---
type: "Bill"
title: "provisional community colleges; accreditation; oversight"
description: "provisional community colleges; accreditation; oversight"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "56th-2nd-regular"
identifier: "HB 2039"
citation: "Arizona HB 2039 (56th-2nd-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David L Cook"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 17
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-12-08"
last_action: "2024-04-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10df9261-c6ae-4f6e-831e-bec166a8109a"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/79792?SessionId=128"
source_hash: "135c5e7c20dfd5c8d4ca005a0402f265bb08eaf171a877d62fbc5114a67d7dab"
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 2039 (56th-2nd-regular) — provisional community colleges; accreditation; oversight

## 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/56leg/2r/laws/0084.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/adopted/h.2039education.pdf)
3. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2039h.pdf)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2039p.pdf)
5. **SENATE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/adopted/s.2039ed.pdf)
6. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2039s.pdf)

## Votes

- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **53–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **58–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David L Cook — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-12-08** Prefiled. `filing`
- **2024-01-08** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-09** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-16** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-25** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-01-29** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-01-29** Transmit to Senate
- **2024-02-21** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-26** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-03-27** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-27** Transmit to House
- **2024-04-02** PASSED `passage`
- **2024-04-02** PASSED `passage`
- **2024-04-02** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-08** 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/10df9261-c6ae-4f6e-831e-bec166a8109a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).