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HB2473 • 2026

ADEQ; waste programs; funding; rules

HB2473 - ADEQ; waste programs; funding; rules

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 bill does not provide specific details on funding amounts or eligibility criteria for municipalities.

ADEQ Waste Programs Funding and Rules

This bill establishes rules for a municipal composting program, creates a fund to manage imported hazardous waste and support the composting program, and sets criteria for handling imported hazardous waste.

What This Bill Does

  • Establishes rules for creating a municipal composting program that provides grants to municipalities for curbside compost collection.
  • Creates a fund to administer both the imported hazardous waste management program and the municipal composting program.
  • Sets criteria, standards, and fees for managing imported hazardous waste.

Who It Names or Affects

  • The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ)
  • Municipalities in Arizona
  • Companies that transport or dispose of imported hazardous waste

Terms To Know

municipal composting program
A program where municipalities can receive grants to start curbside collection for food and yard waste.
imported hazardous waste management program
Rules about how to handle waste that is considered dangerous in its state of origin but not necessarily here, including criteria, standards, and fees.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify the exact amount of funding for these programs.
  • It's unclear which municipalities will be eligible for grants under this program.

Bill History

  1. 2026-01-27 House

    House second read

  2. 2026-01-26 House

    House Rules: None

  3. 2026-01-26 House

    House Natural Resources, Energy & Water: None

  4. 2026-01-26 House

    House first read

Official Summary Text

HB2473 - ADEQ; waste programs; funding; rules

Current Bill Text

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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