REFERENCE TITLE: empowerment scholarships; qualified school

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fourth Legislature

First Regular Session

2019

 

 

 

HB 2758

 

Introduced by

Representatives Petersen: Allen J, Barto, Biasiucci, Blackman, Bolick, Bowers, Campbell, Carroll, Cobb, Cook, Dunn, Finchem, Grantham, Griffin, Kavanagh, Kern, Lawrence, Nutt, Osborne, Payne, Pierce, Roberts, Shope, Teller, Thorpe, Toma, Townsend, Tsosie, Udall, Weninger, Senators Borrelli, Fann, Gowan, Gray, Leach

 

 

AN ACT

 

allowing certain students to remain eligible for Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 


Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Arizona empowerment scholarship account recipients; Indian reservations

A.  A student who is enrolled in an Arizona empowerment scholarship account, who resides within the boundaries of an Indian reservation in this state and who paid tuition to a nongovernmental primary or secondary school or a preschool for pupils with disabilities that is located in an adjacent state and that is within two miles of the border between that state and this state may continue to use Arizona empowerment scholarship account monies to pay tuition at that school until July 1, 2020 and is not required to repay the department of education for any monies previously spent for tuition at that school.

B.  Notwithstanding section 15-2401, paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, a school that is located in an adjacent state within two miles of the border with this state and that accepted Arizona empowerment scholarship account monies in the 2017‑2018 school year or the 2018‑2019 school year from a student who resides on an Indian reservation in this state is considered a qualified school for the purposes of section 15‑2401, paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, until July 1, 2020, except that a student who is enrolled in an Arizona empowerment scholarship account may not use Arizona empowerment scholarship account monies to pay tuition to a school that meets this criteria if the student did not pay tuition to that school in the 2018‑2019 school year.

C.  Notwithstanding section 15-2401, paragraph 6, Arizona Revised Statutes, if a student was enrolled in an Arizona empowerment scholarship account, resides within the boundaries of an Indian reservation in this state, paid tuition to a nongovernmental primary or secondary school or a preschool for pupils with disabilities that is located in an adjacent state and that is within two miles of the border between that state and this state and received a termination letter from the department of education, that student would qualify to remain eligible for an Arizona empowerment scholarship account pursuant to this section and shall be reinstated in an Arizona empowerment scholarship account.

Sec. 2.  Retroactivity

This act applies retroactively to from and after June 30, 2017.