Bill Text: AZ SB1037 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Health boards; fund balances; fees
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-15 - Senate read second time [SB1037 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-SB1037-Introduced.html
PREFILED DEC 30 2024
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REFERENCE TITLE: health boards; fund balances; fees |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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SB 1037 |
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Introduced by Senator Kavanagh
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AN ACT
Amending title 32, chapter 32, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 32-3209.01; relating to health professionals.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 32, chapter 32, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 32-3209.01, to read:
32-3209.01. Board fees; fund balances; review; reduction; exception
A. Each health profession regulatory board shall review in a public meeting at least once each fiscal year and before establishing the amount of any fee for the subsequent fiscal year the amount of each fee authorized in the health profession regulatory board's statutes. The health profession regulatory board must ascertain and disclose in the public meeting the health profession regulatory board's fund balance. The fund balance may not be more than two years of the health profession regulatory board's annual operating expenses plus five percent.
B. If the fund balance is more than the amount allowed under subsection A of this section, the health profession regulatory board shall reduce or eliminate licensing or application fees, or both, being charged to the health professionals under the health profession regulatory board's jurisdiction until the fund balance is below the allowable amount.
C. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, a health profession regulatory board may maintain additional monies in the fund in the amount of the health profession regulatory board's last operational funding request if the legislature did not approve the health profession regulatory board's operational funding request in that fiscal year's state budget.
