HB2001 Summary

• Appropriates $75,000,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2020-2021 to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management for wildfire emergency response.

• Authorized uses include fire suppression, equipment pre-positioning, postfire mitigation, emergency sheltering support, infrastructure repair assistance to landowners, and reimbursement of state/local government emergency cost-shares.

• Limits spending to $10,000,000 maximum for state capital purposes and $10,000,000 maximum for financial assistance to private landowners, with private assistance available only after other payment sources exhausted.

• Appropriates an additional $24,541,800 and 122 full-time equivalent positions for wildfire mitigation, including personnel, vehicle purchases and operating costs, and hazardous vegetation removal.

• Requires monthly expenditure reports to legislative leadership and exempts both appropriations from lapsing provisions through at least June 30, 2022.