HB2473 • 2026

ADEQ; waste programs; funding; rules

HB2473 - ADEQ; waste programs; funding; rules

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Mariana Sandoval, Anna Abeytia, Cesar Aguilar, Lorena Austin, Seth Blattman, Janeen Connolly, Lupe Contreras, Patty Contreras, Quantá Crews, Sarah Liguori, Elda Luna-Nájera, Aaron Márquez, Christopher Mathis, Mae Peshlakai, Stephanie Simacek, Stephanie Stahl Hamilton, Myron Tsosie, Betty J Villegas, Lela Alston, Denise “Mitzi” Epstein, Rosanna Gabaldón, Lauren Kuby, Analise Ortiz, Priya Sundareshan
Last action: 2026-01-27
Official status: House second read
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source confirms all major claims but does not specify exact fee amounts or grant eligibility details, leaving those for future rules.

HB2473: New Rules for Waste Programs and Funding

This bill creates a fund to support municipal composting grants and sets rules for managing hazardous waste brought into Arizona from other states.

What This Bill Does

Requires the ADEQ director to create rules for a program that gives money to cities starting curbside compost collection.
Establishes a Municipal Composting Program Fund using state budget money and fees collected under new laws.
Creates an Imported Hazardous Waste Management Program with specific standards, criteria, and fees.
Sets fee requirements for transporting, treating, storing, or disposing of waste that is hazardous in its origin state but not in Arizona.
Directs all fees from the imported hazardous waste program to be deposited into the Municipal Composting Program Fund.

Who It Names or Affects

The Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) and its director
Municipalities that apply for composting grants or start curbside collection programs
Entities that transport, treat, store, or dispose of waste imported from other states

Terms To Know

ADEQ: The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, the state agency managing these new programs.
Municipal Composting Program Fund: A specific account holding money for composting grants and hazardous waste management fees.
Imported Hazardous Waste: Waste that is considered dangerous in the state where it was created but not classified as hazardous in Arizona.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not apply to waste generated within Arizona.
Specific eligibility rules for composting grants and exact fee amounts are not listed; ADEQ must create these through future rulemaking.
The effective date of the law is not provided in this text.

Bill History

2026-01-27 House
House second read
2026-01-26 House
House Rules: None
2026-01-26 House
House Natural Resources, Energy & Water: None
2026-01-26 House
House first read

Official Summary Text

HB2473 - ADEQ; waste programs; funding; rules

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

HB2473 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
ADEQ; waste programs; funding; rules

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2473

Introduced by

Representatives
Sandoval: Abeytia, Aguilar, Austin, Blattman, Connolly, Contreras L,
Contreras P, Crews, Liguori, Luna-N�jera, M�rquez, Mathis, Peshlakai,
Simacek, Stahl Hamilton, Tsosie, Villegas;� Senators Alston, Epstein,
Gabald�n, Kuby, Ortiz, Sundareshan

AN
ACT

amending title 49, chapter 4, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding sections 49-707 and 49-708;
amending title 49, chapter 5, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding
section 49-922.01; relating to waste management.

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

Section 1. Title 49, chapter 4, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding sections 49-707 and 49-708,
to read:

START_STATUTE
49-707.

Municipal composting program; rules

The director shall adopt rules to ESTABLISH a
MUNICIPAL COMPOSTING program THAT PROVIDEs grants to MUNICIPALITIES to
establish a curbside composting collection program. The department shall
ADMINISTER the MUNICIPAL composting program. Rules adopted PURSUANT
to this section shall Prescribe ELIGIBILITY criteria.
END_STATUTE

START_STATUTE
49-708.

Municipal composting program fund

A.
The
municipal composting program fund is established consisting of monies
appropriated by the legislature and monies collected pursuant to section 49-922.01. The
department shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject
to legislative appropriation and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190
relating to lapsing of appropriations.

B. Monies in the municipal composting
program fund shall be used as follows:

1. To administer the imported
hazardous waste management program pursuant to section 49-922.01.

2. To administer the municipal
composting program pursuant to section 49-707.

3. To award grants to eligible
municipalities pursuant to section 49-707.
END_STATUTE

Sec. 2. Title 49, chapter 5, article 2, Arizona
Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 49-922.01, to read:

START_STATUTE
49-922.01.

Imported hazardous waste management program; rules; applicability

A. notwithstanding any other law, The
director shall adopt rules to establish an imported hazardous waste management
program.

b. rules adopted PURSUANT to this
section shall establish criteria, standards and fees for MANAGING waste that is
not CLASSIFIED as HAZARDOUS waste in this state but is CLASSIFIED as HAZARDOUS
waste in the state where it is GENERATED, including for all of the following:

1. TRANSPORTATION.

2. TREATMENT.

3. storage.

4. DISPOSAL.

c. the director shall DEPOSIT,
PURSUANT to sections 35-146 and 35-147, FEES collected PURSUANT to
this section in the municipal composting program fund ESTABLISHED by SECTION 49-708.

D. This section does not apply to
waste that is GENERATED in this state.

END_STATUTE