Chapter 0005 - 511S - H Ver of HB2005

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

Section 1. Section 8-802, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE8-802. Child protective services worker; fingerprint clearance cards; powers and duties; alteration of files; violation; classification

A. The department of economic security shall employ child protective services workers. All persons who are employed as child protective services workers shall have a valid fingerprint clearance card that is issued pursuant to section 41‑1758.07 or shall apply for a fingerprint clearance card within seven working days of employment. A child protective services worker shall certify on forms that are provided by the department of economic security and that are notarized whether the worker is awaiting trial on or has ever been convicted of any of the criminal offenses listed in section 41‑1758.07, subsections B and C in this state or similar offenses in another state or jurisdiction.

B. The department may cooperate with county agencies and community social services agencies to achieve the purposes of this chapter.

C. A Child protective services worker shall:

1. Promote the safety and protection of children.

2. Accept, screen and assess reports of abuse or neglect:

(a) Pursuant to section 8‑817.

(b) In level I residential treatment centers or in level II or level III behavioral health residential agencies that are licensed by the department of health services.

3. Receive reports of dependent, abused or abandoned children and be prepared to provide temporary foster care for these children on a twenty‑four hour basis.

4. Receive from any source oral or written information regarding a child who may be in need of protective services. A worker shall not interview a child without the prior written consent of the parent, guardian or custodian of the child unless either:

(a) The child initiates contact with the worker.

(b) The child who is interviewed is the subject of or is the sibling of or living with the child who is the subject of an abuse or abandonment investigation pursuant to paragraph 5, subdivision (b) of this subsection.

5. After the receipt of any report or information pursuant to paragraph 2, 3 or 4 of this subsection, immediately do both all of the following:

(a) Notify the municipal or county law enforcement agency and the office of child welfare investigations.

(b) Make a prompt and thorough investigation. of An investigation must determine the nature, extent and cause of any condition that would tend to support or refute the allegation that the child should be adjudicated dependent and the name, age and condition of other children in the home unless the report contains an allegation of criminal conduct that is being investigated by the office of child welfare investigations. A criminal conduct allegation shall be investigated according to the protocols established pursuant to section 8‑817 with the appropriate municipal or county law enforcement agency as provided in section 8‑817.

(c) Assist the office of child welfare investigations as directed by the director of the department of economic security.

6. Subject to section 41-1969.01, take a child into temporary custody as provided in section 8‑821. Law enforcement officers shall cooperate with the department to remove a child from the custody of the child's parents, guardian or custodian when necessary.

7. After investigation, evaluate conditions created by the parents, guardian or custodian that would support or refute the allegation that the child should be adjudicated dependent. The child protective services worker shall then determine whether any child is in need of protective services.

8. Offer to the family of any child who is found to be a child in need of protective services those services that are designed to correct unresolved problems that would indicate a reason to adjudicate the child dependent.

9. Submit a written report of the worker's investigation to:

(a) The department's case management information system within a reasonable time period that does not exceed forty-five days after receipt of the initial information except as provided in section 8‑811. If the investigation involves allegations regarding a child who at the time of the alleged incident was in the custody of a child welfare agency licensed by the department of economic security under this title, a copy of the report and any additional investigative or other related reports shall be provided to the board of directors of the agency or to the administrative head of the agency unless the incident is alleged to have been committed by the person. The department shall excise all information with regard to the identity of the source of the reports.

(b) The appropriate court forty‑eight hours before a dependency hearing pursuant to a petition of dependency or within twenty‑one days after a petition of dependency is filed, whichever is earlier. On receipt of the report the court shall make the report available to all parties and counsel.

10. Accept a child into voluntary placement pursuant to section 8‑806.

11. Make a good faith effort to promptly obtain and abide by court orders that restrict or deny custody, visitation or contact by a parent or other person in the home with the child. As part of the good faith effort, the child protective services worker shall ask the parent, guardian or custodian under investigation if a current court order exists.

D. A child shall not remain in temporary custody for a period exceeding seventy‑two hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, unless a dependency petition is filed. If a petition is not filed and the child is released to the child's parent, guardian or custodian, the worker shall file a report of removal with the central registry within seventy‑two hours of the child's release. The report shall include:

1. The dates of previous referrals, investigations or temporary custody.

2. The dates on which other children in the family have been taken into temporary custody.

E. The department shall provide child protective services workers who investigate reports of allegations of abuse and neglect with training in forensic interviewing and processes, and the protocols established pursuant to section 8‑817 and relevant law enforcement procedures. All child protective services workers shall be trained in their duty to protect the legal rights of children and families from the time of the initial contact through treatment. The training shall include knowledge of a child's rights as a victim of crime. The training for child protective services workers shall also include instruction on the legal rights of parents and the requirements for legal search and seizure by law enforcement officers.

F. In conducting an investigation pursuant to this section, if the worker is made aware that an allegation of abuse or neglect may also have been made in another state, the worker shall contact the appropriate agency in that state to attempt to determine the outcome of any investigation of that allegation.

G. The department of economic security shall develop an alternative response for designated reports.

G. H. Any person who alters a client file for the purpose of fraud or misrepresentation is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.

END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Section 13-3620, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE13-3620. Duty to report abuse, physical injury, neglect and denial or deprivation of medical or surgical care or nourishment of minors; medical records; exception; violation; classification; definitions

A. Any person who reasonably believes that a minor is or has been the victim of physical injury, abuse, child abuse, a reportable offense or neglect that appears to have been inflicted on the minor by other than accidental means or that is not explained by the available medical history as being accidental in nature or who reasonably believes there has been a denial or deprivation of necessary medical treatment or surgical care or nourishment with the intent to cause or allow the death of an infant who is protected under section 36‑2281 shall immediately report or cause reports to be made of this information to a peace officer or to child protective services in the department of economic security, except if the report concerns a person who does not have care, custody or control of the minor, the report shall be made to a peace officer only. A member of the clergy, a christian science practitioner or a priest who has received a confidential communication or a confession in that person's role as a member of the clergy, a christian science practitioner or a priest in the course of the discipline enjoined by the church to which the member of the clergy, christian science practitioner or priest belongs may withhold reporting of the communication or confession if the member of the clergy, christian science practitioner or priest determines that it is reasonable and necessary within the concepts of the religion. This exemption applies only to the communication or confession and not to personal observations the member of the clergy, christian science practitioner or priest may otherwise make of the minor. For the purposes of this subsection, "person" means:

1. Any physician, physician's assistant, optometrist, dentist, osteopath, chiropractor, podiatrist, behavioral health professional, nurse, psychologist, counselor or social worker who develops the reasonable belief in the course of treating a patient.

2. Any peace officer, child welfare investigator, child protective services worker, member of the clergy, priest or christian science practitioner.

3. The parent, stepparent or guardian of the minor.

4. School personnel or domestic violence victim advocate advocates who develop the reasonable belief in the course of their employment.

5. Any other person who has responsibility for the care or treatment of the minor.

B. A report is not required under this section for conduct prescribed by sections 13‑1404 and 13‑1405 if the conduct involves only minors who are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age and there is nothing to indicate that the conduct is other than consensual.

C. If a physician, psychologist or behavioral health professional receives a statement from a person other than a parent, stepparent, guardian or custodian of the minor during the course of providing sex offender treatment that is not court ordered or that does not occur while the offender is incarcerated in the state department of corrections or the department of juvenile corrections, the physician, psychologist or behavioral health professional may withhold the reporting of that statement if the physician, psychologist or behavioral health professional determines it is reasonable and necessary to accomplish the purposes of the treatment.

D. Reports shall be made immediately either electronically or by telephone or in person and shall be followed by a written report within seventy‑two hours. The reports shall contain the following information, if known:

1. The names and addresses of the minor and the minor's parents or the person or persons having custody of the minor, if known.

2. The minor's age and the nature and extent of the minor's abuse, child abuse, physical injury or neglect, including any evidence of previous abuse, child abuse, physical injury or neglect.

3. Any other information that the person believes might be helpful in establishing the cause of the abuse, child abuse, physical injury or neglect.

E. A health care professional who is regulated pursuant to title 32 and who, after a routine newborn physical assessment of a newborn infant's health status or following notification of positive toxicology screens of a newborn infant, reasonably believes that the newborn infant may be affected by the presence of alcohol or a drug listed in section 13‑3401 shall immediately report this information, or cause a report to be made, to child protective services in the department of economic security. For the purposes of this subsection, "newborn infant" means a newborn infant who is under thirty days of age.

F. Any person other than one required to report or cause reports to be made under subsection A of this section who reasonably believes that a minor is or has been a victim of abuse, child abuse, physical injury, a reportable offense or neglect may report the information to a peace officer or to child protective services in the department of economic security, except if the report concerns a person who does not have care, custody or control of the minor, the report shall be made to a peace officer only.

G. A person who has custody or control of medical records of a minor for whom a report is required or authorized under this section shall make the records, or a copy of the records, available to a peace officer, child welfare investigator or child protective services worker investigating the minor's neglect, child abuse, physical injury or abuse on written request for the records signed by the peace officer, child welfare investigator or child protective services worker. Records disclosed pursuant to this subsection are confidential and may be used only in a judicial or administrative proceeding or investigation resulting from a report required or authorized under this section.

H. When telephone or in‑person reports are received by a peace officer, the officer shall immediately notify child protective services in the department of economic security and make the information available to them child protective services. Notwithstanding any other statute, when child protective services receives these reports by telephone or in person, it shall immediately notify a peace officer in the appropriate jurisdiction and the office of child welfare investigations in the department of economic security.

I. Any person who is required to receive reports pursuant to subsection A of this section may take or cause to be taken photographs of the minor and the vicinity involved. Medical examinations of the involved minor may be performed.

J. A person who furnishes a report, information or records required or authorized under this section, or a person who participates in a judicial or administrative proceeding or investigation resulting from a report, information or records required or authorized under this section, is immune from any civil or criminal liability by reason of that action unless the person acted with malice or unless the person has been charged with or is suspected of abusing or neglecting the child or children in question.

K. Except for the attorney client privilege or the privilege under subsection L of this section, no privilege applies to any:

1. Civil or criminal litigation or administrative proceeding in which a minor's neglect, dependency, abuse, child abuse, physical injury or abandonment is an issue.

2. Judicial or administrative proceeding resulting from a report, information or records submitted pursuant to this section.

3. Investigation of a minor's child abuse, physical injury, neglect or abuse conducted by a peace officer or child protective services in the department of economic security.

L. In any civil or criminal litigation in which a child's neglect, dependency, physical injury, abuse, child abuse or abandonment is an issue, a member of the clergy, a christian science practitioner or a priest shall not, without his consent, be examined as a witness concerning any confession made to him in his role as a member of the clergy, a christian science practitioner or a priest in the course of the discipline enjoined by the church to which he belongs. Nothing in This subsection discharges does not discharge a member of the clergy, a christian science practitioner or a priest from the duty to report pursuant to subsection A of this section.

M. If psychiatric records are requested pursuant to subsection G of this section, the custodian of the records shall notify the attending psychiatrist, who may excise from the records, before they are made available:

1. Personal information about individuals other than the patient.

2. Information regarding specific diagnosis or treatment of a psychiatric condition, if the attending psychiatrist certifies in writing that release of the information would be detrimental to the patient's health or treatment.

N. If any portion of a psychiatric record is excised pursuant to subsection M of this section, a court, upon on application of a peace officer, child welfare investigator or child protective services worker, may order that the entire record or any portion of the record that contains information relevant to the reported abuse, child abuse, physical injury or neglect be made available to the peace officer, child welfare investigator or child protective services worker investigating the abuse, child abuse, physical injury or neglect.

O. A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor, except if the failure to report involves a reportable offense, the person is guilty of a class 6 felony.

P. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Abuse" has the same meaning prescribed in section 8‑201.

2. "Child abuse" means child abuse pursuant to section 13‑3623.

3. "Neglect" has the same meaning prescribed in section 8‑201.

4. "Reportable offense" means any of the following:

(a) Any offense listed in chapters 14 and 35.1 of this title or section 13‑3506.01.

(b) Surreptitious photographing, videotaping, filming or digitally recording of or viewing a minor pursuant to section 13‑3019.

(d) Incest pursuant to section 13‑3608. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Section 22-117, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE22-117. Payment of compensation and expenses

A. Justices of the peace shall be allowed by the board of supervisors, as a county charge, office rent, stationery, telephone and lights.

B. In a county with a population of less than one million five hundred thousand persons, the state shall pay 19.25 per cent of the compensation and employee related expenditures of a justice of the peace, and the county shall pay 80.75 per cent of the compensation and employee related expenditures of a justice of the peace, except that the county shall pay the full amount of the employer contribution of the state retirement system or plan or any county health plan.

C. If a county is subject to subsection B of this section, the state treasurer shall remit the compensation and employee related expenditures payable by the state to the county treasurer, and the county shall disburse the funds to the justice of the peace.

D. In a county with a population of one million five hundred thousand persons or more, the county shall pay one hundred per cent of the compensation and employee related expenditures of a justice of the peace.

E. If a county is subject to subsection D of this section, the following apply:

1. Beginning in fiscal year 2007‑2008, The county's contribution to the hospitalization and medical care of the indigent sick and for the administrative costs of implementing sections 36‑2901.01 and 36‑2901.04 shall be reduced pursuant to section 11‑292, subsection R, in an amount that is equal to the difference between the total costs that the county paid pursuant to subsection D of this section and the amount that the county would have paid if the county were subject to subsection B of this section.

2. Pursuant to section 41‑563, subsection D and beginning in fiscal year 2007‑2008, the economic estimates commission shall increase the county's base expenditure limit in an amount that is equal to the difference between the total costs that the county paid pursuant to subsection D of this section and the amount that the county would have paid if the county were subject to subsection B of this section.

F. The total amount that may be expended in any fiscal year by the state treasurer for justice of the peace compensation and employee related expenditures reimbursement shall not exceed the amount appropriated in the general appropriation act for this purpose, together with additional amounts appropriated by any special legislative appropriation for justices of the peace. END_STATUTE

Sec. 4. Section 31-401, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE31-401. Board of executive clemency; qualifications; appointment; officers; quorum; meeting

A. The board of executive clemency is established consisting of five members who are appointed by the governor pursuant to this subsection and section 38‑211.

B. The members of the board shall serve on a full‑time basis and the compensation of members shall be as determined pursuant to section 38‑611 be compensated on an hourly basis and are not eligible for paid leave. Beginning from and after December 31, 2013, members of the board are eligible for any benefits that are provided to state employees pursuant to section 38‑651. A member who is acting as the executive director shall be compensated pursuant to subsection K of this section. Each member shall be appointed on the basis of broad professional or educational qualifications and experience and shall have demonstrated an interest in the state's correctional program. No more than two members from the same professional discipline shall be members of the board at the same time.

C. Each member appointed to the board shall complete a four week course relating to the duties and activities of the board. The course shall be designed and administered by the chairman of the board and shall be conducted by the office of the board of executive clemency and the office of the attorney general. The course shall include training in all statutes that pertain to the board and participation in a decision making workshop.

D. Members shall be appointed for a term of five years to expire on the third Monday in January of the appropriate year.

E. A member of the board may be removed by the governor for cause.

F. The governor shall select a member of the board as chairman. The chairman shall select other officers as are advisable. The term of the chairman is two years, except that the chairman may be removed as chairman at the pleasure of the governor. If a board member's term expires while the member is serving as chairman, the chair shall be deemed vacant and a new chairman shall be selected.

G. The board may adopt rules, not inconsistent with law, as it deems proper for the conduct of its business. The board may from time to time amend or change the rules and publish and distribute the rules as provided by the administrative procedures act.

H. The board shall meet at least once a month at the state prison and at other times or places as the board deems necessary.

I. The presence of three members of the board constitutes a quorum, except that the chairman may designate that the presence of two members of the board constitutes a quorum.

J. If two members of the board constitute a quorum pursuant to subsection I of this section and the two members do not concur on the action under consideration, the chairman of the board, if the chairman is not one of the members who constituted the quorum and after reviewing the information considered by the two members, shall cast the deciding vote. If the chairman of the board is one of the two members constituting a quorum at a hearing under subsection I of this section, and there is not concurrence on the action under consideration, the action fails.

K. The board shall employ an executive director whose compensation shall be determined pursuant to section 38‑611. The chairman of the board may act as the executive director. END_STATUTE

Sec. 5. Section 41-191.03, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-191.03. Collection enforcement revolving fund; disposition of monies

A. The collection enforcement revolving fund is established for the purpose of collecting debts owed to the state. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation. The attorney general shall administer the fund.

B. The attorney general may expend from the collection enforcement revolving fund such monies as are necessary for operating expenses incurred by the department of law and the collection of debts owed to this state, including reimbursing other accounts or departments within the office of the attorney general from which monies or services for collection were provided.

C. Thirty‑five per cent of all monies recovered by the attorney general pursuant to section 41‑191.04 shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, in the collection enforcement revolving fund.

D. Sixty‑five per cent of all monies recovered by the attorney general pursuant to section 41‑191.04 shall be distributed as follows:

1. Those monies that are directly attributable to a fund containing monies that do not revert to the state general fund at the end of the fiscal year shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, in that fund.

2. All other monies shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, in the state general fund.

E. Monies in the collection enforcement revolving fund are exempt from the lapsing provisions of section 35‑190, except that monies remaining in the fund at the end of each fiscal year in excess of one five hundred thousand dollars shall be distributed on a pro rata basis to the funds receiving monies pursuant to subsection D of this section. Such distribution shall be based on the percentage that the collections deposited in each fund bear to the total amount deposited into the funds during the fiscal year.

F. Notwithstanding anything in subsections B through E of this section, monies due and owing pursuant to section 12‑116.01 and collected by the attorney general shall be distributed as follows:

1. Twenty per cent of all monies recovered by the attorney general pursuant to section 41‑191.04 shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, in the collection enforcement revolving fund.

2. Eighty per cent of all monies recovered by the attorney general pursuant to section 41‑191.04 shall be deposited, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, in the criminal justice enhancement fund established by section 41‑2401. END_STATUTE

Sec. 6. Section 41-797, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-797. Department of corrections building renewal fund

A. The department of corrections building renewal fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 31‑230, section 41‑1604, subsection B, paragraph 3, and sections 41‑1604.02, 41‑1604.03 and 41‑1624 and section 41-1641, subsection E. The director of the state department of corrections shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation and are exempt from the provisions of section 35‑190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.

B. The director of the state department of corrections shall use the monies in the fund for building renewal projects that repair or rework buildings and supporting infrastructure that are under the control of the state department of corrections and that result in maintaining a building's expected useful life. Monies in the fund may not be used for new building additions, new infrastructure additions, landscaping and area beautification, demolition and removal of a building and, except as provided in subsection C of this section, routine preventive maintenance.

C. The director of the state department of corrections may use up to eight per cent of the annual expenditures from the fund for routine preventive maintenance. END_STATUTE

Sec. 7. Section 41-1641, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1641. Corrections fund; uses; prior approval; exemption from lapsing

A. The corrections fund is established and consists of monies received from the distribution provided pursuant to section 42‑3104.

B. Monies in the corrections fund may be expended by:

1. The director of the department of administration for major maintenance, construction, lease, purchase, renovation or conversion of corrections or state operated juvenile facilities subject to the prior approval of the joint committee on capital review and the legislature.

2. The director of the state department of corrections for costs incurred in the minor maintenance and the operations of corrections facilities subject to the prior approval of the legislature.

3. The director of the department of juvenile corrections for costs incurred in the minor maintenance and the operations of state operated juvenile facilities subject to the prior approval of the legislature.

C. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary and except as provided in subsection B of this section:

1. The director of the state department of corrections shall enter into an agreement with the director of the department of administration for the expenditure of monies for the maintenance of corrections facilities.

2. The director of the department of juvenile corrections shall enter into an agreement with the director of the department of administration for the expenditure of monies for the maintenance of state operated juvenile facilities.

D. Monies in the fund are exempt from the provisions of section 35‑190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.

E. The director shall transfer two million five hundred thousand dollars from the corrections fund annually to the department of corrections building renewal fund established by section 41-797. END_STATUTE

Sec. 8. Section 41-1724, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1724. Gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission fund; subaccount; use of monies; reporting requirement

A. The gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 11‑1051 and monies appropriated by the legislature. The department shall administer the fund. Any monies distributed from the fund to a county sheriff shall go directly to the county sheriff and are not subject to any form of approval by the board of supervisors. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation.

B. Monies in the fund shall be used for employer sanctions enforcement, enforcing human smuggling and drug smuggling laws, gang and strict immigration enforcement, county jail reimbursement costs relating to illegal immigration and any other use previously authorized in an allocation made by law for the gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission.

C. Each year that monies are available in the fund and as soon as is practicable after July 1 of each year the first one million six hundred thousand dollars shall be allocated to a county sheriff of a county with a population of more than three million persons, then five hundred thousand dollars shall be allocated to a county sheriff of a county with a population of less than five hundred thousand persons but more than three hundred thousand persons and any remaining monies shall be used for agreements or contracts in accordance with subsection D of this section.

D. If the department uses monies from the fund for an agreement or contract with a city, town, county or other entity to provide services for the gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission, the city, town, county or other entity shall provide not less than twenty-five per cent of the cost of the services and the department shall provide not more than seventy-five per cent of personal services and employee related expenditures for each agreement or contract but may fund all capital related equipment. This subsection does not apply to a county with a population of more than three million persons or a county with a population of less than five hundred thousand persons but more than three hundred thousand persons.

E. The gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission border security and law enforcement subaccount is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 12‑116.04 and monies appropriated by the legislature. The department shall administer the subaccount. Any monies distributed from the subaccount to a county sheriff shall go directly to the county sheriff and are not subject to any form of approval by the board of supervisors. Monies in the subaccount are subject to legislative appropriation. All appropriated monies in the subaccount shall be distributed each fiscal year to local entities and no monies may be retained by the department for its own use. The monies in the subaccount shall be used for law enforcement purposes related to border security, including border personnel, and for safety equipment that is worn or used by a peace officer who is employed by a county sheriff.

F. A law enforcement agency shall not receive any monies from the fund unless the law enforcement agency certifies each fiscal year in writing to the director of the department of public safety that the law enforcement agency is complying with section 11‑1051 to the fullest extent allowed by law.

G. The department shall submit an expenditure plan to the joint legislative budget committee for review before expending any monies not identified in the department's previous expenditure plans. Within thirty days after the last day of each calendar quarter, the department shall provide a summary of quarterly and year-to-date expenditures and progress to the joint legislative budget committee, including any prior year appropriations that were nonlapsing. END_STATUTE

Sec. 9. Section 41-1969.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1969.01. Office of child welfare investigations; duties; training; responsibilities; annual report

A. In addition to the powers and duties of the director pursuant to sections 41‑1953 and 41‑1954, the director shall establish the office of child welfare investigations within the department. The director is responsible for the direction, operation and control of the office.

B. The duties of the office include investigating criminal conduct allegations, coordinating with child protective services and law enforcement, establishing task forces for the investigation of criminal conduct and other duties assigned by the director.

B. C. The office shall employ child welfare investigators who have received training to understand law enforcement's role in cases of criminal child abuse or neglect and in social services offered by the department. Child welfare investigators do not have the authority of peace officers. A child welfare investigator The office may employ research analysts and peace officers to obtain an originating agency identification number to have direct access to criminal history report information. Each person who is hired by the office is an employee of the department and shall comply with the fingerprint requirements of section 41‑1968.

C. D. The department, in coordination with the Arizona peace officer standards and training board, shall provide child welfare investigators with training. The training shall be, at a minimum, in the following areas:

1. First responder's responder training on responding to reports of child abuse.

2. Forensic interviewing and processes.

3. Child physical and sexual abuse investigation training.

4. The protocols established pursuant to section 8-817.

5. Relevant law enforcement procedures, including the collection and preservation of evidence.

6. A child's constitutional rights as a victim of a crime pursuant to article II, section 2.1, Constitution of Arizona.

7. Any other training as directed by the director.

D. E. A child welfare investigator shall:

1. Protect children.

2. Respond to and investigate all criminal conduct allegations as defined in section 8‑801 received by the department. Assess, respond to or investigate all criminal conduct allegations as defined in section 8-801, which shall be a priority, but shall not otherwise exercise the authority of a peace officer.

3. Receive from any source oral or written information regarding a child who may be in need of protective services because of criminal child abuse or neglect. An investigator shall Not interview a child without the prior written consent of the parent, guardian or custodian of the child unless either:

(a) The child initiates contact with the investigator.

(b) The child who is interviewed is the subject of, is the sibling of or is living with the child who is the subject of an abuse or abandonment investigation pursuant to paragraph 4, subdivision (b) of this subsection.

4. After the receipt of any report or information pursuant to paragraph 2 or 3 of this subsection, immediately do both of the following:

(a) Notify the appropriate municipal or county law enforcement agency if that agency has not already been notified.

(b) Make a prompt and thorough investigation of the nature, extent and cause of any condition that would tend to support or refute the allegation that the child should be adjudicated dependent and the name, age and condition of other children in the home report of child abuse or neglect when investigating allegations pursuant to paragraph 2 of this subsection. A criminal conduct allegation shall be investigated with the appropriate municipal or county law enforcement agency according to the protocols established pursuant to section 8‑817.

5. Take a child into temporary custody as provided in section 8‑821. Law enforcement officers shall cooperate with the department to remove a child from the custody of the child's parents, guardian or custodian pursuant to section 8‑821. A child welfare investigator who is responding to or investigating a report containing a criminal conduct allegation has the primary responsibility for deciding whether to take a child into temporary custody.

6. After investigation, Evaluate conditions created by the parents, guardian or custodian that would support or refute the allegation that the child should be adjudicated dependent. The investigator shall then determine whether any child is in need of protective services.

7. Identify, promptly obtain and abide by court orders that restrict or deny custody, visitation or contact by a parent or other person in the home with the child and notify appropriate personnel within the department to preclude violations of a court order in the provision of any services.

E. F. Unless a dependency petition is filed, a child shall not remain in temporary custody for a period exceeding seventy-two hours, excluding Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. If a petition is not filed, and the child is shall be released to the child's parent, guardian or custodian, the investigator shall file a report of removal within seventy-two hours after the child's release. The report shall include:

1. The dates of previous referrals, investigations or temporary custody.

2. The dates on which other children in the family have been taken into temporary custody.

F. G. In conducting an investigation pursuant to this section, if the investigator is made aware that an allegation of abuse or neglect may also have been made in another state, the investigator shall contact the appropriate agency in that state to attempt to determine the outcome of any investigation of that allegation.

G. H. The office of child welfare investigations shall submit an annual report on joint investigations conducted during the year pursuant to section 8‑817.

H. I. All information the office gathers records gathered or created by the department during the course of an investigation conducted under this section is are confidential information as defined and shall be protected and released as prescribed in section 8‑807, except that the department shall not release records if the department determines that the release of these records may compromise an ongoing investigation.

J. Notwithstanding any other law, the office of child welfare investigations is not responsible for conducting the criminal investigation of an offense that is listed in section 8-801, paragraph 2. END_STATUTE

Sec. 10. State department of corrections; budget structure

Notwithstanding any other law, the state department of corrections shall report actual fiscal year 2012-2013, estimated fiscal year 2013-2014 and requested fiscal year 2014-2015 expenditures in the same structure and detail as the prior fiscal year when the department submits the fiscal year 2014-2015 budget request pursuant to section 35-113, Arizona Revised Statutes. The information submitted for each line item shall contain as much detail as submitted in previous years for prior line items.

Sec. 11. State department of corrections; use of funds; permission

Notwithstanding any other law, the state department of corrections is permitted to use monies from either of the following funds for department operating expenses in fiscal year 2013-2014:

1. The transition program fund established by section 31-284, Arizona Revised Statutes.

2. The state department of corrections interagency service agreement fund.

Sec. 12. Department of public safety; highway funds; limitation

Notwithstanding sections 28-6537 and 28-6993, Arizona Revised Statutes, the statutory caps and transfers of highway user revenue fund monies and state highway fund monies available to fund department of public safety highway patrol costs are suspended for fiscal year 2013-2014.

Sec. 13. GIITEM border security and law enforcement subaccount; expenditure plan; annual review

Notwithstanding section 41‑1724, subsection G, Arizona Revised Statutes, before the department of public safety spends any monies appropriated in the general appropriations act for fiscal year 2013‑2014 from the gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission border security and law enforcement subaccount established by section 41‑1724, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, the department shall submit the subaccount's entire expenditure plan to the joint legislative budget committee for review.

Sec. 14. Nonsupplanting; suspension

Notwithstanding any other law, in fiscal year 2013-2014 the provisions relating to supplanting of state monies contained in section 12-102.02, subsection E, section 12-102.03, subsection D, section 12-135, subsection D, section 12-135.01, subsection D, section 12-267, subsection D, section 12‑268, subsection D and section 12-299.01, subsection C, Arizona Revised Statutes, are suspended. The Arizona supreme court shall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee identifying any decrease in county funding related to these suspended provisions, including the reasons for the decrease.

Sec. 15. Arizona supreme court; county reimbursement

Notwithstanding section 13-4041, subsection H and section 21-428, subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, the Arizona supreme court shall not reimburse the counties more than the amount appropriated for that purpose in the fiscal year 2013-2014 general appropriations act.

Sec. 16. Incarceration contracts; authorization; fiscal year 2014-2015

In fiscal year 2014-2015, as prescribed by Laws 2012, chapter 302, section 27, the state department of corrections may award a contract for the remaining male medium security beds under the request for proposals that was issued under the authority of section 41-1609, Arizona Revised Statutes, only if specific legislative authorization for the award is provided.

Sec. 17. Attorney general; state aid to indigent defense fund; fiscal year 2013-2014

Notwithstanding section 11-588, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2013-2014 the attorney general may use monies in the state aid to indigent defense fund established by section 11-588, Arizona Revised Statutes, for activities related to capital postconviction prosecution.

Sec. 18. Retroactivity

Section 31-401, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act, is effective retroactively to from and after June 30, 2013.