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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Sixth Legislature, Second Regular Session
AMENDED
self-supporting regulatory agencies; funds; 2024-2025.
Purpose
Makes statutory and session law changes relating to self-supporting regulatory agency funds necessary to implement the FY 2025 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. 1748 contains the budget reconciliation provisions for changes relating to self-supporting regulatory agency funds.
Provisions
1. Increases, from 10 to 15, the percentage of licensing fee revenues deposited in the state General Fund for each of the following boards:
a) Arizona State Board of Accountancy;
b) Board of Acupuncture Examiners;
c) Board of Athletic Training;
d) Barbering and Cosmetology Board;
e) Board of Behavioral Health Examiners;
f) Registrar of Contractors;
g) State Board of Chiropractic Examiners;
h) State Board of Dental Examiners;
i) Board of Homeopathic and Integrated Medicine Examiners;
j) Board of Massage Therapy;
k) Arizona Medical Board;
l) Arizona Regulatory Board of Physician Assistants;
m) Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board;
n) Board of Examiners of Nursing Care Institution Administrators and Assisted Living Facility Managers;
o) State Board of Nursing;
p) Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners;
q) State Board of Dispensing Opticians;
r) State Board of Optometry;
s) Board of Osteopathic Examiners in Medicine and Surgery;
t) Arizona State Board of Pharmacy;
u) Board of Physical Therapy;
v) State Board of Podiatry Examiners;
w) State Board for Private Postsecondary Education;
x) State Board of Psychologist Examiners;
y) Board of Respiratory Care Examiners;
z) State Board of Technical Registration; and
aa) Arizona State Veterinary Medical Examining Board.
2. Reverts, from 15 to 10, the percentage of licensing fee revenues that each applicable licensing board must deposit in the state General Fund on July 1, 2028.
3. Prohibits each of the outlined licensing boards from increasing licensing fees in FY 2025 and FY 2026.
4. Authorizes each outlined licensing board to submit a written request to the Governor's Regulatory Review Council (GRRC) to adopt a fee increase on an emergency basis.
5. Allows GRRC to approve an emergency license fee increase if it determines that an outlined licensing board has demonstrated it will not have sufficient monies available to continue daily operations without a licensing fee increase.
6. Declares that the ability for an outlined licensing board to seek an emergency fee increase through GRRC does not create an exemption from rulemaking for establishing or increasing a fee.
7. Requires each outlined licensing board that adopts a license fee increase to comply with all applicable rulemaking provisions to increase the license fee.
8. Makes technical changes.
9. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by Additional Committee of the Whole
ˇ Reverts, from 15 to 10, the percentage of licensing fee revenues that each applicable licensing board must deposit in the state General Fund on July 1, 2028.
Senate Action
APPROP 6/15/24 DP 6-5-0
Prepared by Senate Research
June 15, 2024
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