Arizona HB 2360: driver license voter registrations; committee

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HB2360 - 572R - I Ver 

 REFERENCE TITLE: ESAs; enrollment; required disclosures; prohibition

 State of Arizona

 House of Representatives

 Fifty-seventh Legislature

 Second Regular Session

 2026

 HB 2360

 Introduced by 

 Representatives 
 Crews: Aguilar, Contreras P, Gutierrez, Liguori, Travers, Villegas

AN 
ACT

amending section 15-2404, 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 15-2404, Arizona Revised 
Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE15-2404. State control over nonpublic schools; prohibition; application

A. This chapter does not permit 
allow any government agency to exercise control or 
supervision over any nonpublic school or homeschool.

B. A qualified school that accepts a payment from a 
parent pursuant to this chapter is not an agent of the state or federal 
government.

C. A qualified school shall not be required to alter 
its creed, practices, admissions policy or curriculum in order to accept 
students whose parents pay tuition or fees from an Arizona empowerment 
scholarship account pursuant to this chapter in order to participate as a 
qualified school. A qualified school may not require 
a parent or a qualified student to disclose either of the following as a 
condition of enrollment in the qualified school:

1. Whether the qualified student is 
enrolled in the Arizona empowerment scholarship accounts program.

2. The amount that is deposited in 
the qualified student's Arizona empowerment scholarship account pursuant to 
section 15-2402, subsection C.

D. In any legal proceeding challenging the 
application of this chapter to a qualified school, the state bears the burden 
of establishing that the law is necessary and does not impose any undue burden 
on qualified schools. END_STATUTE