appropriation; crime victim notification fund

Plain English Breakdown

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SB1673: Funding for Crime Victim Notification Fund

This bill sets aside $5 million from the state budget in fiscal year 2027 for a fund that supports an automated system to notify crime victims and share case information between agencies.

What This Bill Does

• Sets aside $5,000,000 from the state General Fund for the Law Enforcement Crime Victim Notification Fund in fiscal year 2026-2027.
• Allows unused money to be kept and used later instead of expiring at the end of the fiscal year.
• Funds software that automatically sends emails or texts to victims about their crime reports.
• Pays for tools that let different agencies share case status information with each other automatically.
• Supports a statewide toll-free phone number available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Who It Names or Affects

• The Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC), which manages the fund and system.
• Crime victims who receive updates about their cases via email or text.
• Law enforcement agencies that choose to use the automated notification system, for whom ACJC pays using these funds.

Terms To Know

Appropriation

The official act of setting aside a specific amount of money from the government budget for a certain purpose.

Exempt from lapsing

A rule that allows unused funds to be kept and used in future years instead of being lost when the current year ends.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill becomes effective on a general date set by law, but no specific calendar date is listed.
• Law enforcement agencies may choose whether or not to use the automated system; participation is voluntary for them.

Official Summary Text

SB1673 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

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FACT SHEET FOR
s.b. 1673

appropriation;
crime victim notification fund

Purpose

Appropriates $5,000,000 from the state General Fund (state GF) in FY 2027
to the Law Enforcement Crime Victim Notification Fund (Fund).

Background

The Arizona Criminal Justice Commission (ACJC) must monitor new and
continuing criminal justice legislation, facilitate research among criminal
justice agencies and facilitate coordination on statewide efforts to improve
criminal justice information and data sharing (
A.R.S.
� 41-2405
).

ACJC must administer the Fund and use Fund monies to expand ACJC's
automated crime victim notification system and to fund software that meets
outlined requirements, including:

1) automatically notifying the victim by email or text relating to the victim's
law enforcement crime report; 2) providing for multiagency notification to
enable an agency to automatically share the status of an incident or
investigation with an identified partner agency; and 3) providing a designated
statewide toll-free number that is available 24 hours, seven days a week. ACJC
must use Fund monies to pay for law enforcement agencies that choose to use the
automated crime victim notification system (
A.R.S.
� 41-2414
).

S.B. 1673 appropriates $5,000,000 from the state GF in FY 2027 to the
Fund.

Provisions

1.

Appropriates
$5,000,000 from the state GF in FY 2027 to the Fund.

2.

Exempts
the appropriation from lapsing.

3.

Becomes
effective on the general effective date. �

Amendments
Adopted by the Appropriations, Transportation & Technology Committee

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Reduces the appropriation to $5,000,000 from $8,200,000.

Senate
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Current Bill Text

SB1673 - 572R - S Ver

Senate Engrossed

appropriation; crime
victim notification fund

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1673

AN
ACT

appropriating monies to the law enforcement
crime victim notification fund.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section
1.
1.
Appropriation; law enforcement crime victim notification fund;
exemption

A. The sum of
$5,000,000 is appropriated from the state general fund in
fiscal year 2026-2027 to the law enforcement crime victim notification
fund established by section 41-2414, Arizona Revised Statutes.

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.