Key Votes
HB 2199 - Authorizes Confidential Environmental Audits by Businesses - Key Vote
Arizona Key Votes
John Fillmore voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) on this legislation.
Read recent statements John Fillmore made in this general time period.
Stages
- April 12, 2012 Executive Signed
- April 9, 2012 House Concurrence Vote Passed
- April 3, 2012 Senate Bill Passed
- Feb. 29, 2012 House Bill Passed
- Jan. 17, 2012 Introduced
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Stage Details
Legislation - Signed (Executive) - April 12, 2012
Title: Authorizes Confidential Environmental Audits by Businesses
Legislation - Concurrence Vote Passed (House) (39-15) - April 9, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Authorizes Confidential Environmental Audits by Businesses
Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that authorizes confidential environmental audits by businesses.
- Prohibits the use of any part of an audit report as evidence in an administrative proceeding or a civil action (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits a state agency employee from requesting, reviewing or using an audit report during an inspection of a facility or its operations and activities (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits an individual from testifying or producing a document related to an audit if that testimony or document discloses any “privileged” part of the audit (Sec. 1).
- Authorizes an individual who conducted or participated in the audit and has observed physical events of a violation to testify regarding those events as long as the individual does not testify about or produce documents related to any “privileged” part of the audit (Sec. 1).
- -Authorizes a court or administrative hearing official to require the disclosure of a portion of an audit report in a hearing if any of the following circumstances apply (Sec. 1):
- The privilege is asserted for a fraudulent purpose;
- The portion of the audit report is not subject to privilege; or
- The portion of the audit report shows evidence of non-compliance with an environmental law and no efforts to comply.
- Exempts the following information from privilege (Sec. 1):
- Information required by a regulatory agency to be collected, developed, maintained or reported under environmental law;
- Information obtained by observation or monitoring by a regulatory agency; and
- Information obtained from a source not involved in the preparation of the environmental audit report.
- Specifies that any employee or official of the State of Arizona who discloses information from a “privileged” audit has committed a Class 1 misdemeanor (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Bill Passed (Senate) (20-9) - April 3, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Authorizes Confidential Environmental Audits by Businesses
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes confidential environmental audits by businesses.
- Prohibits the use of any part of an audit report as evidence in an administrative proceeding or a civil action (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits a state agency employee from requesting, reviewing or using an audit report during an inspection of a facility or its operations and activities (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits an individual from testifying or producing a document related to an audit if that testimony or document discloses any “privileged” part of the audit (Sec. 1).
- Authorizes an individual who conducted or participated in the audit and has observed physical events of a violation to testify regarding those events as long as the individual does not testify about or produce documents related to any “privileged” part of the audit (Sec. 1).
- Authorizes a court or administrative hearing official to require the disclosure of a portion of an audit report in a hearing if any of the following circumstances apply (Sec. 1):
- The privilege is asserted for a fraudulent purpose;
- The portion of the audit report is not subject to privilege; or
- The portion of the audit report shows evidence of non-compliance with an environmental law and no efforts to comply.
- Exempts the following information from privilege (Sec. 1):
- Information required by a regulatory agency to be collected, developed, maintained or reported under environmental law;
- Information obtained by observation or monitoring by a regulatory agency; and
- Information obtained from a source not involved in the preparation of the environmental audit report.
- Specifies that any employee or official of the State of Arizona who discloses information from a “privileged” audit has committed a Class 1 misdemeanor (Sec. 1).
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (54-0) - Feb. 29, 2012
Legislation - Introduced (House) - Jan. 17, 2012
Title: Authorizes Confidential Environmental Audits by Businesses
Sponsors
- Judy M. Burges (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Chester Crandell (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Karen Fann (AZ - R)
- John Fillmore (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Carl E. Seel (AZ - R)
- David Burnell Smith (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Steve Farley (AZ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jack W. Harper (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Peggy Suzanne Judd (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Steve Montenegro (AZ - R)
- Justin Pierce (AZ - R)
- Macario Saldate (AZ - D)
- Kimberly Yee (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
