AZ SB1396

Adds income-based eligibility criterion for empowerment scholarship accounts, allowing children whose family income does not exceed 185 percent of the reduced-price lunch income limit to qualify as "qualified students."

Requires the Department of Revenue and Department of Education to develop processes to verify income eligibility for the new criterion and permits the Department of Revenue to share only income verification data with the Department of Education.

Authorizes the Department of Revenue to disclose confidential tax information to the Department of Education specifically for verifying income eligibility under the empowerment scholarship program.

Removes restriction language related to legal blindness definition and makes technical corrections to existing statutory references regarding qualified student eligibility criteria.