Bill Text: AZ SB1609 | 2023 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Transitional housing; DOC; contracts

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-04-18 - Chapter 71 [SB1609 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2023-SB1609-Chaptered.html

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Senate Engrossed

 

transitional housing; DOC; contracts

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-sixth Legislature

First Regular Session

2023

 

 

 

CHAPTER 71

 

SENATE BILL 1609

 

An Act

 

amending title 31, chapter 2, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 31-283; relating to the prisoner transition program.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1. Title 31, chapter 2, article 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 31-283, to read:

START_STATUTE31-283. Transitional housing; contracts; state licensed facilities

Notwithstanding section 31-282, for one year following the effective date of this section and on the expiration of any contract to provide transitional housing services for inmates that was entered into before the effective date of this section and that expires after the effective date of this section, the department may enter into a contract to provide transitional housing services for inmates only with a state licensed facility. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 18, 2023.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 18, 2023.