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SB1579 • 2026

appropriations; law enforcement; records management

SB1579 - appropriations; law enforcement; records management

Budget
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Kevin Payne
Last action
2026-02-04
Official status
Senate second read
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on how the funds will be used beyond expanding participation in the Pilot Program or the exact requirements for participating agencies.

Law Enforcement Data Sharing Program Expansion

This bill provides funding for expanding a data sharing program among law enforcement agencies in Arizona.

What This Bill Does

  • Appropriates $4,694,900 from the state General Fund to expand participation in the Law Enforcement Data Sharing Pilot Program.
  • Distributes funds to various county sheriff's offices and police departments across Arizona.
  • Includes funding for universities' police departments to join the program.
  • Exempts the appropriations from lapsing.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA)
  • Law enforcement agencies in Arizona
  • University police departments

Terms To Know

Pilot Program
A trial program to test the effectiveness and feasibility of connecting records management systems among law enforcement agencies.
General Fund
The main fund from which state government allocates money for various programs and services.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify how the funds will be used beyond expanding participation in the Pilot Program.
  • Does not detail the exact requirements or standards that must be met by participating agencies.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

Plain English: Fifty-seventh Legislature Public Safety Second Regular Session S.B.

  • Fifty-seventh Legislature Public Safety Second Regular Session S.B.
  • 1579 COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B.
  • 1579 (Reference to printed bill) The bill as proposed to be amended is reprinted as follows: 1 Section 1.
  • Appropriations; department of administration; 2 pilot program expansion; local law enforcement 3 agencies; exemption 4 A.
  • This amendment summary is using official source text because generated interpretation was skipped for this run.

Plain English: Fifty-seventh Legislature Public Safety Second Regular Session S.B.

  • Fifty-seventh Legislature Public Safety Second Regular Session S.B.
  • 1579 PROPOSED SENATE AMENDMENTS TO S.B.
  • 1579 (Reference to printed bill) The bill as proposed to be amended is reprinted as follows: 1 Section 1.
  • Appropriations; department of administration; 2 pilot program expansion; local law enforcement 3 agencies; exemption 4 A.
  • This amendment summary is using official source text because generated interpretation was skipped for this run.

Bill History

  1. 2026-02-04 Senate

    Senate second read

  2. 2026-02-03 Senate

    Senate Rules: None

  3. 2026-02-03 Senate

    Senate Public Safety: DPA

  4. 2026-02-03 Senate

    Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology: None

  5. 2026-02-03 Senate

    Senate first read

Official Summary Text

SB1579 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1579

appropriations; law
enforcement; records management

Purpose

����������� Appropriates
a total of $4,694,900 in FY 2027 from the state General Fund to the Arizona Department
of Administration (ADOA) to distribute to outlined law enforcement entities to
expand participation in the Law Enforcement Data Sharing Pilot Program (Pilot
Program).

Background

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In FY 2025, the Legislature made a
one-time appropriation of $600,000 from the
Peace
Officer Training Equipment Fund
to the Pinal County Sheriff's Office to
establish the Pilot Program and connect the records management systems and
computer aided dispatch systems of four agencies. The software for the Pilot
Program must: 1) integrate data in common law enforcement systems on a
real-time basis; 2) provide capabilities to deduplicate redundant records; 3)
provide advanced configurable search, analytics and visualization capabilities;
4) provide granular access controls; 5) allow for secure permission-controlled
data integration and sharing; 6) be accessible on a wide variety of common law
enforcement agency devices; 7) demonstrate a track record or meeting or
exceeding similar mission needs and the ability to reach full operational
capability within 90 days; 8) allow for integration with existing identify and
access management solutions; 9) be hosted in a secure and scalable criminal
justice information services compliant cloud environment; 10) meet or exceed
all Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal justice information services
security standards; 11) provide granular audit logging; and 12) provide a fully
open, interoperable architecture and business terms that ensure Arizona law
enforcement agencies retain full and total rights to agency data at all times (
Laws 2024, Ch. 29,
Section 127
).

S.B. 1579 appropriates a total of $4,694,900 from the state General Fund
in FY 2027 to ADOA for distribution to outlined law enforcement entities.

Provisions

1.

Appropriates
$574,000 from the state General Fund in FY 2027 to ADOA for distribution to the
Department of Public Safety to expand participation in the Pilot Program.

2.

Appropriates
a total of $1,201,600 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to distribute to the
following county sheriffs' offices to expand Pilot Program participation:

a)

$500,000
for Pinal County Sheriff's Office;

b)

$220,000
for Maricopa County Sheriff's Office;

c)

$171,800
for Pima County Sheriff's Office;

d)

$100,000
for Navajo County Sheriff's Office;

e)

$84,000
Yavapai County Sheriff's Office;

f)

$78,000
for Cochise County Sheriff's Office; and

g)

$47,800
for Coconino County Sheriff's Office.

3.

Appropriates a total of $182,600 from the state GF in FY 2026 to ADOA to
distribute to the following university police departments (PDs) to expand Pilot
Program participation:

a)

$64,900 for Arizona State University PD;

b)

$64,900 for University of Arizona PD; and

c)

$52,800 for Northern Arizona University PD.

4.

Appropriates
a total of $2,701,700 from the state GF in FY 2027 to ADOA to distribute to the
following 40 PDs and police services to expand Pilot Program participation:

a)

$343,000 for Phoenix PD;

b)

$237,000 for Tucson PD;

c)

$300,000 for Mesa PD;

d)

$131,300 for Glendale PD;

e)

$111,700 for Chandler PD;

f)

$102,000 for Gilbert PD;

g)

$83,900 for Peoria PD;

h)

$82,500 for Flagstaff PD;

i)

$72,500 for Avondale PD;

j)

$69,200 for Goodyear PD;

k)

$67,000 for Oro Valley PD;

l)

$66,000 for Buckeye PD;

m)

$65,000 for Marana PD;

n)

$67,000 for Prescott PD;

o)

$55,000 for El Mirage PD;

p)

$55,000 for Jerome PD;

q)

$54,000 for Sahuarita PD;

r)

$54,000 for Cottonwood PD;

s)

$54,000 for Prescott Valley PD;

t)

$55,000 for Paradise Valley PD;

u)

$50,700 for South Tucson PD;

v)

$44,200 for Coolidge PD;

w)

$44,200 for Show Low PD;

x)

$44,200 for Sierra Vista PD;

y)

$38,600 for Winslow PD;

z)

$38,000 for Sedona PD;

aa)

$35,000 for Chino Valley PD;

bb)

$35,000 for Wickenburg PD;

cc)

$25,000 for Snowflake-Taylor PD;

dd)

$21,700 for Pinetop-Lakeside PD;

ee)

$20,000 for Williams PD;

ff)

$20,000 for Youngtown Police Services;

gg)

$20,000 for Bisbee PD;

hh)

$20,000 for Holbrook PD;

ii)

$20,000 for Clarkdale PD;

jj)

$20,000 for Huachuca City PD;

kk)

$20,000 for Jerome PD;

ll)

$20,000 for Benson PD;

mm)

$20,000 for Willcox
PD; and

nn)

$20,000 for Tombstone PD.

5.

Exempts
the appropriations from lapsing.

6.

Becomes
effective on the general effective date.

Prepared by Senate Research

February 9, 2026

KJA/hk

Current Bill Text

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SB1579 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
appropriations; law enforcement; records management

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SB 1579

Introduced by

Senator
Payne

AN
ACT

Appropriating monies to the department of
administration.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1.
Appropriations;
department of administration; pilot program expansion; local law enforcement
agencies; exemption

A. The following amounts
are appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the
department of administration to distribute to the following entities to expand
participation in the pilot program to connect the records management systems
and computer-aided dispatch systems pursuant to Laws 2024, chapter 209,
section 127:

1. Arizona state university
police department������� $ 64,900

2. Department of public
safety���������������������� $ 574,000

3. University of Arizona
police department���������� $ 64,900

4. Northern Arizona
university police department���� $ 52,800

5. Pinal county sheriff's
office�������������������� $ 500,000

6. Pima county sheriff's
office��������������������� $ 171,800

7. Coconino county
sheriff's office����������������� $ 47,800

8. Phoenix police
department������������������������ $ 343,000

9. Glendale police
department����������������������� $ 131,300

10. Buckeye police
department����������������������� $ 66,000

11. Paradise Valley police
department��������������� $ 55,000

12. Tucson police
department������������������������ $ 237,000

13. Mesa police department�������������������������� $ 300,000

14. Chandler police
department���������������������� $ 111,700

15. Peoria police
department������������������������ $ 83,900

16. Avondale police
department���������������������� $ 72,500

17. Goodyear police
department���������������������� $ 69,200

18. Flagstaff police
department��������������������� $ 82,500

19. Oro Valley police
department�������������������� $ 67,000

20. Marana police
department������������������������ $ 65,000

21. El Mirage police
department��������������������� $ 55,000

22. Maricopa county
sheriff's office���������������� $ 220,000

23. Yavapai county
sheriff's office����������������� $ 84,000

24. Cochise county
sheriff's office����������������� $ 78,000

25. Navajo county sheriff's
office������������������ $ 100,000

26. Gilbert police
department����������������������� $ 102,000

27. Prescott police
department���������������������� $ 67,000

28. Prescott Valley police
department��������������� $ 54,000

29. Sierra Vista police
department������������������ $ 44,200

30. Sahuarita police
department��������������������� $ 54,000

31. Coolidge police
department���������������������� $ 44,200

32. Show Low police
department���������������������� $ 44,200

33. South Tucson police
department������������������ $ 50,700

34. Cottonwood police
department�������������������� $ 54,000

35. Sedona police
department������������������������ $ 38,000

36. Winslow police
department����������������������� $ 38,600

37. Camp Verde marshal's
office��������������������� $ 35,000

38. Chino Valley police
department������������������ $ 35,000

39. Wickenburg police
department�������������������� $ 35,000

40. Snowflake-Taylor
police department�������������� $ 25,000

41. Pinetop-Lakeside
police department�������������� $ 21,700

42. Williams police
department���������������������� $ 20,000

43. Youngtown police
services����������������������� $ 20,000

44. Bisbee police
department������������������������ $ 20,000

45. Holbrook police
department���������������������� $ 20,000

46. Clarkdale police
department��������������������� $ 20,000

47. Huachuca City police
department����������������� $ 20,000

48. Jerome police
department������������������������ $ 20,000

49. Douglas police
department����������������������� $ 55,000

50. Benson police
department������������������������ $ 20,000

51. Willcox police
department����������������������� $ 20,000

52. Tombstone police
department��������������������� $ 20,000

B. The appropriation made
in subsection A of this section is exempt from the provisions of section
35-190, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to lapsing of appropriations.