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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR H.B. 2086
water improvements program; water hauling
Purpose
Modifies the requirements of a water improvement program by allowing persons to make
gifts, grants or donations for the purpose of providing financial assistance to qualified owners of
residential real property for water hauling for water delivery and adds acquiring or installing
storage tanks for receiving and storing water delivered through water hauling to the list of projects
that a recipient's grant must be used toward.
Background
A county board of supervisors (county BOS) may establish a program to allow persons to
make gifts, grants or donations for the purpose of providing financial assistance to qualified owners
of residential real property for making improvements to an existing drinking water well or
providing for a water delivery system for the residence. The county BOS must establish an entity
to operate the program, to establish criteria for grants and to award grants. The entity may be a
county agency, department or division or may be a private, nonprofit corporation as determined
by the county BOS. The program must: 1) limit grant recipients to persons who are low-income or
fixed income owners of residential property; 2) develop application criteria and criteria for
awarding grants; and 3) restrict a grant recipient's use of grant monies to deepening an existing
drinking water well for the recipient's residence or to plumbing or replumbing the recipient's
residence for a water delivery system (A.R.S. ยง 11-254.09).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Allows, for a water improvements program, persons to make gifts, grants or donations for the
purpose of providing financial assistance to qualified owners of residential real property for
providing water hauling for water delivery.
2. Adds acquiring or installing storage tanks for receiving and storing water delivered through
water hauling to the list of projects that a recipient's grant must be used toward.
3. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
House Action
NREW 1/28/25 DP 6-4-0-0
3
rd
Read 2/17/25 33-26-1
Prepared by Senate Research
February 28, 2025
SB/SN/slp