Assigned to APPROP                                                                                                                     AS ENACTED

 


 

 

 

ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Sixth Legislature, Second Regular Session

 

ENACTED

FACT SHEET FOR H.B. 2907/S.B. 1745

 

local government; 2024-2025

Purpose

Makes session law changes relating to local government necessary to implement the FY 2025 state budget.

Background

The Arizona Constitution prohibits substantive law from being included in the general appropriations, capital outlay appropriations and supplemental appropriations bills. However, it is often necessary to make statutory and session law changes to effectuate the budget. Thus, separate bills called budget reconciliation bills (BRBs) are introduced to enact these provisions. Because BRBs contain substantive law changes, the Arizona Constitution provides that they become effective on the general effective date, unless an emergency clause is enacted.

                  H.B. 2907 contains the budget reconciliation provisions for changes relating to local government.

Provisions

1.   Continues to allow a county with a population of fewer than 250,000 persons to meet any fiscal obligation for FY 2025 from any source of county revenue designated by the county, including monies of any countywide special taxing jurisdiction where the board of supervisors serves as the board of directors.

2.   Continues to cap, at $1,250,000, the amount of money a county may use for purposes outside the county's revenue source.

3.   Continues to require a county with a population of fewer than 250,000 persons, by October 1, 2024, to report to the Director of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee:

a)   whether the county used a revenue source for purposes other than the revenue source's intended purposes to meet a county fiscal obligation; and

b)   the specific source and amount of revenues that the county intends to use in FY 2025.

4.   Becomes effective on the general effective date.

House Action                                                           Senate Action

APPROP         6/13/24      DP    9-7-1-0                  APPROP         6/13/24      DP    6-5-0

3rd Read          6/15/24               34-24-2                  3rd Read          6/15/24               17-12-1

                                                                                 (H.B. 2907 was substituted for S.B. 1745 on

                                                                                 3rd Read)

Signed by the Governor 6/18/24

Chapter 219

Prepared by Senate Research

June 21, 2024

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