A House session agreed to concur with Senate amendments to House Bill 2542, a measure that would require public agencies to disclose when equipment they buy contains components sourced from China. Representative Diaz, who spoke as the bill sponsor, said the Arizona Department of Public Safety will be exempted from that disclosure requirement.

“...we've exempted DPS from this requirement,” Representative Diaz said. “They didn't want to replace the drones and some of the equipment that they have. So we've exempted them out of this, out of the procurement process, and it does not affect, counties or municipalities. So they're ... already automatically, exempted out of this.”

The sponsor characterized HB 2542 as a disclosure measure rather than a prohibition. “What this bill does, it says that public agencies that are buying from vendors and the vendors are buying from any of, from China, that they have to disclose. That they're buying from China, is all it is. That's all it says. Doesn't prevent them from doing that,” Diaz said.

Committee staff confirmed the committee’s concurrence with the Senate amendments for the bill during the blue‑sheet review. No roll call vote or amendment text was read into the record during the exchange reflected in the transcript excerpt.

Discussion in the session focused on two points: the sponsor’s accommodation to the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s operational concerns (specifically equipment such as drones) and the scope of the bill as a disclosure requirement rather than a procurement ban. The sponsor also said counties and municipalities are already exempted from the requirement.

The transcript does not include legislative text, a reading of the amended language, or a recorded floor vote on final passage. Lawmakers and staff indicated concurrence with Senate amendments for multiple bills in the same blue‑sheet review, but HB 2542 drew the only substantive explanation recorded in the provided excerpt.

Next steps (not detailed in the transcript) would normally include placement of the concurred amendments on the floor calendar for final action by the full House.