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technical correction; malpractice claim review

(now: judgments; legislature; governor; consent decree)

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

First Regular Session

2021

HOUSE BILL 2717

AN ACT

Amending section 12-826, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to judgments.

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

Section 1. Section 12-826, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE12-826. Report of judgments to legislature by governor; approval by legislature; payment

A. The governor shall report to the legislature at each session judgments that are rendered against the this state,  and that were not theretofore previously reported.

B. The legislature shall approve by joint resolution, signed by the governor, any settlement by way of a consent decree if the consent decree requires an appropriation or a statutory or administrative rule change at the time of the proposed consent decree or at some time in the future.

B. C. The director of the department of administration shall draw his a warrant for payment of the judgment upon on presentation to him of an authenticated copy of the judgment together with the approval of the judgment by the attorney general.

C. D. The director of the department of administration shall not draw the warrant until an appropriation therefor for the warrant is made by the legislature. END_STATUTE