PREFILED    DEC 02 2025

REFERENCE TITLE: grandfathered right; Willcox AMA; extension

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2031

Introduced by

Representative Griffin

AN ACT

providing for an application extension for grandfathered water rights.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1. Willcox active management area; certificate of grandfathered right; time extension; delayed repeal

A. Notwithstanding section 45-476, subsection A, Arizona Revised Statutes, a person claiming the right to withdraw or receive and use groundwater in the Willcox active management area pursuant to a grandfathered right shall file an application for a certificate of grandfathered right with the department of water resources not later than twenty-seven months after the date of the designation of the active management area on a form provided by the department.

B. This section is repealed from and after December 31, 2026.

Sec. 2. Retroactivity

This act applies retroactively to from and after January 7, 2025.

Sec. 3. Emergency

This act is an emergency measure that is necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is operative immediately as provided by law.