Assigned to APPROP FOR COMMITTEE
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Sixth Legislature, First Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR S.B. 1531
local government; 2023-2024.
Purpose
Makes session law changes relating to local government necessary to implement the FY
2024 state budget.
Background
The Arizona Constitution prohibits substantive law from being included in the general
appropriations, capital outlay appropriations and supplemental appropriations bills. However, it is
often necessary to make statutory and session law changes to effectuate the budget. Thus, separate
bills called budget reconciliation bills (BRBs) are introduced to enact these provisions. Because
BRBs contain substantive law changes, the Arizona Constitution provides that they become
effective on the general effective date, unless an emergency clause is enacted.
S.B. 1531 contains the budget reconciliation provisions for changes relating to local
government.
Provisions
1. Continues to allow a county with a population of fewer than 250,000 persons to meet any fiscal
obligation for FY 2024 from any source of county revenue designated by the county, including
monies of any countywide special taxing jurisdiction where the board of supervisors serves as
the board of directors.
2. Continues to cap, at $1,250,000, the amount of money a county may use for purposes outside
the county's revenue source.
3. Continues to require a county with a population of fewer than 250,000 persons by October 1,
2023, to report to the Director of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee:
a) whether the county used a revenue source for purposes other than the revenue sources'
intended purposes to meet a county fiscal obligation; and
b) the specific source and amount of revenues that the county intends to use in FY 2024.
4. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Prepared by Senate Research
January 30, 2023
AN/SB/slp