ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

House: NREW DP 6-4-0-0

HB 2103: water improvements program; water hauling

Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19

Caucus & COW

Overview

Allows a county board of supervisors to use water improvement program monies to provide residential real property owners with financial assistance for water hauling for water delivery.

History

Currently, a county board of supervisors (BOS) may establish a program to allow persons to make gifts, grants or donations for the purpose of providing financial assistance, to qualified owners of residential real property, for making improvements to an existing drinking water well or providing for a water delivery system for the residents.

A county BOS is required to designate an entity to operate the program. The entity may be a county agency, department or division or may be a private, nonprofit corporation as determined by the county BOS.

Such a program must: 1) limit grant recipients to persons who are low-income or fixed-income owners of residential property; 2) develop application criteria and criteria for awarding grants; and 3) restrict a grant recipient's use of grant monies to deepening an existing drinking water well for the recipient's residence or to plumbing or replumbing the recipient's residence for a water delivery system. A county BOS may not use general county monies for grants under the program (A.R.S. § 11-254.09).

Provisions

1. Expands the projects eligible for grant monies from a county water improvement financial assistance program to include water hauling. (Sec. 1)

2. Modifies the list of eligible uses of grant monies to include the acquisition or installation of water storage tanks for storing hauled water. (Sec. 1)

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