Assigned to APPROP                                                                                                                     AS ENACTED

ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Sixth Legislature, First Regular Session

ENACTED

FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1730/H.B. 2820

local government; 2023-2024.

Purpose

Makes session law changes relating to local government necessary to implement the FY 2024 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.

                  S.B. 1730 contains the budget reconciliation provisions for changes relating to local government.

Provisions

1. Continues to allow a county with a population of fewer than 250,000 persons to meet any fiscal obligation for FY 2024 from any source of county revenue designated by the county, including monies of any countywide special taxing jurisdiction where the board of supervisors serves as the board of directors.

2. Continues to cap, at $1,250,000, the amount of money a county may use for purposes outside the county's revenue source.

3. Continues to require a county with a population of fewer than 250,000 persons by October 1, 2023, to report to the Director of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee:

a) whether the county used a revenue source for purposes other than the revenue source's intended purposes to meet a county fiscal obligation; and

b) the specific source and amount of revenues that the county intends to use in FY 2024.

4. Becomes effective on the general effective date.

Senate Action House Action

APPROP         5/9/23        DP          6-4-0                APPROP         5/9/23        DP       10-5-0-0

3^rd Read          5/10/23                     23-7-0              3^rd Read          5/10/23                  46-13-0-0-1

(S.B. 1730 was substituted for H.B. 2820 on 3^rd Read)

Signed by the Governor 5/11/23

Chapter 143

Prepared by Senate Research

May 23, 2023

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