---
type: "Bill"
title: "Arizona teachers academy; community colleges"
description: "Arizona teachers academy; community colleges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1247"
citation: "Arizona SB 1247 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David C. Farnsworth"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-01-27"
last_action: "2025-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/097f7579-9614-403e-bb19-f06d00fe95bb"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/82598?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "1bad4212f83e6191334c32c7ca39adc4c7ca289ad5dfe7ea140f0ffc61bbf22d"
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 1247 (57th-1st-regular) — Arizona teachers academy; community colleges

## 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/57leg/1r/laws/0228.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - 1247EDUCATION.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/527833)
3. **HOUSE - Education - Strike Everything** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/527578)
4. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Engrossed Bill - Kupper - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/530468)
5. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1247h.pdf)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1247p.pdf)
7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1247s.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **22–8** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **39–13** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- failed to pass — **20–36** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **28–1** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David C. Farnsworth — primary (person)
- Catherine Miranda — cosponsor (person)
- Flavio Bravo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-27** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-28** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-05** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27** Transmit to House
- **2025-03-10** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-11** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-18** DPA/SE `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-27** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-27** FAILED `failure`
- **2025-05-20** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-20** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-04** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-06-19** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-06-19** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-06-23** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-27** 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/097f7579-9614-403e-bb19-f06d00fe95bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).