---
type: "Bill"
title: "forgivable financial assistance; cesspool remediation"
description: "forgivable financial assistance; cesspool remediation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-2nd-regular"
identifier: "HB 2096"
citation: "Arizona HB 2096 (57th-2nd-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gail Griffin"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-12-29"
last_action: "2026-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f3b6fb06-7f89-4dc4-8e85-4ee9add5b3c7"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/83717?SessionId=130"
source_hash: "aa84d753d3899e29bc07963050d03c512a851b05e2102a3ed8e738013f85afca"
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 2096 (57th-2nd-regular) — forgivable financial assistance; cesspool remediation

## 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/2r/laws/0080.pdf)
2. **House Engrossed Version (02/17/2026)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/2r/bills/hb2096h.pdf)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/2r/bills/hb2096p.pdf)
4. **SENATE - Shope flr amend (ref House Engrossed Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/543230)
5. **Senate Engrossed Version (05/18/2026)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/2r/bills/hb2096s.pdf)

## Votes

- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **57–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **23–0** (pass) · upper
- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **57–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gail Griffin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-12-29** Prefiled. `filing`
- **2026-01-12** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2026-01-13** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2026-01-20** DP `committee-passage`
- **2026-01-26** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2026-02-09** DP `informal-passage`
- **2026-02-17** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-17** Transmit to Senate
- **2026-02-24** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2026-02-25** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** DP `committee-passage`
- **2026-05-18** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2026-05-18** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-05-18** Transmit to House
- **2026-06-02** PASSED `passage`
- **2026-06-02** PASSED `passage`
- **2026-06-02** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-04** 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/f3b6fb06-7f89-4dc4-8e85-4ee9add5b3c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).