Assigned to PS & APPROP FOR COMMITTEE
ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, First Regular Session
FACT SHEET FOR H.B. 2455
appropriations; law enforcement; records management.
Purpose
Appropriates a total of $4,585,575 from the state General Fund (state GF) in FY 2026 to
the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA) to distribute to 39 law enforcement entities to
expand participation in the Law Enforcement Data Sharing Pilot Program (Pilot Program).
Background
In FY 2025, the Legislature made a one-time appropriation of $600,000 from the Peace
Officer Training Equipment Fund to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office for the Pilot Program to
connect to the records management and computer-aided dispatch systems of four agencies using
software that must: 1) integrate data on a real-time basis; 2) provide capabilities to deduplicate
redundant records, prescribed granular access controls and granular audit logging; 3) provide
advanced configurable search, analytics and visualization capabilities; 4) allow for secure
permission-controlled data integration and sharing; 5) be accessible on a wide variety of agency
devices; 6) demonstrate a track record of meeting or exceeding similar mission needs and the
ability to reach full operational capability within 90 days; 7) allow for integration with existing
agency identity and access management solutions; 8) be hosted in a secure criminal justice
information services compliant and scalable cloud environment; 9) meet or exceed all federal
criminal justice information services security standards; and 10) provide a fully open, interoperable
architecture and business terms that ensure Arizona law enforcement agencies retain full and total
rights to agency data at all times (Laws 2024, Ch. 209, Section 127).
H.B. 2455 appropriates a total of $4,585,575 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to
expand Pilot Program participation.
Provisions
1. Appropriates $574,000 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to distribute to the Department
of Public Safety to expand Pilot Program participation.
2. Appropriates a total of $182,510 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to distribute to the
following university police departments (PDs) to expand Pilot Program participation:
a) $64,855 for Arizona State University and University of Arizona PDs; and
b) $52,800 for Northern Arizona University PD.
3. Appropriates a total of $1,201,510 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to distribute to the
following eight sheriff's offices to expand Pilot Program participation:
a) $400,000 for Pinal County Sheriff's Office;
b) $220,000 for Maricopa County Sheriff's Office;
c) $171,760 for Pima County Sheriff's Office; FACT SHEET
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d) $100,000 for Gila County and Navajo County Sheriff's Offices;
e) $84,000 for Yavapai County Sheriff's Office;
f) $78,000 for Cochise County Sheriff's Office; and
g) $47,750 for Coconino County Sheriff's Office.
4. Appropriates a total of $2,627,555 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to distribute to the
following 27 PDs to expand Pilot Program participation:
a) $343,000 for Phoenix PD;
b) $237,620 for Tucson PD;
c) $215,820 for Mesa PD;
d) $189,660 for Tempe PD;
e) $131,345 for Glendale PD;
f) $125,895 for Scottsdale PD;
g) $111,725 for Chandler PD;
h) $101,370 for Gilbert PD;
i) $83,930 for Peoria PD;
j) $82,500 for Flagstaff PD;
k) $73,575 for Surprise PD;
l) $72,485 for Avondale PD;
m) $69,215 for Goodyear PD;
n) $67,035 for Oro Valley PD;
o) $67,000 for Prescott PD;
p) $65,945 for Buckeye PD;
q) $65,000 for Marana PD;
r) $55,045 for El Mirage and Nogales PDs;
s) $55,000 for Douglas PD;
t) $54,000 for Sahuarita, Cottonwood and Prescott Valley PDs;
u) $51,775 for Paradise Valley PD;
v) $50,685 for Tolleson and South Tucson PDs; and
w) $44,200 for Sierra Vista PD.
5. Exempts the appropriations from lapsing.
6. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
House Action
PSLE 2/10/25 DPA 9-2-4-0
APPROP 2/19/25 DPA 9-8-1-0
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Read 3/5/25 33-25-2
Prepared by Senate Research
March 17, 2025
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