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Arizona House Bill HCR2016 Comm Sub / Analysis

Filed 01/17/2025

                      	HCR 2016 
Initials CW 	Page 1 Natural Resources, Energy & Water 
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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Fifty-seventh Legislature 
First Regular Session 
 
 
HCR 2016: reinstatement; WIFA monies 
Sponsor: Representative Griffin, LD 19 
Committee on Natural Resources, Energy & Water 
Overview 
States the Legislature's commitment to reinstating the full appropriation for the Water 
Infrastructure Finance Authority (WIFA).  
History 
Laws 2022, Chapter 366 made a total 3-year commitment of $1,000,000,000 to the Long Term 
Water Augmentation Fund (LTWAF) through the means of: 
a) a transfer of $334,000,000 in FY 2023 from a diversion of the State's transaction 
privilege tax, and; 
b) appropriations of $333,000,000 from the General Fund in FY 2024 and FY 2025. 
The FY 2024 general appropriations act reduced the FY 2024 appropriation to $189,200,000.  
The FY 2025 general appropriations act contained no funding from the General Fund for the 
Fund deposit line item.  
Provisions 
1. States the Legislature's commitment to reinstating the full appropriation for  WIFA.