community land trusts; study committee

Plain English Breakdown

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SB1356: Creating a Study Committee for Community Land Trusts

This bill creates a temporary committee to study the economic and developmental barriers that stop community land trusts from growing and to suggest possible solutions.

What This Bill Does

• Establishes the Community Land Trusts Study Committee with eight members appointed by legislative leaders or selected for their expertise as practitioners or higher education representatives.
• Requires the committee to elect its own chairperson and vice chairperson from among its members.
• Directs the committee to study economic and developmental barriers that make it hard to create community land trusts.
• Asks the committee to find possible solutions to these identified barriers.
• Sets a deadline of December 31, 2026, for the committee to submit its report with recommendations on solutions.

Who It Names or Affects

• Legislative leaders who appoint members or receive the final report.
• Community land trust practitioners and higher education representatives serving as experts on the committee.
• State officials including the governor, senate president, house speaker, and secretary of state who receive the final report.

Terms To Know

Study Committee

A temporary group created by the legislature to research a specific topic and make recommendations before being dissolved.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not provide funding for committee members to travel or cover other expenses.
• The law automatically ends on June 20, 2027, so the committee must finish its work before then.
• The text describes what barriers exist but does not list specific solutions that will be in the final report.

Official Summary Text

SB1356 - community land trusts; study committee

Current Bill Text

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REFERENCE TITLE:
community land trusts; study committee

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1356

Introduced by

Senators
Kuby: Hatathlie, Miranda, Ortiz;� Representatives Garcia, Gutierrez,
Sandoval, Stahl Hamilton

AN
ACT

establishing the community land trusts
study committee.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1.
Community land trusts study committee;
membership; duties; report; delayed repeal

A. The community land
trusts study committee is established consisting of the following members:

1. One member who is
appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives.

2. One member who is
appointed by the president of the senate.

3. One member who is
appointed by the minority leader of the house of representatives.

4. One member who is
appointed by the minority leader of the senate.

5. Two additional members
who are appointed by the four members appointed pursuant to paragraphs 1
through 4 of this subsection as follows:

(
a
) One
member who is a community land trust practitioner.

(
b
) One
member who represents an institution of higher education in this state.

B. The members of the study
committee shall elect a chairperson and vice chairperson from among the study
committee's membership.

C. The members of the study
committee are not eligible to receive reimbursement of expenses pursuant to
title 38, chapter 4, article 2, Arizona Revised Statutes.

D. The study committee
shall study the economic and developmental barriers to developing community
land trusts and shall determine potential solutions to these economic and
developmental barriers.

E. On or before December
31, 2026, the study committee shall submit a report regarding the study
committee's activities and recommendations on solutions to the economic and
developmental barriers to developing community land trusts.� The study
committee shall submit the report to the governor, the president of the senate
and the speaker of the house of representatives and shall provide a copy of the
report to the secretary of state.

F. This section is repealed
from and after June 20, 2027.