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SB1582 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet
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FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1582
appropriation;
school safety program
Purpose
Appropriates $3,200,000 from the state General Fund (state
GF) in FY 2027 to the Arizona Department of Administration (ADOA) for the
School Safety Interoperability Fund (Interoperability Fund). Outlines
distributions that ADOA may make to county sheriff offices in FY 2027 from the
Interoperability Fund.
4. Requires each public school to test the school
safety program at least twice annually to ensure functionality.
Background
Statute requires ADOA to distribute Interoperability Fund monies to the
sheriffs of a county, city or town police department that establishes a school
safety program. Interoperability Fund monies may be used only for a school
safety program that: 1) encompasses schools throughout Arizona; 2) enables the
deployment of a secure, multimedia data communications system for public safety
agencies and public schools; 3) provides a communications solution environment
that allows for identification, secure messaging, information sharing and alarm
system integration as outlined; 4) is capable of being deployed to end users on
existing communication assets; 5) allows each participating entity to maintain
real-time communication; 6) encrypts all media communications; 7) is certified
under the federal Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies
Act; 8) is compatible with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency
Interoperable Gateway System for disaster communications; 9) ensures student
and staff privacy; and 10) enables integration to school access control to
allow remote lockdown by law enforcement (
A.R.S. � 41-1733
).
S.B. 1582 appropriates $3,200,000 from the
state GF in FY 2027
to ADOA.
Provisions
1.
Appropriates $3,200,000 from the state GF in FY 2027 to ADOA for
the Interoperability Fund.
2.
Allows ADOA to distribute Interoperability Fund monies in the
following amounts in FY 2027 for continuing operation and maintenance of
authorized school safety programs:
a)
$275,000
to Apache County Sheriff's Office;
b)
$280,000
to Gila County Sheriff's Office;
c)
$280,000
to Graham County Sheriff's Office;�
d)
$170,000
to Greenlee County Sheriff's Office;
e)
$200,000
to La Paz County Sheriff's Office;
f)
$525,000
to Mohave County Sheriff's Office;
g)
$540,000
to Navajo County Sheriff's Office;
h)
$350,000
to Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office; and
i)
$600,000
to Yavapai County Sheriff's Office.
3.
Requires each participating public school to test the school
safety program at least twice each calendar year to ensure functionality.
4.
Makes technical and conforming changes.
5.
Becomes effective on the general effective date.��
Amendments Adopted by the
Appropriations, Transportation and Technology Committee
1. Appropriates $3,200,000 from the state GF in FY 2027 to ADOA for
the Interoperability Fund, rather than to the Arizona Department of Education
for the School Safety Program.
2. Allows ADOA to distribute Interoperability Fund monies in prescribed
amounts in FY 2027 for continuing operation and maintenance of authorized
school safety programs as outlined.
3. Narrows the userbase that the required communications system must
support to public safety agencies and school districts, rather than public
schools.
4. Requires each participating school district to test the school
safety program at least twice each calendar year to ensure functionality.
5. Makes technical and conforming
changes.
Amendments Adopted by Committee
of the Whole
1. Restores the requirement that the required communications system
must support a userbase of public safety agencies and public schools, rather
than public safety agencies and school districts.
2. Specifies that each participating public school, rather than school
district, must test an Interoperability Fund school safety program at least
twice each calendar year to ensure functionality.
Senate Action
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SB1582 - 572R - S Ver
Senate Engrossed
appropriation; school
safety program
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
SENATE BILL 1582
AN
ACT
amending section 41-1733, Arizona
Revised Statutes; Appropriating monies; relating to school safety.
(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 41-1733, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:
START_STATUTE
41-1733.
School safety interoperability fund; school safety program;
annual report; testing
A. The school safety interoperability fund is established
consisting of monies appropriated to the fund by the
legislature. The department of administration shall administer the
fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated. Monies in
the fund shall be distributed to the sheriff of a county or a city or town
police department that establishes a school safety program and may be used only
for a school safety program that meets all of the following:
1. Encompasses schools throughout this state.
2. In a school safety program county
,
city or town
, enables the deployment of a secure, multimedia data
communications system to a user base consisting of public safety agencies and
public schools providing instruction in any combination of kindergarten
programs and grades one through twelve.
3. Provides a communications solution environment
that allows for:
(a) Identifying system users' identity, location and
operational status during an incident.
(b) Secure text messaging and file sharing
to all users involved in
during
an
incident.
(c) Secure sharing of collaborative maps, building
floor plans and images between schools and public safety agencies.
(d) Integrating manually activated panic alarm
systems that, when activated, establish direct collaboration between schools
and public safety agencies.
(e) Using multiple forms of real-time
communications and information collaboration, including voice and
, if feasible,
full-motion video sharing, during an
incident.
4. Is capable of being deployed to end users on
existing communications assets owned by participating entities.
5. Allows each participating entity to maintain
discretionary real-time control of all communications assets owned or
operated by the entity.
6. Encrypts all media communications.
7. Is certified under the United States department
of homeland security safety act as qualified anti-terrorism technology.
8. Is compatible with the federal emergency
management agency interoperable gateway system for disaster communications.
9. Ensures student and staff privacy.
10. Enables integration to school access control
systems to allow remote lockdown by law enforcement through the same multimedia
system.
B. On or before November 1 of each year, the sheriff
of a county or a city or town police department that has established a school
safety program pursuant to this section shall submit a report to the joint
legislative budget committee of all expenditures made for the school safety
program in the preceding fiscal year.
c. Each participating public school
shall test the school safety program not less than twice each
calendar year to ensure FUNCTIONALITY.
END_STATUTE
Sec. 2.
Appropriation:
school safety interoperability fund; distributions
A. The sum of $3,200,000 is
appropriated from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the
school safety interoperability fund established by section
41-1733, Arizona Revised Statutes, as amended by this act.
B. Notwithstanding any
other law, in fiscal year 2026-2027, the department of administration may
distribute monies in the fund to the following sheriffs' offices in the
following amounts for continuing operation and maintenance of school safety
programs authorized pursuant to section 41-1733, Arizona Revised
Statutes, as amended by this act:
1. $275,000 to Apache
county sheriff's office.
2. $280,000 to Gila county
sheriff's office.
3. $280,000 to Graham
county sheriff's office.
4. $170,000 to Greenlee
county sheriff's office.
5. $200,000 to La Paz
county sheriff's office.
6. $525,000 to Mohave
county sheriff's office.
7. $540,000 to Navajo
county sheriff's office.
8. $350,000 to Santa Cruz
county sheriff's office.
9. $600,000 to Yavapai
county sheriff's office.