Loading chat...

AZ SB1467

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/31/2017

Primary Sponsor

Jamescita Peshlakai

Click for details

Origin

Senate

Fifty-third Legislature - First Regular Session (2017)

AI Summary

  • State treasurer must distribute a percentage (amount unspecified in blank) of monthly transaction privilege tax revenues collected on Indian reservations to each qualifying Indian tribe for use on their reservation.

  • Qualifying Indian tribes must enter into a compact with the state governor before receiving funds, requiring establishment of a segregated special fund account and annual submission of economic development and infrastructure plans.

  • Distributed monies must be used primarily for economic development and infrastructure development on the tribe's reservation, including roads, water/sewer facilities, communications, flood control, public safety, and job creation projects.

  • The auditor general must audit the use of distributed monies and submit copies to the joint legislative budget committee; compact may require reimbursement to the Department of Revenue for implementation costs not exceeding $150,000.

  • "Qualifying Indian tribe" means any federally-recognized Indian nation, tribe, band, or community holding trust lands in Arizona; unused monies are retained by tribes for future economic development activities.

Legislative Description

TPT; Indian tribes; economic development

Indian Tribes

Last Action

Senate read second time

2/1/2017

Full Bill Text

No bill text available