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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "prisoners; services budget; postsecondary education"
+description: "prisoners; services budget; postsecondary education"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
+legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
+session: "56th-2nd-regular"
+identifier: "HB 2248"
+citation: "Arizona HB 2248 (56th-2nd-regular)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Matt Gress"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2024-01-17"
+last_action: "2024-04-09"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79e4e3af-1c95-4b33-a8c7-946035a8c07a"
+source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/80084?SessionId=128"
+source_hash: "ace3d784e50fbf6687b3e100c7ecd8e250e62a287079e53a9dd4275ed5206e68"
+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 HB 2248 (56th-2nd-regular) — prisoners; services budget; postsecondary education
+
+## 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/56leg/2r/laws/0119.pdf)
+2. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Gillette - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/515867)
+3. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Nguyen - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/515868)
+4. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Engrossed Bill - Gress - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/516204)
+5. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2248h.pdf)
+6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2248p.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Retained on the Calendar — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed — **28–1** (pass) · upper
+- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed — **45–14** (pass) · lower
+- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Matt Gress — primary (person)
+- Amish Shah — cosponsor (person)
+- David L Cook — cosponsor (person)
+- David Marshall, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer L Longdon — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennifer Pawlik — cosponsor (person)
+- John Gillette — cosponsor (person)
+- Judy Schwiebert — cosponsor (person)
+- Justin Wilmeth — cosponsor (person)
+- Laurin Hendrix — cosponsor (person)
+- Leo Biasiucci — cosponsor (person)
+- Melody Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
+- Michele Peña — cosponsor (person)
+- Neal Carter — cosponsor (person)
+- Quang H Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
+- Teresa Martinez — cosponsor (person)
+- Timothy M Dunn — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-17** House First Reading. `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-22** House Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-29** DP `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-05** House Placed on Consent Calendar
+- **2024-02-22** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-02-27** PASSED `passage`
+- **2024-02-27** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2024-02-29** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-02-29** Transmit to Senate
+- **2024-03-07** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-11** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-20** DP `committee-passage`
+- **2024-04-02** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2024-04-02** Transmit to House
+- **2024-04-03** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-04-09** 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/79e4e3af-1c95-4b33-a8c7-946035a8c07a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).
+