Bill
Number: S.B. 1690
Fann
Floor Amendment
Reference
to: printed bill
Amendment
drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR
AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Establishes the Crisis
Contingency and Safety Net Fund (Fund), administered by the Office of the Governor
and consisting of appropriated monies and monies received by the Governor from
any lawful public or private source.
2. Appropriates
$50,000,000 in FY 2020 from the state General Fund (state GF) to the Fund.
3. Reverts any unexpended
and unencumbered monies from the FY 2020 appropriation on June 30, 2021, to the
state GF.
4. Allows Fund monies to
be spent only following a state of emergency declaration by the Governor for
the following forms of economic assistance during the state of emergency:
a) housing assistance,
including payments to prevent eviction or foreclosure;
b) monies for entities to
provide services for homeless persons, including shelter, food, clothing and
transportation;
c) economic assistance to
small businesses with fewer than 50 employees, nonprofit organizations and
health care providers; and
d)
monies
for food bank operations.
5. Specifies that Fund
monies are continuously appropriated and exempt from lapsing.
6. Requires the Office of
the Governor, before spending Fund monies, to notify the President of the
Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Joint Legislative Budget
Committee on the intended use of the monies.
7. Requires Fund monies to
be used to supplement, and not supplant, any monies allocated by the federal
government for economic assistance during a state of emergency.
8. Allows the Office of
the Governor to accept and spend local, state and federal monies and private
grants, gifts, contributions and devices to assist in carrying out statutory
Fund requirements.
9. Specifies that it is
the Legislature's intent for cities, towns and counties to review their
eviction policies and procedures during the Governor's Coronavirus Disease 2019
State of Emergency to allow individuals and families to remain in their places
of residence.
Page
1, between lines 14 and 15, insert:
"Sec. 2. Title
41, chapter 1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding
section 41-110, to read:
START_STATUTE41‑110. Crisis
contingency and safety net fund; exemption; use of monies
A. The crisis contingency and safety net
fund is established consisting of monies appropriated to the fund and monies
received by the office of the governor from any lawful public or private
source. The office of the governor shall administer the fund. Monies in the
fund are continuously appropriated. The office of the governor may accept and
spend local, state and federal monies and private grants, gifts, contributions
and devises to assist in carrying out the purposes of this section. Monies in
the fund are exempt from the provisions of section 35‑190 relating to
lapsing of appropriations.
B. Monies in the fund may be spent only
following a state of emergency declaration by the governor and only for the
following forms of economic assistance during the state of emergency:
1. Housing assistance, including payments
to prevent eviction or foreclosure.
2. Monies for entities to provide services
for homeless persons, including shelter, food, clothing and transportation.
3. Economic assistance to small businesses
with fewer than fifty employees, nonprofit organizations and health care
providers.
4. Monies for food bank operations.
C. Before spending monies in the fund, the
office of the governor shall notify the president of the senate, the speaker of
the house of representatives and the joint legislative budget committee on the
intended use of the monies.
D. Monies in the fund shall be used to
supplement and not supplant any monies allocated by the federal government for
economic assistance during a state of emergency.END_STATUTE"
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Page
1, between lines 39 and 40, insert:
"Sec. 7. Eviction policies; intent
The
legislature intends for counties, cities and towns to review their eviction
policies and procedures during the state of emergency declaration by the
governor related to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‑19) to allow
individuals and families to remain in their places of residence.
Sec. 8. Supplemental appropriation; crisis contingency and safety net
fund; reversion
A. In addition to any
other appropriations made in fiscal year 2019‑2020, the sum of
$50,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year
2019-2020 to the crisis contingency and safety net fund established by section
41‑110, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act.
B. Notwithstanding
section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, and section 41‑110, Arizona
Revised Statutes, as added by this act, the appropriation made in subsection A
of this section that is unexpended and unencumbered on June 30, 2021 reverts to
the state general fund."
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to conform
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