Arizona 2022 2022 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2037 Comm Sub / Analysis

Filed 03/22/2022

                    Assigned to NREW 	AS PASSED BY COMMITTEE 
 
 
 
 
ARIZONA STATE SENATE 
Fifty-Fifth Legislature, Second Regular Session 
 
AMENDED 
FACT SHEET FOR H.B. 2037 
 
expenditures; authority; water; wastewater 
(NOW: counties; powers; water supply projects) 
 
Purpose 
Allows a county board of supervisors (county BOS) to enter into intergovernmental 
agreements for federal funds for increased water supply and availability projects. 
Background 
A county, through its county BOS, agents or officers, has the power to: 1) sue and be sued; 
2) purchase and hold lands within its limits; 3) make contracts and purchase and hold personal 
property; 4) make orders for the disposition or use of its property; 5) levy and collect taxes; and  
6) determine the budgets of all elected and appointed county officers. A county BOS may enter 
into intergovernmental agreements for specified purposes, including: 1) acquiring rights-of-way 
and the construction, reconstruction or maintenance of county highways; 2) providing technical 
assistance and related services to a fire district; and 3) securing a city or town to provide emergency 
fire and medical services to a county island  (A.R.S. §§ 11-201 and 11-251). 
A municipal water provider is a city, town, domestic water improvement district, private 
water company or irrigation district that supplies water for nonirrigation use (A.R.S. § 48-5901). 
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this 
legislation. 
Provisions 
1. Allows a county BOS to enter into agreements with a federal, state or local government to 
accept, manage and distribute federal funds for projects to increase water supply and 
availability to: 
a) any municipal water provider; or 
b) an irrigation district for agricultural use within the county. 
2. Becomes effective on the general effective date. 
Amendments Adopted by Committee 
1. Removes the specification that permissible intergovernmental agreements include those with 
special taxing districts. 
2. Stipulates that a project must increase water supply and availability to any municipal water 
provider or specified irrigation districts.  FACT SHEET – Amended  
H.B. 2037 
Page 2 
 
 
House Action 	Senate Action 
NREW 2/15/22 DPA/SE 11-0-1-0  NREW 3/16/22 DPA 8-0-1 
3
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 Read 2/24/22  59-0-1 
Prepared by Senate Research 
March 22, 2022 
RC/MAH/slp