Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section1. Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 31 is amended to read:
Sec.31. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
2022-23
FTE positions 203.9
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 10,348,400
Formulaprograms
Basic state aid 5,652,055,000
Results-based funding 68,600,000
Special education fund 36,029,200
Other state aid to districts 983,900
Classroom site fund 946,524,800
Instructional improvement fund 54,425,700
Propertytax relief
Additional state aid 510,093,700
Non-formulaprograms
Accountability and achievement
testing 20,423,300
Adult education 21,487,800
Adult education and workforce
developmentadministration 250,000
Alternative teacher development
program 500,000
Arizona empowerment scholarship
accountadministration 2,176,400
Arizona English language
learner fund 4,960,400
Code writers initiative program 1,000,000
CTED completion grants 1,000,000
CTED soft capital and equipment 1,000,000
College credit by examination
incentiveprogram 7,472,100
College placement exam feewaiver 1,265,800
Computer science professional
development program 1,000,000
Early literacy 12,000,000
Education learning and
accountabilitysystem 5,315,400
English learner administration 6,516,900
Foster home youth transitional
housing 10,000,000
Geographic literacy 100,000
Gifted assessments 850,000
Jobs for Arizona graduates 100,000
Onetimeelectronic incident prevention
programs 150,000
School safety program 81,925,200
State block grant for vocational
education 11,576,300
Student level data access 350,000
Teachercertification 2,403,000
Tribalcollege dual enrollment
program 325,000
Total appropriation andexpenditure
authority — superintendent
of public instruction $7,473,208,300
Fund sources:
State general fund $5,973,447,600
Education sales tax fund 7,000,000
Permanent state school fund 328,895,600
Teacher certification fund 2,359,100
Tribal college dual enrollment
program fund 325,000
Department of educationempowerment
scholarshipaccount fund 350,000
Expenditure authority 1,160,831,000
Operating budget
The operating lump sumappropriation includes $683,900 and 8.5 FTE positions for average dailymembership auditing and $200,000 and 2 FTE positions for information technologysecurity services.
The amount appropriated for the department of education'soperating budget includes $500,000 for technical assistance and state-leveladministration of the K-3 reading program established pursuant to section15-211, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Any monies available to the department of education pursuant tosection 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 8, Arizona Revised Statutes, forthe failing schools tutoring fund established by section 15-241, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in excess of the expenditure authority amounts are allocatedfor the purposes of section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 8, ArizonaRevised Statutes.
Any monies available to the department of education pursuant tosection 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, forcharacter education matching grants pursuant to section 15-154.01, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in excess of the expenditure authority amounts are allocatedfor the purposes of section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 6, ArizonaRevised Statutes.
Basic state aid
The appropriation for basicstate aid provides basic state support to school districts for maintenance andoperations funding as provided by section 15-973, Arizona RevisedStatutes, and includes an estimated $328,895,600 in expendable income derivedfrom the permanent state school fund and from state trust lands pursuant tosection 37-521, subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, for fiscal year2022-2023.
Monies derived from the permanent state school fund and anyother non-state general fund revenue source that is dedicated to fund basicstate aid shall be spent, whenever possible, before spending state general fundmonies.
Except as required by section 37-521, Arizona Revised Statutes,all monies received during the fiscal year from national forests, interestcollected on deferred payments on the purchase of state lands, income frominvesting permanent state school funds as prescribed by the enabling act and theConstitution of Arizona and all monies received by the superintendent of publicinstruction from whatever source, except monies received pursuant to sections15-237 and 15-531, Arizona Revised Statutes, when paid into the statetreasury are appropriated for apportionment to the various counties inaccordance with law. An expenditure may not be made except asspecifically authorized above.
Any monies available to the department of education pursuant tosection 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 5, Arizona Revised Statutes, forthe increased cost of basic state aid under section 15-971, Arizona RevisedStatutes, due to added school days in excess of the expenditure authorityamounts are allocated for the purposes of section 42-5029.02, subsection A,paragraph 5, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Other programs
Any monies available to thedepartment of education for the classroom site fund pursuant to section 37-521,subsection B, paragraph 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, and section 42-5029.02,subsection A, paragraph 10, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of expenditureauthority amounts are allocated for the purposes of section 37-521, subsectionB, paragraph 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, and section 42-5029.02,subsection A, paragraph 10, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Any monies available to thedepartment of education from the instructional improvement fund established bysection 15-979, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of the expenditureauthority amounts are allocated for the purposes of section 15-979, Arizona RevisedStatutes.
Before making any changes to the achievement testing programthat will increase program costs, the department of education and the stateboard of education shall submit the estimated fiscal impact of those changes tothe joint legislative budget committee for review.
Any monies available to the department ofeducation for accountability purposes pursuant to section 42-5029.02,subsection A, paragraph 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of theexpenditure authority amounts are allocated for the purposes of section42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 7, Arizona Revised Statutes.
The appropriated amount for adult education includes $4,620,000for the continuing high school and workforce training program established bysection 15-217.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, $6,000,000 for deposit in theadult workforce diploma program fund established by section 15-217.02,subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes and $6,000,000 for deposit in thecommunity college adult education workforce development program fundestablished by section 15-217.03, subsection C, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Monies appropriated for CTED completion grants are intended tohelp fund program completion for students who complete at least fifty percentof a career technical education program before graduating from high school andwho successfully complete the career technical education district program aftergraduating from high school. The application procedures shall awardgrant funding only after an eligible student has successfully completed acareer technical education district program.
If the appropriated amount for CTED completion grants isinsufficient to fund all grant requests from career technical educationdistricts, the department of education shall reduce grant amounts on a proportionalbasis in order to cap total statewide allocations at $1,000,000.
The appropriated amount for CTED completion grants is exemptfrom the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relatingto lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2024.
The department of education shall distribute the appropriatedamount for CTED soft capital and equipment to career technical educationdistricts with fewer than two thousand average daily membership pupils for softcapital and equipment expenses. The appropriated amount shall beallocated on a pro rata basis based on the average daily membership of eligiblecareer technical education districts.
The department of education shall use the appropriated amountfor English learner administration to provide English language acquisitionservices for the purposes of section 15-756.07, Arizona Revised Statutes,and for the costs of providing English language proficiency assessments,scoring and ancillary materials as prescribed by the department of education toschool districts and charter schools for the purposes of title 15, chapter 7,article 3.1, Arizona Revised Statutes. The department may use aportion of the appropriated amount to hire staff or contract with a third partyto carry out the purposes of section 15-756.07, Arizona RevisedStatutes. Notwithstanding section 41-192, Arizona RevisedStatutes, the superintendent of public instruction also may use a portion ofthe appropriated amount to contract with one or more private attorneys toprovide legal services in connection with the case of Flores v. State ofArizona, No. CIV 92-596-TUC-RCC.
The amount appropriated for foster home youth transitionalhousing shall be distributed to the East valley institute of technology for atransitional housing unit. The legislature intends that the monies be used toconstruct and furnish a sixty-four bed transitional housing unit for fosteryouths and former foster youths who are at leastseventeen years of age but not more than twenty-one twenty-three years of age and who need stable housing inorder to obtain a high school diploma or a high school equivalency diploma andwho are earning an industry certification in a program offered by the Eastvalley institute of technology or an associate degree.On or before September 15 in years 2025, 2026 and 2027, the superintendent ofthe East valley institute of technology shall submit a report to the governor,the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives andthe directors of the joint legislative budget committee and the governor'soffice of strategic planning and budgeting, and provide a copy to the secretaryof state, detailing the total number of foster youths who lived in thetransitional housing unit during the immediately preceding fiscal year and theprogress that each foster youth made toward obtaining a high school diploma ora high school equivalency diploma and earning an industry certification duringthe fiscal year.
The department of education shall use the appropriated amountfor geographic literacy to issue a grant to a statewide geographic alliance forstrengthening geographic literacy in this state.
The department of education shall use the appropriated amountfor jobs for Arizona graduates to issue a grant to a nonprofit organization fora JOBS for Arizona graduates program.
The department of education shall use the amount appropriatedfor onetime electronic incident prevention programs for the purposes ofawarding student safety grants to public schools. A public school that receivesa student safety grant under this section shall use the grant monies to procureand implement an electronic incident prevention program.
The amount appropriated for the school safety program includesan increase of $50,000,000 for additional school safety grants. In allocatingthe $50,000,000 increase, the department of education shall first distributemonies to schools on the school safety program waiting list to receive grantsfor the costs of placing school resource officers on school campuses. Theawarded grants may not supplant funding provided by local governments forschool resource officers. If the total cost of funding new grants for schoolresource officer costs is less than $50,000,000, the department may allocatethe remaining monies to grants to schools for the costs of placing schoolcounselors and social workers on school campuses pursuant section 15-154,Arizona Revised Statutes.
Any monies available to the department ofeducation for school safety pursuant to section 42-5029.02, subsectionA, paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of the expenditureauthority amounts are allocated for the purposes of section 42-5029.02,subsection A, paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes.
After review by the joint legislative budget committee, infiscal year 2022-2023, the department of education may use a portion of itsfiscal year 2022-2023 state general fund appropriations for basic state aid,additional state aid or the special education fund to fund a shortfall infunding for basic state aid, additional state aid or the special educationfund, if any, that occurred in fiscal year 2021-2022.
The department shall provide an updated report on its budgetstatus every three months for the first half of each fiscal year and every month thereafter to the president of the senate, thespeaker of the house of representatives, the chairpersons of the senate andhouse of representatives appropriations committees, the director of the jointlegislative budget committee and the director of the governor's officeof strategic planning and budgeting. Each reportshall include, at a minimum, the department's current funding surplus orshortfall projections for basic state aid and other major formula-basedprograms and is due thirty days after the end of the applicable reportingperiod.
Within fifteen days after eachapportionment of state aid that occurs pursuant to section 15-973, subsectionB, Arizona Revised Statutes, the department shall post on its websitethe amount of state aid apportioned to each recipient and the underlying data.
Notwithstanding section 15-901.03, Arizona RevisedStatutes, the superintendent of public instruction may transfer $5,000,000 fromthe state general fund appropriation for basic state aid for fiscal year 2021-2022to the results-based funding program for fiscal year 2021-2022 withoutreview by the joint legislative budget committee. Any amounttransferred to the results-based funding program under this section thatexceeds the amount needed to address a funding shortfall for the results-basedfunding program for fiscal year 2021-2022 reverts to the state general fund onJune 30, 2022.
Sec.2. Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 38 isamended to read:
Sec.38. ARIZONA DEPARTMENTOF FORESTRY AND FIRE MANAGEMENT
2022-23
FTEpositions 235.5
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 3,393,800
Environmental county grants 250,000
Gila River nonnative species
eradication 5,000,000
Inmate firefighting crews 784,400
Postrelease firefighting crews 1,151,000
Fire suppression 200,000
Mount Lemmon fire districtrenovation 2,230,900
State fire marshal 1,865,100
State fire school 279,700
Hazardous vegetation removal 3,000,000
US forest service land thinning 2,150,900
Wildfire emergency response 65,000,000
Wildfire mitigation 38,837,300
Total appropriation — Arizona department
of forestry and fire management $124,143,100
Fund sources:
State general fund $124,143,100
The monies in the Gila Rivernonnative species eradication line item are for nonnative vegetation specieseradication projects, including projects to replace nonnative vegetationspecies with native vegetation species and restoring habitat for wildlife, inand along the portion of the Gila River between the western boundary of thecity of Avondale and the bridge over the Gila River at State Route 85. TheArizona department of forestry and fire management shall serve as the fiscalagent and contractor for the projects described in thisparagraph. The department may subcontract for the eradication andother required services for the projects pursuant to title 34, chapter 6,article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, to expedite the projects.
On or before September 1, 2023, September 1, 2024and September 1, 2025 of each year until all monies inthe Gila River nonnative species eradication line item are spent, thedepartment shall report to the director of the joint legislative budgetcommittee on the expected amount and purpose of expenditures from the GilaRiver nonnative species eradication line item. The report shall include projectedline item detail. The reports shall also provide follow-up on areaspreviously treated with funding from the line item and whether the nonnativespecies have returned.
The appropriation made in the Gila River nonnative specieseradication line item is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, ArizonaRevised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, except all moniesremaining unencumbered or unexpended for the purposes of this section on June30, 2025 2029 revert to the stategeneral fund.
The appropriation for the hazardous vegetation removal lineitem is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona RevisedStatutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2024.
The appropriation for the wildfire emergency response line itemshall be used for the purposes and is subject to the restrictions outlined inLaws 2021, first special session, chapter 1, as amended by Laws 2022, chapter1, section 1. The monies appropriated in the wildfire emergency response lineitem are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona RevisedStatutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, through June 30, 2025.
From the amount appropriated for the wildfire emergencyresponse line item, $3,000,000 shall be used for purposes related to theWoodbury fire.
Sec.3. Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 110, asamended by Laws 2023, chapter 121, section 1, is amended to read:
Sec.110. Department ofemergency and military affairs; border security; exemption; fiscal year2022-2023
A. The sum of $209,205,000 is appropriated from theborder security fund established by section 26-105, Arizona RevisedStatutes, in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the department of emergency and militaryaffairs. The department of emergency and military affairs shall allocate, inconsultation with the department of public safety, the following amounts:
1. $20,000,000 to Cochise county to construct a newcounty jail facility. The monies allocated in this paragraph are intended tofund up to twenty percent of the total jail facility construction cost but notto exceed $20,000,000. The monies allocated in this paragraph shall not bedistributed until Cochise county has submitted to the director of the jointlegislative budget committee, the director of the governor's office ofstrategic planning and budgeting and the director of the department ofadministration a report that the county has raised sufficient monies to fundthe remainder of the project's budget. Notwithstanding section 41-1252,Arizona Revised Statutes, the monies allocated in this paragraph are notsubject to review by the joint committee on capital review. Any moniesallocated pursuant to this paragraph that remain unexpended and unencumbered onJune 30, 2027 revert to the border security fund established by section 26-105,Arizona Revised Statutes.
2. $15,000,000 to reimburse a county or local lawenforcement agency for costs incurred by the county or local law enforcementagency for participating in a program with the United States immigration andcustoms enforcement pursuant to 8 United States code section 1357(g).
3. $10,000,000 for deposit in the anti-humantrafficking grant fund established by section 26-106, Arizona RevisedStatutes. The monies shall be allocated as follows:
(a) $2,000,000 to the department of public safetyArizona counter terrorism information center for anti-human traffickingoperations that comply with the requirements prescribed in section 26-106,Arizona Revised Statutes.
(b) $8,000,000 in award grants to city, town andcounty law enforcement agencies, in an amount of not more than $500,000 peragency, for programs that reduce human trafficking and that comply with therequirements prescribed in section 26-106, Arizona Revised Statutes.
4. $30,000,000 to distribute to cities, towns orcounties for costs associated with prosecuting and imprisoning individualscharged with drug trafficking, human smuggling, illegal immigration and otherborder-related crimes.
5. $10,000,000 for costs incurred by Arizonanational guard assets augmenting and supporting the department of public safetyand local law enforcement agencies relating to violations of the laws of thisstate in the southern Arizona border region.
6. $10,000,000 for emergency health care and testingfor immigrants along the southern Arizona border.
7. $15,000,000 for transportation of individuals whoentered Arizona seeking asylum to other states in the United States, includingthe cost of meals, onboard staffing and support.
8. $53,405,000 for deputy sheriff compensation to bedistributed to the department of administration for the following purposes:
(a) $48,310,000 to counties for the purposes of a$10,000 onetime payment to line-level deputies and detention officers employedby each county sheriff's office as of May 1, 2022. The county shall distributethe payment to eligible employees in equal quarterly installments on or beforeOctober 30, 2023. From and after April 30, 2023, a county may spend moniesthat are unencumbered and unexpended pursuant to this subdivision for thepurposes prescribed by subdivision (b) of this paragraph. If theamount is insufficient for a $10,000 per employee payment, the department shalldistribute a prorated amount based on the total number of deputies and detentionofficers employed. On or before August 30, 2023 and August 30, 2024, eachcounty sheriff shall submit a report to the department of administration on theactual use of the monies received and the most recent staffing and retentiondata for the positions receiving the payment. On or before September 30, 2023and September 23, 2024, the department of administration shall submit a reportto the directors of the joint legislative budget committee and the governor'soffice of strategic planning and budgeting detailing the total amountsdistributed by county and summarizing the individual county reports.
(b) $5,095,000 to counties for the purposes of a$5,000 onetime payment to line-level deputies and detention officers hiredafter May 1, 2022. The county shall distribute the payment toeligible employees in equal quarterly installments over one year. OnMay 1, 2022, the department of administration shall distribute the monies tothe counties based on the total number of vacancies for line-level deputiesand detention officers in each county as of May 1,2022. On or before June 30, 2023, the department shall submit areport to the directors of the joint legislative budget committee and thegovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting detailing the amountsdistributed to each county.
9. $800,000 for the purposes prescribed in section26-174, Arizona Revised Statutes, regarding the established chain ofcommand within the Arizona state guard.
10. $30,000,000 $2,322,800for the construction costs of a state emergency operations center.Pursuant to section 41-1252, Arizona Revised Statutes, before spending themonies allocated in this paragraph, the department of emergency and militaryaffairs shall submit for review by the joint committee on capital review thescope, purpose and estimated cost of the capital improvements.
11. $12,232,900 to the department ofpublic safety in fiscal year 2024-2025 for local border support. Thedepartment shall use the monies to fund local law enforcement officer positionsfor border drug interdiction to deter and apprehend any individuals who arecharged with drug trafficking, human smuggling, illegal immigration and otherborder-related crimes. The department shall also use the monies forgrants to cities, towns and counties for costs associated with prosecuting anddetaining individuals who are charged with drug trafficking, human smuggling,illegal immigration and other border-related crimes. The department mayfund all capital-related equipment.
12. $15,444,300 to the department ofpublic safety in fiscal year 2024-2025 for border drug interdiction.
11. 13. $15,000,000to the department of public safety for the construction costs of a southernborder coordinated response center. Pursuant to section 41-1252, ArizonaRevised Statutes, before spending the monies allocated in this paragraph, thedepartment of public safety shall submit for review by the joint committee oncapital review the scope, purpose and estimated cost of the capitalimprovements.
B. Within thirty days after the end of each calendarquarter until the monies appropriated by this section are fully expended, thedepartment of emergency and military affairs, in consultation with the Arizonadepartment of homeland security and the department of public safety, shallreport to the joint legislative budget committee on the status of the projectallocations and monies expended as prescribed by this section.
C. The department of emergency and military affairsmay transfer spending authority between and within the programs and purposeslisted in subsection A of this section. Before making a transfer, thedepartment shall submit the proposed transfer to the joint legislative budgetcommittee for review.
D. The appropriations made in subsection A of thissection are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona RevisedStatutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.
Sec.4. Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 128 isamended to read:
Sec.128. Appropriations;additional assistance; FRPL group B weight; fiscal year 2024-2025
A. The sum of $23,836,000 is appropriated from thestate general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the department of education forbasic state aid and a onetime charter additional assistancesupplement. The appropriated amount shall be used asfollows:
1. $17,978,000 shall be allocated tofund an ongoing increase in the per pupil charter additional assistance amountsprescribed in section 15-185, subsection B, paragraph 4, Arizona RevisedStatutes, above the amount of charter additional assistance that otherwisewould be provided by law for fiscal year 2024-2025.
2. $5,858,000 shall be allocated fora onetime charter additional assistance supplement in fiscal year 2024-2025.The department of education shall distribute the appropriated amount for theonetime charter additional assistance supplement to charter schools on aproportional basis based on the charter additional assistance funding that eachcharter school in this state receives in fiscal year 2024-2025.
B. The sum of $94,164,000 is appropriated from thestate general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the department of education forbasic state aid and a onetime charter additional assistancesupplement. The appropriated amount shall be used as follows:
1. $71,022,000 shall be allocatedto fund an ongoing increase in the per pupil district additional assistanceamounts prescribed in section 15-961, Arizona Revised Statutes, above theamount of district additional assistance that otherwise would be provided bylaw for fiscal year 2024-2025.
2. $23,142,000 shall be allocated fora onetime district additional assistance supplement in fiscal year 2024-2025.The department of education shall distribute the appropriated amount for theonetime district additional assistance supplement to school districts on aproportional basis based on the district additional assistance funding thateach district in this state receives in fiscal year 2024-2025 and increase thebudget limits pursuant to section 15-947, Arizona Revised Statutes,accordingly. A school district may budget the monies it receives from theonetime district additional assistance supplement in either the schooldistrict's maintenance and operation fund or unrestricted capital outlay fund.
C. The sum of $100,000,000 is appropriated from thestate general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the department of education forbasic state aid and a onetime FRPL group B weight supplement. Theappropriated amount shall be used as follows:
1. $63,000,000 shall be allocatedto fund an ongoing increase in the FRPL group B weight established by section15-943, paragraph 2, subdivision (b), Arizona Revised Statutes.
2. $37,000,000 shall be allocated fora onetime frpl group b weight supplement in fiscal year 2024-2025. Thedepartment of education shall distribute the appropriated amount for theonetime frpl group b weight supplement to school districts and charter schoolson a pro rata basis using the weighted student count for frpl pupils for theschool district or charter school pursuant to section 15-943, paragraph 2,subdivision (b), Arizona Revised Statutes, and increasethe budget limits pursuant to section 15-947, Arizona Revised Statutes,accordingly. A school district may budget the monies it receives from theonetime frpl group b weight supplement in either the school district'smaintenance and operation fund or unrestricted capital outlay fund.
Sec.5. Repeal
Laws 2022, chapter 366, section 33 isrepealed.
Sec.6. Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 9 isamended to read:
Sec. 9. ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
2023-24
FTE positions 209.9
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 17,504,200
Agriculturalemployment relations
board 23,300
Animaldamage control 65,000
Red imported fire ant control 23,200
Agricultural consulting and
training 136,300
Total appropriation — Arizonadepartment
of agriculture $ 17,752,000
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 16,154,200
Air quality fund 1,597,800
Of the monies in the department's operatinglump sum appropriation, $1,199,600 is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190,Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30,2026.
Sec.7. Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 17 isamended to read:
Sec. 17. DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SAFETY
2023-24
FTE positions 3,283.1
Operating lump sum appropriation $147,938,100 $148,764,300
Additionaloperating resources
Attorney general legal services 25,522,800
Caseworkers 124,293,500 157,293,500
Office of child welfare
investigations 11,245,700
Training resources 9,150,000
Out-of-homeplacements
Congregate group care 114,918,700 132,608,300
Extended foster care 26,553,900 19,887,200
Extended foster care servicemodel
fund deposit 19,243,300*
Foster home placement 51,929,500 40,706,500
Foster home recruitment,
study andsupervision 32,753,600
Kinship care 24,811,200 16,214,200
Permanent placements
Adoptionservices 294,923,500 282,574,300
Permanent guardianship subsidy 12,516,900 15,622,000
Positive parentingprogram for post
permanency placements pilot 4,000,000*
Supportservices
DCS child care subsidy 61,675,400
In-home mitigation 28,988,100 41,529,300
Out-of-home support services 122,710,800 113,284,600
Preventive services 29,648,300
Comprehensivehealth plan
Comprehensive health plan
services 161,546,700
Comprehensive health plan
administration 27,461,200
Comprehensive health plan
premium tax 3,857,300
Totalappropriation and expenditure
authority — department of
child safety $1,335,688,500 $1,350,588,500
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $ 500,879,600
Federal child care and
developmentfund block grant 40,516,000
Federal temporary assistance
for needyfamilies block
grant 161,082,200
Child abuse prevention fund 1,459,300
Children and family services
trainingprogram fund 208,000
Child safety expenditureauthority 442,357,400 452,557,400
Child welfare licensing fee fund 1,020,800
Comprehensive health plan
expenditureauthority fund —
expenditureauthority 192,865,200
Additional operating resources
The department of child safetyshall provide training to any new child safety FTE positions before assigningany client caseload duties to any of these employees.
The legislature intends that thedepartment of child safety use its funding to achieve a one hundred percentinvestigation rate.
All expenditures made by thedepartment of child safety for attorney general legal services shall be fundedonly from the attorney general legal services line item. Monies in departmentof child safety line items intended for this purpose shall be transferred tothe attorney general legal services line item before expenditure.
THE AMOUNTAPPROPRIATED FOR THE CASEWORKERS LINE ITEM INCLUDES A ONETIME INCREASE OF$19,700,000 FROM THE STATE GENERAL FUND FOR INCREASED OPERATING EXPENDITURES INFISCAL YEAR 2023-2024. THIS AMOUNT IS EXEMPT FROM THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION35-190, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, RELATING TO LAPSING OF APPROPRIATIONSuntil June 30, 2025.
ON ORBEFORE SEPTEMBER 1, 2024, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL SUBMIT A REPORT TO THE JOINTLEGISLATIVE BUDGET COMMITTEE AND THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF STRATEGIC PLANNINGAND BUDGETING ON ACTUAL OPERATING EXPENSES FOR THE GUARDIAN CASE MANAGEMENTSYSTEM IN FISCAL YEAR 2023-2024, AS WELL AS PROPOSED SYSTEM OPERATING EXPENSESFOR FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025.
Out-of-home placements
Thedepartment of child safety may transfer up to ten percent of the total amountof federal temporary assistance for needy families block grant moniesappropriated to the department of economic security and the department of childsafety to the social services block grant. Before transferringfederal temporary assistance for needy families block grant monies to thesocial services block grant, the department of child safety shall report theproposed amount of the transfer to the director of the joint legislative budgetcommittee. This report may be in the form of an expenditure plan that issubmitted at the beginning of the fiscal year and updated, if necessary,throughout the fiscal year.
The amount appropriated for kinshipcare shall be used for a stipend of $300 per month for a relative caretaker,including a grandparent, any level of great-grandparent or anynongrandparent relative, or a caretaker of fictive kinship, if a dependentchild is placed in the care of a relative caretaker or caretaker of fictivekinship pursuant to department guidelines. The department shallprovide the stipend on behalf of all children placed with an unlicensed kinshipfoster care parent. The unlicensed kinship foster care parent is notrequired to file an application to receive the stipend. Before changing theeligibility for the program or the amount of the stipend, the department shallsubmit a report for review by the joint legislative budget committee detailingthe proposed changes.
On or before March 31, 2024, thedepartment of child safety shall report to the joint legislative budgetcommittee the number of children who are part of the kinship stipend programand reside with a nonrelative caretaker of fictive kinship.
Departmentwide
The amount appropriated for any lineitem may not be transferred to another line item or to the operating budgetunless the transfer is reviewed by the joint legislative budget committee, exceptthat transfers between any two line items relating to the comprehensive healthplan are not subject to review.
Child safety expenditure authority includes all departmentfunding sources excluding the state general fund, the federal child care anddevelopment fund block grant, the federal temporary assistance for needyfamilies block grant, the child abuse prevention fund, the children and familyservices training program fund and the comprehensive health plan expenditureauthority fund.
On or before December 1, 2023, the department of child safetyshall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee on the department'sefforts to implement the family first prevention services act of2018. The report shall quantify the department's efforts in at leastthe following areas, including any associated fiscal impacts:
1. Reducing the number of children placed for morethan two weeks in congregate care settings, excluding qualified residentialtreatment programs, facilities for pregnant and parenting youth, supervisedindependent living and specialized programs for victims of sex trafficking.
2. Assisting congregate care providers in attainingstatus as qualified residential treatment programs.
3. Identifying alternative placements, includingtherapeutic foster homes, for children who would otherwise be placed incongregate care.
4. Expanding evidence-based, in-home parentskill-based programs and mental health and substance abuse prevention andtreatment services.
Benchmarks
For the purposes of this section, "backlog case":
1. Means any nonactive case for which documentationhas not been entered in the child welfare automated system for at least sixtydays and for which services have not been authorized for at least sixty daysand any case that has had an investigation, has been referred to another unitand has had no contact for at least sixty days.
2. Includes any case for which the investigation hasbeen open without any documentation or contact for at least sixty days, anycase involving in-home services for which there has been no contact orservices authorized for at least sixty days and any case involving foster carein which there has been no contact or any documentation entered in the childwelfare automated system for at least sixty days.
For the purposes of this section:
1. "Long-term case" means any casein which the child has been in an out-of-home placement for atleast eighteen months.
2. "Open report" means a report that isunder investigation or awaiting closure by a supervisor.
On or before February 28, 2024 and August 31, 2024, thedepartment of child safety shall present a report to the joint legislativebudget committee on the progress made during July 2023 through December 2023and January 2024 through June 2024, respectively, in meeting the caseloadstandard and reducing the number of backlog and long-termcases. Each report shall include the number of backlog cases, thenumber of open reports, the number of long-term cases and the caseworkerworkload in comparison to the previous six months. Each report shall providethe number of backlog cases by disposition, including the number of backlogcases in the investigation phase, the number of backlog cases associated without-of-home placements and the number of backlog cases associatedwith in-home cases.
To determine the caseworker workload, the department shallreport the number of case-carrying caseworkers at each field office and thenumber of investigations, in-home cases and long-term cases assigned toeach field office.
For backlog cases, the department's benchmark is 1,000 cases.
For open reports, the department's benchmark is fewer than8,000 open reports.
For long-term cases, thedepartment's benchmark is 3,323 cases.
If the department of child safety hasnot submitted a required report within thirty days after the report is due, thedirector of the joint legislative budget committee shall inform the generalaccounting office of the department of administration, which shall withhold twopercent of the department of child safety's operating lump sum semiannualbudget allocation until the department of child safety submits the requiredreport.
Sec.8. Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 23 isamended to read:
Sec.23. STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
2023-24
FTE positions 9,569.0
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 898,184,300 $ 876,476,900
Private prison per diem 289,858,400 289,069,200
Community corrections 27,681,200 25,681,200
Inmate health care contracted
services 321,620,200 317,881,700
Substance abuse treatment 5,445,400
Transitional and reentry housing 5,000,000*
Transitional housing grants 2,000,000
Inmate dog training 650,000
Noncontractmedication 40,746,500
Injunction-relatedIT upgrades 4,770,300
Total appropriation — state department
ofcorrections $1,550,439,500 $1,567,721,200
Fund sources:
State general fund $1,492,541,000 $1,429,675,200
State education fund for
correctionaleducation 738,900
Alcohol abuse treatment fund 555,800
Penitentiary land fund 2,777,600 5,243,200
Statecharitable, penal and
reformatoryinstitutions
landfund 2,665,100 5,347,000
Corrections fund 31,312,500
Transitionprogram fund 4,400,300
Prisonconstruction and
operationsfund 14,106,800
Inmatestore proceeds fund 1,341,500
Consumer restitution and remediation
revolving fund – consumer
remediation subaccount 75,000,000
Of the amount appropriated in the operating lump sum, $495,853,200 $480,658,000 is designatedfor personal services, $234,006,200 $227,494,000is designated for employee-related expenditures and $15,540,500 is designatedfor overtime expenditures. The department shall submit an expenditure plan forreview by the joint legislative budget committee before spending these moniesother than for personal services or employee-related expenditures.
After the department submits an expenditure plan to the jointlegislative budget committee, the department may transfer personal services andemployee-related expenditures savings from the operating budget to the privateprison per diem line item for private prison staff stipends. The amount of anyprivate prison staff stipend may not exceed the amount given to departmentstaff. The expenditure plan is not subject to review by the joint legislativebudget committee.
Private prison vendors who contract with this state may usestaff vacancy savings to pay for overtime costs without incurring a penalty orstaffing offset.
Before placing any inmates in out-of-state provisional beds,the department shall place inmates in all available prison beds in facilitiesthat are located in this state and that house Arizona inmates, unless theout-of-state provisional beds are of a comparable security level and price.
The state department of corrections shall forward to thepresident of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, thechairpersons of the senate and house of representatives appropriationscommittees and the director of the joint legislative budget committee a monthlyreport comparing department expenditures for the month and year-to-dateas compared to prior-year expenditures on or before the thirtieth of thefollowing month. The report shall be in the same format as the priorfiscal year and include an estimate of potential shortfalls, potentialsurpluses that may be available to offset these shortfalls and a plan, ifnecessary, for eliminating any shortfall without a supplemental appropriation.The report shall include the number of filled and vacant correctional officerand medical staff positions departmentwide and by prison complex.
On or before November 1, 2023, the state department of correctionsshall provide a report on bed capacity to the joint legislative budgetcommittee. The report shall reflect the bed capacity for each securityclassification by gender at each state-run and private institution, divided byrated and total beds. The report shall include bed capacity data for June 30,2022 and June 30, 2023 and the projected capacity for June 30, 2024, as well asthe reasons for any change within that time period. Within the total bedcount, the department shall provide the number of temporary and special usebeds. The report shall also address the department's rationale foreliminating any permanent beds rather than reducing the level of temporarybeds. The report shall also include any plans to vacate beds but notpermanently remove the beds from the bed count.
If the department develops a plan after the department'sNovember 1, 2023 report to open or close 100 or more state-operated orprivate prison rated beds, the department shall submit a plan detailing theproposed bed changes for review by the joint legislative budget committeebefore implementing these changes.
One hundred percent of land earnings and interest from thepenitentiary land fund shall be distributed to the state department ofcorrections in compliance with the enabling act and the Constitution of Arizonato be used to support state penal institutions.
On or before December 15, 2023 and July 15, 2024, the statedepartment of corrections shall submit a report to the joint legislative budgetcommittee on the progress made in meeting the staffing needs for correctionalofficers. Each report shall include the number of filledcorrectional officer positions, the number of vacant correctional officerpositions, the number of people in training, the number of separations and thenumber of hours of overtime worked year-to-date. Thereport shall detail these amounts both departmentwide and by prison complex.
Twenty-five percent of land earnings and interest fromthe state charitable, penal and reformatory institutions land fund shall bedistributed to the state department of corrections in compliance with theenabling act and the Constitution of Arizona to be used to support state penalinstitutions.
Before spending any state education fund for correctionaleducation monies in excess of $738,900, the state department of correctionsshall report the intended use of the monies to the director of the jointlegislative budget committee.
Before implementing anychanges in contracted rates for inmate health care contracted services, thestate department of corrections shall submit its expenditure plan for review bythe joint legislative budget committee.
On or before August 1, 2023and February 1, 2024, the state department of corrections shall submit areport to the joint legislative budget committee on the status of all inmatehealth care performance measures that are tracked by the department for contract monitoring purposes. Each reportmust include:
1. The totalnumber of performance measures, by facility, for which the department is not insubstantial compliance.
2. Anexplanation for each instance of noncompliance.
3. Thedepartment's plan to comply with the performance measures.
On or before August 1, 2023, the state department ofcorrections shall transfer to the public safety personnel retirement system viathe department of administration its estimated required annual contribution tothe corrections officer retirement plan for fiscal year 2023-2024.
The department shall report actual fiscal year 2022-2023,estimated fiscal year 2023-2024 and requested fiscal year 2024-2025expenditures as delineated in the prior year when the department submits itsfiscal year 2024-2025 budget request pursuant to section 35-113, ArizonaRevised Statutes.
On or before July 15, 2023, the state department of correctionsshall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee detailing theexpenditure of monies appropriated in fiscal year 2021-2022 for medicalstaffing augmentation. The department shall continue to report on July 15 ofeach year until all monies have been expended.
The amount appropriated in the transitional and reentry housingline item shall be used by the state department of corrections to securethrough a competitive grant process a program that does all of the following:
1. Provides evidence-based, evidence-informed andculturally competent substance use treatment and substance use earlyintervention services that includes referral services, stabilization, detox,inpatient treatment, transitional residence and outpatient services toindividuals who may have one or a combination of the following conditions:
(a) Involvement with the justice system.
(b) A mental health diagnosis, including a diagnosisas being seriously mentally ill.
(c) A co-occurring chronic health condition.
(d) Experienced homelessness or are at a high riskof becoming homeless.
2. Provides residential inpatient treatment servicesfor up to ninety days and provides long-term recovery supportive housing for upto twenty-four months after inpatient treatment services end.
3. Delivers forensic peer and family supportservices to enhance and strengthen successful reentry into the community thatinclude workforce development, securing permanent housing, navigating systemsof care, educational and professional development opportunities, familyconnection and reintegration services, supporting multiple pathways to recoveryand providing sober social activities.
4. Uses technology to promote long-term recovery.
5. Delivers treatment for reentry and long-termrecovery services and provides support via a campus-based continuum of caremodel where services and support are colocated.
The amount appropriated in thetransitional housing grants line item shall be used to establish a program toprovide grants to nonprofit organizations that support individuals who areincarcerated by helping prepare them for release and transition back into thecommunity. To be eligible for a grant, a nonprofit organization must meet allof the following criteria:
1. Have a verifiable record of mentoring at leastthree thousand inmates while the inmates were in prison for at least a two-yearperiod.
2. Use the grant monies for individuals that havebeen previously mentored by the nonprofit organization. To receiveresources from the grant, individuals being released from prison must have beenmentored for at least three months by the nonprofit organization while theindividual was in prison.
3. Demonstrate that the nonprofit organization canprovide individuals being released from prison with all of the following:
(a) Up to two weeks of housing at no cost to theindividual, if necessary as assessed by the nonprofit organization and up tosix months of housing at a reduced rate.
(b) Behavioral health services, including peersupport and case management.
(c) Assistance with obtaining government-issueddocuments.
(d) Within four months after release, assistancewith securing employment that offers health insurance and assistance withdisenrolling from the Arizona health care cost containment system.
On or before August 31, 2024, the department shall submit areport to the governor, the president of the senate and the speaker of thehouse of representatives that includes all of the following for the prior year:
1. The names of the nonprofit organizations thatwere awarded grants.
2. The number of individuals who were served by thenonprofit organizations through the grant program.
3. The number of individuals who were served by thenonprofit organizations, who found employment that provides health insuranceand who were disenrolled from the Arizona health care cost containment system.
The amount appropriated in the inmate dog training line itemshall be used to contract with a nonprofit organization that trains inmates torehabilitate and resocialize at-risk shelter dogs. The amountappropriated in the inmate dog training line item is exempt from the provisionsof section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing ofappropriations, until June 30, 2025.
The department may spend the $2,000,000appropriated by Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 23 for the community treatmentprogram for imprisoned women line item on community corrections line itemexpenditures in fiscal year 2023-2024.
Included in the operating lump sum appropriationis $75,000,000 from the consumer remediation subaccount of the consumerrestitution and remediation revolving fund established by section 44-1531.02,Arizona Revised Statutes. This amount consists of monies deposited in thesubaccount pursuant to opioid claims-related litigation or settlements. Thisamount is intended to offset past and current department costs for care,treatment, programs and other expenditures for individuals with opioid usedisorder and any co-occurring substance use disorder or mental healthconditions or for any other specified purposes that are included in a courtorder or a settlement or compromise that is entered into by this state andother parties to the opioid litigation.
The amount appropriated in the injunction-relatedIT upgrades line item shall be used to address information technologyimprovements as required by the court in the Jensen v Thornell inmatehealth care litigation. The amount appropriated in the injunction-relatedIT upgrades line item is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, ArizonaRevised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025.
The department shall use the amount appropriatedin the noncontract medication line item to purchase medications to treat hepatitisC and for medication-assisted treatment for substance use disorder.Before spending these monies for any other purpose, the department shallsubmit an expenditure plan for review by the joint legislative budgetcommittee. The amount appropriated in the noncontract medication line item isexempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes,relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025.
Sec.9. Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 97 is amendedto read:
Sec.97. DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
2023-24
FTE positions 179.0
Operating lump sum appropriation $15,228,500
Adjudication support 1,900,600
Arizona water protection fund
deposit 1,250,000
Assured and adequate watersupply
administration 2,513,400
Brackish groundwater study 100,000*
Brackishgroundwater recovery pilot
program 11,000,000*
Rural water studies 1,290,800
Conservation and drought program 430,300
Automated groundwater monitoring 418,600
Colorado River legal expenses 500,000*
Water supply and demandassessment 3,500,000
Santa Rosa canal groundwater
delivery 25,000,000*
Statewide water resourcesplanning 5,000,000
Total appropriation - department of water
resources $68,132,200 $57,132,200
Fund sources:
State general fund $66,114,500 $55,114,500
Water resources fund 1,726,500
Assured and adequate water
supplyadministration fund 291,200
Monies in the assured and adequate water supply administrationline item may be used only for the exclusive purposes prescribed in sections 45-108,45-576, 45-577, 45-578 and 45-579, Arizona RevisedStatutes. The department of water resources may not transfer anymonies into or out of the assured and adequate water supply administration lineitem.
The department of waterresources shall use the monies in the brackish groundwater study line item toreview and update information contained in studies on the availability ofbrackish groundwater in this state.
Of the $11,000,000allocated to the brackish groundwater recovery pilot program line item,$2,000,000 is allocated to the department of water resources for a brackishgroundwater desalination demonstration program and to develop a base ofknowledge to enhance groundwater recovery through desalination in this state'sactive management areas. The department shall locate this pilot program withinthe department's active management area section and a portion of the monies maybe used for staffing. The department shall organize the program following themodel of work undertaken by the Texas water development board to further theuse and development of cost-effective desalination technologies.
Of the $11,000,000allocated to the brackish groundwater recovery pilot program line item,$9,000,000 is allocated for matching participants dollar-for-dollarfor brackish groundwater desalination projects within active management areasundertaken for the benefit of those receiving water from the central Arizonaproject. The central Arizona project shall receive three dollars forevery dollar it contributes to this pilot program.
The legislature intendsthat monies in the rural water studies line item be spent only to assess localwater use needs and to develop plans for sustainable future water supplies inrural areas outside this state's active management areas and not be madeavailable for other department operating expenditures.
Monies in the adjudicationsupport line item may be used only for the exclusive purposes prescribed insection 45-256, Arizona Revised Statues, and section 45-257, subsection B,paragraph 4, Arizona Revised Statutes. The department of water resources maynot transfer any monies into or out of the adjudication support line item.
The department of waterresources may not transfer any monies from the Colorado River legal expensesline item without prior review by the joint legislative budget committee.
On or before July 31, 2024, the department of water resources shall report to thejoint legislative budget committee and the governor's office of strategicplanning and budgeting on the uses of the monies appropriated to the statewidewater resources planning line item.
The department of water resources shall use the monies in theSanta Rosa canal groundwater delivery line item to distribute equally betweenthe irrigation districts that are constructing infrastructure in furtherance ofthe purposes of the settlement between the Maricopa-Stanfield irrigationand drainage district, the central Arizona irrigation and drainage district andthe Ak-Chin Indian community and with respect to the delivery of groundwater bythe districts by means other than the Santa Rosa canal.
Sec.10. Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 113 isamended to read:
Sec.113. Automation projects fund; appropriations; quarterly reports;exemption; fiscal year 2023-2024
A. The sum of $20,647,800 is appropriated from thehuman resources information system subaccount in the automation projects fundestablished pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscalyear 2023-2024 to the department of administration to replace the humanresources information system.
B. The sum of $15,000,000 is following amounts are appropriated from the health and humanservices information system subaccount in the automation projects fundestablished pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscalyear 2023-2024 to the department of administration for thefollowing statewide health and human services information technologyprojects:
1. $6,700,000 for a new informationtechnology platform to authenticate individuals applying for health and humanservice programs to prevent fraud, waste and abuse. This project is subject toreview by the joint legislative budget committee.
2. $2,814,600 for the development ofseveral modules associated with the medicaid enterprise system mainframereplacement. This project is deemed to have been favorably reviewedby the joint legislative budget committee.
3. $1,685,400 for medicaid enterprisesystem fraud and waste abuse prevention enhancements. This projectis deemed to have been favorably reviewed by the joint legislative budgetcommittee.
4. $2,000,000 for the medicaidenterprise system systems integrator, which establishes a platform infrastructurein the cloud to serve as the foundation for the modular replacement of theprior prepaid medicaid management information system, and servicenow projects.This amount was favorably reviewed by the joint legislative budget committee inoctober 2023.
C. The sum of $1,800,000 istransferred from the health and human services information system subaccount inthe automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, Arizonarevised statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 for deposit in the state generalfund.
C. D. Thesum of $2,000,000 is appropriated from the department of administrationsubaccount in the automation projects fund established pursuant to section41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 to thedepartment of administration for the K-12 school financial transparencyreporting portal.
D. E. Thesum of $7,000,000 is appropriated from the corporation commission subaccount inthe automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the corporation commissionto replace the corporation commission's online records and filingsystem. As part of the department of administration's request forexpenditure review pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, thedepartment shall also submit a report for review of the agency's plan tosupport the business one-stop project through its completion, including plansfor how the new system will integrate with the business one-stop solution.
E. F. Thesum of $494,500 is appropriated from the department of public safety subaccountin the automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the department of publicsafety to replace the concealed weapons tracking system.
F. G. Thesum of $19,369,400 is appropriated from the department of revenue subaccount inthe automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the department of revenue toimplement the integrated tax system modernization project. The moniesappropriated in this subsection shall be spent for an integrated tax systemmodernization project that meets the following minimum specifications:
1. Captures data fields from electronically filedindividual and corporate income tax returns and makes the data available forquerying and reporting purposes. The system shall provide the department ofrevenue staff, the joint legislative budget committee staff and governor'soffice of strategic planning and budgeting staff direct access to the queryingand reporting functions. The querying and reporting functions shallinclude procedures to protect taxpayer confidentiality under applicable stateand federal law.
2. For electronic corporate income tax returns,captures information regarding the principal business activity of thecorporation. This requirement may be satisfied through North American industryclassification system data listed on federal tax forms. The tax system shallallow for querying and reporting based on principal business activity.
3. Includes an integrated individual income taxmodel within the project and provides the department of revenue staff, thejoint legislative budget committee staff and governor's office of strategicplanning and budgeting staff direct access to the individual income taxmodel. At a minimum, the model shall allow the department of revenuestaff, the joint legislative budget committee staff and governor's office of strategicplanning and budgeting staff to adjust tax law parameters against an anonymizedrepresentative sample of income tax returns to estimate the fiscal impact ofproposed tax legislation. The model shall only include data from state andfederal tax returns that are captured by the tax system. The individual incometax model shall include procedures to protect taxpayer confidentiality underapplicable state and federal law.
4. Makes individual and corporate income tax dataavailable for querying, modeling and reporting within twenty-four monthsfollowing the end of a tax year.
Before awarding any procurement contract for the tax system,the department of revenue shall submit a report addressing the projectspecifications contained in this subsection for review by the joint legislativebudget committee.
G. H. Aspart of the department of administration's request for expenditure reviewpursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes shall, the departmentshall also submit a report for review of the agency's plan to support thebusiness one-stop project through its completion, including plans for how thenew system will integrate with the business one-stop solution.
H. I. Thefollowing amounts are appropriated from the judiciary-supreme court subaccountin the automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the Arizona supreme courtfor the following automation and information projects:
1. $3,270,000 to replace the probation casemanagement system.
2. $2,500,000 for a statewide community supervisionelectronic monitoring system.
QuarterlyReports
I. J. Within thirty days after the last day of eachcalendar quarter, the department of administration shall submit to the jointlegislative budget committee a quarterly report on implementing projectsapproved by the information technology authorization committee established bysection 18-121, Arizona Revised Statutes, including the projects' expendituresto date, deliverables, timeline for completion and current status.
Nonlapsing
J. K. Theamount appropriated pursuant to this section from the automation projects fundestablished by section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year2023-2024 is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona RevisedStatutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025.
K. L. NotwithstandingLaws 2021, chapter 408, section 117, the following amounts appropriated fromthe automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2021-2022 to the department of administrationby Laws 2021, chapter 408, section 117 are exempt from the provisions ofsection 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations,until June 30, 2024:
1. $7,758,900 from the department of administrationsubaccount in the automation projects fund established pursuant to section41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, to develop a business one-stop web portal.
2. $9,000,000 appropriated from the department ofeconomic security subaccount in the automation projects fund establishedpursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, to update the childcaremanagement system at the department of economic security.
3. $550,000 appropriated from the department ofpublic safety subaccount in the automation projects fund established pursuantto section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the department ofadministration to update the concealed weapons tracking system at the departmentof public safety.
Sec. 11. Subject to applicable laws, the sums orsources of revenue set forth in this act are appropriated for the fiscal yearsindicated and only from the funding sources listed for the purposes and objectsspecified. If monies from funding sources in this act are unavailable, noother funding source may be used.
Sec. 12. ARIZONA STATE BOARD OF ACCOUNTANCY
2024-25
FTE positions 14.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 2,230,400
Fund sources:
Board ofaccountancy fund $ 2,230,400
Sec. 13. ACUPUNCTURE BOARD OF EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTE positions 1.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 200,600
Fund sources:
Acupuncture board of examiners
fund $ 200,600
Sec. 14. DEPARTMENT OFADMINISTRATION
2024-25
FTEpositions 548.1
Operatinglump sum appropriation $93,677,400
Utilities 7,649,900
Arizonafinancial information
system 11,480,000
Riskmanagement administrative
expenses 10,870,700
Riskmanagement losses and
premiums 54,414,800
Workers'compensation losses
andpremiums 28,395,000
Cyberrisk insurance 23,037,200
Informationtechnology project
managementand oversight 1,656,700
Statesurplus property sales
agencyproceeds 1,810,000
Digitalsolutions office 1,345,700
Criticalapplications catalogue 900,000
Cybersecuritysystems
administration 446,500
Schooldistrict health insurance
actuarialstudy 250,000
Governmenttransformation office 2,055,500
Totalappropriation — department of
administration $237,989,400
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $ 9,295,100
Airquality fund 928,200
Arizonafinancial information
systemcollections fund 11,480,000
Automationoperations fund 29,726,400
Capitaloutlay stabilization fund 20,997,700
Correctionsfund 628,900
Cyberrisk insurance fund 23,037,200
Federalsurplus materials revolving
fund 468,200
Informationtechnology fund 3,951,500
Personneldivision fund 13,922,500
Riskmanagement revolving fund 101,874,600
Specialemployee health insurance
trustfund 5,684,700
Specialservices revolving fund 1,243,000
Statesurplus materials revolving
fund 3,048,900
Stateweb portal fund 9,329,300
Telecommunicationsfund 2,373,200
The appropriation from the automationoperations fund established by section 41-711, Arizona Revised Statutes, is anestimate representing all monies, including balance forward, revenues andtransfers during fiscal year 2024-2025. These monies are appropriatedto the department of administration for the purposes established in section41-711, Arizona Revised Statutes. The appropriation is adjusted asnecessary to reflect monies credited to the automation operations fund forautomation operation center projects. Before spending any automationoperations fund monies in excess of $29,726,400 in fiscal year 2024-2025, thedepartment shall report the intended use of the monies to the joint legislativebudget committee.
On or before September 1, 2025, thedepartment shall submit a report to the joint legislative budget committee onthe results of pilot projects implemented in fiscal year 2024-2025 for thestate employee public transportation service reimbursem*nts pursuant to section41-710.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, in a vehicle emissions control area asdefined in section 49-541, Arizona Revised Statutes, of a county with apopulation of more than four hundred thousand persons.
All state surplus materials revolvingfund monies received by the department of administration in excess of$3,048,900 in fiscal year 2024-2025 are appropriated to thedepartment. Before spending state surplus materials revolving fundmonies in excess of $3,048,900 in fiscal year 2024-2025, the department shallreport the intended use of the monies to the joint legislative budgetcommittee.
On or before November 1, 2025, thedepartment shall submit a report to the director of the joint legislativebudget committee on expenditures made from the cyber risk insurance fundestablished by section 41-622, Arizona Revised Statutes, from the prior year.
The amount appropriated for a schooldistrict health insurance actuarial study shall be used to conduct an actuarialstudy of the cost and benefits for school district optional participation inthe state health insurance program. On or before December 31, 2024, thedepartment shall submit a report to the governor, the president of the senate,the speaker of the house of representatives and the director of the jointlegislative budget committee on the findings of the school district healthinsurance actuarial study.
Sec. 15. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION, DIVISION OF SCHOOL FACILITIES
2024-25
FTE positions 17.0
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 1,653,400
New school facilities debt service 9,938,100
Building renewal grants deposit 199,967,900
New school facilities 31,489,500
Total appropriation — department of
administration, division
of school facilities $243,048,900
Fund sources:
State general fund $243,048,900
Pursuant to section 35-142.01, ArizonaRevised Statutes, any reimbursem*nt received by or allocated to the division ofschool facilities under the federal qualified school construction bond programin fiscal year 2024-2025 shall be deposited in or revert to the state generalfund.
At least thirty days before any moniesare transferred out of the new school facilities debt service line item, thedivision of school facilities shall report the proposed transfer to thedirector of the joint legislative budget committee.
Pursuant to section 41-5741, ArizonaRevised Statutes, the amount appropriated for new school facilities shall beused only for facilities and land costs for school districts that receivedfinal approval from the division of school facilities on or before December 15,2023.
The division of school facilities mayalso use the unencumbered balance of up to $24,613,700 in the new schoolfacilities fund established by section 41-5741, Arizona Revised Statutes, forfacilities and land costs for school districts that received final approvalfrom the division of school facilities on or before December 15, 2023 pursuantto section 41-5741, Arizona Revised Statutes.
The division of school facilities mayalso use the unencumbered balance of up to $3,595,000 in the new schoolfacilities fund established by section 41-5741, Arizona Revised Statutes,for construction costs for the Pima unified school district new high schoolconstruction project that received final approval from the division of schoolfacilities on December 15, 2021.
After approving a distribution offunding for a land purchase, a land lease or the construction of a new school,the division of school facilities shall report to the joint legislative budgetcommittee and the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting thefinal amount of the distribution.
Sec. 16. OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS
2024-25
FTEpositions 12.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 990,000
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 990,000
Sec. 17. ARIZONADEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
2024-25
FTEpositions 209.4
Operatinglump sum appropriation $16,941,200
Agriculturalemployment relations
board 23,300
Animaldamage control 65,000
Red imported fire ant control 23,200
Agricultural consulting and
training 135,700
Totalappropriation — Arizona department
ofa*griculture $ 17,188,400
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 15,605,100
Airquality fund 1,583,300
Sec. 18. ARIZONA HEALTHCARE COST CONTAINMENT SYSTEM
2024-25
FTEpositions 2,459.3
Operatinglump sum appropriation $155,687,100
Administration
AHCCCSdata storage 19,325,800
DESeligibility 97,074,500
Proposition204 — AHCCCS
administration 15,222,200
Proposition204 — DES eligibility 44,358,700
Medicaid services
Traditionalmedicaid services 8,144,224,600
Proposition204 services 7,769,810,300
Adultexpansion services 740,010,600
Comprehensivemedical and
dentalprogram 177,233,200
KidsCareservices 229,689,800
ALTCSservices 2,472,720,900
Behavioralhealth services
inschools 8,630,600
Nonmedicaid behavioral health services
Crisis services 16,391,300
Nonmedicaid seriously mentally
ill services 77,646,900
Supported housing 65,324,800
Hospital payments
Disproportionate share payments 5,087,100
Disproportionate share payments —
voluntary match 65,330,500
Criticalaccess hospitals 16,454,300
Graduate medical education 469,246,600
Targetedinvestments program 56,000,000
Totalappropriation and expenditure
authority— Arizona health
carecost containment system $20,645,469,800
Fund sources:
State general fund $2,665,167,000
Budget neutrality compliance fund 4,914,300
Children's health insurance
programfund 174,025,900
Prescriptiondrug rebate
fund— state 189,831,600
Seriouslymentally ill
housingtrust fund 217,700
Substanceabuse services fund 2,250,200
Tobaccoproducts tax fund —
emergencyhealth services
account 17,458,500
Tobaccotax and health care
fund— medically needy account 66,586,300
Expenditureauthority 17,525,018,300
Operating budget
The amount appropriated for the DESeligibility line item shall be used for intergovernmental agreements with thedepartment of economic security for eligibility determination and otherfunctions. The state general fund share may be used for eligibilitydetermination for other programs administered by the division of benefits andmedical eligibility based on the results of the Arizona random moment samplingsurvey.
The amounts included in theproposition 204 — AHCCCS administration, proposition 204 — DES eligibility andproposition 204 services line items include all available sources of fundingconsistent with section 36-2901.01, subsection B, Arizona RevisedStatutes.
Before spending the monies for thereplacement of the prepaid medicaid management information system, the Arizonastrategic enterprise technology office shall submit, on behalf of the Arizonahealth care cost containment system, an expenditure plan for review by thejoint legislative budget committee. The report shall include the project cost,deliverables, the timeline for completion and the method of procurement thatare consistent with the department's prior reports for its appropriations fromthe automation projects fund.
Medical services and behavioralhealth services
Before making fee-for-service programor rate changes that pertain to fee-for-service rate categories, the Arizonahealth care cost containment system administration shall report its expenditureplan for review by the joint legislative budget committee.
The Arizona health care costcontainment system administration shall report to the joint legislative budgetcommittee on or before March 1, 2025 on preliminary actuarial estimates of thecapitation rate changes for the following fiscal year along with the reasonsfor the estimated changes. For any actuarial estimates that includea range, the total range from minimum to maximum may not be more than twopercent. Before implementing any changes in capitation rates, theadministration shall report its expenditure plan for review by the jointlegislative budget committee. Before the administration implementsany change in policy affecting the amount, sufficiency, duration and scope ofhealth care services and who may provide services, the administration shallprepare a fiscal impact analysis on the potential effects of this change on thefollowing year's capitation rates. If the fiscal impact analysisdemonstrates that this change will result in additional state costs of$1,000,000 or more for any fiscal year, the administration shall submit thepolicy change for review by the joint legislative budget committee.
The legislature intends that thepercentage attributable to administration and profit for the regionalbehavioral health authorities be nine percent of the overall capitation rate.
The Arizona health care costcontainment system administration shall transfer up to $1,200,000 from thetraditional medicaid services line item for fiscal year 2024-2025 to theattorney general for costs associated with e-cigarette enforcement andtobacco settlement litigation.
The Arizona health care costcontainment system administration shall transfer $836,000 from the traditionalmedicaid services line item for fiscal year 2024-2025 to the department ofrevenue for enforcement costs associated with the March 13, 2013 mastersettlement agreement with tobacco companies.
The amount appropriated for thetraditional medicaid services line item includes $4,098,200 from the stategeneral fund and $8,059,900 from expenditure authority for inpatient paymentsto rural hospitals as defined in section 36-2905.02, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Of the amount appropriated for theproposition 204 services line item, $100,000,000 shall be used from thehospital assessment fund established by section 36-2901.09, Arizona RevisedStatutes, to cover a portion of the nonfederal share of the costs of servicesdescribed in section 36-2907, subsection F, Arizona Revised Statutes. Thisamount is included in the expenditure authority fund source.
On or before June 30, 2025, theArizona health care cost containment system administration shall report to thejoint legislative budget committee on the progress in implementing the Arnoldv. Sarn lawsuit settlement. The report shall include, at a minimum, theadministration's progress toward meeting all criteria specified in the 2014joint stipulation, including the development and estimated cost of additionalbehavioral health service capacity in Maricopa county for supported housingservices for 1,200 class members, supported employment services for 750 classmembers, eight assertive community treatment teams and consumer operatedservices for 1,500 class members. The administration shall alsoreport by fund source the amounts it plans to use to pay for expanded services.
Long-term care
Any federal monies that the Arizonahealth care cost containment system administration passes through to thedepartment of economic security for use in long-term care for persons withdevelopmental disabilities do not count against the long-term care expenditureauthority.
Pursuant to section 11-292,subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, the county portion of the fiscal year2024-2025 nonfederal costs of providing long-term care system services is$399,872,100. This amount is included in the expenditure authority fundsource.
Any supplemental payments received inexcess of $97,235,600 for nursing facilities that serve Arizona long-term caresystem medicaid patients in fiscal year 2024-2025, including any federalmatching monies, by the Arizona health care cost containment systemadministration are appropriated to the administration in fiscal year2024-2025. Before spending these increased monies, theadministration shall notify the joint legislative budget committee and thegovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting of the amount of moniesthat will be spent under this provision. These payments are included in theexpenditure authority fund source.
Payments to hospitals
The $5,087,100 appropriation fordisproportionate share payments for fiscal year 2024-2025 made pursuant tosection 36-2903.01, subsection O, Arizona Revised Statutes, includes $4,202,300for the Maricopa county health care district and $884,800 for privatequalifying disproportionate share hospitals.
Any monies received fordisproportionate share hospital payments from political subdivisions of thisstate, tribal governments and any university under the jurisdiction of theArizona board of regents, and any federal monies used to match those payments,in fiscal year 2024-2025 by the Arizona health care cost containment systemadministration in excess of $65,330,500 are appropriated to the administrationin fiscal year 2024-2025. Before spending these increasedmonies, the administration shall notify the joint legislative budget committeeand the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting of the amount ofmonies that will be spent under this provision.
The expenditure authority fund sourceincludes voluntary payments made from political subdivisions for payments tohospitals that operate a graduate medical education program or treat low-incomepatients and for payments to qualifying providers affiliated with teachinghospitals. The political subdivision portions of the fiscal year2024-2025 costs of graduate medical education, disproportionate share payments— voluntary match, traditional medicaid services, proposition 204 services andadult expansion services line items are included in the expenditure authorityfund source.
Any monies for graduate medicaleducation received in fiscal year 2024-2025, including any federal matchingmonies, by the Arizona health care cost containment system administration inexcess of $469,246,600 are appropriated to the administration in fiscal year2024-2025. Before spending these increased monies, theadministration shall notify the joint legislative budget committee and thegovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting of the amount of moniesthat will be spent under this provision.
If any graduate medical educationmonies remain after the Arizona health care cost containment systemadministration has funded all eligible graduate medical education programs incounties with a population of less than five hundred thousand persons, theadministration may fund the costs of graduate medical education programsoperated by community health centers and rural health clinics.
Notwithstanding section 36-2903.01,subsection G, paragraph 9, subdivisions (a), (b) and (c), Arizona RevisedStatutes, the amount for graduate medical education includes $5,000,000 fromthe state general fund and $10,678,900 from expenditure authority for thedirect and indirect costs of graduate medical education programs located incounties with a population of less than five hundred thousand persons. Thestate general fund amount may supplement, but not supplant, voluntary paymentsmade from political subdivisions for payments to hospitals that operate agraduate medical education program. The administration shallprioritize distribution to programs at hospitals in counties with a higherpercentage of persons residing in a health professional shortage area asdefined in 42 Code of Federal Regulations part 5.
Notwithstanding section 36-2903.01,subsection G, paragraph 9, subdivisions (a), (b) and (c), Arizona RevisedStatutes, the amount for graduate medical education includes $4,000,000 fromthe state general fund and $8,543,100 from expenditure authority for the directand indirect costs of graduate medical education programs located in countieswith a population of more than five hundred thousand persons. The stategeneral fund amount may supplement, but not supplant, voluntary payments madefrom political subdivisions for payments to hospitals that operate a graduatemedical education program.
Monies appropriated for the graduatemedical education line item in Laws 2023, Chapter 133, section 10 are exemptfrom the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating tolapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025.
Monies appropriated for graduatemedical education in this section are exempt from the provisions of section35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, untilJune 30, 2026.
Other
On or before July 1, 2025, the Arizonahealth care cost containment system administration shall report to the directorof the joint legislative budget committee the total amount of medicaidreconciliation payments and penalties received on or before that date sinceJuly 1, 2024.
The nonappropriated portion of theprescription drug rebate fund established by section 36-2930, Arizona RevisedStatutes, is included in the federal portion of the expenditure authority fundsource.
Sec.|19. BOARD OFATHLETIC TRAINING
2024-25
FTEpositions 1.5
Lump sumappropriation $ 165,300
Fund sources:
Athletictraining fund $ 165,300
Sec.|20. ATTORNEY GENERAL — DEPARTMENT OF LAW
2024-25
FTE positions 671.7
Operatinglump sum appropriation $64,477,900
Capitalpostconviction prosecution 876,400
Childand family advocacy centers 100,000
Criminaldivision major fraud unit 1,187,300
Internetcrimes against children
enforcement 1,271,500
Governmentaccountability and
speciallitigation 1,287,500
Organizedretail theft
taskforce 1,570,700
Riskmanagement interagency
serviceagreement 10,655,300
Stategrand jury 193,000
SouthernArizona law enforcement 1,656,600
Tobaccoenforcement 875,900
Veterans substance abuse
treatment grants 5,000,000
Victims'rights 4,023,500
Total appropriation — attorneygeneral —
departmentof law $93,175,600
Fund sources:
State general fund $27,664,200
Antitrustenforcement revolving
fund 160,900
Attorney general legal services
cost allocation fund 2,314,900
Collectionenforcement revolving
fund 7,232,100
Consumerprotection–consumer
fraudrevolving fund 14,864,900
Consumerrestitution and remediation
revolvingfund – consumer
remediationsubaccount 5,000,000
Interagencyservice agreements fund 18,078,100
Internetcrimes against children
enforcementfund 900,000
Riskmanagement revolving fund 13,147,700
Victims'rights fund 3,812,800
All monies appropriated to theattorney general legal services line item in the department of child safetybudget do not count toward the attorney general's interagency serviceagreements fund appropriation in fiscal year 2024-2025.
Within ten days after receiving acomplaint alleging a violation of section 15-511, Arizona Revised Statutes, theattorney general shall forward a copy of the complaint to the governor, thepresident of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives.
The amount appropriated for the childand family advocacy centers line item is allocated to the child and familyadvocacy center fund established by section 41-191.11, Arizona RevisedStatutes.
The $900,000 appropriation from theinternet crimes against children enforcement fund established by section41-199, Arizona Revised Statutes, and the $371,500 appropriation from the stategeneral fund for the internet crimes against children enforcement line item arecontinuing appropriations and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190,Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30,2026.
The amount appropriated for theveterans substance abuse treatment grants line item shall be used for grants toveterans services organizations that treat opioid use disorder in conjunctionwith judicial programs that address substance abuse treatment andrehabilitation for veterans. To be eligible for a grant, a veterans servicesorganization program must follow best practices, be evidence-based, adhere tothe individualized plan ordered by veterans treatment courts for each veteranand incorporate tracking of key metrics.
Before spending any moniesappropriated for the veterans substance abuse treatments grants line item, theattorney general shall submit an expenditure plan to the joint legislativebudget committee for review. The veterans substance abuse treatments grantsline item includes $5,000,000 from opioid claims-related monies deposited inthe consumer remediation subaccount of the consumer restitution and remediationrevolving fund pursuant to section 44-1531.02, subsection C, Arizona RevisedStatutes.
The $1,570,700 appropriation for theorganized retail theft task force line item shall be used for operationalexpenses of the organized retail task force and for hiring one attorney, oneparalegal, two investigators and one support staff person within the office ofthe attorney general and four peace officers who are assigned to the task forceto focus specifically on investigating and prosecuting organized retail crime.
Of the amount appropriated to theattorney general for the opioid abatement line item in fiscal year 2023-2024pursuant to Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 13, $12,000,000 from the consumerremediation subaccount of the consumer restitution and remediation revolvingfund established by section 44-1531.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, isexempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes,relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025.
Sec. 21. BARBERING ANDCOSMETOLOGY BOARD
2024-25
FTEpositions 29.5
Lump sumappropriation $ 2,686,900
Fund sources:
Barberingand cosmetology fund $ 2,686,900
Sec. 22. BOARD OFBEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTEpositions 27.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 2,740,500
Fundsources:
Boardof behavioral health
||examinersfund $ 2,740,500
Sec. 23. STATE BOARD FORCHARTER SCHOOLS
2024-25
FTEpositions 25.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 2,835,100
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 2,835,100
Sec. 24. DEPARTMENT OF CHILD SAFETY
2024-25
FTE positions 3,283.1
Operatinglump sum appropriation $147,799,100
Additional operating resources
Attorneygeneral legal services 27,894,900
Caseworkers 131,939,000
Office of child welfare
investigations 11,235,900
Training resources 9,150,000
Out-of-home placements
Congregategroup care 103,682,000
Extendedfoster care 19,887,200
Fosterhome placement 42,547,300
Fosterhome recruitment,
studyand supervision 32,753,600
Kinshipcare 20,584,600
Permanent placements
Adoptionservices 287,221,600
Permanentguardianship subsidy 16,805,600
Support services
DCSchild care subsidy 61,675,400
In-homemitigation 34,488,100
Out-of-homesupport services 122,710,800
Preventiveservices 32,412,700
Comprehensive health plan
Comprehensivehealth plan
services 127,989,800
Comprehensivehealth plan
administration 28,642,700
Comprehensivehealth plan
premiumtax 3,196,600
Total appropriation and expenditure
authority— department of
childsafety $1,262,616,900
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $ 458,314,500
Federalchild care and
developmentfund block grant 40,516,000
Federal temporaryassistance
forneedy families block
grant 161,082,200
Childabuse prevention fund 1,459,300
Childrenand family services
trainingprogram fund 208,000
Childsafety expenditure authority 440,186,100
Childwelfare licensing fee fund 1,021,700
Comprehensivehealth plan
expenditureauthority fund —
expenditureauthority 159,829,100
Additional operating resources
The department of child safety shall provide training to anynew child safety FTE positions before assigning any client caseload duties toany of these employees.
Thelegislature intends that the department of child safety use its funding toachieve a one hundred percent investigation rate.
Allexpenditures made by the department of child safety for attorney general legalservices shall be funded only from the attorney general legal services lineitem. Monies in department of child safety line items intended for thispurpose shall be transferred to the attorney general legal services line itembefore expenditure.
Out-of-homeplacements
Thedepartment of child safety may transfer up to ten percent of the total amountof federal temporary assistance for needy families block grant moniesappropriated to the department of economic security and the department of childsafety to the social services block grant. Before transferringfederal temporary assistance for needy families block grant monies to thesocial services block grant, the department of child safety shall report theproposed amount of the transfer to the director of the joint legislative budgetcommittee. This report may be in the form of an expenditure plan that issubmitted at the beginning of the fiscal year and updated, if necessary,throughout the fiscal year.
The amountappropriated for kinship care shall be used for a stipend of $300 per month fora relative caretaker, including a grandparent, any level of great-grandparentor any nongrandparent relative, or a caretaker of fictive kinship, if adependent child is placed in the care of a relative caretaker or caretaker offictive kinship pursuant to department guidelines. The departmentshall provide the stipend on behalf of all children placed with an unlicensedkinship foster care parent. The unlicensed kinship foster careparent is not required to file an application to receive the stipend. Beforechanging the eligibility for the program or the amount of the stipend, thedepartment shall submit a report for review by the joint legislative budgetcommittee detailing the proposed changes.
On orbefore March 31, 2025, the department of child safety shall report to the jointlegislative budget committee the number of children who are part of the kinshipstipend program and reside with a nonrelative caretaker of fictive kinship.
Support services
The preventive services line item appropriation includes$264,400 from the state general fund to draw down $1,322,000 in additionalfederal monies associated with the community based child abuse prevention blockgrant. If grant monies are no longer available, the appropriation isreduced by the amounts of $264,400 from the general fund and $1,322,000 fromchild safety expenditure authority.
Departmentwide
The amount appropriated for any lineitem may not be transferred to another line item or to the operating budgetunless the transfer is reviewed by the joint legislative budget committee,except that transfers between any two line items relating to the comprehensivehealth plan are not subject to review.
Child safety expenditure authorityincludes all department funding sources excluding the state general fund, thefederal child care and development fund block grant, the federal temporaryassistance for needy families block grant, the child abuse prevention fund, thechildren and family services training program fund and the comprehensive healthplan expenditure authority fund.
On or before December 1, 2024, thedepartment of child safety shall submit a report to the joint legislativebudget committee on the department's efforts to implement the family firstprevention services act of 2018. The report shall quantify thedepartment's efforts in at least the following areas, including any associatedfiscal impacts:
1. Reducing the number ofchildren placed for more than two weeks in congregate care settings, excludingqualified residential treatment programs, facilities for pregnant and parentingyouth, supervised independent living and specialized programs for victims ofsex trafficking.
2. Assisting congregatecare providers in attaining status as qualified residential treatment programs.
3. Identifying alternativeplacements, including therapeutic foster homes, for children who wouldotherwise be placed in congregate care.
4. Expandingevidence-based, in-home parent skill-based programs and mental health andsubstance abuse prevention and treatment services.
Benchmarks
For the purposes of this section:
1. "Backlogcase":
(a) Means any nonactivecase for which documentation has not been entered in the child welfareautomated system for at least sixty days and for which services have not beenauthorized for at least sixty days and any case that has had an investigation,has been referred to another unit and has had no contact for at least sixtydays.
(b) Includes any case forwhich the investigation has been open without any documentation or contact forat least sixty days, any case involving in-home services for which therehas been no contact or services authorized for at least sixty days and any caseinvolving foster care in which there has been no contact or any documentationentered in the child welfare automated system for at least sixty days.
2. "Long-termcase" means any case in which the child has been in an out-of-homeplacement for at least eighteen months.
3. "Open report"means a report that is under investigation or awaiting closure by a supervisor.
On or before February 28, 2025 andAugust 31, 2025, the department of child safety shall present a report to thejoint legislative budget committee on the progress made during July 2024through December 2024 and January 2025 through June 2025, respectively, inmeeting the caseload standard and reducing the number of backlog and long-termcases. Each report shall include the number of backlog cases, thenumber of open reports, the number of long-term cases and the caseworkerworkload in comparison to the previous six months. Each report shall providethe number of backlog cases by disposition, including the number of backlogcases in the investigation phase, the number of backlog cases associated without-of-home placements and the number of backlog cases associatedwith in-home cases.
To determine the caseworker workload,the department shall report the number of case-carrying caseworkers at eachfield office and the number of investigations, in-home cases and long-termcases assigned to each field office.
For backlog cases, the department'sbenchmark is 1,000 cases.
For open reports, the department'sbenchmark is fewer than 8,000 open reports.
For long-term cases, thedepartment's benchmark is 3,323 cases.
If the department of child safety hasnot submitted a required report within thirty days after the report is due, thedirector of the joint legislative budget committee shall inform the generalaccounting office of the department of administration, which shall withhold twopercent of the department of child safety's operating lump sum semiannualbudget allocation until the department of child safety submits the requiredreport.
Sec. 25. STATE BOARD OFCHIROPRACTIC EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTEpositions 6.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 638,700
Fund sources:
Board ofchiropractic examiners
||fund $ 638,700
Sec. 26. ARIZONA COMMERCE AUTHORITY
2024-25
Operating lump sum appropriation $10,000,000
Arizona competes fund deposit 500,000
Asiatrade offices 750,000
Economicdevelopment marketing
andattraction 500,000
Frankfurt, Germany trade office 500,000
Israel trade office 300,000
Mexico trade offices 500,000
Total appropriation — Arizona commerce
authority $13,050,000
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $13,050,000
Pursuant to section 43-409, ArizonaRevised Statutes, of the amounts listed above, $10,500,000 of the state generalfund withholding tax revenues is allocated in fiscal year 2024-2025 to theArizona commerce authority, of which $10,000,000 is credited to the Arizonacommerce authority fund established by section 41-1506, Arizona RevisedStatutes, and $500,000 is credited to the Arizona competes fund established bysection 41-1545.01, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Sec. 27. ARIZONACOMMUNITY COLLEGES
2024-25
Equalizationaid
Cochise $10,575,800
Graham 21,132,400
Navajo 12,016,200
Yuma/La Paz 896,400
Total — equalization aid $44,620,800
Operatingstate aid
Cochise $ 4,000,800
Coconino 1,392,500
Gila 149,700
Graham 1,758,900
Mohave 961,500
Navajo 1,375,600
Pinal 1,032,900
SantaCruz 54,600
Yavapai 371,300
Yuma/LaPaz 2,262,400
Total —operating state aid $13,360,200
STEM and workforce programs state aid
Cochise $ 833,400
Coconino 300,700
Gila 88,100
Graham 446,300
Maricopa 8,073,700
Mohave 392,600
Navajo 273,600
Pima 1,768,900
Pinal 634,800
SantaCruz 41,800
Yavapai 636,600
Yuma/LaPaz 778,200
Total —STEM and workforce programs
stateaid $14,268,700
Ruralaid
Cochise $ 2,999,100
Coconino 892,800
Gila 258,000
Graham 1,239,300
Mohave 1,149,000
Navajo 815,000
Pinal 1,794,100
SantaCruz 113,800
Yavapai 1,833,600
Yuma/LaPaz 2,905,300
Total —rural aid $14,000,000
Ruralcounty reimbursem*nt subsidy $ 1,082,900
AdditionalGila workforce
developmentaid 200,000
Dinécollege remedial education 1,000,000
Total appropriation — Arizonacommunity
colleges $88,532,600
Fund sources:
State generalfund $88,532,600
Of the $1,082,900 appropriated to therural county reimbursem*nt subsidy line item, Apache county receives $699,300and Greenlee county receives $383,600.
On or before October 15, 2025, theDiné college board of regents shall submit to the governor, the speaker of thehouse of representatives, the president of the senate, the secretary of stateand the joint legislative budget committee a report that details the coursecompletion rate for students who received remedial education during the2024-2025 academic year.
Sec. 28. REGISTRAR OF CONTRACTORS
2024-25
FTE positions 105.6
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 13,050,200
Officeof administrative
||hearingscosts 1,017,600
Total appropriation — registrar of
contractors $ 14,067,800
Fundsources:
Registrarof contractors fund $ 14,067,800
Sec. 29. CORPORATION COMMISSION
2024-25
FTE positions 301.9
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 35,031,300
Corporationfilings, same-day
service 416,500
Utilitiesaudits, studies,
investigationsand hearings 380,000*
Total appropriation — corporationcommission $ 35,827,800
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $ 798,900
Arizonaarts trust fund 57,700
Investmentmanagement regulatory
||andenforcement fund 1,305,700
Publicaccess fund 8,020,800
Securitiesregulatory and
enforcementfund 7,272,500
Utilityregulation revolving fund 18,372,200
Sec. 30. STATE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS
2024-25
FTE positions 9,592.0
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 863,381,600
Overtimeand compensatory time 15,540,500
Privateprison per diem 275,716,800
Communitycorrections 27,452,300
Inmatehealth care contracted
services 367,557,100
Substanceabuse treatment 3,945,400
Noncontractmedication 55,000,000
Injunction-relatedIT upgrades 16,000,000
Total appropriation — state department
of corrections $1,624,593,700
Fund sources:
State general fund $1,515,971,300
State education fund for
correctional education 723,200
Alcoholabuse treatment fund 555,800
Penitentiaryland fund 3,460,300
Statecharitable, penal and
reformatoryinstitutions
landfund 3,734,100
Correctionsfund 31,312,500
Transitionprogram fund 15,048,600
Prisonconstruction and
operationsfund 12,500,100
Inmatestore proceeds fund 1,287,800
Consumerrestitution and remediation
revolvingfund – consumer
remediationsubaccount 40,000,000
Of the amount appropriated in theoperating lump sum, $487,093,200 is designated for personal services and$222,017,000 is designated for employee-related expenditures. The departmentshall submit an expenditure plan for review by the joint legislative budgetcommittee before spending these monies other than for personal services oremployee-related expenditures.
After the department submits anexpenditure plan to the joint legislative budget committee, the department maytransfer personal services and employee-related expenditures savings from theoperating budget to the private prison per diem line item for private prisonstaff stipends. The amount of any private prison staff stipend may not exceedthe amount given to department staff. The expenditure plan is not subject toreview by the joint legislative budget committee.
The department shall submit anexpenditure plan for review by the joint legislative budget committee beforespending monies appropriated for the overtime and compensatory time line itemother than for personal services or employee-related expenditures.
Private prison vendors that contractwith this state may use staff vacancy savings to pay for overtime costs withoutincurring a penalty or staffing offset.
Before placing any inmates inout-of-state provisional beds, the department shall place inmates in allavailable prison beds in facilities that are located in this state and thathouse Arizona inmates, unless the out-of-state provisional beds are of acomparable security level and price.
The state department of correctionsshall forward to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house ofrepresentatives, the chairpersons of the senate and house of representativesappropriations committees and the director of the joint legislative budgetcommittee a monthly report comparing department expenditures for the month andyear-to-date as compared to prior-year expenditures on or before thethirtieth of the following month. The report shall be in the sameformat as the prior fiscal year and include an estimate of potentialshortfalls, potential surpluses that may be available to offset theseshortfalls and a plan, if necessary, for eliminating any shortfall without asupplemental appropriation. The report shall include the number of filled andvacant correctional officer and medical staff positions departmentwide and byprison complex.
On or beforeNovember 1, 2024, the state department of corrections shall provide a report onbed capacity to the joint legislative budget committee. The report shallreflect the bed capacity for each security classification by gender at eachstate-run and private institution, divided by rated and total beds. The reportshall include bed capacity data for June 30, 2023 and June 30, 2024 and theprojected capacity for June 30, 2025, as well as the reasons for any changewithin that time period. Within the total bed count, the departmentshall provide the number of temporary and special use beds. Thereport shall also address the department's rationale for eliminating anypermanent beds rather than reducing the level of temporary beds. Thereport shall also include any plans to vacate beds but not permanently removethe beds from the bed count.
If the department develops a planafter the department's November 1, 2024 report to open or close one hundred ormore state-operated or private prison rated beds, the department shall submit aplan detailing the proposed bed changes for review by the joint legislativebudget committee before implementing these changes.
One hundred percent of land earningsand interest from the penitentiary land fund shall be distributed to the statedepartment of corrections in compliance with the enabling act and theConstitution of Arizona to be used to support state penal institutions.
On or before December 15, 2024 andJuly 15, 2025, the state department of corrections shall submit a report to thejoint legislative budget committee on the progress made in meeting the staffingneeds for correctional officers. Each report shall include thenumber of filled correctional officer positions, the number of vacantcorrectional officer positions, the number of people in training, the number ofseparations and the number of hours of overtime workedyear-to-date. The report shall detail these amounts both departmentwideand by prison complex.
Twenty-fivepercent of land earnings and interest from the state charitable, penal andreformatory institutions land fund shall be distributed to the state departmentof corrections in compliance with the enabling act and the Constitution ofArizona to be used to support state penal institutions.
Before implementing any changes incontracted rates for inmate health care contracted services, the statedepartment of corrections shall submit its expenditure plan for review by thejoint legislative budget committee.
On or before August 1, 2024 andFebruary 1, 2025, the state department of corrections shall submit a report tothe joint legislative budget committee on the status of all inmate health careperformance measures that are tracked by the department for contract monitoringpurposes. Each report must include:
1. The total number ofperformance measures, by facility, for which the department is not insubstantial compliance.
2. An explanation for eachinstance of noncompliance.
3. The department's plan tocomply with the performance measures.
On or beforeAugust 1, 2024, the state department of corrections shall transfer to thepublic safety personnel retirement system via the department of administrationits estimated required annual contribution to the corrections officerretirement plan for fiscal year 2024-2025.
The department shall report actualfiscal year 2023-2024, estimated fiscal year 2024-2025 and requested fiscalyear 2025-2026 expenditures as delineated in the prior year when the departmentsubmits its fiscal year 2025-2026 budget request pursuant to section 35-113,Arizona Revised Statutes.
The department shall use the amountappropriated in the private prison per diem line item to pay private prisoncontractors for housing and providing medical care to Arizona inmates. Beforespending these monies for any other purpose, the department shall submit anexpenditure plan for review by the joint legislative budget committee.
Included in the operating lump sumappropriation is $40,000,000 from the consumer remediation subaccount of theconsumer restitution and remediation revolving fund established by section 44-1531.02,
Arizona Revised Statutes. This amount consists of monies deposited in thesubaccount pursuant to opioid claims-related litigation or settlements. Thisamount is intended to offset past and current department costs for care,treatment, programs and other expenditures for individuals with opioid usedisorder and any co-occurring substance use disorder or mental healthconditions or for any other specified purposes that are included in a courtorder or a settlement or compromise that is entered into by this state andother parties to the opioid litigation.
The amount appropriated in theinjunction-related IT upgrades line item shall be used to address informationtechnology improvements as required by the court in the Jensen v Thornellinmate health care litigation.
The department shall use the amountappropriated in the noncontract medication line item to purchase medications totreat hepatitis C and for medication-assisted treatment for substance usedisorder. Before spending these monies for any other purpose, the departmentshall submit an expenditure plan for review by the joint legislative budgetcommittee.
Sec. 31. ARIZONACRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMISSION
2024-25
FTEpositions 11.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 1,406,900
Majorincident regional law
enforcementtask force 600,000
Stateaid to county attorneys 973,700
Stateaid to indigent defense 700,000
Stateaid for juvenile dependency
proceedingsfund deposit 2,000,000
Victimcompensation and assistance 6,223,200
Total appropriation — Arizona criminal
justicecommission $11,903,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 4,600,000
Criminaljustice enhancement fund 733,700
Resourcecenter fund 647,100
Stateaid to county attorneys fund 973,700
State aid to indigent defense fund 700,000
Victim compensation and assistance
||fund 4,249,300
All victim compensation and assistancefund monies received by the Arizona criminal justice commission in excess of$4,249,300 in fiscal year 2024-2025 are appropriated to the crime victimsprogram. Before spending any victim compensation and assistance fundmonies in excess of $4,249,300 in fiscal year 2024-2025, the Arizona criminaljustice commission shall report the intended use of the monies to the jointlegislative budget committee.
All monies received by the Arizonacriminal justice commission in excess of $973,700 in fiscal year 2024-2025 fromthe state aid to county attorneys fund established by section 11-539, ArizonaRevised Statutes, are appropriated to the state aid to county attorneysprogram. Before spending any state aid to county attorneys fund monies inexcess of $973,700 in fiscal year 2024-2025, the Arizona criminal justicecommission shall report the intended use of the monies to the joint legislativebudget committee.
Sec. 32. ARIZONA STATESCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND THE BLIND
2024-25
FTEpositions 562.2
Administration/statewide $ 8,404,300
Phoenixday school for the deaf 10,811,200
Tucsoncampus 13,330,400
Preschool/outreachprograms 7,824,200
Schoolbus/agency vehicle
replacement 369,000
Cooperativeservices 19,621,400
Total appropriation — Arizona state schools
for thedeaf and the blind $60,360,500
Fund sources:
State general fund $25,991,300
Schools for the deaf and
the blind fund 14,579,800
Cooperative services fund 19,621,400
Telecommunication fund
for the deaf 168,000
Before spending any schools for thedeaf and the blind fund monies in excess of $14,579,800 in fiscal year2024-2025, the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind shall report tothe joint legislative budget committee the intended use of the monies.
Before spending any cooperativeservices fund monies in excess of $19,621,400 in fiscal year 2024-2025, theArizona state schools for the deaf and the blind shall report to the jointlegislative budget committee the intended use of the monies.
Sec. 33. COMMISSION FOR THE DEAF AND THE HARD OF HEARING
2024-25
FTE positions 21.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 4,634,600
Supportservices for the
deaf-blind 192,000
Websitesecurity upgrades 200,000
Total appropriation — commission for the
deaf andthe hard of hearing $ 5,026,600
Fundsources:
Telecommunicationfund for
||thedeaf $ 5,026,600
Sec. 34. STATE BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTE positions 13.0
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 2,103,600
Annual leave payout $ 9,300*
Total appropriation — state board of
dentalexaminers $ 2,112,900
Fund sources:
Dentalboard fund $ 2,112,900
Sec. 35. OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
2024-25
FTE positions 5.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 523,300
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 523,300
Sec. 36. DEPARTMENT OFECONOMIC SECURITY
2024-25
FTE positions 4,611.8
Operatinglump sum appropriation $333,957,100
Administration
Attorneygeneral legal services 12,755,600
Aging and adult services
Adult services 10,731,900
Communityand emergency services 3,724,000
Coordinatedhomeless services 2,522,600
Coordinatedhunger services 2,254,600
Domesticviolence prevention 14,004,000
Long-termcare ombudsman 1,000,000
Benefitsand medical eligibility
Temporaryassistance for needy
families— cash benefits 22,736,400
Tribalpass-through funding 4,680,300
Childsupport enforcement
Countyparticipation 8,539,700
Developmentaldisabilities
DDDpremium tax payment 64,871,600
Casemanagement — medicaid 140,855,600
Homeand community based
services— medicaid 2,292,850,800
Institutionalservices —
medicaid 51,334,400
Physicaland behavioral
healthservices — medicaid 655,369,900
Medicareclawback payments 7,132,700
Targetedcase management — medicaid 19,324,900
Statematch transfer from AHCCCS 1,122,988,600
Casemanagement — state-only 6,335,600
Homeand community based
services— state-only 14,089,000
Costeffectiveness study — client
services 8,420,000
Arizona early intervention program 16,119,000
State-funded long-term care
services 44,389,800
Group home monitoring program 1,200,000
Employmentand rehabilitation services
JOBS 11,005,600
Childcare subsidy 320,580,200
Independentliving rehabilitation
services 1,289,400
Rehabilitationservices 7,249,100
Workforce innovation
and opportunity act
services 85,824,200
Total appropriation and expenditure
authority — department of
economic security $5,288,136,600
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $1,339,544,800
Federalchild care and
developmentfund block grant 331,029,300
Federaltemporary assistance for
needyfamilies block grant 66,591,200
Long-termcare system fund 34,429,200
Publicassistance collections
fund 441,800
Specialadministration fund 4,637,900
Spinaland head injuries trust
fund 2,385,500
Statewidecost allocation plan
fund 1,000,000
Childsupport enforcement
administrationfund 17,683,300
Domesticviolence services fund 4,000,300
Workforceinvestment act grant 87,116,600
Childsupport enforcement
administrationfund
expenditureauthority 44,195,500
Developmental disabilities
medicaid expenditure
authority 3,311,833,900
Healthcare investment fund
expenditureauthority 43,247,300
Agingand adult services
Alldomestic violence services fund monies in excess of $4,000,300 received by thedepartment of economic security are appropriated for the domestic violenceprevention line item. Before spending these increased monies, thedepartment shall report the intended use of monies in excess of $4,000,300 tothe joint legislative budget committee.
On orbefore December 15, 2024, the department of economic security shall report tothe joint legislative budget committee the amount of state and federal moniesavailable statewide for domestic violence prevention funding. Thereport shall include, at a minimum, the amount of monies available and thestate fiscal agent receiving those monies.
Benefitsand medical eligibility
Theoperating lump sum appropriation may be spent on Arizona health care costcontainment system eligibility determinations based on the results of theArizona random moment sampling survey.
Childsupport enforcement
All stateshares of retained earnings, fees and federal incentives in excess of$17,683,300 received by the division of child support enforcement areappropriated for operating expenditures. New FTE positions areauthorized with the increased funding. Before spending theseincreased monies, the department of economic security shall report the intendeduse of the monies to the joint legislative budget committee.
Developmentaldisabilities
On orbefore September 1, 2025, the department of economic security shall report tothe president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, thechairpersons of the senate and house of representatives appropriations committeesand the director of the joint legislative budget committee any new placementinto a state-owned ICF-IID or the Arizona training program at theCoolidge campus in fiscal year 2024-2025 and the reason for this placement,rather than a placement into a privately run facility for persons withdevelopmental disabilities, was deemed as the most appropriateplacement. The department shall also report if no new placementswere made. On or before September 1, 2025, the department shall also report tothe director of the joint legislative budget committee the total costsassociated with the Arizona training program at Coolidge in fiscal year2024-2025.
Thedepartment shall report to the joint legislative budget committee on or beforeMarch 1 of each year on preliminary actuarial estimates of the capitation ratechanges for the following fiscal year along with the reasons for the estimatedchanges. For any actuarial estimates that include a range, the totalrange from minimum to maximum may not be more than two percent. Beforeimplementing any changes in capitation rates for the long-term care system, thedepartment shall submit a report for review by the joint legislative budgetcommittee. Before the department implements any change in policy affecting theamount, sufficiency, duration and scope of health care services and who mayprovide services, the department shall prepare a fiscal impact analysis on thepotential effects of this change on the following year's capitationrates. If the fiscal impact analysis demonstrates that this changewill result in additional state costs of $500,000 or more for any fiscal year,the department shall submit the policy change for review by the jointlegislative budget committee.
Beforeimplementing developmental disabilities or long-term care statewideprovider rate adjustments that are not already specifically authorized by thelegislature, court mandates or changes to federal law, the department shallsubmit a report for review by the joint legislative budget committee that includes,at a minimum, the estimated cost of the provider rate adjustment and theongoing source of funding for the adjustment, if applicable.
Beforetransferring any monies in or out of the case management —medicaid and casemanagement — state-only and developmental disabilities administration lineitems and before transferring any monies in or out of the operating lump sumitem related to the developmental disabilities program and its administration,the department shall submit a report for review by the joint legislative budgetcommittee, except that transfers from the state match transfer from AHCCCS lineitem into those line items do not require a report for review.
On or before November 30, 2024, thedepartment of economic security shall submit a report to the joint legislativebudget committee regarding expenditures from the cost effectiveness study –client services line item in the previous fiscal year. The report shallinclude the number of clients and total amounts spent from the line item in eachsetting type along with expenditures for those clients in other line items.The report shall also include cost effectiveness spending in other line items.
The amounts appropriated for the grouphome monitoring program in fiscal year 2023-2024 pursuant to Laws 2023, chapter133, section 29 and in fiscal year 2024-2025 are exempt from the provisions ofsection 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing ofappropriations, until June 30, 2026.
The amount appropriated for the Grahamcounty rehabilitation center in fiscal year 2023-2024 pursuant to Laws 2023,chapter 133, section 29 is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190,Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30,2025. Of the amount appropriated, $800,000 shall be used to remodel the Grahamcounty rehabilitation facilities in Safford and Willcox.
Employment and rehabilitation services
On or before September 15, 2024 and March 15, 2025, thedepartment of economic security shall submit a report to the president of thesenate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairpersons of thesenate and house of representatives appropriations committees and the jointlegislative budget committee on child care development block grant monies providedfrom the coronavirus aid, relief, and economic security act, the consolidatedappropriations act, 2021 and the American rescue plan act of 2021 (P.L.117-2). The report must include, at a minimum, the actualexpenditures made to date by purpose and, separately, by federal legislation,the expenditure plan for all remaining monies by purpose and, separately, byfederal legislation, the number of children served with the monies on averageeach month, the average child care reimbursem*nt rates for the entire program,including these monies, and the number of child care settings with a qualityrating.
Thedepartment of economic security shall forward to the joint legislative budgetcommittee a monthly report listing data on the child care populationserved. The report must include, at a minimum, in each program thenumber of unduplicated children enrolled in child care within the department ofeconomic security and the department of child safety by program and the averageamount paid per child plus quality-related spending.
Allworkforce investment act grant monies that are received by this state in excessof $87,116,600 are appropriated to the workforce innovation and opportunity actservices line item. Before spending these increased monies, thedepartment shall report the intended use of monies in excess of $87,116,600 tothe joint legislative budget committee.
Departmentwide
The aboveappropriations are in addition to monies granted to this state by the federalgovernment for the same purposes but are deemed to include the sums depositedin the state treasury to the credit of the department of economic securitypursuant to section 42-5029, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Thedepartment of economic security shall forward to the president of the senate,the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairpersons of the senate andhouse of representatives appropriations committees and the director of thejoint legislative budget committee a monthly report comparing totalexpenditures for the month and year-to-date as compared toprior-year totals on or before the thirtieth of the followingmonth. The report shall include an estimate of potential shortfallsin entitlement programs and potential federal and other monies, such as thestatewide assessment for indirect costs, and any projected surplus instate-supported programs that may be available to offset these shortfalls and aplan, if necessary, for eliminating any shortfall without a supplementalappropriation.
Sec. 37. STATE BOARD OFEDUCATION
2024-25
FTEpositions 23.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 3,222,100
Arizonaempowerment scholarship
accountappeals 227,900
Totalappropriation —
stateboard of education $ 3,450,000
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 3,450,000
Sec. 38. SUPERINTENDENTOF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
2024-25
FTEpositions 232.9
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 15,626,800
Formula programs
Basicstate aid 6,335,820,300
Specialeducation fund 36,029,200
Classroomsite fund 1,053,335,300
Instructionalimprovement fund 80,425,700
Property tax relief
Additionalstate aid 526,653,100
Non-formula programs
Accountabilityand achievement
testing 16,442,200
Adulteducation 17,058,900
Alternativeteacher development
program 1,000,000
ArizonaEnglish language
learnerfund 4,960,400
Arizonaholocaust education center 7,000,000
CTEDcertification exam fee
reimbursem*nt 1,000,000
CTEDcompletion grants 1,000,000
CTEDsoft capital and equipment 1,000,000
Collegecredit by examination
incentiveprogram 3,772,100
Collegeplacement exam fee waiver 1,265,800
Computerscience professional
developmentprogram 1,000,000
Earlyliteracy 17,380,000
Educationlearning and
accountabilitysystem 5,446,700
Englishlearner administration 6,597,000
Flagstaffrobotics program 20,000
Geographicl*teracy 100,000
Giftedassessments 850,000
Jobsfor Arizona graduates 500,000
Live,remote instructional courses 100,000
Onetimeschool meal grants 3,800,000
Schoolsafety program 81,992,400
Stateblock grant for vocational
education 11,774,300
Studentlevel data access 359,000
Teachercertification 2,544,600
Tribalcollege dual enrollment
program 325,000
Total appropriation and expenditure
authority — superintendent
ofpublic instruction $8,235,178,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $6,573,446,600
Educationsales tax fund 7,000,000
Permanentstate school fund 357,889,000
Teachercertification fund 2,517,700
Tribalcollege dual enrollment
programfund 325,000
Departmentof education empowerment
scholarshipaccount fund 359,000
Expenditureauthority 1,293,641,500
Operating lump sum
Any monies available to the departmentof education pursuant to section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 8, ArizonaRevised Statutes, for the failing schools tutoring fund established by section15-241, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of the expenditure authorityamounts are allocated for the purposes ofsection 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 8, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Any monies available to the departmentof education pursuant to section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 6, ArizonaRevised Statutes, for character education matching grants pursuant to section15-154.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of the expenditure authorityamounts are allocated for the purposes of section 42-5029.02, subsection A,paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Basic state aid
The appropriation for basic state aidprovides basic state support to school districts for maintenance and operationsfunding as provided by section 15-973, Arizona Revised Statutes, andincludes an estimated $357,889,000 in expendable income derived from thepermanent state school fund and from state trust lands pursuant to section37-521, subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, for fiscal year 2024-2025.
Monies derived from the permanentstate school fund and any other non-state general fund revenue source that isdedicated to fund basic state aid shall be spent, whenever possible, beforespending state general fund monies.
Except as required by section 37-521,Arizona Revised Statutes, all monies received during the fiscal year fromnational forests, interest collected on deferred payments on the purchase ofstate lands, income from investing permanent state school funds as prescribedby the enabling act and the Constitution of Arizona and all monies received bythe superintendent of public instruction from whatever source, except moniesreceived pursuant to sections 15-237 and 15-531, Arizona RevisedStatutes, when paid into the state treasury are appropriated for apportionmentto the various counties in accordance with law. An expenditure maynot be made except as specifically authorized above.
Any monies available to the departmentof education pursuant to section 42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 5, ArizonaRevised Statutes, for the increased cost of basic state aid under section15-971, Arizona Revised Statutes, due to added school days in excess of the expenditureauthority amounts are allocated for the purposes of section 42-5029.02,subsection A, paragraph 5, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Other programs
Any monies available to the departmentof education for the classroom site fund pursuant to section 37-521, subsectionB, paragraph 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, and section 42-5029.02, subsection A,paragraph 10, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of expenditure authorityamounts are allocated for the purposes of section 37-521, subsection B,paragraph 4, Arizona Revised Statutes, and section 42-5029.02, subsectionA, paragraph 10, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Any moniesavailable to the department of education from the instructional improvementfund established by section 15-979, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of theexpenditure authority amounts are allocated for the purposes of section 15-979,Arizona Revised Statutes.
Before making any changes to theachievement testing program that will increase program costs, the department ofeducation and the state board of education shall submit the estimated fiscalimpact of those changes to the joint legislative budget committee for review.
Any monies available to the departmentof education for accountability purposes pursuant to section 42-5029.02,subsection A, paragraph 7, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of theexpenditure authority amounts are allocated for the purposes of section42-5029.02, subsection A, paragraph 7, Arizona Revised Statutes.
The department of education may usethe appropriated amount for accountability and achievement testing in fiscalyear 2024-2025 for costs of the English language proficiency assessmentsrequired by section 15-756.05, Arizona Revised Statutes.
The appropriated amount for adulteducation includes $6,160,000 for a onetime allocation to the continuing highschool and workforce training program established by section 15-217.01, ArizonaRevised Statutes, $3,000,000 for a onetime deposit in the adult workforcediploma program fund established by section 15-217.02, Arizona RevisedStatutes, and $3,000,000 for a onetime deposit in the community college adulteducation workforce development program fund established by section 15-217.03,Arizona Revised Statutes.
The department of education shalldistribute the appropriated amount for the Arizona holocaust education centerline item to the Arizona holocaust education center for a onetime distributionfor the creation and operation of the center as a resource for fulfilling therequirements of section 15-701.02, Arizona Revised Statutes. The department ofadministration shall allot the full amount of the line item on or before August15, 2024. The department of education shall make the distribution on or beforeAugust 15, 2024. This appropriation is exempt from the provisions of section35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.
Monies appropriated for CTEDcompletion grants are intended to help fund program completion for students whocomplete at least fifty percent of a career technical education program beforegraduating from high school and who successfully complete the career technicaleducation district program after graduating from high school. Theapplication procedures shall award grant funding only after an eligible studenthas successfully completed a career technical education district program.
If the appropriated amount for CTEDcompletion grants is insufficient to fund all grant requests from careertechnical education districts, the department of education shall reduce grantamounts on a proportional basis in order to cap total statewide allocations at$1,000,000.
The appropriated amount for CTEDcompletion grants is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190,Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30,2026.
The department of education shalldistribute the appropriated amount for CTED soft capital and equipment tocareer technical education districts with fewer than two thousand average dailymembership pupils for soft capital and equipment expenses. Theappropriated amount shall be allocated on a pro rata basis based on the averagedaily membership of eligible career technical education districts.
The department of education shall usethe appropriated amount for English learner administration to provide Englishlanguage acquisition services for the purposes of section 15-756.07,Arizona Revised Statutes, and for the costs of providing English languageproficiency assessments, scoring and ancillary materials as prescribed by thedepartment of education to school districts and charter schools for thepurposes of title 15, chapter 7, article 3.1, Arizona RevisedStatutes. The department may use a portion of the appropriatedamount to hire staff or contract with a third party to carry out the purposesof section 15-756.07, Arizona RevisedStatutes. Notwithstanding section 41-192, Arizona RevisedStatutes, the superintendent of public instruction also may use a portion ofthe appropriated amount to contract with one or more private attorneys to providelegal services in connection with the case of Flores v. State of Arizona,No. CIV 92-596-TUC-RCC.
The department of education shall usethe appropriated amount for geographic literacy to issue a grant to a statewidegeographic alliance for strengthening geographic literacy in this state.
The department of education shall usethe appropriated amount for jobs for Arizona graduates to issue a grant to anonprofit organization for a JOBS for Arizona graduates program.
The department of education shall allocatethe appropriated amount for onetime school meal grants to school districts andcharter schools that participate in the national school lunch program or schoolbreakfast program established under the national school lunch and childnutrition acts (42 United States Code sections 1751 through 1793) for grants toreduce or eliminate copayments that would otherwise be charged to childreneligible for reduced-price meals. If the appropriated amount is insufficientto cover the grant awards for all eligible grantees, the department shallreduce each grant proportionately to cover all eligible grantees.
The amount appropriated for the schoolsafety program in fiscal year 2022-2023 pursuant to laws 2022, chapter 313,section 31 included an increase of $50,000,000 for additional school safetygrants. In allocating the $50,000,000 increase, the department of educationshall first distribute monies to schools on the school safety program waitinglist to receive grants for the costs of placing school resource officers onschool campuses. The awarded grants may not supplant funding provided by localgovernments for school resource officers. If the total cost of funding grantsfor school resource officers is less than $50,000,000, the department mayallocate the remaining monies to grants to schools for the costs of placingschool counselors and social workers on school campuses pursuant to section15-154, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Any monies available to the departmentof education for school safety pursuant to section 42-5029.02, subsection A,paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, in excess of the expenditure authorityamounts are allocated for the purposes of section 42-5029.02, subsection A,paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes.
After review by the joint legislativebudget committee, in fiscal year 2024-2025, the department of education may usea portion of its fiscal year 2024-2025 state general fund appropriations forbasic state aid, additional state aid or the special education fund to fund ashortfall in funding for basic state aid, additional state aid or the specialeducation fund, if any, that occurred in fiscal year 2023-2024.
The department shall provide anupdated report on its budget status every three months for the first half ofeach fiscal year and every month thereafter to the president of the senate, thespeaker of the house of representatives, the chairpersons of the senate andhouse of representatives appropriations committees, the director of the jointlegislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office ofstrategic planning and budgeting. Each report shall include, at aminimum, the department's current funding surplus or shortfall projections forbasic state aid and other major formula-based programs and is due thirty daysafter the end of the applicable reporting period.
Within fifteen days after eachapportionment of state aid that occurs pursuant to section 15-973, subsectionB, Arizona Revised Statutes, the department shall post on its website theamount of state aid apportioned to each recipient and the underlying data.
Sec. 39. DEPARTMENT OFEMERGENCY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS
2024-25
FTE positions 61.5
Administration $ 4,544,300
Emergency management 874,600
Emergency management matching funds 1,544,900
Hazard mitigation assistance 462,900
Military affairs 2,105,000
National guard matching funds 3,529,200
National guard tuition
reimbursem*nt 1,000,000
Hazard mitigation revolving
fund deposit 200,000
Assist law enforcement fentanyl
interdiction 3,000,000
Total appropriation — department of
emergencyand military affairs $17,260,900
Fund sources:
State general fund $14,260,900
Consumer restitution and remediation
revolving fund –consumer
remediation subaccount 3,000,000
The $3,529,200 national guard matchingfunds appropriation is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, ArizonaRevised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, except that all fiscalyear 2024-2025 monies remaining unexpended and unencumbered on December 31,2025 revert to the state general fund.
The appropriated amount for thenational guard tuition reimbursem*nt line item is exempt from the provisions ofsection 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations,until September 30, 2025.
Monies in the assist local lawenforcement fentanyl interdiction line item are from the consumer remediationsubaccount of the consumer restitution and remediation revolving fundestablished by section 44-1531.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, and consistof monies deposited in the subaccount pursuant to opioid claims-relatedlitigation or settlements.
Sec. 40. DEPARTMENT OFENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
2024-25
FTE positions 358.7
Operating lump sum appropriation $67,698,600
Safe drinking water program 1,991,800
Emissionscontrol contractor
payment 28,894,500
Totalappropriation — department of
environmental quality $98,584,900
Fund sources:
Air quality fund $ 9,207,700
Emergency response fund 132,800
Emissions inspection fund 33,153,800
Hazardous waste management fund 1,939,400
Indirect cost fund 18,979,600
Permit administration fund 7,256,800
Recycling fund 2,465,900
Safe drinking water program
fund 1,991,800
Solid waste fee fund 2,584,900
Water quality fee fund 20,872,200
The department of environmentalquality shall report annually on the progress of WQARF activities, includingemergency response, priority site remediation, cost recovery activity, revenueand expenditure activity and other WQARF-funded programactivity. The department shall submit the fiscal year 2024-2025report to the joint legislative budget committee on or before September 1,2024. This report shall also include a budget for the WQARF program that isdeveloped in consultation with the WQARF advisory board. This budget shallspecify the monies budgeted for each listed site during fiscal year 2024-2025.In addition, the department and the WQARF advisory board shall prepare andsubmit to the joint legislative budget committee, on or before October 1, 2024,a report in a table format summarizing the current progress on remediation ofeach listed site on the WQARF registry. The table shall include the stage ofremediation for each site at the end of fiscal year 2023-2024, indicate whetherthe current stage of remediation is anticipated to be completed in fiscal year2024-2025 and indicate the anticipated stage of remediation at eachlisted site at the end of fiscal year 2024-2025, assuming fiscal year 2024-2025funding levels. The department and the WQARF advisory board mayinclude other relevant information about the listed sites in the table.
All permit administration fund moniesreceived by the department of environmental quality in excess of $7,256,800 infiscal year 2024-2025 are appropriated to the department. Beforespending permit administration fund monies in excess of $7,256,800 in fiscalyear 2024-2025, the department shall report the intended use of the monies tothe joint legislative budget committee.
All monies in the department ofenvironmental quality indirect cost fund, including the beginning balance, thatare in excess of $18,979,600 in fiscal year 2024-2025 are appropriated to thedepartment. Before spending indirect cost fund monies in excess of$18,979,600 in fiscal year 2024-2025, the department shall report the intendeduse of the monies to the joint legislative budget committee.
Notwithstanding section 49-544,Arizona Revised Statutes, the department may use up to $400,000 from the fundbalance in the emissions inspection fund established by section 49-544,Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2024-2025 for agency operating costs.Before expending any emissions inspection fund monies on operating costs, thedepartment shall report the intended use of the monies to the joint legislativebudget committee.
Sec. 41. GOVERNOR'SOFFICE OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
2024-25
FTEpositions 5.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 310,500
Fund sources:
Personneldivision fund $ 310,500
Sec. 42. STATE BOARD OFEQUALIZATION
2024-25
FTEpositions 7.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 751,100
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 751,100
Sec. 43. BOARD OFEXECUTIVE CLEMENCY
2024-25
FTEpositions 14.5
Lump sumappropriation $ 1,370,300
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 1,370,300
On or before November 1, 2024, theboard of executive clemency shall report to the directors of the jointlegislative budget committee and the governor's office of strategic planningand budgeting the total number and types of cases the board reviewed in fiscalyear 2023-2024.
Sec. 44. ARIZONAEXPOSITION AND STATE FAIR BOARD
2024-25
FTEpositions 184.0
Lump sumappropriation $21,276,100
Fundsources:
Arizonaexposition and state
fairfund $21,276,100
Sec. 45. ARIZONADEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY AND FIRE MANAGEMENT
2024-25
FTEpositions 235.5
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 7,203,900
Environmentalcounty grants 250,000
Inmatefirefighting crews 867,700
Postreleasefirefighting crews 1,278,900
Firesuppression 5,200,000
Statefire marshal 1,792,000
Statefire school 289,000
Hazardousvegetation removal 3,039,300
USforest service land thinning 1,657,700
Wildfiremitigation 27,026,700
Total appropriation — Arizonadepartment
of forestry and fire management $48,605,200
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $48,605,200
The appropriation for the hazardousvegetation removal line item is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190,Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30,2026.
The appropriation for the wildfiremitigation line item is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, ArizonaRevised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2027.
Sec. 46. ARIZONA GAMEAND FISH DEPARTMENT
2024-25
FTEpositions 273.5
Operatinglump sum appropriation $38,914,700
Pittman-Robertson/Dingell-Johnson
act 3,058,000
Total appropriation — Arizona game andfish
department $41,972,700
Fundsources:
Capitalimprovement fund $1,001,200
Gameand fish fund 35,547,800
Wildlifeendowment fund 16,200
Watercraftlicensing fund 5,017,800
Game,nongame, fish and
endangeredspecies fund 389,700
Sec. 47. DEPARTMENT OFGAMING
2024-25
FTEpositions 155.8
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 13,740,100
Arizonabreeders' award 250,000
Casinooperations certification 2,299,400
Countyfairs livestock and
agriculturepromotion 6,029,500
Divisionof racing 2,435,900
Contractveterinarian 175,000
Horseracingintegrity and safety
actassessment 1,355,100
Problemgambling 3,320,000
Total appropriation — department of gaming $ 29,605,000
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 6,204,500
Fantasy sports contest fund 150,100
Tribal-statecompact fund 2,299,400
Arizonabenefits fund 16,610,000
Statelottery fund 300,000
Racing regulation fund 3,935,800
Racingregulation fund — unarmed
combatsubaccount 105,200
The amount appropriated to the countyfairs livestock and agriculture promotion line item is for deposit in thecounty fairs livestock and agriculture promotion fund established by section5-113, Arizona Revised Statutes, and to be administered by the office of thegovernor.
On or before August 1, 2024, thedepartment of gaming shall report to the directors of the joint legislativebudget committee and the governor's office of strategic planning and budgetingon the expected amount and purpose of expenditures from the event wagering fundestablished by section 5-1318, Arizona Revised Statutes, for fiscal year2024-2025. The report shall include the projected line item detailand the number of filled full-time equivalent positions.
On or before the final day of eachquarter of fiscal year 2024-2025, the department of gaming shall report to themembers of the joint legislative budget committee on the number of equinedeaths and injuries that occurred as a result of a horse race and thecommercial live racing facility where each incident occurred. The report shallinclude the number of pre-race inspections performed by a veterinarian employedby or contracted with this state.
Theamount appropriated to the horseracing integrity and safety act assessment lineitem shall be used by the department during fiscal year 2024-2025 to pay thecalendar year 2024 assessment levied by the horseracing integrity and safetyauthority.
Sec. 48. OFFICEOF THE GOVERNOR
2024-25
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 7,839,800*
Fosteryouth education success
funddeposit 1,500,000
Total appropriation — office of the governor $ 9,339,800
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $ 9,339,800
Included in the operating lump sumappropriation of $7,839,800 for fiscal year 2024-2025 is $10,000 for thepurchase of mementos and items for visiting officials.
The amount appropriated for themissing and murdered indigenous people task force line item in fiscal year2023-2024 pursuant to Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 42 is exempt from theprovisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating tolapsing of appropriations.
Sec. 49. GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF STRATEGIC PLANNING AND BUDGETING
2024-25
FTE positions 22.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 2,938,100*
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 2,938,100
Sec. 50. DEPARTMENT OFHEALTH SERVICES
2024-25
FTEpositions 1,168.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $64,357,300
Public health/familyhealth
Adultcystic fibrosis care 105,200
AIDSreporting and surveillance 1,000,000
Alzheimer'sdisease research 4,125,000
Behavioralhealth care provider 1,000,000
loanrepayment program
Biomedicalresearch support 2,000,000
Breastand cervical cancer and
bonedensity screening 1,369,400
Countytuberculosis provider
careand control 590,700
Fentanyloverdose medication
distribution 1,000,000
Folicacid program 400,000
Funeralservices regulation 459,400
High-riskperinatal services 2,343,400
Newbornscreening program 12,369,800
Nonrenaldisease management 198,000
Nursingcare special projects 200,000
Poisoncontrol centers funding 990,000
Preceptorgrant program for graduate
students 500,000
Renaldental care and nutrition
supplements 300,000
Renaltransplant drugs 183,000
Arizona state hospital
Arizona state hospital —
operating 77,146,700
Arizonastate hospital —
restorationto competency 900,000
Arizonastate hospital —
sexuallyviolent persons 11,131,900
Total appropriation — department of
healthservices $182,669,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $118,979,200
Arizonastate hospital fund 3,395,800
Arizonastate hospital land fund 650,000
Childfatality review fund 196,500
Consumer restitution and remediation
revolving fund –consumer
remediationsubaccount 1,000,000
Diseasecontrol research fund 1,000,000
DHSindirect cost fund 13,220,400
Emergencymedical services
operatingfund 4,209,500
Environmentallaboratory licensure
revolvingfund 995,500
Federalchild care and development
fundblock grant 992,500
Healthservices licensing fund 17,416,400
Newbornscreening program fund 12,802,900
Nursingcare institution resident
protectionrevolving fund 238,200
Tobaccotax and health care
fund- health research account 3,000,000
Tobaccotax and health care
fund— medically needy account 700,000
Vitalrecords electronic systems
fund 3,872,900
Publichealth/family health
Of theamount appropriated for the operating lump sum, $100,000 shall be used for asuicide prevention coordinator to assist school districts and charter schoolsin suicide prevention efforts. On or before September 1, 2025, the departmentof health services, in consultation with the department of education, shallreport to the governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the houseof representatives, the director of the joint legislative budget committee andthe director of the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting onthe suicide prevention coordinator's accomplishments in fiscal year 2024-2025.
The amount appropriated to theoperating lump sum in fiscal year 2024-2025 includes $1,202,400 from the stategeneral fund to support additional licensing compliance staff. This amount isexempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes,relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2026.
The department of health services mayuse up to four percent of the amount appropriated for nonrenal diseasemanagement for the administrative costs to implement the program.
The department of health servicesshall distribute monies appropriated for the biomedical research support lineitem to a nonprofit medical research institute headquartered in this state thatspecializes in biomedical research focusing on applying genomic technologiesand sequencing to clinical care, that has served as a resource to this state toconduct molecular epidemiologic analyses to assist with disease outbreakinvestigations and that collaborates with universities, hospitals and healthscience research centers and other public and private bioscience and relatedindustries in this state. The recipient of these monies shall commission anaudit of the expenditure of these monies and shall submit a copy of the auditto the department of health services on or before February 1, 2026.
The department of health servicesshall distribute monies appropriated for Alzheimer's disease research through agrant to a charitable organization that is qualified under section 501(c)(3) ofthe internal revenue code and that meets the following criteria:
1. Is headquartered in thisstate.
2. Has been operating inthis state for at least the last ten years.
3. Has participating memberinstitutions that work together to end Alzheimer's disease within a statewidecollaborative model by using their complementary strengths in brain imaging,computer science, genomics, basic and cognitive neurosciences and clinical andneuropathology research.
4. Has participating memberinstitutions that educate residents of this state about Alzheimer's disease,research progress and resources to help patients, families and professionalsmanage the disease.
The terms of the grant made to thecharitable organization may not impose any requirements that were not imposedin prior grant agreements entered into between the department of healthservices and the charitable organization.
Monies in the fentanyl overdosemedication distribution line item are from the consumer remediation subaccountof the consumer restitution and remediation revolving fund established bysection 44-1531.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, and consist of moniesdeposited in the subaccount pursuant to opioid claims-related litigation orsettlements. These monies are exempt from theprovisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing ofappropriations, until June 30, 2026.
The amount appropriated to the departmentof health services for the preceptor grant program for graduate students isexempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes,relating to the lapsing of appropriations. Any monies remaining unexpended onJuly 1, 2026 revert to the state general fund.
Of the amount appropriated to thedepartment of health services for the behavioral health care provider loanrepayment program line item in fiscal year 2022-2023 pursuant to Laws 2022,chapter 313, section 44, $1,000,000 from the state general fund is exempt fromthe provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsingof appropriations, until June 30, 2025.
The amount appropriated for theaccelerated nursing programs line item in fiscal year 2022-2023 pursuant toLaws 2022, chapter 313, section 44 is exempt from the provisions of section35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, untilJune 30, 2025.
The amount appropriated for thenurse-family partnership programs line item in fiscal year 2023-2024 pursuantto Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 44 is exempt from the provisions of section35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, untilJune 30, 2027.
Arizona state hospital
In addition to the appropriation forthe department of health services, earnings on state lands and interest on theinvestment of the permanent state land funds are appropriated to the Arizonastate hospital in compliance with the enabling act and the Constitution ofArizona.
Departmentwide
The department of health servicesshall electronically forward to the president of the senate, the speaker of thehouse of representatives, the chairpersons of the senate and house ofrepresentatives appropriations committees and the director of the jointlegislative budget committee a monthly report comparing total expenditures forthe month and year-to-date as compared to prior-year totals on or beforethe thirtieth of the following month. Each report shall include anestimate of potential shortfalls in programs, potential federal and othermonies, such as the statewide assessment for indirect costs, that may beavailable to offset these shortfalls, and a plan, if necessary, for eliminatingany shortfall without a supplemental appropriation.
Sec. 51. ARIZONAHISTORICAL SOCIETY
2024-25
FTEpositions 50.9
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 2,420,900
Fieldservices and grants 65,400
Papagopark museum 559,500
Total appropriation — Arizonahistorical
society $ 3,045,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 3,045,800
Sec. 52. PRESCOTTHISTORICAL SOCIETY
2024-25
FTEpositions 13.0
Lumpsum appropriation $ 1,012,900
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 1,012,900
Sec. 53. ARIZONADEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
2024-25
FTEpositions 20.0
Statewideinformation security
andprivacy operations and
controls $11,094,400
Statewidecybersecurity grants 10,000,000
Total appropriation — Arizonadepartment of
homelandsecurity $21,094,400
Fund sources:
State general fund $10,000,000
Information technology fund 11,094,400
Sec. 54. BOARD OF HOMEOPATHIC AND INTEGRATEDMEDICINE EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTE positions 1.0
Lumpsum appropriation $ 61,400
Fundsources:
Board ofhomeopathic and
integratedmedicine
examiners'fund $ 61,400
Sec. 55. ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
2024-25
FTE positions 3.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 371,100
Fund sources:
Housingtrust fund $ 371,100
Sec. 56. INDUSTRIALCOMMISSION OF ARIZONA
2024-25
FTE positions 236.6
Operating lump sum appropriation $21,985,500
Municipal firefighter reimbursem*nt
administration 84,700
Total appropriation — industrial commission
of Arizona $22,070,200
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 84,700
Administrative fund 21,985,500
The legislature intends that the stategeneral fund appropriation be used only for administrative costs of title 23,chapter 11, Arizona Revised Statutes, and that this appropriation does notconvey any responsibility for firefighter cancer compensation and benefitsclaims to this state.
Sec. 57. DEPARTMENT OFINSURANCE AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
2024-25
FTEpositions 156.4
Operatinglump sum appropriation $12,644,600
Arizonavehicle theft task force 4,452,600
Automobiletheft authority
operatingbudget 698,700
Insurancefraud unit 1,849,800
Localgrants 1,388,900
Reimbursableprograms 50,000
Total appropriation — department ofinsurance
andfinancial institutions $21,084,600
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 8,298,500
Automobiletheft authority fund 6,740,900
Financialservices fund 5,994,900
Departmentrevolving fund 50,300
Monies in the Arizona vehicle thefttask force line item shall be used by the department of insurance and financialinstitutions to pay seventy-five percent of the personal services andemployee-related expenditures for city, town and county sworn officerswho participate in the Arizona vehicle theft task force.
Local grants shall be awarded withconsideration given to areas with greater automobile theft problems and shallbe used to combat economic automobile theft operations.
The department of insurance andfinancial institutions shall submit a report to the joint legislative budgetcommittee before spending any monies for the reimbursable programs line item.The department shall show sufficient monies collected to cover the expensesindicated in the report.
Of the department fees required to bedeposited in the state general fund by statute, the legislature intends thatthe department of insurance and financial institutions shall assess and set thefees at a level to ensure that the monies deposited in the state general fundwill equal or exceed the department's expenditure from the state general fund.
Sec. 58. ARIZONAJUDICIARY
2024-25
Supremecourt
FTEpositions 203.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $18,167,200
Arizonatrial and digital
evidencefund deposit 1,620,000
Automation 24,533,000
County reimbursem*nts 187,900
Courtappointed special advocate
andvulnerable persons 6,576,700
Courthousesecurity 750,000
Digitalevidence software 280,000
Domesticrelations 685,900
Statefoster care review board 3,504,900
Commissionon judicial conduct 603,700
Judicialnominations and
performancereview 608,500
Juvenilemonetary sanctions
fundingbackfill 250,000
Modelcourt 658,800
Stateaid 5,931,900
Total appropriation — supreme court $64,358,500
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $29,683,400
Confidentialintermediary and
fiduciary fund 682,800
Court appointed special advocate
fund 6,776,000
Criminal justice enhancement fund 4,691,900
Defensivedriving school fund 4,464,000
Judicial collection enhancement
fund 15,114,200
Stateaid to the courts fund 2,946,200
On or beforeSeptember 1, 2024, the supreme court shall report to the joint legislativebudget committee and the governor's office of strategic planning and budgetingon current and future automation projects coordinated by the administrativeoffice of the courts. The report shall include a list of courtautomation projects that receive or are anticipated to receive state monies inthe current or next two fiscal years as well as a description of each project,the number of FTE positions, the entities involved and the goals andanticipated results for each automation project. The report shall besubmitted in one summary document. The report shall indicate eachproject's total multiyear cost by fund source and budget line item, includingany prior-year, current year and future year expenditures.
Automation expenses of the judiciaryshall be funded only from the automation line item. Monies in theoperating lump sum appropriation or other line items intended for automationpurposes shall be transferred to the automation line item before expenditure.
Included in the operating lump sumappropriation for the supreme court is $1,000 for the purchase of mementos anditems for visiting officials.
Of the $187,900 appropriated forcounty reimbursem*nts, state grand jury is limited to $97,900 and capitalpostconviction relief is limited to $90,000.
Courtof appeals
FTEpositions 162.8
Divisionone $16,212,600
Divisiontwo 8,498,200
Total appropriation — court of appeals $24,710,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $24,710,800
Of the 162.8 FTE positions for fiscalyear 2024-2025, 111.3 FTE positions are for division one and 51.5 FTE positionsare for division two.
Superiorcourt
FTEpositions 240.5
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 5,609,600
Judges'compensation 29,913,900
Centralizedservice payments 4,696,900
Adultstandard probation 22,297,500
Adultintensive probation 13,150,200
Communitypunishment 2,310,300
Court-orderedremovals 315,000
Interstatecompact 513,700
Drugcourt 1,096,400
Generaladjudication personnel
andsupport fund deposit 2,000,000
Juvenilestandard probation 3,781,800
Juvenileintensive probation 6,087,200
Juveniletreatment services 20,803,000
Juvenilefamily counseling 500,000
Juvenilecrime reduction 3,313,100
Juvenilediversion consequences 9,088,500
Probationincentive payments 1,000,000
Specialwater master 511,100
Total appropriation — superior court $126,988,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $114,973,100
Criminaljustice enhancement fund 5,496,100
Drugtreatment and education fund 504,200
Judicialcollection enhancement
fund 6,015,400
Operatingbudget
All expenditures made by the administrativeoffice of the courts to administer superior court line items shall be fundedonly from the superior court operating budget. Monies in superiorcourt line items intended for this purpose shall be transferred to the superiorcourt operating budget before expenditure.
Judges
Of the 240.5FTE positions, 182 FTE positions represent superior court judges. This FTE position clarification does not limit the counties'ability to add judges pursuant to section 12-121, Arizona RevisedStatutes.
All monies in the judges' compensationline item shall be used to pay for fifty percent of superior court judges'salaries, elected officials' retirement plan costs and related state benefitcosts for judges pursuant to section 12-128, Arizona Revised Statutes. Moniesin the operating lump sum appropriation or other line items intended for thispurpose shall be transferred to the judges' compensation line item beforeexpenditure.
Probation
Monies appropriated to juveniletreatment services and juvenile diversion consequences shall be deposited inthe juvenile probation services fund established by section 8-322,Arizona Revised Statutes.
Receipt of state probation monies bythe counties is contingent on the county maintenance of fiscal year 2019-2020expenditure levels for each probation program. State probationmonies are not intended to supplant county dollars for probation programs.
On or before November 1, 2024, theadministrative office of the courts shall report to the joint legislativebudget committee and the governor's office of strategic planning and budgetingthe fiscal year 2023-2024 actual, fiscal year 2024-2025 estimated and fiscalyear 2025-2026 requested amounts for each of the following:
1. On a county-by-countybasis, the number of authorized and filled case carrying probation positionsand non-case carrying probation positions, distinguishing between adultstandard, adult intensive, juvenile standard and juvenile intensive. Thereport shall indicate the level of state probation funding, other statefunding, county funding and probation surcharge funding for those positions.
2. Total receipts andexpenditures by county and fund source for the adult standard, adult intensive,juvenile standard and juvenile intensive probation line items, including theamount of personal services spent from each revenue source of each account.
All centralized service payments madeby the administrative office of the courts on behalf of counties shall befunded only from the centralized service payments line item. Centralizedservice payments include only training, motor vehicle payments, CORP reviewboard funding, LEARN funding, research, operational reviews and GPS vendorpayments. This footnote does not apply to treatment or counseling servicespayments made from the juvenile treatment services and juvenile diversionconsequences line items. Monies in the operating lump sum appropriation orother line items intended for centralized service payments shall be transferredto the centralized service payments line item before expenditure.
All monies in the adult standardprobation, adult intensive probation, community punishment, interstate compact,juvenile standard probation, juvenile intensive probation, juvenile treatmentservices, juvenile diversion consequences, juvenile crime reduction andprobation incentive payments line items shall be used only as pass-throughmonies to county probation departments. Monies in the operating lumpsum appropriation or other line items intended as pass-through for the purposeof administering a county probation program shall be transferred to theappropriate probation line item before expenditure.
On or before November 1, 2024, theadministrative office of the courts shall submit a report to the jointlegislative budget committee on the county-approved salary adjustments providedto probation officers since the last report on November 1, 2023. Theadministrative office shall also submit a copy of the report to the governor'soffice of strategic planning and budgeting. The report shallinclude, for each county, the:
1. Approvedpercentage salary increase by year.
2. Netincrease in the amount allocated to each probation department by theadministrative office of the courts for each applicable year.
3. Average number ofprobation officers by applicable year.
4. Average salary ofprobation officers for each applicable year.
Sec. 59. DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE CORRECTIONS
2024-25
FTE positions 738.5
Lump sum appropriation $44,496,700
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $30,920,800
Statecharitable, penal and
reformatoryinstitutions
land fund 4,875,100
Criminaljustice enhancement fund 529,000
Stateeducation fund for committed
youth 1,447,800
Department of juvenile corrections
local cost sharingfund 6,724,000
Twenty-five percent of landearnings and interest from the state charitable, penal and reformatoryinstitutions land fund shall be distributed to the department of juvenilecorrections, in compliance with section 25 of the enabling act and theConstitution of Arizona, to be used to support state juvenile institutions andreformatories.
Sec. 60. STATE LANDDEPARTMENT
2024-25
FTEpositions 136.7
Operatinglump sum appropriation $17,787,000
CAP userfees 1,521,500
Duediligence program 5,000,000
Naturalresource conservation
districts 650,000
Total appropriation — state landdepartment $24,958,500
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $12,404,000
Environmentalspecial plate fund 260,600
Off-highwayvehicle recreation
fund 177,600
Duediligence fund 5,000,000
Trustland management fund 7,116,300
The appropriation includes $1,521,500for CAP user fees in fiscal year 2024-2025. For fiscal year2024-2025, from municipalities that assume their allocation of central Arizonaproject water for every dollar received as reimbursem*nt to this state for pastcentral Arizona water conservation district payments, $1 reverts to the stategeneral fund in the year that the reimbursem*nt is collected.
Of the amount appropriated for naturalresource conservation districts in fiscal year 2024-2025, $30,000 shall be usedto provide grants to natural resource conservation districts environmentaleducation centers.
Sec. 61. LEGISLATURE
2024-25
Senate
Lump sum appropriation $18,374,500*
Fund sources:
State general fund $18,374,500
Included in the lump sum appropriationof $18,374,500 for fiscal year 2024-2025 is $5,000 for the purchase of mementosand items for visiting officials.
Houseof representatives
Lump sum appropriation $21,951,500*
Fund sources:
State general fund $21,951,500
Included in the lump sum appropriationof $21,951,500 for fiscal year 2024-2025 is $5,000 for the purchase of mementosand items for visiting officials.
Legislativecouncil
FTE positions 56.0
Lump sum appropriation $9,507,700*
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 9,507,700
Ombudsman-citizensaide office
FTE positions 12.0
Lump sum appropriation $1,561,200*
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 1,561,200
The legislature intends that theombudsman-citizens aide prioritize investigating and processing complaintsrelating to the department of child safety.
The operating budget includes $137,500and 1 FTE position to address complaints relating to the administration of theArizona empowerment scholarship account program established by section 15-2402,Arizona Revised Statutes.
Jointlegislative budget committee
FTEpositions 29.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 3,122,700*
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 3,122,700
Auditor general
FTEpositions 224.8
Lump sum appropriation $26,316,600*
Fund sources:
State general fund $26,316,600
Sec. 62. DEPARTMENTOF LIQUOR LICENSES AND CONTROL
2024-25
FTE positions 58.2
Lump sum appropriation $ 6,150,900
Fund sources:
Liquor licenses fund $ 6,150,900
Sec. 63. ARIZONA STATELOTTERY COMMISSION
2024-25
FTEpositions 98.8
Operatinglump sum appropriation $10,195,400
Advertising 15,500,000
Total appropriation — Arizona state
lotterycommission $25,695,400
Fund sources:
Statelottery fund $25,695,400
An amount equal to twenty percent oftab ticket sales is appropriated to pay sales commissions to charitableorganizations. This amount is currently estimated to be $1,994,900 in fiscalyear 2024-2025.
An amount equal to 3.6 percent ofactual instant ticket sales is appropriated to print instant tickets or to paycontractual obligations concerning instant ticket distribution. Thisamount is currently estimated to be $42,399,600 in fiscal year 2024-2025.
An amount equal to a percentage ofactual online game sales as determined by contract is appropriated to payonline vendor fees. This amount is currently estimated to be $20,729,900, or4.256 percent of actual online ticket sales, in fiscal year 2024-2025.
An amount equal to 6.5 percent ofgross lottery game sales, minus charitable tab tickets, is appropriated to paysales commissions to ticket retailers. An additional amount not toexceed 0.5 percent of gross lottery game sales is appropriated to pay salescommissions to ticket retailers. The combined amount is currentlyestimated to be $110,876,200, or 6.7 percent of total ticket sales, in fiscalyear 2024-2025.
Sec. 64. BOARD OF MASSAGE THERAPY
2024-25
FTE positions 5.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 599,000
Fund sources:
Board of massage therapy fund $ 599,000
Sec. 65. ARIZONA MEDICALBOARD
2024-25
FTEpositions 63.5
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 8,195,400
Employeeperformance incentive
program 165,600
Total appropriation — Arizonamedical
board $ 8,361,000
Fund sources:
Arizonamedical board fund $ 8,361,000
Sec. 66. STATE MINEINSPECTOR
2024-25
FTEpositions 22.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 1,484,500
Abandonedmines 825,400
Aggregatemining land reclamation 112,900
Total appropriation — state mine inspector $ 2,422,800
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 2,309,900
Aggregate mining reclamation fund 112,900
All aggregate mining reclamation fundmonies received by the state mine inspector in excess of $112,900 in fiscalyear 2024-2025 are appropriated to the aggregate mining land reclamation lineitem. Before spending any aggregate mining reclamation fund monies in excessof $112,900 in fiscal year 2024-2025, the state mine inspector shall report theintended use of the monies to the joint legislative budget committee and thegovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting.
Sec. 67. NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANSMEDICAL BOARD
2024-25
FTEpositions 2.0
Lumpsum appropriation $ 217,700
Fund sources:
Naturopathicphysicians medical
boardfund $ 217,700
Sec. 68. ARIZONA NAVIGABLE STREAM ADJUDICATION COMMISSION
2024-25
FTEpositions 2.0
Lumpsum appropriation $ 344,000
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 144,000
Arizona water banking fund 200,000
Sec. 69. ARIZONASTATE BOARD OF NURSING
2024-25
FTE positions 63.0
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 6,411,500
Certified nursing assistant
credentialingprogram 538,400
Total appropriation — Arizona state
board of nursing $ 6,949,900
Fund sources:
Board of nursing fund 6,949,900
The amount appropriated for thestudent registered nurse anesthetist clinical rotation line item in fiscal year2023-2024 pursuant to Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 63 is exempt from theprovisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating tolapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025.
Sec.70. BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSING CAREINSTITUTION ADMINISTRATORS AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY MANAGERS
2024-25
FTE positions 7.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 604,900
Fundsources:
Nursing care institution
||administrators'licensing and
||assistedliving facility
||managers' certification fund $ 604,900
Sec. 71. BOARD OFOCCUPATIONAL THERAPY EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTEpositions 2.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 303,000
Fund sources:
Occupationaltherapy fund $ 303,000
Sec. 72. STATE BOARD OFDISPENSING OPTICIANS
2024-25
FTEpositions 1.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 198,200
Fundsources:
Board ofdispensing opticians fund $ 198,200
Sec. 73. STATE BOARD OF OPTOMETRY
2024-25
FTE positions 2.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 289,200
Fund sources:
Board of optometry fund $ 289,200
Sec.74. ARIZONABOARD OF OSTEOPATHIC EXAMINERS IN MEDICINE AND SURGERY
2024-25
FTEpositions 10.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 1,394,300
Fund sources:
Arizona board of osteopathic
examiners in medicine
andsurgery fund $ 1,394,300
Sec.|75. ARIZONA STATEPARKS BOARD
2024-25
FTEpositions 167.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 18,140,100
Stateparks store 1,513,100
Kartchner caverns state park 2,458,400
Veterans memorial park feasibility
study 500,000
Total appropriation — Arizona stateparks
board $ 22,611,600
Fund sources:
Stateparks revenue fund $ 21,081,800
Stateparks store fund 1,513,100
Off-highwayvehicle recreation fund 16,700
In addition to the operating lump sum appropriation,an amount equal to the revenue share agreement with the United States forestservice for Fool Hollow Lake recreation area and Catalina state park isappropriated to the Arizona state parks board from the state parks revenue fundestablished by section 41-511.21, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Sec.76. STATEPERSONNEL BOARD
2024-25
FTEpositions 2.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 361,100
Fund sources:
Personneldivision fund —
personnelboard subaccount $ 361,100
Sec. 77. ARIZONA STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY
2024-25
FTE positions 25.4
Operating lump sum appropriation $ 3,476,700
Prescriber report card 50,000
Annualleave payout 64,600*
Total appropriation — Arizona state
board ofpharmacy $ 3,591,300
Fund sources:
Arizonastate board of pharmacy
fund $ 3,591,300
Of the amount appropriatedin the operating lump sum appropriation in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Arizonastate board of pharmacy pursuant to Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 71,$190,500 is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona RevisedStatutes, relating to the lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025, forthe purposes of e-licensing system upgrades.
Sec. 78. BOARD OF PHYSICALTHERAPY
2024-25
FTEpositions 4.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 591,500
Fundsources:
Board ofphysical therapy fund $ 591,500
Sec. 79. ARIZONAPIONEERS' HOME
2024-25
FTEpositions 107.3
Lumpsum appropriation $ 8,380,200
Fund sources:
Miners'hospital for miners with
disabilitiesland fund $ 2,301,300
Statecharitable fund 6,078,900
Earnings on state lands and intereston the investment of the permanent land funds are appropriated for the Arizonapioneers' home and the state hospital for miners with disabilities incompliance with the enabling act and the Constitution of Arizona.
Sec. 80. STATE BOARD OFPODIATRY EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTE positions 1.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 202,500
Fund sources:
Podiatry fund $ 202,500
Sec. 81. STATE BOARD FOR PRIVATE POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
2024-25
FTEpositions 4.0
Lumpsum appropriation $ 448,100
Fund sources:
Boardfor private postsecondary
education fund $ 448,100
Sec. 82. STATE BOARD OFPSYCHOLOGIST EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTE positions 4.5
Lump sum appropriation $ 640,000
Fund sources:
Board of psychologist examiners
||fund $ 640,000
Sec. 83. DEPARTMENT OFPUBLIC SAFETY
2024-25
FTEpositions 2,167.7
Operating lump sum appropriation $271,399,700
ACTIC 2,132,700
AZPOST 6,100,000
Border drug interdiction 1,850,900
Local border support 5,000,000
Civil air patrol maintenance and
operations 144,000
Departmentof public safety
crime lab assistance 200,000
GIITEM 24,514,300
GIITEM subaccount 2,396,400
Major incident division 15,500,000*
Motor vehicle fuel 5,454,600
Pharmaceuticaldiversion and
drugtheft task force 635,300
Public safety equipment 3,660,000
Total appropriation — department ofpublic
safety $338,987,900
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $262,246,500
Statehighway fund 10,000,000
Arizonahighway patrol fund 24,096,500
Criminaljustice enhancement fund 3,009,000
Departmentof public safety
forensicsfund 22,888,300
Gang and immigration intelligence
team enforcement mission border
security and law enforcement
subaccount 2,396,400
Motorcyclesafety fund 198,900
Motorvehicle liability insurance
enforcementfund 979,400
Riskmanagement revolving fund 1,102,500
Paritycompensation fund 3,022,200
Publicsafety equipment fund 3,664,000
Concealedweapons permit fund 3,348,100
Fingerprintclearance card fund 2,036,100
Of the $24,514,300 appropriated to theGIITEM line item, $12,660,400 shall be used for one hundred department ofpublic safety GIITEM personnel. The additional staff shall includeat least fifty sworn department of public safety positions to be used forimmigration enforcement and border security and fifty department of publicsafety positions to assist GIITEM in various efforts, including:
1. Strictly enforcing allfederal laws relating to illegal aliens and arresting illegal aliens.
2. Responding to or assistingany county sheriff or attorney in investigating complaints of employment ofillegal aliens.
3. Enforcing Arizona's lawknown as the Legal Arizona Workers Act, strictly enforcing Arizona'sSB1070, Arizona's "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe NeighborhoodsAct" and investigating crimes of identity theft in the context of hiringillegal aliens and the unlawful entry into this country.
4. Taking strictenforcement action.
Any change in the GIITEM mission orallocation of monies shall be approved by the joint legislative budgetcommittee. The department shall submit an expenditure plan to the jointlegislative budget committee for review before expending any monies notidentified in the department's previous expenditure plans.
Of the $24,514,300 appropriated to theGIITEM line item, only $1,203,400 is deposited in the GIITEM fund establishedby section 41-1724, Arizona Revised Statutes, and is appropriated for thepurposes of that section. The $1,203,400 is exempt from the provisions ofsection 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing ofappropriations. This state recognizes that states have inherentauthority to arrest a person for any immigration violation.
Any monies remaining in the departmentof public safety joint account on June 30, 2025 revert to the funds from whichthey were appropriated. The reverted monies shall be returned indirect proportion to the amounts appropriated.
On or before September 1, 2024, thedepartment of public safety shall submit an expenditure plan for the localborder support line item to the joint legislative budget committee and thegovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting.
The $5,000,000 appropriated for thelocal border support line item shall be used to fund local law enforcementofficer positions for border drug interdiction to deter and apprehend anyindividuals who are charged with drug trafficking, human smuggling, illegalimmigration and other border-related crimes. The monies shallalso be used for grants to cities, towns and counties for costs associated withprosecuting and detaining individuals who are charged with drug trafficking,human smuggling, illegal immigration and other border-related crimes. Thedepartment may fund all capital-related equipment.
Of the amount appropriated in thetotal appropriation for the department of public safety, $180,608,800 isdesignated for personal services and $72,235,200 is designated foremployee-related expenditures. The department shall submit an expenditure planto the joint legislative budget committee for review before spending thesemonies for other than personal services or employee-related expenditures.
Sec. 84. STATE REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT
2024-25
FTEpositions 37.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 3,198,000
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 3,198,000
The lump sum appropriation for thestate real estate department includes $400,000 for information technologyimprovements.
Sec. 85. RESIDENTIALUTILITY CONSUMER OFFICE
2024-25
FTE positions 12.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 1,447,200
Professionalwitnesses 145,000*
Total appropriation — residentialutility
consumeroffice $ 1,592,200
Fund sources:
Residential utility consumer
||office revolving fund $ 1,592,200
Sec. 86. BOARD OFRESPIRATORY CARE EXAMINERS
2024-25
FTEpositions 4.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 421,400
Fund sources:
Board ofrespiratory care
||examinersfund $ 421,400
Sec. 87. ARIZONA STATE RETIREMENT SYSTEM
2024-25
FTE positions 240.9
Lump sumappropriation $28,513,000
Fundsources:
Arizonastate retirement system
||administrationaccount 26,713,000
Long-term disability trust fund
administrationaccount 1,800,000
Sec. 88. DEPARTMENT OFREVENUE
2024-25
FTEpositions 892.8
Operatinglump sum appropriation $76,294,800
BRITSoperational support 7,897,200
E-commercecompliance and outreach 936,400
Unclaimedproperty administration
andaudit 1,473,900
TPTsimplification 1,033,400
Taxfraud prevention 3,155,300
Total appropriation — department of revenue $90,791,000
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $60,587,600
Departmentof revenue
administrativefund 27,390,900
Liabilitysetoff program
revolvingfund 2,087,900
Tobaccotax and health care fund 724,600
If the total value of propertiesretained by unclaimed property contract auditors exceeds $1,473,900, the excessamount is transferred from the state general fund to the department of revenueadministrative fund established by section 42-1116.01, Arizona RevisedStatutes, and is appropriated to the department for contract auditor fees.
The department shall report thedepartment's general fund revenue enforcement goals for fiscal year 2024-2025 to the joint legislative budget committee on orbefore September 30, 2024. On or before September 30, 2025, the departmentshall provide an annual progress report to the joint legislative budgetcommittee as to the effectiveness of the department's overall enforcement andcollections program for fiscal year 2024-2025.The reports shall compare projected and actual state general fund, total statetax, total county tax and total municipal tax revenue enforcement collectionsfor fiscal year 2023-2024 and fiscal year 2024-2025, including the amount of projected andactual enforcement collections for all tax types. The reports shall alsoinclude the total number of transaction privilege tax delinquent accounts, thetotal dollar value of those accounts classified by age of account and the totaldollar amount of delinquent account write-offs determined to be uncollectiblefor fiscal year 2023-2024.
The department may not transfer anymonies to or from the tax fraud prevention lineitem without prior review by the joint legislative budget committee.
The operating lump sum appropriationincludes $2,000,000 and 25 FTE positions for additional audit and collectionsstaff.
On or before November 1, 2024, thedepartment shall report the results of private fraud prevention investigationservices during fiscal year 2023-2024 to the jointlegislative budget committee. The report shall include the totalnumber of fraudulent returns prevented and the total dollar amount offraudulent returns prevented during fiscal year 2023-2024.
Sec. 89. DEPARTMENT OFSTATE — SECRETARY OF STATE
2024-25
FTE positions 146.1
Operating lump sum appropriation $15,000,400
Accessvoter information database 483,500
Election services 7,900,000
Electronic records repository 520,000
Library grants-in-aid 651,400*
Statewideradio reading service
forthe blind 97,000
Uniform state laws commission 99,000
Total appropriation — department of
state — secretary of state $24,751,300
Fund sources:
State general fund $22,325,700
Election systems improvement fund 483,500
Records services fund 1,942,100
Included in the operating lump sumappropriation of $15,000,400 for fiscal year 2024-2025 is $5,000 for the purchase of mementos and itemsfor visiting officials.
Included in the operating lump sumappropriation of $15,000,400 for fiscal year 2024-2025 is $1,492,100 from the records services fund.This appropriation may be used for the payment of obligations incurred infiscal year 2023-2024.
The operating lump sum appropriationincludes $100,000 for additional support for the talking book library.
The operating lump sum appropriationincludes $250,000 for additional support for the address confidentialityprogram.
The operating lump sum appropriationincludes $100,000 for additional support for secretary of state legalexpenses. The secretary of state may spend these monies for legal servicesfrom the attorney general, to hire one FTE position to serve as legal advisorto the secretary of state or for legal expenses for conflict counsel. Thesecretary of state may make expenditures or incur indebtedness to employoutside or private attorneys if all of the following are true:
1. The secretary of stateis named as a defendant.
2. The secretary of statebelieves a conflict exists that prevents the attorney general from representingthe secretary of state.
3. The secretary of stateeither remains a nominal party or is defending the constitutionality of a lawor referendum enacted by the legislature.
Before transferring any monies in orout of the election services line item, the secretary of state shall submit areport for review by the joint legislative budget committee.
The secretary of state may use up to$250,000 of the monies appropriated in the election services line item for thedirect costs of the secretary of state related to the 2024 primary and generalelections.
On or before January 31, 2025, thesecretary of state shall submit a report to the joint legislative budgetcommittee and the governor’s office of strategic planning and budgetingdetailing the actual expenditures from the election services line item for the2024 primary election and 2024 general election. The report shall include, ata minimum, the actual expenditures by purpose including costs associated withlogic and accuracy testing, the statewide election publicity pamphlet,initiative and referendum processing, petition signature reimbursem*nts andsample ballot requirements.
Monies in the access voter informationdatabase line item may be used only for the exclusive purpose of developing andadministering the statewide database of voter registration information requiredby section 16-168, Arizona Revised Statutes. The secretary of state may nottransfer any monies in or out of the access voter information database lineitem.
The appropriation of $5,352,200 to thesecretary of state for the county allocation of help America vote act electionsecurity grant monies made by Laws 2020, chapter 58, section 104 is exempt fromthe provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsingof appropriations, until June 30, 2025. The monies that remain unexpended andunencumbered on June 30, 2025 revert to the fund from which the monies wereappropriated.
Sec. 90. STATE BOARD OFTAX APPEALS
2024-25
FTE positions 4.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 327,400
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 327,400
Sec. 91. STATE BOARD OF TECHNICAL REGISTRATION
2024-25
FTE positions 25.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 2,605,000
Fund sources:
Technical registration fund $ 2,605,000
Of the amount appropriated in the agency lump sumappropriation in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the state board of technicalregistration pursuant to Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 85, $167,700 is exemptfrom the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating tothe lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2025, for the purposes of e-licensingsystem upgrades.
Sec. 92. OFFICE OFTOURISM
2024-25
FTEpositions 31.0
Tourismfund deposit $ 7,426,200
Arizonapromotion 819,000
Winepromotion 100,000
Total appropriation — office of tourism $ 8,345,200
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 8,345,200
Sec. 93. DEPARTMENT OFTRANSPORTATION
2024-25
FTE positions 4,571.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $251,853,100
Attorneygeneral legal services 3,623,700
Highwaymaintenance 163,242,200
ADOTfleet vehicles and heavy
equipmentmaintenance 26,219,300
ADOTfleet vehicles and heavy
equipmentmaintenance contingency 1,000,000
Statefleet operations 29,149,000
Statefleet vehicle replacement 11,370,000
Driversafety and livestock control 800,000
ADOTfleet vehicle and heavy
equipmentreplacement 22,400,000
Highwaydamage recovery account 8,000,800
Statewidelitter removal 3,106,800
Constructionmanagement system
replacement 1,885,000
Onetime fleet fuel inflation
funding 3,297,900
Radio lifecycle replacement 1,656,100
Preventive surface treatments 36,142,000
Authorized third parties 2,194,000
Total appropriation — department of
transportation $565,939,900
Fundsources:
Airquality fund $ 1,077,700
Arizonahighway user revenue fund 898,600
Highwaydamage recovery account 8,000,800
Ignitioninterlock device fund 360,700
Motorvehicle liability
insuranceenforcement fund 1,582,300
Statefleet operations fund 29,149,000
Statevehicle replacement fund 11,370,000
Stateaviation fund 2,267,700
State highway fund 482,367,200
Departmentfleet operations fund 27,219,300
Vehicle inspection and certificate
of title enforcementfund 1,646,600
Motor vehicle division
The department of transportation shallsubmit an annual report to the joint legislative budget committee on progressin improving motor vehicle division wait times and vehicle registration renewalby mail turnaround times in a format similar to prior years. The report is dueon or before July 31, 2025 for fiscal year 2024-2025.
On or before February 1, 2025, theArizona strategic enterprise technology office shall submit, on behalf of thedepartment of transportation, an annual progress report to the jointlegislative budget committee staff. The annual report shall provideupdated plans for spending the department-dedicated portion of the authorizedthird-party electronic service partner's fee retention on the motor vehiclemodernization project in fiscal year 2024-2025, including any amounts forstabilization, maintenance, ongoing operations, support and enhancements forthe motor vehicle modernization solution, maintenance of legacy mainframeprocessing and support capability, and other system projects outside the scopeof the motor vehicle modernization project.
On or before August 1, 2024, thedepartment of transportation shall report to the director of the jointlegislative budget committee the state's share of fees retained by the serviceArizona vendor in the prior fiscal year. The report shall include the amountspent by the service Arizona vendor on behalf of this state in the prior fiscalyear and a list of the projects funded with those monies.
Other
Of the total amount appropriated,$163,242,200 in fiscal year 2024-2025 for highway maintenance is exemptfrom the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating tolapsing of appropriations, except that all unexpended and unencumbered moniesof the appropriation revert to the state highway fund established by section28-6991, Arizona Revised Statutes, on August 31, 2025.
Of the total amount appropriated, thedepartment of transportation shall pay $15,981,300 in fiscal year 2024-2025from all funds to the department of administration for its risk managementpayment.
All expenditures made by thedepartment of transportation for attorney general legal services shall befunded only from the attorney general legal services lineitem. Monies in the operating lump sum appropriation or other lineitems intended for this purpose shall be transferred to the attorney generallegal services line item before expenditure.
In accordance with section 35-142.01,Arizona Revised Statutes, reimbursem*nts for monies expended from the highwaymaintenance line item may not be credited to the account out of which theexpenditure was incurred. The department shall deposit allreimbursem*nts for monies expended from the highway maintenance line item inthe highway damage recovery account established by section 28-6994, ArizonaRevised Statutes.
Expenditures made by the department oftransportation for ADOT fleet vehicle and heavy equipment replacement shall befunded only from the ADOT fleet vehicle and heavy equipment replacement lineitem. Monies in the operating lump sum appropriation or other line itemsintended for this purpose shall be transferred to the ADOT fleet vehicle andheavy equipment replacement line item before expenditure.
The amount appropriated in theoperating lump sum includes a $3,000,000 reduction below the fiscal year 2023-2024level from the state highway fund established by section 28-6991, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2024-2025 from the department'senforcement and compliance division.
Sec. 94. STATE TREASURER
2024-25
FTEpositions 38.4
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 4,644,800
Justiceof the peace salaries 2,318,200
Law enforcement/boating safety
fund grants 2,183,800
Total appropriation — statetreasurer $ 9,146,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 2,660,800
Law enforcement and boating
safety fund 2,183,800
State treasurer's operating fund 4,302,200
Sec. 95. GOVERNOR'SOFFICE ON TRIBAL RELATIONS
2024-25
FTE positions 3.0
Lump sum appropriation $ 68,800
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 68,800
Sec. 96. ARIZONA BOARDOF REGENTS
2024-25
FTEpositions 30.9
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 3,165,600
Adaptiveathletics 160,000
Arizonapromise program 20,000,000
Spousesof military veterans
tuitionscholarships 10,000,000
Arizonateachers academy 15,000,000
Arizonateachers incentive program 90,000
Arizonateacher student loan program 426,000
Arizonatransfer articulation
supportsystem 213,700
Leveragingeducational assistance
partnershipprogram 1,220,800
Washington,D.C. internships 300,000*
Westerninterstate commission
office 153,000
WICHEstudent subsidies 4,078,000
Total appropriation — Arizona boardof
regents $54,807,100
Fund sources:
State general fund $54,807,100
The Arizona board of regents shalldistribute monies appropriated for the adaptive athletics line item to eachuniversity under the jurisdiction of the board to maintain and operate anintercollegiate adaptive athletics program that provides opportunities forcompetitive wheelchair and adaptive sports to students and community memberswith disabilities. The monies may be spent only when the university collectsmatching monies of gifts, grants and donations for the intercollegiate adaptiveathletics program from sources other than this state. Universities may spendthe monies only on scholarships, equipment, uniforms, travel expenses andtournament fees for participants in the intercollegiate adaptive athleticsprogram. The monies may not be used for administrative costs,personal services or employee related- expenditures.
On or before October 1, 2025, theArizona board of regents shall submit a report to the director of the jointlegislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office of strategicplanning and budgeting on the Arizona promise program that includes all of thefollowing for fiscal year 2024-2025:
1. The total number ofstudents receiving promise scholarships by each eligible postsecondaryinstitution.
2. The total number of studentsenrolled at each eligible postsecondary institution that are eligible toreceive federal pell grants.
3. A list of the programsof study in which promise scholarship recipients are enrolled, including thenumber of recipients enrolled in each program.
4. The average promisescholarship award amount for each eligible postsecondary institution.
5. A geographicrepresentation of promise scholarship recipients based on the high schoolattended.
6. The average grade pointaverage of promise scholarships recipients by each eligible postsecondaryinstitution.
On or before October 1, 2025, theArizona board of regents shall submit a report to the director of the jointlegislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office ofstrategic planning and budgeting on spouses of military veterans tuitionscholarships that includes all of the following for fiscal year 2024-2025:
1. The amount distributedto each eligible postsecondary institution.
2. The total number ofaward recipients by each eligible postsecondary institution.
3. The average award amountfor each eligible postsecondary institution.
In order to be eligible to receivestate matching monies under the leveraging educational assistance partnershipprogram for grants to students, each participating institution, public orprivate, shall provide an amount of institutional matching monies that equalsthe amount of monies provided by this state to the institution for theleveraging educational assistance partnership program. Administrativeexpenses incurred by the Arizona board of regents shall be paid frominstitutional matching monies and may not exceed twelve percent of the moniesappropriated in fiscal year 2024-2025.
The Arizona board of regents shalldistribute monies appropriated for Washington, D.C. internships for programfees and housing costs in equal amounts to each of the three universities underthe jurisdiction of the board for the purpose of providing student internshipsand short-term programs in Washington, D.C. in partnership with a third-partyorganization. Short-term programs include one-week seminars andlearning opportunities shorter than one academic semester. Thethird-party organization must meet the following requirements:
1. Have partnerships withWashington, D.C.—based organizations to provide full-time, semester-longstudent internships and short-term programs.
2. Have the ability toplace as many students in internships and short-term programs as neededby the universities.
3. Have experience placingstudents in internships for at least ten consecutive years.
4. Have dedicated staff toensure that student interns have access to internships in their areas ofinterest.
Within ten days after the acceptanceof the universities' semiannual all funds budget reports, the Arizona board ofregents shall submit a current year expenditure plan to the joint legislativebudget committee for review. The expenditure plan shall include the use of allprojected tuition and fee revenues by expenditure category, including operatingexpenses, plant fund, debt service and financial aid. The plan shallinclude the amount by which each expenditure category is projected to increaseover the prior year and shall provide as much detail as the university budgetrequests. The plan shall include the total revenue and expenditureamounts from all tuition and student fee revenues, including base tuition,differential tuition, program fees, course fees, summer session fees and othermiscellaneous and mandatory student fee revenues.
Sec. 97. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
2024-25
FTE positions 8,285.7
Operatinglump sum appropriation $1,088,402,400
Biomedicalinformatics 3,746,100
EasternEurope cultural collaborative 250,000
Arizonafinancial aid trust 5,985,800
DowntownPhoenix campus 133,816,600
Total appropriation — Arizona state
university $1,232,200,900
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 377,793,800
Universitycollections fund 854,407,100
The state general fund appropriationmay not be used for alumni association funding.
The increased state general fundappropriation from Laws 2014, chapter 18 may not be used for medical marijuanaresearch.
Other than scholarships awardedthrough the Arizona financial aid trust, the appropriated monies may not beused for scholarships or any student newspaper.
The appropriated monies may not beused by the Arizona state university college of law legal clinic for anylawsuits involving inmates of the state department of corrections in which thisstate is the adverse party.
Of the amount appropriated to theArizona state university operating budget, $21,200,000 is onetime funding. Onor before September 1, 2024, Arizona state university shall provide a detailedexpenditure plan to the joint legislative budget committee that includes adescription of the intended purposes and the estimated costs of eachexpenditure.
Arizona state university shall usemonies appropriated for the eastern Europe cultural collaborative to facilitatecultural and academic exchanges between university faculty and students andacademic institutions in eastern Europe.
Any appropriated monies allocated bythe university for the school of civic and economic thought and leadershipshall be used to operate a single stand-alone academic entity within Arizonastate university. The appropriated monies may not supplant anyexisting state funding or private or external donations to the existing centersor to the school. The appropriated monies and all private andexternal donations for the school, including any remaining balances from priorfiscal years, shall be deposited in a separate account, shall be used only forthe direct operation of the school and may not be used for indirect costs ofthe university. On or before October 1, 2024, the school shallsubmit a report to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house ofrepresentatives, the chairpersons of the senate education committee and thehouse of representatives education committee and the director of the jointlegislative budget committee that includes at least the following informationfor the school:
1. The total amount of funding received from allsources.
2. A description of faculty positions and coursesoffered.
3. The total undergraduate and graduate studentenrollment.
4. Significant community events, initiatives orpublications.
The chairpersons of the senateeducation committee and the house of representatives education committee mayrequest the director of the school to appear before the committees to report onthe school's annual achievements.
The legislature intends thatappropriated monies allocated by the university for the school of civic andeconomic thought and leadership in fiscal year 2024-2025 be consistent with theamount appropriated in fiscal year 2022-2023, except that the university mayallocate to the school the lump sum reduction of not more than 3.45 percentprescribed by this act.
Any unencumbered balances remaining inthe university collections fund on June 30, 2024 and all collections receivedby the university during the fiscal year are appropriated for operatingexpenditures, capital outlay and fixed charges. Earnings on state lands andinterest on the investment of the permanent land funds are appropriated incompliance with the enabling act and the Constitution of Arizona. No part ofthis appropriation may be spent for supplemental life insurance or supplementalretirement.
Sec. 98. NORTHERNARIZONA UNIVERSITY
2024-25
FTEpositions 2,480.4
Operatinglump sum appropriation $253,296,400
Arizonafinancial aid trust 1,326,000
Biomedicalresearch funding 3,000,000
NAU —Yuma 3,084,600
Teachertraining 2,292,700
Total appropriation — NorthernArizona
university $262,999,700
Fundsources:
Stategeneral fund $127,680,100
Universitycollections fund 135,319,600
The state general fund appropriationmay not be used for alumni association funding.
The increased state general fund appropriationfrom Laws 2014, chapter 18 may not be used for medical marijuana research.
Other than scholarships awardedthrough the Arizona financial aid trust, the appropriated monies may not beused for scholarships or any student newspaper.
Of the amount appropriated to thenorthern Arizona university operating budget, $10,100,000 is onetime funding.On or before September 1, 2024, northern Arizona university shall provide adetailed expenditure plan to the joint legislative budget committee that includesa description of the intended purposes and the estimated costs of eachexpenditure.
The appropriated amount for theteacher training line item shall be distributed to the Arizona K-12 center forprogram implementation and mentor training for the Arizona mentor teacherprogram prescribed by the state board of education.
Any unencumbered balances remaining inthe university collections fund on June 30, 2024 and all collections receivedby the university during the fiscal year are appropriated for operatingexpenditures, capital outlay and fixed charges. Earnings on state lands andinterest on the investment of the permanent land funds are appropriated incompliance with the enabling act and the Constitution of Arizona. No part ofthis appropriation may be spent for supplemental life insurance or supplementalretirement.
The biomedical research funding shallbe distributed to a nonprofit medical research foundation in this state thatcollaborates with universities, hospitals and biotechnology and health researchcenters. A nonprofit foundation that receives monies shall submit anexpenditure and performance report to northern Arizonauniversity. The university shall transmit the report to the jointlegislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office ofstrategic planning and budgeting on or before February 1, 2025. Thereport must include at least the following:
1. The type and amount ofexpenditures from all state sources of monies, including the amount leveragedfor local, state, federal and private grants.
2. A description of eachgrant received as well as the percentage and locations of positions fundedsolely or partly by state monies and the nonprofit foundation's projects withwhich those positions are associated.
3. Performance measures,including:
(a) Outcomes that arespecifically related to the use of state monies.
(b) Progress that has beenmade toward achieving each outcome, including activities, resources and otherevidence of the progress.
(c) Reportable inventionsor discoveries related to each outcome.
(d) Publications,presentations and narratives related to each outcome and how the expendituresfrom all state sources of monies that the nonprofit foundation received havebenefited this state.
Any appropriated monies allocated bythe university for the economic policy institute may not supplant any existingstate funding or private or external donations to the institute or to theuniversity. The appropriated monies and all private and externaldonations for the institute, including any remaining balances from prior fiscalyears, shall be deposited in a separate account, shall be used only for thedirect operation of the institute and may not be used for indirect costs of theuniversity. On or before October 1, 2024, the institute shall submit to thepresident of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, thechairpersons of the senate education committee and the house of representativeseducation committee and the director of the joint legislative budget committeea report that includes at least the following information for the institute:
1. The total amount offunding received from all sources.
2. A description of thefaculty positions and courses offered.
3. The total undergraduateand graduate student participation.
4. Significant communityevents, initiatives or publications.
The chairpersons of the senateeducation committee and the house of representatives education committee mayrequest the director of the institute to appear before the committees to reporton the institute's annual achievements.
The legislature intends thatappropriated monies allocated by the university for the economic policyinstitute in fiscal year 2024-2025 be consistent with the amount appropriatedin fiscal year 2022-2023, except that the university may allocate to theinstitute the lump sum reduction of not more than 3.45 percent prescribed bythis act.
Sec. 99. UNIVERSITY OFARIZONA
2024-25
Maincampus
FTEpositions 6,089.0
Operatinglump sum appropriation $511,507,700
Agriculture 38,255,700
Arizonacooperative extension 14,890,900
Arizonafinancial aid trust 2,729,400
Arizonageological survey 1,148,500
Collegeof veterinary medicine 23,528,400
Kazakhstanstudies program 250,000
Mining,mineral and natural
resourceseducational museum 430,300
Naturalresource users law and
policycenter 1,522,400
Schoolof mining 4,084,000
SierraVista campus 4,191,400
Veterinarydiagnostic laboratory 2,500,000
Total — main campus $605,038,700
Fund sources:
State general fund $257,806,000
University collections fund 347,232,700
Health sciences center
FTEpositions 1,154.9
Operatinglump sum appropriation $100,595,000
Clinicalrural rotation 353,600
Clinicalteaching support 8,587,000
Liverresearch institute 440,400
Phoenixmedical campus 34,798,200
Telemedicinenetwork 1,670,000
Total — health sciences center $146,444,200
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $76,897,700
Universitycollections fund 69,546,500
Total appropriation - university of
Arizona $751,482,900
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $334,703,700
Universitycollections fund 416,779,200
The state general fund appropriationmay not be used for alumni association funding.
The increased state general fundappropriation from Laws 2014, chapter 18 may not be used for medical marijuanaresearch.
Other than scholarships awardedthrough the Arizona financial aid trust, the appropriated monies may not beused for scholarships or any student newspaper.
Of the amount appropriated to theuniversity of Arizona operating budget, $14,700,000 is onetime funding. On orbefore September 1, 2024, the university of Arizona shall provide a detailedexpenditure plan to the joint legislative budget committee that includes adescription of the intended purposes and the estimated costs of eachexpenditure.
The university of Arizona may not usemonies appropriated for the Arizona geological survey line item for any otherpurpose and may not transfer the monies appropriated for the Arizona geologicalsurvey to the operating budget or any other line item.
The legislature intends that$8,000,000 of the amount appropriated to the health sciences center operatinglump sum appropriation line item be used to expand the college of medicinePhoenix campus and to develop and administer a primary care physicianscholarship program at the college of medicine Phoenix campus and the collegeof medicine Tucson campus. The legislature intends that the$8,000,000 not be annualized in future years.
Any appropriated monies allocated bythe university for the center for the philosophy of freedom may not supplantany existing state funding or private or external donations to the center orthe philosophy department of the university of Arizona. Theappropriated monies and all private and external donations for the center,including any remaining balances from prior fiscal years, shall be deposited ina separate account, shall be used only for the direct operation of the centerand may not be used for indirect costs of the university. On orbefore October 1, 2024, the center shall submit a report to the president ofthe senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairpersons ofthe senate education committee and the house of representatives educationcommittee and the director of the joint legislative budget committee thatincludes at least the following information for the center:
1. The total amount of funding received from allsources.
2. A description of faculty positions and coursesoffered.
3. The total undergraduate and graduate studentparticipation.
4. Significant community events, initiatives orpublications.
The chairpersons of the senateeducation committee and the house of representatives education committee mayrequest the director of the center to appear before the committees to report onthe center's annual achievements.
The legislature intends that appropriatedmonies allocated by the university for the center for the philosophy of freedomin fiscal year 2024-2025 be consistent with the amount appropriated in fiscalyear 2022-2023, except that the university may allocate to the center thelump sum reduction of not more than 3.45 percent prescribed by this act.
The amount appropriated to the collegeof veterinary medicine line item shall be distributed to the college ofveterinary medicine to increase the number of students that are residents ofthis state. Before spending these monies, the university of Arizona shallreport to the joint legislative budget committee all of the followinginformation for the college of veterinary medicine:
1. The current number ofstudents who are residents of this state.
2. The current number ofstudents who are not residents of this state.
The university of Arizona shall usemonies appropriated for the Kazakhstan studies program to facilitate academicexchanges between university students and academic institutions in Kazakhstan.
The amount appropriated for thenatural resource users law and policy center line item shall be used by thenatural resource users law and policy center within the Arizona cooperativeextension. Of the amount appropriated, at least $500,000 shall be used toassist claimants in the general stream adjudication of water rights pursuant tosection 15-1647, Arizona Revised Statutes.
One hundred percent of the landearnings and interest from the school of mines land fund shall be distributedto the university of Arizona school of mining and mineral resources incompliance with the enabling act and the Constitution of Arizona.
Any unencumbered balances remaining inthe university collections fund on June 30, 2024 and all collections receivedby the university during the fiscal year are appropriated for operatingexpenditures, capital outlay and fixed charges. Earnings on state lands andinterest on the investment of the permanent land funds are appropriated incompliance with the enabling act and the Constitution of Arizona. No part ofthis appropriation may be spent for supplemental life insurance or supplementalretirement.
Sec. 100. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS' SERVICES
2024-25
FTE positions 792.3
Operatinglump sum appropriation $ 3,136,600
Arizonastate veterans' homes 60,519,600
Arizonastate veterans' cemeteries 960,000
Ruraltribal nations veteran
benefitcounseling 2,194,400
Veterans'benefit counseling 3,676,600
Veterans'support services 1,226,100
Veterans'trauma treatment
services 450,000
Total appropriation — department of
veterans'services $72,163,300
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $11,643,700
Statehome for veterans' trust
fund 60,519,600
Monies appropriated for the ruraltribal nations veteran benefit counseling line item shall be used for veterans'services officers to provide services in rural tribal nations in this statethat have communities that are located one hundred miles or more from thenearest United States department of veterans' affairs service center.
The amount appropriated for veterans'support services line item shall be distributed to a nonprofit veterans'services organization that provides support services among this state'smilitary and veteran population. The department may spend up to $76,500 ofthis appropriation to hire a program specialist to liaise between thedepartment and the selected nonprofit organization. Before theexpenditure of the monies, the department shall submit an expenditure report tothe joint legislative budget committee that includes the status of non-statematching grant monies.
Monies appropriated for the veterans'trauma treatment services line item shall be used to provide grants tocontractors as defined in section 36-2901, Arizona Revised Statutes, thatprovide trauma treatment services training to any of the following healthprofessionals licensed pursuant to title 32, Arizona Revised Statutes:
1. Physicians.
2. Registered nursepractitioners.
3. Physician assistants.
4. Psychologists.
5. Behavioral healthprofessionals who are either licensed for individual practice or supervised bya psychologist, registered nurse practitioner or behavioral health professionallicensed pursuant to title32, Arizona Revised Statutes, for independentpractice.
Sec. 101. ARIZONA STATEVETERINARY MEDICAL EXAMINING BOARD
2024-25
FTEpositions 7.0
Lump sumappropriation $ 785,100
Fund sources:
Veterinarymedical examining
boardfund $ 785,100
Sec. 102. DEPARTMENT OF WATER RESOURCES
2024-25
FTE positions 204.0
Operating lump sum appropriation $15,209,300
Adjudication support 1,889,400
Arizonawater protection fund
deposit 750,000
Assuredand adequate water supply
administration 2,501,500
Ruralwater studies 1,283,900
Conservationand drought program 427,700
Automatedgroundwater monitoring 416,600
ColoradoRiver legal expenses 500,000*
Watersupply and demand assessment 3,500,000
Total appropriation — department ofwater
resources $26,478,400
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $24,459,400
Waterresources fund 1,726,500
Assuredand adequate water
supplyadministration fund 292,500
Monies in theassured and adequate water supply administration line item may be used only forthe exclusive purposes prescribed in sections 45-108, 45-576, 45-577, 45-578and 45-579, Arizona Revised Statutes. The department of water resources may not transfer anymonies into or out of the assured and adequate water supply administration lineitem.
The legislature intends that monies inthe rural water studies line item be spent only to assess local water use needsand to develop plans for sustainable future water supplies in rural areasoutside this state's active management areas and not be made available forother department operating expenditures.
Monies in the adjudication supportline item may be used only for the exclusive purposes prescribed in section45-256, Arizona Revised Statues, and section 45-257, subsection B, paragraph 4,Arizona Revised Statutes. The department of water resources may not transferany monies into or out of the adjudication support line item.
The department of water resources maynot transfer any monies from the Colorado River legal expenses line itemwithout prior review by the joint legislative budget committee.
The amount appropriated for thestatewide water resources planning line item in fiscal year 2023-2024 pursuantto Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 97 is exempt from the provisions of section35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to the lapsing of appropriations.
Fiscal Year 2023-2024 Appropriation Adjustments
Sec.103. Supplementalappropriation; department of administration; risk management revolving fund;intent; review; fiscal year 2023-2024
A. Inaddition to any other appropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, thesum of $9,493,000 is appropriated from the risk management revolving fundestablished by section 41-622, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year2023-2024 to the department of administration for the following purposes:
1. To pay disallowed costsrelating to excess retained earnings.
2. To pay disallowed costsrelating to the statewide information technology charges.
3. For fund transfers infiscal year 2022-2023.
4. To pay interest owedfrom prior-year disallowed costs.
B. The legislature intendsthat the department of administration not enter into any agreements to pay forany federal reimbursem*nts related to excess balances in the special employeehealth insurance trust fund established by section 38-654, Arizona RevisedStatutes, unless the proposed agreements have been reviewed by the jointlegislative budget committee.
Sec.104. Supplemental appropriation;Arizona health care cost containment system administration; fiscal year2023-2024
Inaddition to any other appropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, thesum of $7,527,500 is appropriated from the children's health insurance programfund established by section 36-2995, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year2023-2024 to the Arizona health care cost containment system administration foradjustments in formula requirements.
Sec.105. Appropriationreduction; Arizona health care cost containment system administration; fiscalyear 2023-2024
In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of $(39,944,900) isreduced from appropriations made from the state general fund in fiscal year2023-2024 to the Arizona health care cost containment system administration foradjustments in formula requirements.
Sec.106. Department ofeconomic security; developmental disabilities; savings; prohibition; fiscalyear 2023-2024
The department of economic securitymay not transfer any excess appropriation from the DDD premium tax payment,case management—medicaid, home and community basedservices—medicaid, institutional services—medicaid, physicaland behavioral health services—medicaid, medicare clawback paymentsor targeted case management–medicaid line items to any line itemoutside of the developmental disabilities section in fiscal year 2023-2024.
Sec.107. Supplemental appropriation;governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting; fiscal year 2023-2024
In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of $204,600 isappropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to thegovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting for a retirement costtechnical adjustment.
Sec.108. Supplementalappropriation; joint legislative budget committee; fiscal year 2023-2024
In addition to any other appropriationsmade in fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of $204,600 is appropriated fromthe state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the joint legislative budgetcommittee for a retirement cost technical adjustment.
Sec.109. Supplementalappropriation; superior court; fiscal year 2023-2024
In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of $813,700 isappropriated from the criminal justice enhancement fund established by section41-2401, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 to thesuperior court for judges' compensation.
Sec.110. Appropriationreduction; state land department; fiscal year 2023-2024
In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of $(206,700) isreduced from appropriations made from the state general fund in fiscal year2023-2024 to the state land department for central Arizona project user fees.
Sec.111. Supplementalappropriation; board of respiratory care examiners; fiscal year 2023-2024
In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of $15,100 isappropriated from the board of respiratory care examiners fund established bysection 32-3505, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 tothe board of respiratory care examiners to pay outstanding costs of servicesprovided by the department of administration-central services bureau.
Sec.112. Supplemental appropriation; department of state-secretaryof state; fiscal year 2023-2024
In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, the sum of $100,000 isappropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to thedepartment of state – secretary of state for the costs of conducting logic andaccuracy testing for the 2024 primary election.
Sec.113. Supplemental appropriation; water infrastructure financeauthority of Arizona; fiscal year 2023-2024
A. Inaddition to any other appropriations made in fiscal year 2023-2024, thesum of $11,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year2023-2024 to the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona for abrackish groundwater recovery pilot program.
B. The appropriation madein subsection A of this section is exempt from the provisions of section35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.
C. The water infrastructurefinance authority of Arizona shall use the monies in the brackish groundwaterrecovery pilot program to provide matching dollars for the development andconstruction of qualifying inland brackish groundwater recovery anddesalination pilot projects within this state. Not more than $1 shall beawarded per $3 of total capital expenditures per qualifying project. Not morethan one qualifying project shall be awarded monies per request for proposals.Within one hundred twenty days after the effective date of this section, thewater infrastructure finance authority of Arizona shall issue a request forproposals to develop and construct a qualifying inland brackish groundwaterrecovery and desalination pilot project within this state. Within one yearafter the effective date of this section, the water infrastructure financeauthority of Arizona shall evaluate proposals submitted in response to therequest for proposals and select a proposal for the issuance of matchingdollars. The water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona shall make thegrant of monies issued pursuant to this section contingent on the execution ofproposed projects and expenditure of capital costs within a certain time framefollowing the issuance of the awarded monies, as determined by the waterinfrastructure finance authority of Arizona.
D. Within ninety days afterthe effective date of this section, the water infrastructure finance authorityof Arizona shall, in consultation with the department of water resources,develop and establish:
1. Minimum criteria thatprojects must meet to qualify for matching dollars pursuant to this section.
2. Minimum information thatqualifying bidders must include with a proposed project to be considered forevaluation, including all of the following:
(a) Design and engineeringstudies or reports.
(b) Site location,right-of-way and land ownership information.
(c) Depth-to-water,salinity levels and other hydrological information.
(d) Withdrawal permit andgroundwater rights and access information.
(e) Method of brackishgroundwater recovery, treatment and desalination.
(f) Method of inlanddesalination brine disposal.
(g) Total volume ofbrackish groundwater expected to be desalinated.
(h) Total project capacityand expected output.
(i) Proximity to likelyoff-takers and proposed method of transportation or delivery of treatedbrackish groundwater to such off-takers.
(j) Total estimated capitalcost for the project.
3. Minimum criteria thatthe water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona will use to evaluate thefeasibility and viability of qualifying projects submitted in response to arequest for proposals issued pursuant to this section and to select a winningproject, including:
(a) The cost-effectivenessof the project.
(b) The reliability andlong-term security of the water supply to be developed through the project.
(c) The impact to theregional aquifer and local water users from the project's brackish groundwaterwithdrawals.
(d) The impacts to theregional aquifer and local water users from the project's brine disposal.
(e) Comments from waterusers, local residents and affected jurisdictions.
E. Within ninety days afterthe effective date of this section, the water infrastructure finance authorityof Arizona shall develop and establish:
1. Minimum criteria thatbidders must satisfy to qualify for participation in and to submit proposals inresponse to requests for proposals issued pursuant to this section.
2. Minimum criteria thatthe water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona will use to evaluate thetechnical, financial and managerial capabilities of qualifying bidders thatsubmit proposals in response to a request for proposals issued pursuant to thissection.
F. Of the moniesappropriated pursuant to subsection A of this section to the brackishgroundwater recovery pilot program, not more than ten percent of the monies maybe used for staffing and administrative costs.
Sec.114. Supplemental appropriation; fund balance transfer; department ofwater resources; fiscal year 2023-2024
A. The sum of $2,500,000 istransferred from the water resources fund established by section 45-117,Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 for deposit in thedepartment of water resources subaccount in the automation projects fundestablished pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, to develop,modernize and consolidate the department's applications.
B. The sum of $2,500,000 isappropriated from the department of water resources subaccount in theautomation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the department ofadministration to develop, modernize and consolidate the department of waterresources' applications.
Sec.115. Supplemental appropriation; fund balance transfer; department ofadministration; fiscal year 2023-2024
The sum of $3,100,000 is transferredfrom the personnel division fund established pursuant to section 41-750,Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2023-2024 for deposit in the humanresources information system subaccount in the automation projects fundestablished pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, to replacethe human resources information system.
Sec.116. Appropriation reductions; state general fund; fiscal year2023-2024
Notwithstanding any other law, thefollowing amounts are reduced from monies appropriated from the state generalfund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the following state agencies foroperating lump sum appropriations and line items:
1. Department ofadministration
Employeecompensation study $ (2,200,000)
2. Arizona department ofa*griculture
Operatinglump sum–for expanded
informationtechnology support $ (300,000)
3. Arizona commerceauthority
Ruralbroadband accelerated match fund deposit $(23,600,000)
4. Superintendent of publicinstruction
Artconsumables $ (2,500,000)
Dualenrollment student development
funddeposit $(15,000,000)
Dualenrollment student development
funddeposit $ (500,000)
Broadbandexpansion fund deposit $ (2,500,000)
5. Office of tourism
Operatinglump sum–for culinary tourism
workforcedevelopment $ (250,000)
Sec.117. Independent redistricting commission; reversion; fiscal year2023-2024
All moniesremaining unexpended and unencumbered on June 30, 2024 from the appropriationmade by Laws 2021, chapter 408, section 48 revert to the state general fund.
Sec.118. Appropriation; rodeo; exemption from lapsing; reversion; fiscalyear 2023-2024
A. Theamount appropriated from the state general fund to distribute to a nonprofitvolunteer organization that operates a rodeo at the Yavapai county fairgroundsin fiscal year 2023-2024 pursuant to Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 118,paragraph 2 is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona RevisedStatutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.
B. Ifa court of competent jurisdiction rules that the monies appropriated pursuantto Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 118, paragraph 2 may not be distributed to anonprofit volunteer organization that operates a rodeo at the Yavapai countyfairgrounds and the judgment of that court becomes final and definitive, theattorney general shall notify in writing the director of the Arizonalegislative council of that fact and the monies revert to the state generalfund.
Sec.119. Appropriations; exemption from lapsing; fiscal year 2023-2024
Notwithstanding any other law, thefollowing amounts appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024by Laws 2023, chapter 133 to the following state agencies are exempt from theprovisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating tolapsing of appropriations:
1. Department ofadministration
Fireincident management fund deposit $12,200,000
2. Office of economicopportunity
Microbusinessloan fund deposit $ 5,000,000
3. Superintendent of publicinstruction
Arizonacivics education and leadership
developmentprogram $ 300,000
Earlyeducation and career exploration program $ 5,000,000
4. Department of healthservices
Collaborativecare uptake fund deposit $ 1,000,000
5. Arizona department ofhomeland security
Antihumantrafficking grant fund deposit $10,000,000
Arizonastate nonprofit security grant
programfund deposit $ 5,000,000
6. Arizona department ofhousing
Homelessshelter and services fund deposit $40,000,000
7. Department of publicsafety
Fentanylprosecution, diversion and
testingfund deposit $ 3,000,000
8. Arizona board of regents
Spousesand dependents of law enforcement officers
tuitionscholarship fund deposit $ 2,000,000
Fiscal Year 2024-2025Appropriations
Sec.120. Appropriations;department of administration; counties; allocations; report; fiscal year 2024-2025
A. The sum of $7,150,650 isappropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to thedepartment of administration for distribution to counties to maintain essentialcounty services. The department shall allocate the appropriationequally among all counties with a population of less than nine hundred thousandpersons according to the 2020 United States decennial census.
B. The sum of $500,000 isappropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to thedepartment of administration for distribution to Graham county to maintainessential county services.
C. The sum of $3,000,000 isappropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to thedepartment of administration for distribution to counties to supplement thenormal cost plus an amount to amortize the unfunded accrued liability pursuantto section 38-810, subsection C, Arizona Revised Statutes. Thedepartment shall allocate the appropriation equally among all counties with apopulation of less than three hundred thousand persons according to the 2020United States decennial census. The counties may use these moniesonly for required employer contributions to the elected officials' retirementplan.
Sec.121. Automationprojects fund; appropriations; quarterly reports; exemption; fiscal year 2024-2025
A. The sum of $3,396,000 isappropriated from the medicaid enterprise system modernization subaccount inthe automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the department of administrationto replace the medicaid enterprise system mainframe.
B. The sum of $5,521,200 isappropriated from the human resources information system subaccount in theautomation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the department ofadministration for the replacement of the human resources information system.
C. The sum of $1,320,000 isappropriated from the automation projects fund established pursuant to section41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2024-2025 to thedepartment of administration for the replacement of the human resourcesinformation system.
D. The sum of $19,456,800is appropriated from the department of revenue subaccount in the automationprojects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes,in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the department of administration to implement thedepartment of revenue's integrated tax system modernization project. Themonies appropriated in this subsection shall be spent for an integrated taxsystem modernization project that meets the following minimum specifications:
1. Captures data fieldsfrom electronically filed individual and corporate income tax returns and makesthe data available for querying and reporting purposes. The system shallprovide the department of revenue staff, the joint legislative budget committeestaff and governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting staff directaccess to the querying and reporting functions. The querying andreporting functions shall include procedures to protect taxpayerconfidentiality under applicable state and federal law.
2. For electronic corporateincome tax returns, captures information regarding the principal businessactivity of the corporation. This requirement may be satisfied through NorthAmerican industry classification system data listed on federal tax forms. Thetax system shall allow for querying and reporting based on principal businessactivity.
3. Includes an integratedindividual income tax model within the project and provides the department ofrevenue staff, the joint legislative budget committee staff and governor'soffice of strategic planning and budgeting staff direct access to theindividual income tax model. At a minimum, the model shall allow thedepartment of revenue staff, the joint legislative budget committee staff andgovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting staff to adjust tax lawparameters against an anonymized representative sample of income tax returns toestimate the fiscal impact of proposed tax legislation. The model shall onlyinclude data from state and federal tax returns that are captured by the taxsystem. The individual income tax model shall include procedures to protecttaxpayer confidentiality under applicable state and federal law.
4. Makes individual andcorporate income tax data available for querying, modeling and reporting withintwenty-four months following the end of a tax year.
QuarterlyReports
E. Within thirty days afterthe last day of each calendar quarter, the department of administration shallsubmit to the joint legislative budget committee a quarterly report onimplementing projects approved by the information technology authorizationcommittee established by section 18-121, Arizona Revised Statutes, includingthe projects' expenditures to date, deliverables, timeline for completion andcurrent status.
Nonlapsing
F. Theamounts appropriated pursuant to this section from the automation projects fundestablished by section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year2024-2025 are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona RevisedStatutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2026.
G. NotwithstandingLaws 2022, chapter 313, section 107, $2,114,300 of the amount appropriated fromthe automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the department ofadministration by Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 107 to further develop thebusiness one stop portal is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190,Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30,2025. This amount may be used only for maintenance and operations of thebusiness one stop portal.
H. NotwithstandingLaws 2022, chapter 313, section 107, the sum of $2,000,000 appropriated fromthe automation projects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, ArizonaRevised Statutes, in fiscal year 2022-2023 to the Arizona department ofa*griculture by Laws 2022, chapter 313, section 107 for cloud migration isexempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes,relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2026.
I. NotwithstandingLaws 2023, chapter 133, section 113, the sum of $2,500,000 appropriated fromthe judiciary-supreme court subaccount in the automation projects fundestablished pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscalyear 2023-2024 to the Arizona supreme court by Laws 2023, chapter 133, section113 for a statewide community supervision electronic monitoring system isexempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes,relating to lapsing of appropriations, until June 30, 2027.
Sec.122. Department ofeconomic security; loans; reimbursem*nt; prohibition; fiscal year 2024-2025
On or after April 1, 2025, thedepartment of economic security may use up to $25,000,000 from the budgetstabilization fund established by section 35-144, Arizona Revised Statutes, forthe purpose of providing funding for reimbursem*nt grants. Before using themonies from the budget stabilization fund, the department shall notify thedirector of the joint legislative budget committee and the director of thegovernor's office of strategic planning and budgeting. Thisappropriation must be fully reimbursed on or before September 1, 2025 and mustbe reimbursed in full as part of the closing process for fiscal year2024-2025. The department shall notify the joint legislative budgetcommittee of the reimbursem*nt on or before September 1, 2025. Theappropriation may not be used for additional programmatic expenditures.
Sec.123. Lump sum reductions; fiscal year 2024-2025
A. In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2024-2025, the following state generalfund amounts are reduced from lump sum appropriations for the following budgetunits in fiscal year 2024-2025:
1. Department ofadministration $ (300,000)
2. Department of administration,division of
schoolfacilities $ (57,100)
3. Office of administrativehearings $ (34,200)
4. Arizona department ofa*griculture $ (671,500)
5. Arizona health care costcontainment system $(1,242,000)
6. Attorney general –department of law $ (839,100)
7. State board for charterschools $ (97,800)
8. Corporation commission $ (27,600)
9. Arizona state schoolsfor the deaf and the blind $ (897,000)
10. Office of economicopportunity $ (21,000)
11. Department of economicsecurity $(3,026,200)
12. State board ofeducation $ (111,200)
13. Superintendent ofpublic instruction $ (469,700)
14. State board ofequalization $ (30,000)
15. Arizona department offorestry and fire
management $ (248,600)
16. Office of the governor $ (368,100)
17. Governor's office ofstrategic planning and
budgeting $ (101,400)
18. Department of healthservices $ (719,200)
19. Arizona historicalsociety $ (83,500)
20. Prescott historicalsociety $ (35,000)
21. Department of insuranceand financial
institutions $ (222,500)
22. Arizona judiciary –supreme court $ (386,300)
23. Arizona judiciary –court of appeals $ (508,200)
24. Arizona judiciary –superior court $ (180,100)
25. Department of juvenilecorrections $(1,098,100)
26. State land department $ (148,000)
27. Legislature – house ofrepresentatives $ (664,100)
28. Legislature – jointlegislative budget
committee $ (107,800)
29. Legislature –legislative council $ (328,100)
30. Legislature –ombudsman-citizens aide office $ (53,900)
31. Legislature – senate $ (587,300)
32. Arizona navigablestream adjudication
commission $ (6,000)
33. State real estatedepartment $ (110,400)
34. Department of revenue $(1,748,200)
35. Department of state –secretary of state $ (463,600)
36. State board of taxappeals $ (13,000)
37. Office of tourism $ (75,800)
38. Governor's office ontribal relations $ (2,400)
39. Arizona board ofregents $ (109,200)
40. Arizona stateuniversity $(10,995,800)
41. NorthernArizona university $(4,070,200)
42. Universityof Arizona – main campus $(6,562,200)
43. Universityof Arizona – health sciences center $(1,469,300)
44. Departmentof veterans' services $ (108,200)
45. Department of waterresources $ (21,500)
B. The universities underthe jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents may not reduce moniesallocated from operating lump sum appropriations to the Arizona stateuniversity school of civic and economic thought and leadership, the northernArizona university economic policy institute and the university of Arizona centerfor the philosophy of freedom by more than 3.45 percent of the total amountallocated to the school, institute or center.
Sec.124. Phoenix convention center; allocation; fiscal year 2024-2025
Pursuant to section 9-602, ArizonaRevised Statutes, $25,998,700 of state general fund revenue is allocated infiscal year 2024-2025 to the Arizona convention center development fundestablished by section 9-601, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Sec.125. Rio Nuevo multipurpose facility district; estimated distribution;fiscal year 2024-2025
Pursuant to section 42-5031,Arizona Revised Statutes, a portion of the state transaction privilege taxrevenues will be distributed to a multipurpose facilitydistrict. The Rio Nuevo multipurpose facility district is estimatedto receive $17,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-2025. The actual amount of thedistribution will be made pursuant to section 42-5031, Arizona RevisedStatutes.
Fund Balance Transfers
Sec.126. Fund balancetransfers; fiscal year 2023-2024
Notwithstanding any other law, on orbefore June 30, 2024, the following amounts from the following fund sources aretransferred to the state general fund for the purposes of providing adequatesupport and maintenance for agencies of this state:
1. Department ofadministration
Certificate of participationfund $ 2,550,000
Stateemployee travel reduction fund $ 900,000
Stateweb portal fund $ 4,000,000
Capitolmall consolidation fund $ 700,000
Fireincident management fund $ 6,100,000
Constructioninsurance fund $ 8,100,000
Cyberrisk insurance fund $ 11,200,000
Riskmanagement revolving fund $70,000,000
Automationprojects fund – department
ofadministration subaccount $ 7,000,000
The amount transferred from the automation project fund –department of administration subaccount to the state general fund in fiscalyear 2023-2024 reflects unspent monies for business one stop portaldevelopment.
Automationprojects fund – department
ofrevenue subaccount $ 1,300,000
2. Arizona health care costcontainment system
Prescription drug rebate fund- state $40,000,000
3. Board of athletictraining
Athletic training fund $ 250,000
4. Attorneygeneral–department of law
Anti-racketeering revolvingfund–operations $ 2,600,000
Anti-racketeering revolvingfund-
pass-through $10,000,000
Collection enforcementrevolving fund-
operating $ 212,500
5. Barbering andcosmetology board
Barbering and cosmetologyfund $12,100,000
6. Board of behavioralhealth examiners
Board of behavioral healthexaminers fund $ 4,200,000
7. State board ofchiropractic examiners
Board of chiropracticexaminers fund $ 500,000
8. Arizona commerceauthority
Arizona competes fund $55,700,000
9. Corporation commission
Utility regulation revolvingfund $ 2,125,000
Securities regulatory andenforcement
fund $25,000,000
10. State department of corrections
Corrections fund $ 8,000,000
Alcohol abuse treatment fund $ 2,000,000
Transition program fund $ 4,200,000
Community correctionsenhancement fund $ 117,500
11. Arizona criminaljustice commission
Criminal justice enhancementfund $ 800,000
Fingerprint clearance cardfund $ 700,000
12. State board of dentalexaminers
Dental board fund $ 2,000,000
13. Office of economicopportunity
Office of economicopportunity
operations fund $ 1,000,000
14. Departmentof economic security
Familycaregiver grant program fund $ 700,000
Specialadministration fund $ 4,000,000
Economicsecurity capital investments fund $ 500,000
Long-termcare system fund $ 9,314,000
15. Departmentof education
Adultworkforce diploma program fund $ 3,000,000
Communitycollege adult education
workforcedevelopment program fund $ 8,900,000
16. Department ofenvironmental quality
Air quality fund $ 2,300,000
Underground storage tankrevolving fund $20,000,000
Emissions inspection fund $ 5,000,000
Hazardous waste managementfund $ 900,000
Emergency response fund $ 500,000
17. Arizona exposition andstate fair board
Arizona exposition and statefair fund $ 5,000,000
18. Board of fingerprinting
Board of fingerprinting fund $ 1,200,000
19. Department of healthservices
Disease control research fund $ 1,300,000
Prescription drug rebate fund $ 1,000,000
Health services lotterymonies fund $ 3,700,000
20. Industrial commissionof Arizona
Administrative fund $ 2,400,000
Special fund $ 900,000
21. Departmentof insurance and financial
institutions
Financialservices fund $18,400,000
Insuranceexaminers' revolving fund $ 500,000
Automobiletheft authority fund $ 8,800,000
Captiveinsurance regulatory and
supervisionfund $ 300,000
Financial surveillance fund $ 400,000
Departmentreceivership revolving fund $ 800,000
22. Departmentof juvenile corrections
Criminaljustice enhancement fund $ 900,000
Indirectcost recovery fund $ 200,000
23. Stateland department
Riskmanagement fund $ 343,000
IGAand ISA fund $ 24,000
Trustland management fund $34,000,000
24. Department of liquor licenses and control
Liquor licenses fund $ 400,000
License fees – audit – enforcement
surcharges fund - multiple complaints $ 170,000
25. Boardof massage therapy
Boardof massage therapy fund $ 600,000
26. Arizonamedical board
Arizonamedical board fund $ 9,300,000
27. Statemine inspector
Aggregatemining reclamation fund $ 38,500
28. Naturopathicphysicians medical board
Naturopathicphysicians medical board fund $ 1,700,000
29. Arizonastate board of nursing
Boardof nursing fund $ 9,400,000
30. Boardof occupational therapy examiners
Occupationaltherapy fund $ 900,000
31. Stateboard of optometry
Boardof optometry fund $ 387,100
32. Arizonaboard of osteopathic examiners in
medicineand surgery
Arizonaboard of osteopathic examiners
inmedicine and surgery fund $ 2,800,000
33. Arizonastate board of pharmacy
Arizonastate board of pharmacy fund $ 6,300,000
34. Boardof physical therapy
Boardof physical therapy fund $ 680,000
35. Stateboard of psychologist examiners
Boardof psychologist examiners fund $ 1,800,000
36. Department of public safety
Fingerprintclearance card fund $ 3,900,000
Departmentof public safety licensing
fund $ 85,000
Gang and immigration team enforcement
Missionborder security and law
Enforcementsubaccount $ 1,000,000
Recordsprocessing fund $ 200,000
Publicsafety equipment fund $ 500,000
37. Residentialutility consumer office
Residentialutility consumer office
revolvingfund $ 425,000
38. Stateboard of technical registration
Technicalregistration fund $ 5,600,000
39. Department of transportation
Economic strength project fund $ 600,000
Highway damage recovery account $ 1,000,000
State aviation fund $15,000,000
Statehighway fund $26,000,000
The amounttransferred from the state highway fund established by section 28-6991,Arizona Revised Statutes, to the state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024reflects interest income earned from investment of monies in the state highwayfund from a portion of revenues derived from the tax levied by title 42,chapter 5, articles 1 and 5, Arizona Revised Statutes, that were transferred tothe state highway fund by Laws 2022, chapter 321, section 20, subsection A,paragraph 2.
Abandoned vehicle administration fund $ 400,000
Sharedlocation and advertising agreements
expensefund $ 75,100
Motorvehicle dealer enforcement fund $ 300,000
Highwayexpansion and extension loan
programfund $ 3,900
Arizonahighways magazine fund $ 500,000
39. Statetreasurer
Statetreasurer's operating fund $ 900,000
Arizonapublic school credit
enhancementfund $ 3,000,000
40. Arizonastate veterinary medical examining board
Veterinarymedical examining board fund $ 1,700,000
41. Waterinfrastructure finance authority of Arizona
Watersupply development revolving fund $59,700,000
Of theamount transferred from the water supply development revolving fund establishedby section 49-1271, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the state general fundin fiscal year 2023-2024, $8,100,000 reflects interest income earned from investmentof monies in the water supply development revolving fund.
Long-termwater augmentation fund $97,300,000
Of theamount transferred from the long-term water augmentation fund established bysection 49-1302, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the state general fund infiscal year 2023-2024, $19,300,000 reflects interest income earned frominvestment of monies in the long-term water augmentation fund.
42. Departmentof water resources
Temporarygroundwater and irrigation
efficiencyprojects fund $ 600,000
Assuredand adequate water supply
administrationfund $ 200,000
Arizonawater protection fund $ 1,000,000
Sec.127. Fund balance transfer;state highway fund; fiscal year 2024-2025
A. Notwithstandingany other law, on or before June 30, 2025, $18,700,000 is transferred fromstate highway fund established by section 28-6991, Arizona Revised Statutes, tothe state general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 for the purpose of providingadequate support and maintenance for agencies of this state.
B. The amount transferredfrom the state highway fund in subsection A of this section reflects interestincome earned from investment of monies in the state highway fund from aportion of revenues derived from the tax levied by title 42, chapter 5,articles 1 and 5, Arizona Revised Statutes, that were transferred to the statehighway fund by Laws 2022, chapter 321, section 20, subsection A, paragraph 2.
Sec.128. Fund balance transfer;state highway fund; vehicle license tax; fiscal year 2024-2025
Notwithstanding any other law,$3,000,000 received in fiscal year 2024-2025 pursuant to title 28,chapter 16, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to vehicle licensetax, for distribution to the state highway fund pursuant to section 28-6538,subsection A, paragraph 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, shall be deposited in thestate general fund. The deposit may be made in even monthly installments.
Sec.129. Fund balance transfer; airquality fund; fiscal year 2024-2025
Notwithstanding any other law, on orbefore June 30, 2025, $7,200,000 is transferred from the air quality fundestablished by section 49-551, Arizona Revised Statutes, to the water quality feefund established by section 49-210 in fiscal year 2024-2025.
Sec.130. Fund balance transfer;Arizona correctional industries revolving fund; fiscal year 2024-2025
Notwithstanding any other law, on orbefore June 30, 2025, $11,491,800 is transferred from the Arizona correctionalindustries revolving fund established pursuant to section 41-1624, ArizonaRevised Statutes, to the state general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025.
Sec.131. Fund balance transfers; automation projects fund; fiscal year2024-2025
A. The sum of $3,396,000 istransferred from the state general fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 for deposit inthe medicaid enterprise system modernization subaccount in the automationprojects fund established pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes,to replace the medicaid enterprise system mainframe.
B. The sum of $2,421,200 istransferred from the personnel division fund established pursuant to section41-750, Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2024-2025 for deposit in thehuman resources information system subaccount in the automation projects fundestablished pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, for thereplacement of the human resources information system.
C. The following amountsare transferred from the following funds in fiscal year 2024-2025 for depositin the department of revenue subaccount in the automation projects fundestablished pursuant to section 41-714, Arizona Revised Statutes, toimplement the integrated tax system modernization project:
1. $11,847,300 from thestate general fund.
2. $7,609,500 from thedepartment of revenue integrated tax system project fund established by section42-5041, Arizona Revised Statutes.
D. The transfers into theautomation projects fund established by section 41-714, Arizona RevisedStatutes, as outlined in this section are not appropriations out of theautomation project fund. Only direct appropriations out of theautomation projects fund are appropriations.
Payment Deferrals
Sec.132. Reduction in school district state aid apportionmentin fiscal year 2024-2025; appropriation in fiscal year 2025-2026
A. Inaddition to any other appropriation reductions made in fiscal year 2024-2025,the department of education shall defer until after June 30, 2025 but not laterthan July 12, 2025 $800,727,700 of the basic state aid and additional state aidentitlement that otherwise would be apportioned to school districts duringfiscal year 2024-2025 pursuant to section 15-973, Arizona RevisedStatutes. The funding deferral required by this subsection does notapply to charter schools or to school districts with a student count of lessthan four thousand pupils. The department of education shall makethe deferral by reducing the apportionment of state aid for each month in thefiscal year by the same amount.
B. In addition to any otherappropriations made in fiscal year 2025-2026, the sum of $800,727,700 isappropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2025-2026 to thedepartment of education and the superintendent of public instruction for basicstate aid and additional state aid entitlement for fiscal year2025-2026. This appropriation shall be disbursed after June 30, 2025but not later than July 12, 2025 to the several counties for the schooldistricts in each county in amounts equal to the reductions in apportionment ofbasic state aid and additional state aid that are required pursuant tosubsection A of this section for fiscal year 2024-2025.
C. School districts shallinclude in the revenue estimates they use for computing their tax rates forfiscal year 2024-2025 the monies they will receive pursuant to subsection B ofthis section.
Statewide Adjustments
Sec.133. Appropriations; operating adjustments
2024-25
contribution reduction $(94,363,000)
Fund sources:
State general fund $(72,766,200)
Otherfunds (21,596,800)
2. Employer health insurance
contributionincrease $ 200,000,000
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 140,000,000
Otherfunds 60,000,000
3. State fleet rate reduction $(13,648,900)
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ (8,195,100)
Otherfunds (5,453,800)
4. State fleet rate increase $ 4,924,000
Fund sources:
State general fund $ 3,299,000
Other funds 1,625,000
5. Humanresources information
systemcharge reduction $(12,654,000)
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ (8,009,300)
Otherfunds (4,644,700)
6. Arizonafinancial information
systemadjustment $ (1,673,700)
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ (834,000)
Otherfunds (839,700)
7. Agency retirement adjustment $ 7,680,000
Fund sources:
Stategeneral fund $ 7,180,000
Otherfunds 500,000
8. Agency rent adjustment $ 160,000
Fund sources:
Otherfunds $ 160,000
Employerhealth insurance contribution reduction
The amount appropriated is for aonetime employer contribution rate reduction for employee health insurance infiscal year 2024-2025. The joint legislative budget committee staff,in consultation with the governor's office of strategic planning and budgetingstaff, shall determine and the department of administration shall allocate toeach agency or department an amount for the health insurance contributionadjustment. The joint legislative budget committee staff shall alsodetermine and the department of administration shall allocate adjustments, asnecessary, in expenditure authority to implement the reduction in employerhealth insurance contribution rates. The joint legislative budgetcommittee staff shall use the overall allocation of state general fund andappropriated tuition monies for each university in determining thatuniversity's specific adjustment.
Employerhealth insurance contribution increase
The amount appropriated is for aonetime employer contribution rate increase for employee health insurance infiscal year 2024-2025. The joint legislative budget committee staff,in consultation with the governor's office of strategic planning and budgetingstaff, shall determine and the department of administration shall allocate toeach agency or department an amount for the health insurance contributionadjustment. The joint legislative budget committee staff shall alsodetermine and the department of administration shall allocate adjustments, asnecessary, in expenditure authority to implement the increase in employerhealth insurance contribution rates. The joint legislative budgetcommittee staff shall use the overall allocation of state general fund andappropriated tuition monies for each university in determining thatuniversity's specific adjustment.
State fleet rate reduction
State fleet rate increase
The amount appropriated is for aonetime state fleet rate increase in fiscal year 2024-2025. The jointlegislative budget committee staff, in consultation with the governor's officeof strategic planning and budgeting staff, shall determine and the departmentof administration shall allocate to each agency or department an amount for thestate fleet rate increase. The joint legislative budget committee staff shallalso determine and the department of administration shall allocate adjustments,as necessary, in expenditure authority for the state fleet rate increase.
Humanresources information system replacement charge reduction
The amount appropriated is for areduction of the human resources information system replacement charge infiscal year 2024-2025. The joint legislative budget committee staff, inconsultation with the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting staff,shall determine and the department of administration shall allocate to eachagency or department an amount for the human resources information systemreplacement charge reduction. The joint legislative budget committeestaff shall also determine and the department of administration shall allocateadjustments, as necessary, in expenditure authority to implement the reductionin the human resources information system replacement charge. The reduction inthe human resources information system replacement charge shall be based oneach state fund's proportional share of payments to the personnel division fundestablished pursuant to section 41-750, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Arizona financial information system adjustments
The amount appropriated is for a reductionof the Arizona financial information system upgrade charge in fiscal year2024-2025. The joint legislative budget committee staff, in consultation withthe governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting staff, shalldetermine and the department of administration shall allocate to each agency ordepartment an amount for the Arizona financial information system upgradecharge reduction. The joint legislative budget committee staff shall alsodetermine and the department of administration shall allocate adjustments, asnecessary, in expenditure authority to implement the reduction in the Arizonafinancial information system upgrade charge.
Agencyretirement adjustment
The amount appropriated is forretirement adjustments in fiscal year 2024-2025. The joint legislative budgetcommittee staff, in consultation with the governor's office of strategicplanning and budgeting staff, shall determine and the department ofadministration shall allocate to each agency or department an amount for theagency retirement adjustments. The joint legislative budget committee staffshall also determine, and the department of administration shall allocateadjustments, as necessary, in expenditure authority to implement the agencyretirement adjustments.
Agency rentadjustment
The amount appropriated is for agencyrent adjustments for agencies relocating to and within state-owned andlease-purchase buildings in fiscal year 2024-2025. The joint legislative budgetcommittee staff, in consultation with the governor's office of strategicplanning and budgeting staff, shall determine and the department ofadministration shall allocate to each agency or department an amount for theagency rent adjustment. The joint legislative budget committee staff shall alsodetermine, and the department of administration shall allocate adjustments, asnecessary, in expenditure authority to allow implementation of the agency rentadjustments.
Sec.134. Department of law; general agency counsel charges; fiscal year 2024-2025
Pursuantto section 41-191.09, Arizona Revised Statutes, the following state agenciesand departments are charged the following amounts in fiscal year 2024-2025 forgeneral agency counsel provided by the department of law:
1. Department ofadministration $127,700
2. Office of administrativehearings $ 3,000
3. Arizona arts commission $ 3,100
4. Citizens clean electionscommission $ 2,700
5. State department ofcorrections $ 2,000
6. Arizona criminal justicecommission $ 8,700
7. Arizona state schoolsfor the deaf
and the blind $100,200
8. Commission for the deafand the hard
of hearing $ 4,100
9. Arizona early childhooddevelopment and
healthboard $47,100
10. Department of education $132,000
11. Department of emergencyand military affairs $30,000
12. Department ofenvironmental quality $135,600
13. Arizona exposition andstate fair board $20,900
14. Arizona department offorestry and fire
management $13,400
15. Department of gaming $37,300
16. Department of healthservices $173,800
17. Arizona historicalsociety $ 700
18. Arizona department ofhousing $19,300
19. Department of insuranceand financial
institutions $13,800
20. Department of juvenilecorrections $ 9,400
21. State land department $ 2,100
22. Department of liquorlicenses and control $11,400
23. Arizona state lotterycommission $24,800
24. Arizona state parksboard $45,800
25. State personnel board $ 600
26. Arizona pioneers' home $12,100
27. Department of publicsafety $677,400
28. Arizona board ofregents $ 1,800
29. Arizona stateretirement system $69,100
30. Department of revenue $ 4,900
31. Department of state —secretary of state $ 1,800
32. State treasurer $ 9,200
33. Department of veterans'services $52,700
Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Appropriations
Sec.135. Appropriation; new schoolfacilities fund; use; fiscal year 2025-2026
The sum of $45,077,100 is appropriatedfrom the state general fund in fiscal year 2025-2026 for a onetime deposit inthe new school facilities fund established by section 41-5741, Arizona RevisedStatutes. The division of school facilities within the department ofadministration shall use the monies only for facilities that will beconstructed for school districts that received final approval from the divisionof school facilities within the department of administration on or beforeDecember15, 2023.
ReportingRequirements and Definitions
Sec.136. Agency spending and encumbrances; quarterly report; fiscal year2024-2025
Withinfifteen days of the last day of each quarter in fiscal year 2024-2025, thedepartment of administration shall report to the director of the jointlegislative budget committee and the director of the governor's office ofstrategic planning and budgeting the year-to-date expenditures and year-to-dateencumbrances for operating and capital spending from the state general fund andother agency funds in fiscal year 2024-2025. The information shall beseparately delineated by agency, budget fiscal year and fund source, and shallclassify each appropriation by agency lump sum, special line item, or project.
Sec.137. COVID-related expenditures; reporting requirements; intent
A. Within forty-fivedays after the last day of each calendar quarter through June 30, 2027, theoffice of the governor shall report to the president of the senate, the speakerof the house of representatives, the chairpersons of the senate and house ofrepresentatives appropriations committees and the director of the jointlegislative budget committee the total planned allocations and actualexpenditures from the coronavirus state fiscal recovery fund and thecoronavirus capital projects fund as appropriated by section 9901 of theAmerican rescue plan act of 2021 (P.L.117-2).
B. Within forty-fivedays after the last day of each calendar quarter through June 30, 2027, thesuperintendent of public instruction shall report to the president of thesenate, the speaker of the house of representatives, the chairpersons of thesenate and house of representatives appropriations committees and the directorof the joint legislative budget committee the total planned allocations andactual expenditures of monies allocated to the superintendent of publicinstruction from the elementary and secondary school emergency relief fund asappropriated by section 2001 of the American rescue plan act of 2021 (P.L.117-2).
C. Reports requiredpursuant to this section shall delineate expenditures by agency and program andinclude descriptions of the purpose of the expenditures.
D. The legislature intendsthat the executive branch of state government report on its planned and actualuse of any major additional federal aid to this state through federallegislation enacted by the end of fiscal year 2024-2025. The timingand frequency of these reports should be the same as required by subsections Aand B of this section. The chairperson and vice chairperson of the jointlegislative budget committee may provide recommendations to the executivebranch concerning federal legislation that would qualify under this subsection.
Sec.138. Legislative intent; expenditure reporting
The legislature intends that alldepartments, agencies and budget units receiving appropriations under the termsof this act continue to report actual, estimated and requested expenditures bybudget programs and budget classes in a format that is similar to the budgetprograms and budget classes used for budgetary purposes in prior years. Adifferent format may be used if deemed necessary to implement section 35-113,Arizona Revised Statutes, agreed to by the director of the joint legislativebudget committee and incorporated into the budget preparation instructionsadopted by the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting pursuantto section 35-112, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Sec.139. FTE positions; reporting; definition
Full-timeequivalent (FTE) positions contained in this act are subject toappropriation. The director of the department of administrationshall account for the use of all appropriated and nonappropriated FTEpositions, excluding those in the universities. The director of the departmentof administration shall submit the fiscal year 2024-2025 report on or beforeOctober 1, 2025 to the director of the joint legislative budgetcommittee. The report shall compare the level of appropriated FTEusage in each fiscal year to the appropriated level. For thepurposes of this section, "FTE positions" means the total number ofhours worked, including both regular and overtime hours as well as hours takenas leave, divided by the number of hours in a work year. Thedirector of the department of administration shall notify the director of abudget unit if the budget unit's appropriated FTE usage has exceeded its numberof appropriated FTE positions. Each university shall report to thedirector of the joint legislative budget committee in a manner comparable tothe department of administration reporting.
Sec.140. Privately funded FTE positions; reporting; definition
A. On or before October 31in 2024 and 2025, each budget unit of this state shall submit a report to thestaff of the joint legislative budget committee and the governor's office ofstrategic planning and budgeting if the budget unit had any privately fundedemployees in fiscal year 2023-2024 or 2024-2025. The report shallinclude the title, duties and salary compensation of each privately fundedemployee.
B. For the purposes of thissection, "privately funded" means paid for in whole or in part withmonies from sources other than this state, a political subdivision of thisstate or the federal government.
Sec.141. Filled FTE positions; reporting
On or before October 1, 2024, eachagency, including the judiciary and universities, shall submit a report to thedirector of the joint legislative budget committee on the number of filledappropriated and nonappropriated FTE positions, by fund source, as of September1, 2024.
Sec.142. Transfer of spending authority
The department of administration shallreport monthly to the director of the joint legislative budget committee anytransfers of spending authority made pursuant to section 35-173, subsection C,Arizona Revised Statutes, during the prior month.
Sec.143. Interim reporting requirements
A. State general fundrevenue for fiscal year 2023-2024, including a beginning balance of$2,527,200,000 and other onetime revenues, is forecasted to be $17,775,100,000.
B. State general fundrevenue for fiscal year 2024-2025, including onetime revenues, is forecasted tobe $16,210,000,000.
C. State general fundrevenue for fiscal year 2025-2026, including onetime revenues, is forecasted tobe $16,446,200,000. State general fund expenditures for fiscal year2025-2026 are forecasted to be $16,436,000,000.
D. State general fundrevenue for fiscal year 2026-2027, including onetime revenues, is forecasted tobe $17,130,200,000. State general fund expenditures for fiscal year2026-2027 are forecasted to be $17,096,900,000.
E. On or before September15, 2024, the executive branch shall provide to the joint legislative budgetcommittee a preliminary estimate of the fiscal year 2023-2024 state generalfund ending balance. The estimate shall include projections of totalrevenues, total expenditures and an ending balance. The departmentof administration shall continue to provide the final report for the fiscalyear in its annual financial report pursuant to section 35-131, ArizonaRevised Statutes.
F. Based on the informationprovided by the executive branch, the staff of the joint legislative budgetcommittee shall report to the joint legislative budget committee on or beforeOctober 15, 2024 whether the fiscal year 2024-2025 revenues and ending balanceare expected to change by more than $50,000,000 from the budgetedprojections. The joint legislative budget committee staff may maketechnical adjustments to the revenue and expenditure estimates in this sectionto reflect other bills enacted into law. The executive branch mayalso provide its own estimates to the joint legislative budget committee on orbefore October 15, 2024.
Sec.144. Definition
For the purposes of this act,"*" means this appropriation is a continuing appropriation and isexempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes,relating to lapsing of appropriations.
Sec.145. Definition
For the purposes of this act,"expenditure authority" means that the fund sources are continuouslyappropriated monies that are included in the individual line items ofappropriations.
Sec.146. Definition
For the purposes of this act,"review by the joint legislative budget committee" means a review bya vote of a majority of a quorum of the members of the joint legislative budgetcommittee.
