ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

HB 2013: water improvements program; nonprofit corporations

Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19

Committee on Natural Resources, Energy & Water

Overview

Allows a nonprofit corporation to establish a water improvement program (Program).

History

Currently, a county board of supervisors (BOS) can establish a Program to allow persons to make gifts, grants or donations for the purpose of providing financial assistance to qualified owners of residential real property for making improvements to an existing drinking water well or providing a water delivery system for the residence.

The county BOS must designate an entity to operate the Program, establish criteria for grants and award grants. The designated entity can be a county agency, department or division or a private, nonprofit corporation as determined by the county BOS.

A Program is required to:

1) limit grant recipients to persons who are low-income or fixed-income owners of residential real property;

2) develop application criteria and criteria for awarding grants; and

3) restrict a grant recipient's use of grant monies to deepening an existing drinking water well for their residence or to plumbing their residence for a water delivery system.

An entity that operates a Program is required to make and submit a report to the county BOS, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on or before July 1 of each year containing a description of the Program operation's from the preceding year, including the amount of gifts, grants or donations received (A.R.S. § 11-254.09).

Provisions

1. Allows a nonprofit corporation to establish a Program that allows persons to make gifts, grants or donations to provide financial assistance to qualified owners of residential real property for making improvements to an existing drinking water well or providing a water delivery system. (Sec. 1)

2. Requires a nonprofit corporation to designate an entity to operate the Program, establish criteria for grants and award grants. (Sec. 1)

3. Specifies that the entity that operates the Program must make and submit to the county BOS or the nonprofit corporation a report containing a description of the Program's operations from the preceding year. (Sec. 1)

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