Bill Text: AZ HB2067 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: School facilities oversight board; continuation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2025-02-25 - Senate read second time [HB2067 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-HB2067-Introduced.html

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PREFILED    JAN 08 2025

REFERENCE TITLE: school facilities oversight board; continuation

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

HB 2067

 

Introduced by

Representative Gress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

repealing section 41-3025.07, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending title 41, chapter 27, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 41-3027.09; relating to the school facilities oversight board.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Repeal

Section 41-3025.07, Arizona Revised Statutes, is repealed.

Sec. 2. Title 41, chapter 27, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-3027.09, to read:

START_STATUTE41-3027.09. School facilities oversight board; termination July 1, 2027

A. The school facilities oversight board terminates on July 1, 2027.

B. Title 41, chapter 56, articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and this section are repealed on January 1, 2028 only if either:

1. The board has no outstanding state school facilities revenue bonds issued pursuant to title 41, chapter 56, article 6, no outstanding state school improvement revenue bonds issued pursuant to title 41, chapter 56, article 7 and no outstanding lease-to-own transactions pursuant to sections 41-5703, 41-5704 and 41-5705.

2. The legislature has otherwise provided for paying or retiring any outstanding state school facilities revenue bonds, any outstanding state school improvement revenue bonds and any outstanding lease-to-own transactions.

C. If neither of the conditions in subsection B of this section has occurred on or before January 1, 2028, title 41, chapter 56, articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 and this section are repealed thirty days after the retirement of all revenue bonds issued pursuant to title 41, chapter 56, articles 6 and 7 and all outstanding lease-to-own transactions issued pursuant to sections 41-5703, 41-5704 and 41-5705. END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Intent

The legislature intends that the school facilities oversight board provide only one estimate of projected enrollment, and the associated costs, to the legislature for the purposes of section 41-5741, Arizona Revised Statutes.

Sec. 4. Purpose

Pursuant to section 41–2955, subsection B, Arizona Revised Statutes, the legislature continues the school facilities oversight board to evaluate the capital needs of school districts and to distribute monies to school districts to cure existing deficiencies and to provide for building renewal and the construction of new facilities.

Sec. 5. Retroactivity

Sections 1 and 2 of this act are effective retroactively to July 1, 2025.