---
type: "Bill"
title: "fire districts; pension liability; financing"
description: "fire districts; pension liability; financing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1298"
citation: "Arizona SB 1298 (55th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS - TITLE 9", "DEFINITIONS (H)", "DISBURSEMENTS (H)", "EMERGENCY", "EMERGENCY CLAUSE", "FINANCING", "FIRE DISTRICTS", "GRANT", "LEASE", "LEASE-PURCHASE AGREEMENTS", "PENSION LIABILITY", "PENSIONS (H)", "REQUIREMENTS (H)", "SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS - TITLE 48"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Shope"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-25"
last_action: "2021-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6822a61-8924-41ce-854b-cb9f6cdb1132"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/75128?SessionId=123"
source_hash: "5c2a79a6c06f694f87cae17b0a6e05404940c5770ba95f397aafc264a996af69"
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 1298 (55th-1st-regular) — fire districts; pension liability; financing

## 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/0241.htm)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1298P.htm)
3. **SENATE - Finance** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/S.1298FIN.DOCX.htm)
4. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1298S.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **22–7** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **48–10** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Thomas Shope — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-25** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-01-26** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-10** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-24** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-01** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-01** Transmit to House
- **2021-03-03** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-04** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-10** DP `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-29** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2021-04-08** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** Transmit to Senate
- **2021-04-12** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-16** 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/e6822a61-8924-41ce-854b-cb9f6cdb1132`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).