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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Fourth Legislature, Second Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR H.B. 2856/S.B. 1723
ENACTED
automation; 2022-2023
Purpose
Makes statutory and session law changes relating to automation necessary to implement the FY 2023 state budget.
Background
The Arizona Constitution prohibits substantive law from being included in the general appropriations, capital outlay appropriations and supplemental appropriations bills. However, it is often necessary to make statutory and session law changes to effectuate the budget. Thus, separate bills called budget reconciliation bills (BRBs) are introduced to enact these provisions. Because BRBs contain substantive law changes, the Arizona Constitution provides that they become effective on the general effective date, unless an emergency clause is enacted.
H.B. 2856 contains the budget reconciliation provisions for changes relating to automation.
Provisions
1. Increases, from 0.43 percent to 0.61 percent of the total payroll, the pro rata share of the overall cost of information technology services provided by the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA) or the Information Technology Authorization Committee that each budget unit and the state legislative and judicial branches must contribute.
2. Reverts all unencumbered and unexpended monies remaining in an Automation Projects Fund agency subaccount to the fund of origin on the completion of an automation and information technology project.
3. Requires the ADOA, by September 1 of each year, to submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee (JLBC) on each reversion made from an Automation Projects Fund agency subaccount in the prior fiscal year.
4. Transfers, from the State Treasurer to ADOA, the administration of the School Safety Interoperability Fund (Fund) and distributions for school safety programs.
5. Specifies that monies in the Fund are continuously appropriated, rather than subject to legislative appropriation.
6. Includes a city or town police department that establishes a school safety program as an authorized recipient of Fund monies.
7. Requires a county sheriff or municipal police department's school safety program to encompass schools throughout Arizona, rather than encompass up to 800 schools that are across three different counties.
8. Adds, to the school safety program criteria for receiving Fund monies, enabling integration to school access control systems to allow for remote lock down by law enforcement through the same multimedia system.
9. Requires a city or town police department that has established a school safety program to submit, by November 1 of each year, a report to JLBC of all expenditures made for the school safety program in the preceding fiscal year.
10. Renames a school safety pilot program as a school safety program.
11. Makes technical changes.
12. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
House Action Senate Action
APPROP 6/21/22 DP 8-5-0-0 APPROP 6/22/22 DP 5-3-2
3rd Read 6/22/22 52-7-1 3rd Read 6/23/22 18-10-2
(H.B. 2856 was substituted for S.B. 1723 on 3rd Read)
Signed by the Governor 6/28/22
Chapter 307
Prepared by Senate Research
June 30, 2022
JT/IJ/sr