Bill Text: AZ SB1019 | 2010 | Forty-ninth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Evidence based programs; requirements; reports

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-23 - Senate APPROP Committee action: do pass amended/strike-everything, voting: (8-1-0-0) [SB1019 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2010-SB1019-Introduced.html

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PREFILED    DEC 29 2009

REFERENCE TITLE: evidence based programs; requirements; reports

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Forty-ninth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2010

 

 

SB 1019

 

Introduced by

Senator Pearce R

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 41, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding chapter 46; relating to evidence based programs.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1.  Title 41, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding chapter 46, to read:

CHAPTER 46

EVIDENCE BASED PROGRAMS

ARTICLE 1.  GENERAL PROVISIONS

START_STATUTE41-4551.  Evidence based programs; funding; evaluation; report; definitions

A.  In fiscal year 2011-2012, every state agency shall spend at least twenty-five per cent of the state appropriated monies it receives for programs and monies it receives from program participants on evidence based programs.

B.  In fiscal year 2012-2013, every state agency shall spend at least fifty per cent of the state appropriated monies it receives for programs and monies it receives from program participants on evidence based programs.

C.  In fiscal year 2013-2014 and for each fiscal year thereafter, every state agency shall spend at least seventy-five per cent of the state appropriated monies it receives for programs and monies it receives from program participants on evidence based programs.

D.  Beginning in fiscal year 2012‑2013, the auditor general shall designate three independent professionals, who, if applicable, hold doctorate degrees in the general field of the program that is being evaluated, to evaluate agency programs and prepare a report.  Each professional shall certify that a program is either an evidence based program or a nonevidence based program. 

E.  The auditor general shall submit the reports on or before November 1 to the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives.  The reports shall include all of the following:

1.  An assessment of each program that the agency spent monies on in the previous fiscal year, including programs that are not evidence based.

2.  The percentage of state appropriated monies for programs that each agency spent on evidence based programs in the previous fiscal year. 

3.  The percentage of monies received by the agency for programs other than state appropriated monies that were spent on evidence based programs in the previous fiscal year.

4.  A description of the efforts each agency is making to meet the requirements of this section.

F.  The legislature shall consider an agency's failure to comply with this section when it determines the agency's annual appropriation in the following fiscal year.

G.  For the purposes of this section:

1.  "Agency" means any agency that supervises persons on probation or that provides or contracts for mental health services, including:

(a)  Any board, commission, department or other administrative unit of this state established by the Constitution of Arizona or by legislative enactment, including the courts and the governor.

(b)  Any county and any board, commission, department or other administrative unit of the county.

(c)  Any city or town and any board, commission, department or other administrative unit of the city or town.

(d)  Any other political subdivision of this state.

2.  "Evidence based program":

(a)  Means a program that does all of the following:

(i)  Incorporates significant and relevant practices that are based on scientifically based research, including all testing and evaluations of and for persons.

(ii)  Uses practices that have been documented to be valid and reliable.

(iii)  Is cost effective in the service that it provides.

(b)  Does not include:

(i)  An educational program or service that an agency is required to provide to meet educational requirements pursuant to state law.

(ii)  Basic medical services.

3.  "Scientifically based research" means research that obtains reliable and valid knowledge by all of the following:

(a)  Employing systematic, empirical methods that draw on observation or experiment.

(b)  Involving rigorous data analyses that are adequate to test the stated hypotheses and justify the general conclusions drawn.

(c)  Relying on measurements or observational methods that provide reliable and valid data across evaluators and observers, across multiple measurements and observations and across studies by the same or different investigators. END_STATUTE