appropriation; mass casualty incident preparedness

Plain English Breakdown

The bill states it becomes effective on a 'general effective date' without specifying an exact calendar day in the provided text.

SB1390: Funding for Mass Casualty Incident Preparedness

This bill gives $700,000 from a lottery fund to the Department of Health Services so it can pay an Arizona nonprofit that helps prepare healthcare systems and all community sectors for large emergencies.

What This Bill Does

• Sets aside $700,000 from the Health Services Lottery Monies Fund for fiscal year 2026-2027.
• Gives this money to the Department of Health Services (DHS).
• Requires DHS to give the funds to a nonprofit organization in Arizona that received federal Hospital Preparedness Program money in fiscal year 2024-2025 through DHS.
• Directs the recipient group to focus on maintaining statewide mass casualty incident preparedness for healthcare with all sectors of the community.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Department of Health Services (DHS).
• Nonprofit organizations in Arizona that received federal Hospital Preparedness Program funds.
• Healthcare systems and all sectors of the community involved in emergency planning.

Terms To Know

Mass casualty incident preparedness

Planning for emergencies where many people are injured or need medical care at the same time.

Health Services Lottery Monies Fund

A state fund that holds money from the lottery to support health programs like teenage pregnancy prevention, Health Start Program, and food assistance for women, infants, and children.

Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP)

A federal program that gives states money to help healthcare systems plan for large disasters.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not name the specific nonprofit organization that will receive the funds.
• The text does not explain how DHS will choose which eligible nonprofit gets the money if more than one applies.
• The law becomes effective on a general future date rather than a specific day.

Official Summary Text

SB1390 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

FACT SHEET FOR
s.b. 1390

appropriation;
mass casualty incident preparedness

Purpose

Appropriates
$700,000 from the Health Services Lottery Monies Fund in FY 2027 to the
Department of Health Services (DHS) to distribute to an organization that
focuses specifically on maintaining statewide mass casualty incident
preparedness for health care with all sectors of the community.

Background

The federal
Hospital Preparedness Program (HPP) within the Administration for Strategic
Preparedness and Response provides leadership and funding through cooperative
agreements to states, territories and eligible metropolitan areas to improve
the capacity of the health care system to plan for and respond to large-scale
emergencies and disasters (
HPP
).

The Health
Servies Lottery Monies Fund is administered by DHS and consists of continuously
appropriated monies transferred from the State Lottery Fund for teenage
pregnancy prevention programs, the Health Start Program and the Federal Women,
Infants and Children Food Program. DHS must annually report, to the Joint
Legislative Budget Committee, all Health Services Lottery Monies Fund revenues,
expenditures and ending balance (
A.R.S.
� 36-108.01
).

There is no
anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this
legislation.

Provisions

1.

Appropriates
$700,000 from the Health Services Lottery Monies Fund in FY 2027 to DHS to
distribute to a nonprofit organization in Arizona that:

a)

has received federal HPP monies in FY 2025 through DHS; and

b)

focuses
specifically on maintaining statewide mass casualty incident preparedness for
health care with all sectors of the community.

2.

Becomes effective on the general effective date.

Prepared by Senate Research

February 16, 2026

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Current Bill Text

SB1390 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
appropriation; mass casualty incident preparedness

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1390

Introduced by

Senator
Kavanagh

AN
ACT

Appropriating monies to the department of
health services.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1.
Appropriation;
department of health services; hospital preparedness; mass casualty incident
coordination

The sum of $700,000 is appropriated
from the health services lottery monies fund established by section 36-108.01,
Arizona Revised Statutes, in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the department of
health services to distribute to a nonprofit organization in this state that
has received federal hospital preparedness program monies in fiscal year 2024-2025
through the department of health services and that focuses specifically on
maintaining statewide mass casualty incident preparedness for health care with
all sectors of the community.