- January 28, 2022
This year we will not be reviewing last year’s veteran related bills that passed and will instead focus on proposals for this year. We hope to pick up with passed bills again next year.
For our research, we use a general search of veteran related legislation, we hope it is exhaustive but it may be missing some pieces of legislation and new legislation may come up later that would add. Please feel free to send any information along to our office, we searched at the following link: https://www.azleg.gov/searchresultsPDF/?insearch=veterans
If you’d like to submit comments, speak at a committee meeting, or give an up or down vote on whether you support legislation or not, Arizona offers the Request to Speak (RTS) system. You can find out how to register at the following link: https://www.azleg.gov/group/request-to-speak/
If you’d like to take a look at legislation in 2020, you can view the following link: https://www.jacksonlawgroupaz.com/blog/arizona-veterans-legislation-2020/
Introduced by John Kavanagh
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2320P.pdf
Class Nine Property – Exempts properties that are owned or leased to Veteran’s service organizations so long as they are leased for veterans’ service organizations.
Introduced by Wendy Rogers
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SCR1009P.pdf
Exempts property taxes for veterans or surviving spouse of veterans with 100% disability or legally blind.
Introduced by Leach and Borrelli
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1061P.pdf
Creates a law that allows for a donation of $32,000 by December 31, 2022, which would be followed by the establishment of a plate to be designed by the donor that would be available for a scholarship fund.
Introduced by Biassiucci, Burges, Carter, Martinez, Pingerelli, Toma, Wilmeth, Livingston
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2354P.pdf
Provides tuition free education to the children or spouses of veterans and first responders deemed to have a post-traumatic stress injury and provides standards for such.
Introduced by Blackman
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2062P.pdf
Adds a Vehicle license tax exemption for veterans with less than a 100% service connected disability rating so long as the veteran was honorably discharged, had a purple heart, is over 30% service connected, and presents documentation establishing such.
Introduced by Wendy Rogers
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1040P.pdf
Gives veterans who have a complementary license the ability to transfer a permit or tag to a person assisting the taking of wildlife on behalf of the veteran as the veteran’s proxy. Creates paragraph that would allow for a reduced fee license for hunting and fishing for veterans and nonresident licenses for the same fee as a resident license to a veteran or military member who is not a resident of this state.
Introduced by Carroll; Diaz, Kaiser, Martinez, Nguyen
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2468P.pdf
Creates a trust fund to be used for various veterans’ housing projects and instructions on how the monies should be used. It’s attached to unrelated items, unclaimed property locators.
Introduced by Carter, Blackman, Dunn, Biassiuci, Fillmore, Finchem, Kaiser, Kavanagh, Martinez, Wilmeth
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2454P.pdf
A bill that raises the threshold at which disabled veterans may receive tax exemptions, raises the income threshold and valuation thresholds so that more veterans should see an exemption.
Introduced by Mesnard, Leach
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1095P.pdf
A bill that raises the threshold at which disabled veterans may receive tax exemptions, raises the income threshold and valuation thresholds so that more veterans should see an exemption.
Introduced by Rogers
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1059P.pdf
Directs that each state agency having jurisdiction over street parking or a publicly owned and operated parking facility shall provide for designated parking for veterans.
Introduced by Borrelli
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1115P.pdf
The bill would remove the restriction currently in place regarding veterans trying to obtain in state tuition: instead of veterans being required to enroll within three years of discharge, they would be allowed to obtain in state tuition whether or not they enrolled within three years.
Introduced by Hoffman, Barton, Blackman, Burges, Carroll, Carter, Chaplik, Fillmore, Griffin, Kaiser, Kavanagh, Martinez, Nguyen, Parker, Pingerelli, Toma, Wilmeth
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2496P.pdf
The bill would make it so that no veteran who recently returned from service at a university or community college governed by the board of regents school would be required to pay for a student activity fee.
Introduced by Carter, Biasiucci, Blackman, Fillmore, Finchem, Kaiser, Kavanagh, Martinez, Wilmeth
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HCR2017P.pdf
If passed, would send a proposition to voters that would allow the legislature to exempt the property of persons with disabilities or veterans with disabilities from taxation.
Introduced by Hatathlie, Bowie and Jermaine
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1140P.pdf
The bill would appropriate 2,200,000 and 20 FTE positions for fiscal year 2022-2023 to hire veteran service officers to provide services in rural tribal nations in this state that have communities located more than one hundred miles from the nears U.S. Department of Veterans affairs service center.
Introduced by Rogers
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1124P.pdf
The bill would require that the director of the department not charge an initial fee or renewal application fee for concealed weapons permit to a person who has been a resident for a year prior to the application and who is active duty, a veteran with honorable discharge or general under honorable conditions, or is a current or retired peace officer.
Introduced by Mesnard, Leach
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SCR1011P.pdf
If passed, would send a proposition to voters that would allow the legislature to exempt the property of persons with disabilities or veterans with disabilities from taxation.
Introduced by Rogers
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1034P.pdf
Would make it so that exemptions possible in Arizona Constitution Article IX, Section 2.4, Constitution of Arizona, are not subject to the income limits stated in Section 42-11111.
Introduced by Burges, Blackman, Carter, Chaplik, Cook, Fillmore, Finchem, Kaiser, Martinez, Parker, Payne, Pingerelli, Townsend, Livingston, Wilmeth
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/HB2610P.pdf
Allows the transfer of tags to organizations or for use by a Gold star child, or disabled veterans.
Introduced by Gowan
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1170P.pdf
Allows transfer of big game permit or tag to a minor child whose parent was killed in action in the armed forces, as a peace officer, or as a firefighter and allows the commission to give refunds for active duty members, peace officers, and firefighters in certain situations.
Introduced by Rogers.
https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2R/bills/SB1131P.pdf
The bill would expand empowerment scholarship accounts to children of veterans, children of first responders, children of health professionals who are employed full time and provide direct patient care.
Give us a ring at (480) 994-5000 or email Steven Jackson personally at steve@jacksonlawgroupaz.com with any other legislation that we might have missed.
