduation, he completed basic training and commissioned from Officer Candidate School as an intelligence officer. He later completed a ten-month deployment to Iraq with U.S. Special Operations Command in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.[13]

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