REFERENCE TITLE: community protection initiative; report; continuation

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature First Regular Session 2017

HB 2094

Introduced by Representative Bowers

 

AN ACT

 

amending sections 37‑1343 and 37‑1344, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the state forester.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 37-1343, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE37-1343.  Management; categorical funding limits; annual report

A.  The state forester is responsible and shall provide for the management of the community protection initiative program under this article.

B.  In any fiscal year the state forester shall not spend from the community protection initiative fund more than:

1.  Fifty thousand dollars for program administration, including:

(a)  Ranking grant priorities.

(b)  Receiving and evaluating grant applications.

(c)  Awarding and monitoring grants.

(d)  Reallocating lapsed grant monies.

2.  One hundred thousand dollars for an Arizona fire map to track the progress of forest treatment under community wildfire protection plans by managing treatment information and loading data associated with the plans into the community protection initiative system.

C.  On or before december 1, the state forester shall prepare an annual report on the community protection initiative program, including budgeted expenditures and outstanding grants from the fund and progress in completing projects funded by the grants.  The state forester shall provide copies of the annual report to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the joint legislative budget committee, the secretary of state, the Arizona state library, archives and public records and any person requesting a copy. END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.  Section 37-1344, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE37-1344.  Program termination

The program established by this article ends on July 1, 2017 2021 pursuant to section 41‑3102. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3.  Retroactivity

Section 37-1344, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, applies retroactively to from and after June 30, 2017.