Assigned to NREW AS PASSED BY COW
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 projects to increase water supply and availability to specified
entities.
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) a municipal water provider;
b) an irrigation district for agricultural use within the county; or
c) a county flood control district for aquifer recharge 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. FACT SHEET – Amended
H.B. 2037
Page 2
2. Stipulates that a project must increase water supply and availability to any municipal water
provider or specified irrigation districts.
Amendments Adopted by Committee of the Whole
1. Adds aquifer recharge in a county flood control district to acceptable intergovernmental county
water supply project purposes.
2. Makes technical changes.
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
April 5, 2022
RC/MAH/slp