SB 1743
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Fifty-sixth Legislature
Second Regular Session
Senate: APPROP DP 6-5-0-0
SB 1743: human services; 2024-2025
Sponsor: Senator Kavanagh (with permission of committee on Rules), LD 3
Substituted for HB2905
Overview
Contains session law provisions relating to human services needed to implement the FY 2025
budget.
History
Extended Foster Care Comprehensive Service Model
Laws 2023, Chapter 141 required the Arizona Department of Child Safety (DCS) to prepare
a scope of work for an Extended Foster Care Comprehensive Service Model that includes
supportive services and required case management provided by contracted community
providers for young adults participating in the extended foster care program. The legislation
also created the Extended Foster Care Comprehensive Model Fund to be administered by
DCS and consisting of legislative appropriations.
Homeless Shelter and Services Fund
The Arizona Department of Housing (ADOH) was created in 2002 to establish policies,
procedures and programs authorized to address the affordable housing issues confronting
Arizona, including housing issues of low-income and moderate-income families, housing
affordability, special needs populations and decaying housing stock. ADOH provides qualified
housing participants and political subdivisions state financial, advisory, consultative,
planning, training and educational assistance for the development of safe, decent and
affordable housing. The agency is also responsible for maintaining and enforcing standards
of quality and safety for manufactured homes, mobile homes and factory-built building
(A.R.S. § 41-3953).
Laws 2023, Chapter 141 established the Homeless Shelter and Services Fund to be
administered by ADOH, consisting of legislative appropriations, monies directed to be
deposited in the fund and investment earnings on monies in the fund. The purpose of the
fund is to award grants to counties, cities, towns, Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations
for programs for programs that provide shelter and services to unsheltered persons who are
experiencing homelessness. The fund repeals on October 1, 2027.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
The TANF Block Grant is used to: 1) provide assistance to needy families so that children
may be cared for in their own homes or in homes of relatives; 2) end the dependence of needy
parents on government benefits by promoting job preparation, work and marriage; 3) prevent
and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and establish annual numerical goals
for preventing and reducing the incidence of these pregnancies; and 4) encourage the
formation and maintenance of two-parent families (42 U.S.C. § 601). The Arizona
Department of Economic Security (DES) utilizes TANF funding to provide temporary SB 1743
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financial assistance to dependent children in their own homes or in the homes of responsible
caretaker individuals.
According to the FY 2024 Appropriations Report, produced by the Arizona Joint Legislative
Budget Committee (JLBC), the FY 2024 budget continued the provision that allows DES to
drug test TANF recipients if there is a reasonable suspicion that they are using illegal drugs
(Laws 2023, Chapter 141).
Provisions
Extended Foster Care Comprehensive Service Model Fund
1. Repeals the Extended Foster Care Comprehensive Service Model Fund on July 1, 2025,
and directs any unexpended and unencumbered monies remaining in the fund to be
deposited into the state General Fund (state GF). (Sec. 1)
Homeless Shelter and Services Fund
2. Changes the repeal date for the Homeless Shelter and Services Fund from October 1,
2027, to July 1, 2025, and requires any remaining unexpended and unencumbered monies
to be deposited into the state GF. (Sec. 2)
3. Removes the requirement that ADOH submit a report to the Governor and Legislature
that describes all grants awarded in each fiscal year and instead requires ADOH to
submit the report by December 1, 2024. (Sec. 2)
TANF
4. Requires DES to screen and test each adult recipient who is eligible for TANF cash
benefits and who DES has reasonable cause to believe engages in the illegal use of
controlled substances. (Sec. 3)
5. Deems a TANF recipient who tests positive for the use of a controlled substance that was
not prescribed for the recipient by a licensed health care provider ineligible for TANF
benefits for one year. (Sec. 3)
Miscellaneous
6. Makes technical changes. (Sec. 1)
☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note