REFERENCE TITLE: Enduring Freedom Memorial; appropriation

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2020

 

 

 

HB 2265

 

Introduced by

Representative Townsend

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 41-1365, Arizona Revised Statutes; appropriating monies; relating to state monuments.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


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

Section 1.  Section 41-1365, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-1365.  State monument and memorial repair fund; purpose; report; exemption

A.  The state monument and memorial repair fund is established consisting of:

1.  Donations.

2.  Monies from fund-raising activities. 

3.  Monies that are collected by the proponents of a monument or memorial and that are deposited pursuant to section 41‑1363.

4.  Grants received for monuments or memorials, except for otherwise specifically dedicated grants.

5.  Legislative appropriations.

B.  The department of administration shall administer the fund.  All monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation.  Subject to this section, the department shall use monies appropriated from the fund for to:

1.  The maintenance Maintain, repair, reconditioning recondition or relocation of relocate monuments or memorials and for.

2.  Supporting Support mechanical equipment in the governmental mall.

3.  Alter or modify the Enduring Freedom Memorial to add additional names to the memorial.

C.  The department shall separately account for monies to a specific monument or memorial that is dedicated to this state for maintenance, repair, reconditioning or relocation of that monument or memorial as follows:

1.  Monies that are donated for the benefit of the specific monument or memorial.

2.  Monies that are derived from fund‑raising activities and that are collected for the benefit of a specific monument or memorial.

3.  Monies that are collected and deposited pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 3 of this section.

D.  On or before November 1 of each year, the department of administration shall submit to the joint legislative budget committee a report that accounts for all monies deposited in the fund.  The report shall include the sources of the monies received for deposit, by category, and the purposes for which the monies were used during the preceding fiscal year.

E.  The department of administration shall hold the monies in the fund in trust for the citizens of this state until spent on an authorized monument or memorial, and monies in the fund shall not be spent or appropriated for any other purpose.

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

Sec. 2.  Appropriation; department of administration; Enduring Freedom Memorial

The sum of $______ is appropriated from the state monument and memorial repair fund established by section 41-1365, Arizona Revised Statutes, as added by this act, in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the department of administration to alter or modify the Enduring Freedom Memorial to add additional names to the memorial.