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water improvements program; water hauling, the official text

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PREFILED    DEC 29 2025

REFERENCE TITLE: water improvements program; water hauling

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2103

Introduced by

Representative
Griffin

AN
ACT

amending
section 11-254.09, Arizona revised statutes; relating to the water improvements
program.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1. Section 11-254.09, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE11-254.09. Water improvements program; grants; requirements; annual report

A. The board of supervisors may establish a program
to allow persons to make gifts, grants or donations for the purpose of
providing financial assistance to qualified owners of residential real property
for making improvements to an existing drinking water well or providing for water hauling for water delivery or a water delivery system for
the residence.

B. The board shall designate an entity to operate
the program, to establish criteria for grants and to award grants as prescribed
by this section.  The entity may be a county agency, department or division or
may be a private, nonprofit corporation as determined by the board of
supervisors.

C. The program shall do all of the following:

1. Limit grant recipients to persons who are
low-income or fixed-income owners of residential property.

2. Develop application criteria and criteria for
awarding grants.

3. Restrict a grant recipient's use of grant monies
to deepening an existing drinking water well for the recipient's residence, to acquiring or installing one or more storage tanks for receiving
and storing water delivered through water hauling or to plumbing or
replumbing the recipient's residence for a water delivery system.

D. The board of supervisors may not use general
county monies for grants under the program.

E. The entity that operates the program shall make
and submit to the county board of supervisors, the president of the senate and
the speaker of the house of representatives on or before July 1 of each year a
report containing a description of program operations of the preceding year,
including the amount of gifts, grants or donations received and the grants
awarded.
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