REFERENCE TITLE: appropriation; subsequent AMA; assistance grants State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025 HB 2549 Introduced by Representatives Diaz: Griffin AN ACT appropriating monies to the water infrastructure finance authority of arizona. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
REFERENCE TITLE: appropriation; subsequent AMA; assistance grants
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
HB 2549
Introduced by Representatives Diaz: Griffin
REFERENCE TITLE: appropriation; subsequent AMA; assistance grants
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
First Regular Session
2025
HB 2549
Introduced by
Representatives Diaz: Griffin
AN ACT
appropriating monies to the water infrastructure finance authority of arizona.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Appropriation; water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona; subsequent active management areas; financial assistance grants; definition A. The sum of $________ is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2025-2026 to the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona to award financial assistance grants to provide financial assistance to persons that own land in a groundwater basin that has been designated as a subsequent active management area: 1. To contract for services of outside advisors, attorneys, consultants and aides, as reasonably necessary or desirable, to enable the persons to challenge the designation of the subsequent active management area. 2. If the land was legally irrigated in whole or in part with groundwater at any time during the five years preceding the designation as a subsequent active management area, to contract for services of outside advisors, attorneys, consultants and aides, as reasonably necessary or desirable, to enable the persons to challenge the management goal or management plan the director of water resources adopts for the subsequent active management area pursuant to section 45-569, Arizona Revised Statutes, or to challenge the maximum amount of groundwater the director computes that the persons may use in the subsequent active management area pursuant to section 45-465, Arizona Revised Statutes. B. For the purposes of this section, "subsequent active management area" has the same meaning prescribed in section 45-402, Arizona Revised Statutes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Appropriation; water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona; subsequent active management areas; financial assistance grants; definition
A. The sum of $________ is appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2025-2026 to the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona to award financial assistance grants to provide financial assistance to persons that own land in a groundwater basin that has been designated as a subsequent active management area:
1. To contract for services of outside advisors, attorneys, consultants and aides, as reasonably necessary or desirable, to enable the persons to challenge the designation of the subsequent active management area.
2. If the land was legally irrigated in whole or in part with groundwater at any time during the five years preceding the designation as a subsequent active management area, to contract for services of outside advisors, attorneys, consultants and aides, as reasonably necessary or desirable, to enable the persons to challenge the management goal or management plan the director of water resources adopts for the subsequent active management area pursuant to section 45-569, Arizona Revised Statutes, or to challenge the maximum amount of groundwater the director computes that the persons may use in the subsequent active management area pursuant to section 45-465, Arizona Revised Statutes.
B. For the purposes of this section, "subsequent active management area" has the same meaning prescribed in section 45-402, Arizona Revised Statutes.