HB 4120

REFERENCE TITLE: ADE; high school graduates; verification
State of Arizona
House of Representatives
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
HB 4120
Introduced by
Representatives
  Crews: Aguilar, Cavero, Connolly, Liguori, Volk
AN
ACT
amending title 15, chapter 9, article 8,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 15-1047; relating to the
student accountability information system.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 15, chapter 9, article 8,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 15-1047, to read:
START_STATUTE15-1047. High school graduation; verification; fees; annual report
A. in addition to the disclosures
authorized by section 15-1043, the department of education shall adopt
policies and procedures to allow the department to verify that an individual is
a high school graduate according to information submitted to the student
accountability information system by a school in this state.� The policies and
procedures adopted pursuant to this subsection must ensure that any
verification pursuant to this subsection complies with the family educational
rights and privacy act (20 United States Code section 1232g).
B. The department may establish and
collect fees for providing verification services pursuant to this section.� The
department is not required to provide VERIFICATION SERVICES pursuant to this
section for more than one hundred requests per calendar year.
C. On or before March 1, 2027 and
each year thereafter, the department shall report to the governor, the speaker
of the HOUSE of representatives and the president of the senate, and shall
provide a copy of the report to the secretary of state, the following
information for the immediately preceding calendar year:
1. The number of verification
requests that the department received.
2. The number of requests for which
the department provided verification services.
3. The costs incurred and revenues
generated by the verification services. END_STATUTE