ESAs; quarterly reports; expenses; prices

HB4052 - ESAs; quarterly reports; expenses; prices

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Sponsor: Kevin Volk
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Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts Reporting Law

HB4052 requires quarterly reports on Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) usage, including student demographics and expenses.

What This Bill Does

Requires the department to send a report every quarter about ESA accounts.
Includes information like how many students are in the program and their background details.
Lists approved expenses for each account and shows prices of goods or services used.
Shows which requests were not approved along with reasons.

Who It Names or Affects

Students using Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Accounts
Departments responsible for ESA reports

Terms To Know

Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA): A program that provides funds to families for educational expenses outside of public schools.
Quarterly Report: A report given every three months about the status and usage of ESA accounts.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if a department fails to submit reports on time.
It is unclear how this law will be enforced or monitored for compliance.

Bill History

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HB4052 - ESAs; quarterly reports; expenses; prices

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ESAs; quarterly reports; expenses; prices

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 4052

Introduced by

Representative
Volk

AN
ACT

amending section 15-2406, Arizona
Revised Statutes; relating to Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1. Section 15-2406, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE
15-2406.

Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts; quarterly reports

Within sixty days after the last day of each calendar quarter,
the department shall submit a report, consistent with federal law, to the
governor, the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of
representatives, the director of the joint legislative budget committee and the
director of the governor's office of strategic planning and budgeting.� The
report must include all of the following:

1. The number of qualified students disaggregated
by:

(a) Eligibility category.�

(b) For qualified students who are eligible pursuant
to section 15-2401.01, the number of qualified students who attended a
public school in this state in the school year immediately preceding the first
year of each qualified student's enrollment in the Arizona empowerment
scholarship account program.

(c) Grade level.

(d) The school district or charter school that each
qualified student attended in the school year immediately preceding the first
year of each qualified student's enrollment in the Arizona empowerment
scholarship account program, if applicable.

(e) English language learners.

(f) Qualified students who are enrolled in the
Arizona empowerment scholarship account program as a
student
child
with a disability.

(g) The zip code of each qualified student's
permanent residence.

2. The annual award amount associated with each
Arizona empowerment scholarship account.

3. The amount of approved expenses disaggregated by
type of expense as described in section 15-2402, subsection B, paragraph
4.

4. A list of each approved expense,
including the price of each good or service.

5. A list of each expense or request
for reimbursement that was disapproved, including the price of each good or
service.

END_STATUTE

Sec. 2.
Short title

This act may be cited as the
"Follow the Money Act".