---
type: "Bill"
title: "prisoners; services budget; postsecondary education"
description: "prisoners; services budget; postsecondary education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "56th-2nd-regular"
identifier: "HB 2248"
citation: "Arizona HB 2248 (56th-2nd-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Gress"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79e4e3af-1c95-4b33-a8c7-946035a8c07a"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/80084?SessionId=128"
source_hash: "ace3d784e50fbf6687b3e100c7ecd8e250e62a287079e53a9dd4275ed5206e68"
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 2248 (56th-2nd-regular) — prisoners; services budget; postsecondary education

## 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/0119.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Gillette - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/515867)
3. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Nguyen - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/515868)
4. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Engrossed Bill - Gress - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/516204)
5. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2248h.pdf)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2248p.pdf)

## Votes

- Retained on the Calendar — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **28–1** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **45–14** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matt Gress — primary (person)
- Amish Shah — cosponsor (person)
- David L Cook — cosponsor (person)
- David Marshall, Sr. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L Longdon — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Pawlik — cosponsor (person)
- John Gillette — cosponsor (person)
- Judy Schwiebert — cosponsor (person)
- Justin Wilmeth — cosponsor (person)
- Laurin Hendrix — cosponsor (person)
- Leo Biasiucci — cosponsor (person)
- Melody Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Michele Peña — cosponsor (person)
- Neal Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Quang H Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Teresa Martinez — cosponsor (person)
- Timothy M Dunn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-01-22** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** DP `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-05** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2024-02-22** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-27** PASSED `passage`
- **2024-02-27** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-29** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Transmit to Senate
- **2024-03-07** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2024-03-11** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-20** DP `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-02** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-02** Transmit to House
- **2024-04-03** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-09** 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/79e4e3af-1c95-4b33-a8c7-946035a8c07a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).