Chris Cottrell
Chris Cottrell is the founder of Daddy Read a Book, and the student who wrote Chris' Law: Victim's Protection Act.Chris' Law
At the age of twelve, Cottrell wrote an idea for legislation as part of a homework project for a student legislature that was discovered and introduced by then-Senator Dean Martin. "Chris' Law," along with an amendment to the Arizona Constitution, keeps alleged sexual offenders from posting bail and established the first boundary around Arizona schools so convicted sexual offenders could not live in proximity of schools.
The bill was introduced to the Arizona State Senate in 2002 by Senator Dean Martin as "Chris' Law - Victim's Protection Act". It passed the Judiciary Committee and the Arizona 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.
Prop 103, the constitutional amendment accompanying the bill, was on the Arizona ballot in November, 2002 and passed with 80.4% of the vote, one of the most popular ballot measures in Arizona history.
