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AZ SB1066

Bill

Status

Vetoed

4/18/2025

Primary Sponsor

Mark Finchem

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

AI Summary

Senate Bill 1066 Summary

  • Prohibits conveyance of land in Arizona to foreign entities identified by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence as posing a risk to U.S. national security in each of the three most recent annual threat assessments.

  • Defines "foreign entity that is hostile to the United States" as a country meeting the intelligence community threat assessment criteria under 50 U.S. Code section 3043(b).

  • Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 37-231 to clarify that persons over eighteen years of age may purchase state lands except as provided in section 37-240.

  • Amends section 37-240 to prohibit sales of state lands to foreign entities hostile to the United States, with the same definition applied to both private and state land transactions.

  • Makes technical corrections to existing statutes regarding mineral reservations, land sale procedures, and land use restrictions.

Legislative Description

Foreign entities; land; legislative approval

Prohibition

Last Action

Governor Vetoed

4/18/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules2/26/2025
Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs2/24/2025
Rules1/15/2025
Federalism1/15/2025

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