motorcycle registration requirements; safety fund, the official text

Senate Engrossed
House Bill

motorcycle
registration requirements; safety fund

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HOUSE BILL 2114

AN
ACT

amending section 28-2010, Arizona Revised
Statutes; Amending title 28, chapter 7, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by
adding section 28-2014; relating to motorcycles.

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

Section 1. Section 28-2010, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE28-2010. Motorcycle safety fund; administration

A. The motorcycle safety fund is established
consisting of monies deposited pursuant to subsection B of this section and
monies from gifts, grants and other donations. The director of the
governor's office of highway safety shall administer the fund. On
notice from the director of the governor's office of highway safety, the state
treasurer shall invest and divest monies in the fund as provided in section 35-313,
and monies earned from investment shall be credited to the fund. Up
to ten percent of the monies in the fund may be used for administrative costs.
Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation and are exempt from
the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.

B. Notwithstanding section 28-2004, the
director of the department of transportation shall deposit, pursuant to
sections 35-146 and 35-147, $1 of each motorcycle registration fee
collected pursuant to section 28-2003 in the motorcycle safety fund.

C. Subject to legislative appropriation, the
director of the governor's office of highway safety shall use monies deposited
in the motorcycle safety fund pursuant to this section for the
following purposes:

1. up to seventy-five percent
to implement and support voluntary motorcycle education, awareness, training
and other programs and may use the monies to cover the cost of materials
for motorcycle safety, education and awareness programs.

2. Up to twenty-five percent
for scholarships for motorcycle driver education programs for persons who are
from rural or low-income areas in this state to increase access to motorcycle
training programs.

D. Any fee, assessment or other levy that is
authorized by law or administrative rule and that is collected and deposited in
the motorcycle safety fund shall be held in trust. The monies in the
fund may be used only for the purposes prescribed by statute and may not be
appropriated or transferred by the legislature to fund the general operations
of this state or to otherwise meet the obligations of the general fund of this
state. This subsection does not apply to any taxes or other levies
that are imposed pursuant to title 42 or 43.END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Title 28, chapter 7, article 1, Arizona
Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 28-2014, to read:

START_STATUTE28-2014. Motorcycle registration; requirements

The department may renew a REGISTRATION for a
motorcycle only if at least one of the registered owners of the motorcycle is licensed to legally operate a motorcycle in this state, Except the
department may issue a thirty-day temporary registration if the person shows
valid proof of enrollment in a motorcycle training program approved by the
department.  If the registered
owner of a motorcycle is a trust, a trustee named in the trust must be legally
licensed to OPERATE a motorcycle to renew a registration pursuant to this
section. This section does not apply to a motorcycle that is owned
by a business.END_STATUTE

Sec. 3. Effective date

This act is effective from and after
December 31, 2026.