HB 2919 Arizona House · 57th Legislature - First Regular Session

state budget; structural balance; estimates

HB 2919 modifies Arizona's budget process to require a balanced state budget for each fiscal year over a three-year planning period. It mandates that revenue estimates must cover all projected spending annually and requires the legislature to account for ongoing spending from previous years when calculating budget balance. The bill also adds a public hearing requirement before the budget is adopted. These changes apply to how Arizona's legislature plans and adopts the state budget, affecting all state departments and programs funded through the general budget.

Issues: ✓ Budget & Taxes

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Apr 2025

House Passage

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 12, 2025 Last action Apr 1, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced Version → House Engrossed Version · 3 edits · Mar 3, 2025

MINOR

The bill was converted from an introduced version to a House Engrossed version, adding new Section 3 that reduces state aid owed to school districts in fiscal year 2025-2026 by the amount of their unspent cash balances from the prior year. The text also shows some formatting changes and minor capitalization adjustments to key terms like 'BALANCED' and 'DISTRICTS'.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded by adding a new Section 3 that specifically addresses funding reductions for school districts based on their prior year cash balances.

FISCAL

New Section 3 was added to reduce basic state aid and additional state aid entitlements owed to school districts in fiscal year 2025-2026 by the amount of their unspent cash balances from June 30, 2024.

TECHNICAL

Minor formatting and capitalization changes were made throughout the document, including changing 'Representative Olson' to 'House Bill 2919' in the header and capitalizing key terms like 'BALANCED' and 'DISTRICTS' in the statutory text.

Some text was reformatted from a standard legislative format to a more structured format with START_STATUTE and END_STATUTE markers around the amended sections.

Floor votes · House Mar 3, 2025

How they voted

32–26

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 60

Mar 3, 2025

D Democratic27

26 Nay 1

96% Nay

R Republican33

32 Yea 1

96% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

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Committee

Amendments

Apr 1, 2025

Upper · Passed

upper

Mar 3, 2025

Lower · Passed

PASSED

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Lower · Passed

DPA

lower

Feb 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

DPA

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors