Bill Text: AZ HB2801 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Engrossed

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Bill Title: Technology study committee; assistive technology

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2025-02-26 - Transmit to Senate [HB2801 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-HB2801-Engrossed.html

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House Engrossed

 

technology study committee; assistive technology

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

HOUSE BILL 2801

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

establishing the technology study committee.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1. Technology study committee; membership; duties; report; delayed repeal

A. The technology study committee is established consisting of the following members who have knowledge in assistive technology and who are appointed by the following:

1. The president of the senate:

(a) Two members who represent the department of economic security's division on developmental disabilities, one of whom also represents the vocational rehabilitation community.

(b) One member of the developmental disabilities advisory council.

(c) One member of the developmental disabilities planning council.

(d) One member who represents the department of education.

(e) One member who represents the Arizona health care cost containment system.

(f) One member who represents northern Arizona university's institute for human development.

2. The speaker of the house of representatives:

(a) One member who represents the university of Arizona's Sonoran center for excellence in disabilities.

(b) One member who represents the Arizona assistive technology access program.

(c) One member who represents disability rights Arizona.

(d) Two members who represent use assistive technology.

(e) Two members who represent parent advocate groups.

(f) One member who represents the delegation for developmental disability advocacy, also known as 3DA.

B. The study committee shall meet two times per year at dates and times to be decided by the study committee.

C. Committee members are not eligible to receive compensation, but members appointed pursuant to subsection A, paragraph 2, subdivisions (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) are eligible for reimbursement of expenses under title 38, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes.

D. The study committee shall:

1. Study and address specific issues related to assistive technology, including technology first initiatives.

2. Analyze emerging assistive technologies.

3. Identify potential changes in assistive technologies.

4. Analyze how to better serve individuals with assistive technology needs.

5. On or before October 1, 2026, submit a report regarding the committee's activities and recommendations to the governor, the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives and provide a copy of this report to the secretary of state.

F. This section is repealed from and after October 1, 2026.