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AZ HB2413

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2025

Primary Sponsor

Alexander Kolodin

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

AI Summary

  • Requires municipal water providers with exclusive service areas to compensate eligible customers for their proportional share of effluent's full market value when the provider does not recharge the effluent in the customer's active management area.

  • Defines eligible customers as those in safe yield active management areas who receive potable water and wastewater service from the same municipal provider.

  • Mandates municipal providers calculate and award eligible customers a billing credit based on their proportional share of effluent market value not recharged locally, using specified determination procedures.

  • Establishes that effluent generated from an eligible customer's wastewater and not recharged in their active management area is the customer's property.

  • Allows eligible customers to challenge proportional share calculations through written complaint to the director or private lawsuit in superior court, with penalties including damages, attorney fees, and interest for underpayment.

Legislative Description

Effluent; proportional share; recharge; compensation

Compensation

Last Action

House NREW Committee action: Discussed and Held, voting: (0-0-0-0-0-0)

2/14/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules1/23/2025
Natural Resources, Energy & Water1/23/2025

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