Bill Text: AZ SB1583 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Supplemental appropriation; Prescott rodeo grounds
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-11 - Senate read second time [SB1583 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-SB1583-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: supplemental appropriation; Prescott rodeo grounds |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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SB 1583 |
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Introduced by Senator Finchem
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An Act
amending Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 118 and Laws 2024, chapter 209, section 119; relating to capital projects.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 118 is amended to read:
Sec. 118. Appropriations; state treasurer; capital projects; fiscal year 2023-2024
The following amounts are appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the state treasurer for the following:
1. $10,000,000 to distribute to a nonprofit organization that is designated as an international dark sky discovery center and that is focused on dark sky preservation in this state.
2. $15,300,000 to distribute to a nonprofit volunteer organization that operates a rodeo at the Yavapai county fairgrounds the city of Prescott to renovate and repair the rodeo grounds owned by the city.
3. $5,600,000 to distribute to a nonprofit organization that operates an astronomy center and observatory that is open to the public in northern Arizona.
Sec. 2. Laws 2024, chapter 209, section 119 is amended to read:
Sec. 119. Appropriation; rodeo; exemption from lapsing; reversion; fiscal year 2023-2024
A. The amount appropriated from the state general fund to distribute to a nonprofit volunteer organization that operates a rodeo at the Yavapai county fairgrounds in fiscal year 2023-2024 the city of Prescott pursuant to Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 118, paragraph 2, as amended by this act, is exempt from the provisions of section 35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.
B. If a court of competent jurisdiction rules that the monies appropriated pursuant to Laws 2023, chapter 133, section 118, paragraph 2, as amended by this act, may not be distributed to a nonprofit volunteer organization that operates a rodeo at the Yavapai county fairgrounds and the judgment of that court becomes final, then the monies shall revert to the state general fund within sixty days of the entry of the final judgment.
