PREFILED    JAN 09 2019

REFERENCE TITLE: HURF distribution; cities, towns, counties

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019

HB 2047

Introduced by Representatives Cook: Campbell, Stringer, Senators Borrelli, Gowan

 

AN ACT

 

prescribing the distribution of highway user revenues; appropriating monies.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Arizona highway user revenue fund distribution; counties, cities and towns; population estimates; street or highway projects

A.  In addition to any other monies distributed to counties, cities and towns pursuant to title 28, chapter 18, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2020‑2021, the department of transportation shall allocate and the state treasurer shall distribute $18,000,000 from revenues of the Arizona highway user revenue fund as follows:

1.  $10,000,000 to counties with a population of less than two hundred fifty thousand persons as follows:

(a)  $250,000 to each individual county.

(b)  The remainder of the monies apportioned to each individual county based on population.

2.  $8,000,000 to cities and towns with a population of less than seven thousand five hundred persons as follows:

(a)  $100,000 to each individual city or town.

(b)  The remainder of the monies apportioned to each individual city or town based on population.

B.  Notwithstanding section 28‑6532, Arizona Revised Statutes, for the purposes of this section the department shall use the 2016 population estimates from the United States census bureau.

C.  The monies distributed pursuant to this section may be used only for street or highway projects, including the construction or maintenance of streets or highways.

Sec. 2.  Legislative intent

It is the legislature's intent that the $18,000,000 distributed pursuant to this act be distributed from the anticipated increase in Arizona highway user revenue fund monies in fiscal year 2020‑2021.