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AZ SB1444

Bill

Status

Engrossed

3/13/2025

Primary Sponsor

Janae Shamp

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)

AI Summary

  • Amends Arizona Revised Statutes sections 48-901, 48-902, and 48-909 to authorize improvement districts to provide domestic water delivery systems in subsequent active management areas through water hauling.

  • Allows improvement districts to construct and operate domestic water delivery systems specifically for water hauling purposes in subsequent active management areas as an authorized improvement.

  • Limits the eminent domain power of improvement districts formed for water hauling in subsequent active management areas to acquiring sites for a single well and standpipe for water production and delivery.

  • Clarifies that improvement districts may purchase existing domestic water delivery systems or construct new systems inside or outside district boundaries without restriction.

  • Updates statutory definitions and language in county improvement district provisions, including removing outdated references to "aquifer protection permits" and "helium exploration."

Legislative Description

Domestic water improvement districts; hauling

Legislative Intent

Last Action

Transmit to Senate

5/1/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules3/18/2025
Appropriations3/18/2025
Natural Resources, Energy & Water3/18/2025
Land, Agriculture and Rural Affairs3/13/2025
Rules2/4/2025
Natural Resources2/4/2025

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