Bill Text: AZ HB2270 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Groundwater model; stormwater recharge; AMAs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-22 - House read second time [HB2270 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-HB2270-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: groundwater model; stormwater recharge; AMAs

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

HB 2270

 

Introduced by

Representative Griffin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending title 45, chapter 2, article 9, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 45-581; RELATING to groundwater MANAGEMENT.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1. Title 45, chapter 2, article 9, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 45-581, to read:

START_STATUTE45-581. Groundwater model; projected use; stormwater recharge; rules

A. The director shall adopt rules to update the department's groundwater modeling for active management areas. The updated rules shall account for any natural, incidental or artificial stormwater recharge to the groundwater basin created through the development of new or existing infrastructure.

B. The director shall assume that the stormwater RECHARGE generated by the development of new or existing infrastructure will OFFSET a portion of future groundwater use.

C. The director shall annually update the groundwater model for active management areas to reflect new natural, incidental or artificial stormwater recharge. END_STATUTE