REFERENCE TITLE: appropriation; census; complete count committees

State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session 2020

SB 1541

Introduced by Senator Quezada: Representative Andrade

 

AN ACT

 

Appropriating monies to the secretary of state.

 

 

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

Section 1.  Supplemental appropriation; secretary of state; census complete count committees; exemption; definition

A.  In addition to the appropriations made by Laws 2019, chapter 263, the sum of $500,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2019-2020 to the secretary of state to distribute to census complete count committees in this state.  The secretary of state may distribute a maximum of $10,000 to a census complete count committee.

B.  The appropriation made in subsection A of this section is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.

C.  For the purposes of this section, "census complete count committee" means a volunteer committee established with the United States Census Bureau by this state or a tribe, county, city, town or community organization in this state to develop and implement a 2020 United States decennial census outreach, promotion, recruiting and enumeration assistance plan of action designed to target and address the needs of the entity.