Bill Text: AZ SB1211 | 2016 | Fifty-second Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered


Bill Title: Victim compensation fund; allocations

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-05-17 - Chapter 307 [SB1211 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2016-SB1211-Chaptered.html

 

 

Senate Engrossed

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-second Legislature

Second Regular Session

2016

 

 

 

CHAPTER 307

 

SENATE BILL 1211

 

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 41‑2407, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the Arizona criminal justice commission.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


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

Section 1.  Section 41-2407, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE41-2407.  Victim compensation and assistance fund; subrogation

A.  The victim compensation and assistance fund is established.  The Arizona criminal justice commission shall administer the fund.  The victim compensation and assistance fund shall consist of victim compensation monies collected pursuant to section 12‑116.01 and distributed pursuant to section 41‑2401, subsection D, paragraph 14, victim assistance monies collected pursuant to section 31‑411, subsection E, section and sections 13-4311,  31‑418, and section 31‑467.06 and 41-1674, unclaimed victim restitution monies pursuant to section 44‑313 and monies available from any other source.

B.  Subject to legislative appropriation, the Arizona criminal justice commission shall allocate monies in the victim compensation and assistance fund to public and private agencies for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and supporting programs that compensate and assist victims of crime.  Not more than fifty per cent of the monies distributed statewide for victim assistance shall be allocated to the governmental agencies or public officers specified in section 41‑2404, subsection A and to the governmental agencies or public officers specified in section 41‑2404, subsection B.

C.  The allocation of monies pursuant to this section shall be made in accordance with rules adopted by the Arizona criminal justice commission pursuant to section 41‑2405, subsection A, paragraph 8.  The rules shall provide that persons who suffered personal injury or death that resulted from an attempt to aid a public safety officer in the prevention of a crime or the apprehension of a criminal may be eligible for compensation.

D.  This state and the applicable operational unit or qualified program, as defined in the victim compensation program rules, are subrogated to the rights of an individual who receives monies from the victim compensation and assistance fund to recover or receive monies or benefits from a third party, to the extent of the amount of monies the individual receives from the fund. END_STATUTE


 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MAY 17, 2016.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY 18, 2016.

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