Reference to: Appropriations Committee Amendment
Amendment drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Adds a consortium of municipalities and counties to the entities the Arizona Department of Housing (ADOH) is allowed to disburse grants to establish sanctioned camping sites.
2. Requires ADOH to establish the program that includes sanctioned camping sites, operating policies, and prioritize safe camping sites but may also fund sprung structures, tiny homes or similar low-cost structures that can be assembled quickly.
3. Adds municipality and county to the entities ADOH is allowed to disburse grants monies to establish multidisciplinary homeless outreach teams.
4. Replaces the required membership of multidisciplinary homeless outreach teams with being composed of at least one of the following from the following groups:
a) peer providers, law enforcement officers or mental health providers; and
b) social service providers contracted off-duty law enforcement officers or contracted security officers.
5. Removes the requirement a homeless outreach team enforce all state and local laws banning camping and sleeping in public and implement policies to move homeless individuals through drug or mental health courts.
6. Removes the stipulation that any grant to a nonprofit organization for establishing or supporting homeless outreach teams is contingent on the nonprofit organization entering into an agreement with the local jurisdiction's law enforcement agency to establish a homeless outreach team.
7. Makes technical and conforming changes.