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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESFifty-sixth Legislature Second Regular Session |
Senate: JUD DP 4-3-0-0 | 3rd Read DPA 18-10-2-0-0House: JUD DPA/SE 6-3-0-0 |
SB 1638: residential property; transient occupant; remedies
S/E: Pacific conflict; audits; committee
Sponsor: Senator Carroll, LD 28
Caucus & COW
Summary of the Strike-Everything Amendment to SB 1638
Overview
Entitled the Pacific Conflict Stress Test Act, establishes the bipartisan select committee on Pacific conflict (Committee), including prescribing the membership, powers, duties and other parameters related to the Committee, and imposes related assessment and audit requirements.
Current law requires the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to coordinate the critical infrastructure information program that uses state of the art technologies and that is implemented based on the state-wide assessment of threat and vulnerability conducted by the Arizona Counterterrorism Information Center (ACTIC) under DPS oversight. Statute instructs DPS to implement the technologies to address as many critical infrastructure facilities in the state of Arizona as funding allows and only to the extent that agreements accepting the Program are reached between participating entities, including private sector participants. DPS is permitted to pursue federal monies to assist with funding the Program (A.R.S. § 41-1802).
Additionally, DPS coordinates the critical infrastructure information program that is implemented based on the statewide assessment of threat and vulnerability by ACTIC. DPS must implement state of the art technologies to address as many critical infrastructure facilities in Arizona as funding allows (A.R.S. § 41-1803).
Provisions
Bipartisan Select Committee on Pacific Conflict
1. Establishes the Committee. (Sec. 2)
2. Outlines the Committee's membership, powers and duties and annual reporting requirements (Sec. 2)
Critical Procurements Audit
3. Requires the Auditor General to conduct an audit of all critical procurements purchased or supposed through a state supply chair or state vendor supply chain. (Sec. 3)
4. Prescribes the items that must be identified and included in the critical procurements audit and requires the Auditor General to submit a report of the audit to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on or before July 31, 2026. (Sec. 3)
State Investments Audit
5. Requires the State Treasurer to conduct an audit of all monies managed by the state of Arizona and its political subdivisions. (Sec. 3)
6. Outlines types of investments that must be identified in the state investments audit and requirements the State Treasurer to submit a report of the audit to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives on or before July 31, 2026. (Sec. 3)
State Risk Assessment
7. Requires the Governor to produce and publish a state risk assessment no later than the day before the Governor's annual address to the Legislature. (Sec. 1)
8. Outlines the items that must be identified and included in the assessment. (Sec. 1)
Confidentiality Requirements
9. Requires the recipients of the Committee's annual report, the critical procurements audit report and the state investments audit report to develop binding confidentiality protocols, in consultation with the chairperson of the Committee, for the maintenance and use of the reports to ensure their confidentiality. (Sec. 2, 3)
10. Exempts the reports outlined above and the information contained therein from public records laws. (Sec. 2, 3)
Miscellaneous
11. Defines the following terms:
a) for purposes of the section establishing the Committee:
i. critical infrastructure;
ii. critical procurements;
iii. Pacific conflict;
iv. state supply chain;
v. state vendor supply chain;
b) for purposes of the section requiring the critical procurements audit and state investments audit:
i. critical procurements;
ii. foreign adversary;
iii. pacific conflict;
iv. state supply chain;
v. state vendor supply chain. (Sec. 2, 3)
12. Includes statements of state policy in section establishing the Committee. (Sec. 2)
13. Repeals the section establishing the Committee on January 1, 2029. (Sec. 2)
14. Repeals the section relating to the critical procurements audit and state investment audit on January 1, 2027. (Sec. 3)
15. Becomes effective on January 1, 2025. (Sec. 4)
16. Entitles the measure as the Pacific Conflict Stress Test Act. (Sec. 5)
17. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1)
Amendments
Committee on Judiciary
1. Specifies that the critical procurements audit is a special audit and requires all state agencies to cooperate with and provide information to the Auditor General in the timeframe and format specified in order to facilitate the completion of the special audit.
2. Changes the reporting date from the critical procurements audit from July 31, 2026 to December 31, 2026.
3. Provides that the section requiring the critical procurements audit and the state investment audit does not become effective unless and until the Auditor General and the State Treasurer receive grant funds or legislative appropriations to cover the expenses involved.
4. Changes the definition of critical procurements as used in the section on the two audits mentioned above to remove references to political subdivisions or private nongovernmental organizations and to strike the phrase or to the health, safety or security.
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SB 1638
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