---
type: "Bill"
title: "school buses; student transportation; vehicles"
description: "school buses; student transportation; vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-2nd-regular"
identifier: "SB 1630"
citation: "Arizona SB 1630 (55th-2nd-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sine Kerr"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 18
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/725111dd-2fb9-4d78-b616-3bb20157c725"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/77618?SessionId=125"
source_hash: "335ba17e5f2445e4902e0d91f66a83cd4d6932d889824534b46a592f6a231510"
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 1630 (55th-2nd-regular) — school buses; student transportation; vehicles

## 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/2r/laws/0290.pdf)
2. **Conference Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/ccamendments/55leg/2r/s.1630.pdf)
3. **Conference Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/bills/sb1630c.pdf)
4. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Tsosie - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/498745)
5. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/bills/sb1630h.pdf)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/bills/sb1630p.pdf)
7. **SENATE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/adopted/s.1630ed.pdf)
8. **SENATE - Kerr flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/adopted/s.1630kerr0803.pdf)
9. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/bills/sb1630s.pdf)

## Votes

- retained — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Retained on the Calendar — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **17–10** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **17–12** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Retained on the Calendar — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **37–20** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **33–20** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sine Kerr — primary (person)
- David Gowan — cosponsor (person)
- David L. Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Paul Boyer — cosponsor (person)
- Rick Gray — cosponsor (person)
- Shawnna Bolick — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas Shope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-01** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2022-02-02** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-02** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2022-03-03** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-04** Transmit to House
- **2022-03-08** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2022-03-09** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-22** DP `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-28** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2022-04-19** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-25** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-04-25** Transmit to Senate
- **2022-06-01** PASSED `passage`
- **2022-06-06** PASSED `passage`
- **2022-06-06** Transmit to Senate
- **2022-06-07** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-13** 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/725111dd-2fb9-4d78-b616-3bb20157c725`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).