---
type: "Bill"
title: "community colleges; admissions criteria"
description: "community colleges; admissions criteria"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "54th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1048"
citation: "Arizona SB 1048 (54th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMISSIONS CRITERIA", "COMMUNITY COLLEGES", "EDUCATION - TITLE 15", "EMERGENCY CLAUSE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Heather Carter"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-01-11"
last_action: "2019-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb7a0ef8-a727-4c84-9701-4586e83ed64c"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/71113?SessionId=121"
source_hash: "81ebd5c4fe5d6526f61c22bc566bc0ee8d369dac699a1e0989d85293117864d2"
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 1048 (54th-1st-regular) — community colleges; admissions criteria

## 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/0115.htm)
2. **HOUSE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/adopted/H.1048EDUCATION.DOCX.htm)
3. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1048H.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1048P.htm)
5. **SENATE - Higher Education and Workforce Development** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/adopted/S.1048HEWD.DOCX.htm)
6. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1048S.htm)

## Votes

- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Heather Carter — primary (person)
- Sean Bowie — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-11** prefiled. `filing`
- **2019-01-15** senate second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-01-24** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-14** senate first reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-12** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-13** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-13** transmit to house
- **2019-02-26** house first reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-27** house second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-11** transmit to senate
- **2019-04-11** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16** passed `passage`
- **2019-04-16** transmit to governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-16** passed `passage`
- **2019-04-22** 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/bb7a0ef8-a727-4c84-9701-4586e83ed64c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).