---
type: "Bill"
title: "community colleges; lease-purchase agreements; indebtedness"
description: "community colleges; lease-purchase agreements; indebtedness"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1012"
citation: "Arizona SB 1012 (55th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARDS", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "EDUCATION - TITLE 15", "INDEBTEDNESS", "LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. Mesnard"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-15"
last_action: "2021-02-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70e4a86c-9d54-4401-81f6-68c48cea0d4b"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/74273?SessionId=123"
source_hash: "255e952c7e9946189e35793765b43f1357709c77d12c1f84e7ca49ded0291dee"
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 1012 (55th-1st-regular) — community colleges; lease-purchase agreements; indebtedness

## 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/55leg/1R/laws/0038.htm)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1012P.htm)
3. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1012S.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **28–1** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **46–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J.D. Mesnard — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-12-15** Prefiled. `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-01-12** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-13** DP `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28** Transmit to House
- **2021-02-22** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Transmit to Senate
- **2021-02-23** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-26** 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/70e4a86c-9d54-4401-81f6-68c48cea0d4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).