---
type: "Bill"
title: "empowerment scholarships; third-party administrator; repeal"
description: "empowerment scholarships; third-party administrator; repeal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "54th-2nd-regular"
identifier: "SB 1036"
citation: "Arizona SB 1036 (54th-2nd-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARIZONA EMPOWERMENT SCHOLARSHIP ACCOUNTS", "EDUCATION - TITLE 15", "EMPOWERMENT SCHOLARSHIPS", "REPEAL", "THIRD-PARTY ADMINISTRATOR"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sylvia Allen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-12-19"
last_action: "2020-03-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f8f19915-5c5e-46c0-9388-f7c6a459cb1c"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/72591?SessionId=122"
source_hash: "8398ab43b55fd48fea0bd148bd1cdf8719452c8fac72eb2373df60d4fae96642"
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 1036 (54th-2nd-regular) — empowerment scholarships; third-party administrator; repeal

## 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/2R/laws/0008.htm)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/bills/SB1036P.htm)
3. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/2R/bills/SB1036S.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **58–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sylvia Allen — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-12-19** Prefiled. `filing`
- **2020-01-13** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2020-01-14** DP `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-14** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-01-30** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-01-30** Transmit to House
- **2020-02-25** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2020-02-26** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** DP `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-09** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2020-03-12** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2020-03-12** Transmit to Senate
- **2020-03-16** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-20** 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/f8f19915-5c5e-46c0-9388-f7c6a459cb1c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).