---
type: "Bill"
title: "foster tuition waiver scholarship; age"
description: "foster tuition waiver scholarship; age"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "54th-1st-regular"
identifier: "HB 2061"
citation: "Arizona HB 2061 (54th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["EDUCATION - TITLE 15", "FOSTER CHILDREN", "SCHOLARSHIPS", "TUITION WAIVER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nancy Barto"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c4d1a36-807b-44f0-91aa-c15509ea62c9"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/71108?SessionId=121"
source_hash: "7cc4ff28985e8ea29e3b58de853237f9bc87a0a5f3f940e371333ba1661e3c46"
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 2061 (54th-1st-regular) — foster tuition waiver scholarship; age

## 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/1R/laws/0126.htm)
2. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Fernandez - failed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/466240)
3. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/HB2061H.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/HB2061P.htm)

## Votes

- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nancy Barto — primary (person)
- Warren Petersen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** house first reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-01-11** prefiled. `filing`
- **2019-02-04** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-28** house second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-06** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-11** house placed on consent calendar
- **2019-02-14** dp `passage`
- **2019-02-14** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** senate first reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-15** transmit to senate
- **2019-03-18** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-26** senate second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-09** dp `passage`
- **2019-04-18** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-18** transmit to house
- **2019-04-18** transmit to governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-24** 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/8c4d1a36-807b-44f0-91aa-c15509ea62c9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).