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AZ SB1440
Bill
Status
2/2/2010
Primary Sponsor
Amanda Aguirre
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AI Summary
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Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 42-5031.01 to modify distribution of transaction privilege tax revenues to qualifying Indian tribes for community college support.
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Requires state treasurer to transmit monthly tax revenues from sources on Indian reservations to tribes with community colleges, conditioned on a compact signed by the governor for a minimum 10-year term.
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Establishes revenue sharing caps: if annual revenues from a reservation exceed $10 million, tribes receive one-tenth of revenues but not less than $1.75 million; if revenues do not exceed $10 million, tribes receive one-tenth of those revenues.
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Restricts use of distributed monies to maintenance, renewal, and capital expenses for community colleges owned, operated, or chartered by the tribes on their own reservations.
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Requires audits by the auditor general and permits reimbursement to the department of revenue for implementation costs not exceeding $150,000 from the distributed revenues.
Legislative Description
Revenue sharing; tribal community colleges
Last Action
Referred to Senate APPROP Committee
2/4/2010