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Votes at a glance

- Senate Bill 12‑57 — Court‑ordered stabilization for persons impaired by intoxication/substance‑induced symptoms. Committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote: 8 ayes, 2 nays. (See separate article for the bill’s debate and testimony.)

- Senate Bill 15‑71 — Appropriates $600,000 (FY2026) to the Office of Economic Opportunity for a workforce development study of communities in Coconino County impacted by closure of the Navajo Generating Station; establishes a five‑person study committee and a 12/31/2025 reporting date. Committee action: due‑pass recommendation (as amended). Vote: 9 ayes, 1 nay.

- Senate Bill 15‑75 — Appropriates $3,000,000 (FY2026) to the Department of Health Services to distribute to Sage Memorial Hospital for construction and operation of an outpatient dialysis unit on the Navajo Nation. Committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote: 10 ayes, 0 nays.

- Senate Bill 12‑92 — Requires fingerprint clearance cards for noncertificated school personnel and personnel who are not paid employees who provide services directly to pupils; appropriates $1,200,000 (FY2026) to State Board of Education for investigation capacity. Committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote: 10 ayes, 0 nays.

- Senate Bill 16‑71 — Adds traditional healing services to the list of services covered by AHCCCS and Arizona Long Term Care System; includes an appropriation ($1,300,000 GF and additional AHCCCS authority) for implementation. Committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote: 10 ayes, 0 nays.

- Senate Bill 14‑90 — Raises kinship foster monthly stipend beginning 01/01/2026 (structure in bill: $400 per month rising to $600 by 01/01/2028); committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote recorded in transcript as passed (committee reported dupe pass recommendation).

- Senate Bill 10‑84 — Continues and modifies adult education and workforce training programs; appropriates $18,000,000 GF (FY2026) allocated across three programs; committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote: recorded as passed in committee.

- Senate Bill 10‑85 — Expands aviation‑related TPT deductions and use tax exemptions to include property used for maintaining/overhauling general aviation aircraft (broader MRO exemption). Committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote: 6 ayes, 4 nays (committee record).

- Senate Bill 12‑61 (as amended) — Provides additional livestock inspector and veterinary positions for Department of Agriculture to respond to animal‑health incidents (including avian influenza); committee action: due‑pass recommendation (amendment adopted). Vote: recorded as passed in committee.

- Senate Bill 13‑56 — Makes the pilot group‑home monitoring program permanent to oversee group homes that serve people with intellectual and developmental disabilities; committee action: due‑pass recommendation (8 ayes, 2 nays; members indicated ongoing stakeholder negotiations were needed).

- Senate Bill 14‑60 — Creates a grant appropriation for clinical research into MDMA‑assisted therapy for PTSD (sponsor discussed clinical trials and the need for hospital‑based protocols). Committee action: due‑pass recommendation (several members expressed concern about federal approval status; recorded votes included yes and no votes on record).

- Senate Bill 15‑15 — Reverts certain unspent rural public safety interoperability monies back to a state fund for reallocation to peace officer training equipment; committee action: due‑pass recommendation. Vote: 7 ayes, 3 nays.

- Senate Bill 13‑56 — Extends and modifies the developmental‑disabilities group‑home monitoring program (pilot to permanent); committee action: due‑pass recommendation (8 ayes, 2 nays).

- Multiple other bills were heard and advanced on Feb. 24 with committee votes (including bills addressing school safety grants, higher education workforce initiatives, and healthcare provider reimbursement items). Several of those items either contained funding language (appropriations) or directed departments to set up programs and reporting requirements.

What the committee vote means

A due‑pass recommendation from the Senate Appropriations Committee indicates the committee recommends the full Senate consider the bill. Votes recorded in the transcript reflect committee membership decisions on whether the measure should advance; final enactment would require floor passage, possible conference/appropriations changes and governor’s approval.

Sources and notes

This roundup is based on summaries and roll‑call statements recorded in the Feb. 24, 2025 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing transcript and on staff bill explanations read into the record at the hearing. For the bills listed above, committee‑recorded tallies and brief sponsor/testimony excerpts are captured from the transcript. Where committee members requested more work with stakeholders, the roundup notes that ongoing negotiations were anticipated. For full text, fiscal notes, and committee amendment language consult the official bill files and the Arizona Legislature website.

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Supporters, including a coalition of Tucson stakeholders and clinicians who operate crisis response centers, told the committee the measure addresses repeat safety and public‑order incidents tied to methamphetamine and other substances by allowing clinicians time to see whether persons who appear impaired will clear and accept voluntary treatment. Dr. Margie Balfour, a psychiatrist with Connections Health Solutions, said the clinical literature and experience indicate that impairment from methamphetamine can take up to five days to clear and that two days is often insufficient to stabilize a patient and engage them in treatment.

Opponents in public testimony, including Jeanne Woodbury on behalf of the ACLU of Arizona and Arizona Attorneys for Criminal Justice, urged the committee to reject the bill because it may expose the state to lawsuits, could be applied to people with serious mental illness and create “revolving‑door” commitments if community treatment capacity is inadequate, and because involuntary short‑term detox has limited evidence for producing long‑term recovery. Woodbury also said the state lacks secure residential beds and that repeated short holds could be destabilizing for individuals.

The bill would require evaluation agencies to assess a person daily and discharge or convert to voluntary admission once the person no longer meets the definition of “impaired person.” It prohibits detained persons from being treated for impairment without consent except in emergencies for safety and requires that costs of stabilization proceedings and services be billed to AHCCCS or another third‑party payer, not to the individual or evaluation agency. The sponsor and supporters said the process is optional for counties and is intended as a tool for high‑risk individuals who repeatedly appear impaired, not as a long‑term civil‑commitment regime.

Committee debate and public testimony emphasized two continuing implementation questions: whether counties and crisis centers have the bed capacity and staff to keep people for up to five days, and whether the state has legal exposure if people with co‑occurring serious mental illness are moved under a substance‑focused pathway. Senator Leach (sponsor) and clinicians said the measure is intended to move people from Title 36 Chapter 5 (emergency behavioral health holds) to Chapter 18 (substance use treatment pathways) in appropriate cases; ACLU witnesses and others warned that without additional funding and bed capacity the bill risks generating litigation and short cyclical stays.

The committee moved the bill with a due‑pass recommendation. The roll call vote was 8 ayes and 2 nays.

Outcomes: The committee recorded the motion to give Senate Bill 12‑57 a due‑pass recommendation; the tally printed in the hearing transcript was 8 ayes, 2 nays.

The bill text sets specific guardrails — a five‑calendar‑day maximum under the court order, daily clinical reassessment, limits on forced treatment except for emergencies, and a payer rule shifting costs to AHCCCS or third‑party payers — but does not appropriate new state general fund monies in the committee version heard Feb. 24. Supporters and opponents told the committee they intend to keep negotiating implementation details, particularly clarifying who pays, how counties opt in, and how courts will review petitions.

The committee hearing record includes detailed clinical testimony from crisis‑center staff, local county officials from Pima County describing the regional problems that motivated the bill, and civil‑liberties testimony urging caution and additional safeguards. The bill will proceed to further floor consideration where authors and stakeholders said they expect to continue working on definitions and operational questions.","The Senate Appropriations Committee gave Senate Bill 12‑57 a due‑pass recommendation after public testimony both supporting a five‑day court‑ordered stabilization pathway for people impaired by substance use and warning about legal and service‑capacity risks. Vote: 8 ayes, 2 nays.","actionData","errors"]

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