Bill Number: H.B. 2527
Smith Floor Amendment
Reference to: COMMERCE AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Committee amendment
Amendment drafted by: Leg Council
FLOOR AMENDMENT EXPLANATION
1. Permits a court to mitigate all or part of the new four-dollar assessment on fines, penalties or forfeitures that are collected for traffic violations.
2. Applies reporting requirements to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee instead of the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission.
3. Expands the list of technology for which Fund monies can be used to purchase.
4. Permits a person who is being pulled over to continue to drive to a location that the person believes is safe and is in a public and populated area.
5. Makes technical and conforming changes.
Second Regular Session H.B. 2527
SMITH FLOOR AMENDMENT
SENATE AMENDMENTS TO H.B. 2527
(Reference to COMMERCE AND PUBLIC SAFETY Committee amendment)
Page 2, between lines 8 and 9, insert:
"D. The court may mitigate all or part of the assessment in the same manner and subject to the same limitations in the mitigation of a fine in section 13‑825, subsection B.
Sec. 3. Section 28-622, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
28-622. Failure to comply with police officer; classification
A. A person shall not wilfully fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order or direction of a police officer invested by law with authority to direct, control or regulate traffic.
B. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section, A person who is ordered or directed by a police officer to stop the person's vehicle may continue to drive the vehicle in a lawful manner to a location that the person believes is safe and is in a public and populated area.
B. C. A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor.
Sec. 4. Section 41-1273, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
41-1273. Budget analyst; employees; duties; reports
A. The joint legislative budget committee shall appoint a budget analyst and other clerical and technical employees that may be required.
B. The budget analyst shall serve full time as staff director and receive compensation as determined pursuant to section 38‑611. The budget analyst, as a prerequisite for appointment, shall have demonstrated the budget analyst's competency and ability in the field of finance either in private business or public work.
C. The budget analyst may be removed from office prior to expiration of the budget analyst's term if, voting separately, a majority of the members of each body constituting the joint legislative budget committee votes in favor of removal.
D. The budget analyst shall prepare for distribution an analysis of the governor's budget as soon after the budget is presented to the legislature as is possible. The analysis, among other things, shall include recommendations of the budget analyst for revisions in expenditures.
E. In consultation with the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting, the budget analyst shall determine and report to the governor and the legislature an estimate of appropriations subject to the limit imposed by article IX, section 17, Constitution of Arizona. The report shall be published on or before February 15 of each year for the preceding fiscal year, for the current fiscal year and for the ensuing fiscal year to reflect the budget recommendations of the joint legislative budget committee.
F. On or before December 1 of each year, the budget analyst shall report to the committee a listing of statutorily deleted and newly created funds and funds that changed appropriated status from the prior fiscal year.
G. On or before January 31 of each year, the budget analyst shall report to the committee the expenditures for each retirement system for the preceding fiscal year, including the expenditures made by this state for the employer contribution for each retirement system.
H. The legislature in making its appropriation for the operation of the legislature shall allocate a portion thereof for the operation of the joint legislative budget committee.
I. On or Before December 1, 2019 and once every seven years thereafter, the budget analyst shall report to the committee the following:
1. The current amount of each surcharge and assessment that is authorized by law to be collected on every fine, penalty and forfeiture imposed and collected by the courts for criminal offenses and every civil penalty imposed and collected for a civil traffic violation and fine, penalty or forfeiture for a violation of the motor vehicle statutes, for any local ordinance relating to the stopping, standing or operation of a vehicle or for a violation of the game and fish statutes in title 17.
2. The items for which the collected surcharge or assessment monies are used."
Renumber to conform
Page 2, strike lines 25 through 31
Strike pages 3 through 5
Renumber to conform
Page 6, line 5, after "purchase" insert "all of the following:
1. Ten"; strike "range equipment and"
Line 6, strike "software" insert "ranges"
Line 7, strike "1." insert "(a)"
Line 9, strike "2." insert "(b)"
Line 10, strike "3." insert "(c)"
Line 13, strike "4." insert "(d)"
Line 15, strike "5." insert "(e)"
Between lines 17 and 18, insert:
"2. Three virtual training simulators, including one for the Tucson police department, one in Pinal county for the sheriff's office and one in Yavapai county for the sheriff's office. The virtual training simulators must:
(a) Have the ability to display, and for the trainee to engage with, characters and scenario content simultaneously across at least a three hundred degree screen environment.
(b) Have the ability to accurately replicate real-world ballistic characteristics of a projectile in flight.
(c) Be equipped with transducers to recreate sound vibrations.
(d) Include a stress component, including the use of a wireless device capable of delivering an adjustable electric impulse, during training engagements.
3. Software that is used with the virtual firing ranges and virtual training simulators."
Amend title to conform