state department of corrections; appropriation

Plain English Breakdown

The official metadata indicates the bill 'Passed Legislature' but also lists 'Senate third read failed'. This contradiction suggests uncertainty about whether the bill became law or was defeated at the final stage.

SB1035: Funding a Pay Raise for Arizona Corrections Staff

This bill sets aside $34 million from the state budget to give a five percent salary increase to correctional officers, civilian staff, and private prison workers in Arizona.

What This Bill Does

• Appropriates $34,000,000 from the state General Fund for fiscal year 2027.
• Provides a five percent salary increase for sworn correctional officers at the Department of Corrections.
• Gives a five percent pay raise to civilian employees working within the department.
• Extends the same five percent wage increase to workers employed by private prison contractors.

Who It Names or Affects

• Sworn correctional officers in Arizona state prisons
• Civilian staff members of the Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR)
• Employees working at private prisons under contract with ADCRR

Terms To Know

Appropriation

The act of setting aside a specific amount of money from the government budget for a particular use.

General Fund

The main account where state tax revenue is kept to pay for regular government services and operations.

Fiscal Year 2027 (FY 2027)

The specific one-year period during which this money must be spent, running from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2027.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how the $34 million will be divided among different types of employees.
• Vacant job positions are excluded from this salary increase calculation.
• While the bill passed committee review, its final status shows it failed a third reading in the Senate.

Official Summary Text

SB1035 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

AMENDED

FACT SHEET FOR
S.b. 1035

state
department of corrections; appropriation

Purpose

Appropriates $34,000,000
in FY 2027 from the state General Fund (state GF) to the Arizona Department of
Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) for a five percent salary
increase for the employees of ADCRR and private prisons under contract with
ADCRR.

Background

ADCRR
encompasses the various institutions, facilities and programs that comprise the
correctional program of Arizona and provides supervisory staff and
administrative functions at the state level on all matters relating to the
institutionalization, rehabilitation and community supervision of adult
offenders (
A.R.S.
� 41-1602
).

Before establishing,
or expanding an existing, minimum or medium security level prison the Director
of ADCRR (Director) must give consideration to contracting for private prisons
for the incarceration of eligible inmates. Before entering into a contract with
a private prison facility contractor, the Director must determine that the
contractor will provide the same or better quality of services as the services
provided by the state at a lower or essentially the same cost by considering
the facility's security, inmate management and control, inmate programs and services,
safety and sanitation, administration, food service, personnel practices and
training, inmate health services and inmate discipline. The Director may
establish other private incarceration facilities that are dedicated to the
confinement of persons who are sentenced to ADCRR (
A.R.S.

� 41-1609.02
).

The Joint
Legislative Budget Committee fiscal note estimates that providing a five
percent salary increase to all correctional officer and civilian positions within
ADCRR, excluding vacant positions, and the employees of private prison
contractors would cost the state GF $34,000,000 in FY 2027 (
JLBC
fiscal note
).

Provisions

1.

Appropriates $34,000,000 in FY 2027 from the state GF to ADCRR for a
salary increase of five percent for sworn correctional officers,

ADCRR-employed civilians

and
the employees of private prison contractors that house inmates under contract
with ADCRR.

2.

Becomes effective on the general effective date. �

Amendments Adopted by the
Public Safety Committee:

1.

Extends the salary increase to
include the employees of private prison contractors.

2.

Makes conforming changes.

Amendments Adopted by the
Appropriations Committee:

1.

Sets the unspecified amount of the appropriation at $34,000,000.

2.

Extends the salary increase to include the employees of private prison
contractors.

3.

Makes conforming changes.

Senate Action

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Prepared by Senate Research

February 3, 2026

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Current Bill Text

SB1035 - 572R - S Ver

Senate Engrossed

state department of
corrections; appropriation

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1035

AN
ACT

appropriating
monies to the state department of corrections.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1.
Appropriation;
state department of corrections; pay increase

The sum of

$34,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in
fiscal year 2026-2027 to the state department of corrections for a salary
increase of five percent for sworn correctional officers
, civilians employed by the department
and employees of private prison contractors that house
inmates under contract with the state department of corrections.