republic-os/legislation/us/states/az/55th-2nd-regular/hb-2853.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts; appropriation	Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts; appropriation	us/states/az	Arizona Legislature	55th-2nd-regular	HB 2853	Arizona HB 2853 (55th-2nd-regular)	bill		enacted	Ben Toma	5	16	4	2022-06-15	2022-07-07	openstates	ocd-bill/bb603aaa-2f04-4f00-ae38-470c6cb072e8	https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/77976?SessionId=125	185e5ac20a958693bc282222bd7a729ae239d63968b0f9bdc436e2d61e9a4e54	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-az

Arizona HB 2853 (55th-2nd-regular) — Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts; appropriation

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Chaptered Version (committee substitute) — source
2. HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Hoffman - passed (committee substitute) — source
3. HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Toma - passed (committee substitute) — source
4. House Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
5. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed — 0–0 (pass) · upper
• Passed — 31–26 (pass) · lower
• do pass amended — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Passed — 16–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ben Toma — primary (person)
• Beverly Pingerelli — cosponsor (person)
• Brenda Barton — cosponsor (person)
• David L. Cook — cosponsor (person)
• Frank P Carroll — cosponsor (person)
• Gail Griffin — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff Weninger — cosponsor (person)
• Joanne Osborne — cosponsor (person)
• John Kavanagh — cosponsor (person)
• John M. Fillmore — cosponsor (person)
• Joseph Chaplik — cosponsor (person)
• Judy M. Burges — cosponsor (person)
• Justin Wilmeth — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin Payne — cosponsor (person)
• Leo Biasiucci — cosponsor (person)
• Lupe Diaz — cosponsor (person)
• Mark W. Finchem — cosponsor (person)
• Neal Carter — cosponsor (person)
• Quang H Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
• Regina E. Cobb — cosponsor (person)
• Russell "Rusty" Bowers — cosponsor (person)
• Shawnna Bolick — cosponsor (person)
• Steve Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
• Teresa Martinez — cosponsor (person)
• Tim Dunn — cosponsor (person)
• Travis Grantham — cosponsor (person)
• Walter "Walt" Blackman — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-06-15 DP committee-passage
• 2022-06-15 House First Reading. reading-1
• 2022-06-20 House Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-06-22 DPA amendment-passage
• 2022-06-22 PASSED passage, reading-3
• 2022-06-22 Senate First Reading reading-1
• 2022-06-22 Transmit to Senate
• 2022-06-23 W/D withdrawal
• 2022-06-23 W/D withdrawal
• 2022-06-23 DP committee-passage
• 2022-06-23 Senate Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-06-24 PASSED passage
• 2022-06-24 PASSED passage, reading-3
• 2022-06-24 Transmit to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-06-24 Transmit to House
• 2022-07-07 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb603aaa-2f04-4f00-ae38-470c6cb072e8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).