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+type: "Bill"
+title: "empowerment scholarships; qualified schools; reservations"
+description: "empowerment scholarships; qualified schools; reservations"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
+legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
+session: "54th-2nd-regular"
+identifier: "SB 1224"
+citation: "Arizona SB 1224 (54th-2nd-regular)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ARIZONA EMPOWERMENT SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNTS", "DEFINITIONS", "EDUCATION - TITLE 15", "EMPOWERMENT SCHOLARSHIPS", "PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY - TITLE 36", "PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS", "QUALIFIED SCHOOL", "RESERVATIONS", "RETROACTIVITY", "RULEMAKING", "TAXATION OF INCOME - TITLE 43"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Sylvia Allen"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2020-01-23"
+last_action: "2020-03-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb3dbe8f-2a59-418c-81ef-98723dea7067"
+source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/73452?SessionId=122"
+source_hash: "023153ffdd9887e7beafa660bef107481584cc1be774965bac7c658dd7947b7c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-az"]
+---
+
+# Arizona SB 1224 (54th-2nd-regular) — empowerment scholarships; qualified schools; reservations
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chaptered Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/laws/0012.htm)
+2. **HOUSE - Appropriations** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/proposed/H.1224FERNANDEZ.DOCX.htm)
+3. **HOUSE - Appropriations - Strike Everything** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/proposed/H.1224FRIESE.DOCX.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/bills/SB1224P.htm)
+5. **SENATE - Allen flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/adopted/S.1224FLOORALLEN S.docx.htm)
+6. **SENATE - Corrected Brophy McGee flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/adopted/S.1224FLOORBROPHY MCGEE.docx.htm)
+7. **SENATE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/adopted/S.1224ED.DOCX.htm)
+8. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/bills/SB1224S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed — **16–14** (pass) · upper
+- failed to pass — **13–17** (fail) · upper
+- retained — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- failed to pass — **27–31** (fail) · lower
+- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- Passed — **31–27** (pass) · lower
+- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Sylvia Allen — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-23** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-27** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-04** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-02-26** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-02-26** FAILED `failure`
+- **2020-02-26** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Transmit to House
+- **2020-03-02** House First Reading. `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-03** House Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-11** DP `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-12** FAILED `failure`
+- **2020-03-12** DP `passage`
+- **2020-03-12** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2020-03-13** Transmit to Senate
+- **2020-03-16** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-20** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/eb3dbe8f-2a59-418c-81ef-98723dea7067`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).
+