REFERENCE TITLE: light rail; public monies; prohibition

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1222

Introduced by

Senators Mesnard: Carroll

AN ACT

Amending section 28-9204, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to light rail transit system.

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

Section 1. Section 28-9204, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-9204. Public monies; prohibition

Notwithstanding any other law, public monies may not be used to extend light rail service in Phoenix to:

1. The area with a boundary of seventeenth ninth avenue on the east, Adams Van Buren street on the north, eighteenth nineteenth avenue on the west and Jefferson Jackson street on the south.

2. Any area or property, including the streets described in paragraph 1 of this section, that is within fifty linear yards of the area described in paragraph 1 of this section. END_STATUTE