Votes at a glance: Arizona Senate advances dozens of bills during floor session

The Arizona State Senate took final action on a broad slate of measures during a floor session, advancing bills on health care, education, water policy, employment rules and other subjects. Several measures drew floor explanations before recorded votes; the Senate instructed the secretary to transmit passed bills to the House.

Why it matters: The package includes changes to oversight and licensing in health and behavioral-health settings, modifications to education funding mechanics, adjustments to water and groundwater statutes, and several ballot-referral and retirement-system items. Passage on many of these bills will send the measures to the Arizona House for consideration and, where applicable, to the ballot or enactment pending additional steps.

Most significant actions (bill number → outcome; floor tally when recorded): - SB 13-08 (sober-living homes statutory changes) — Passed; recorded on the floor as passed (tally reported as 20 ayes; roll transmitted to the House). The bill drew extended floor debate and multiple explanations of vote positions. - SB 13-19 (election conduct / related provisions) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 26 ayes, 1 nay, 3 not voting. - SB 13-51 (theft-related statutory amendment) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 10 nays, (not voting count reported separately in transcript). - SB 13-74 (special-census appropriations) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 10 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 13-77 (Board of Pharmacy matter) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 26 ayes, 1 nay, 3 not voting. - SB 13-95 (medical-school/allopathic-medical-school provision) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 19 ayes, 8 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 14-05 (mental health transition pilot program appropriation) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 23 ayes, 4 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 14-27 (school-employee-related provision) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 14-32 (air-quality / cloud seeding carve-out debate) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 9 nays, 11 not voting reported earlier in floor exchanges. - SB 14-54 (statutory certification item) — Passed; recorded floor tally reported as 16 nays, 11 ayes, 3 not voting (floor noted passage in the transcript sequence). - SB 14-73 (school finance/related references) — Passed without emergency clause; recorded tally reported as 16 nays, 11 ayes, 3 not voting (floor recorded vote summary: bill passed without emergency clause). - SB 14-74 (ASRS-related amendment) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 24 ayes, 3 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 15-18 (grandfather irrigation rights) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 15-30 (groundwater storage/related) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 15-51 (workers' compensation-related statutory changes) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 24 ayes, 3 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 15-55 (DHS-related chapter addition) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 23 ayes, 4 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 15-60 (referendum-related technical statutes) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 17 ayes, 10 nays, 3 not voting (floor-recorded summary). - SB 15-84 (public-employee hiring/merit language) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 69 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting in floor sequence (floor recorded passage). - SB 15-85 (criminal offenses title amendment) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 27 ayes, 3 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 16-27 (state-agency statutory language) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 16-94 (higher education institutions statutory changes) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 16-99 (air quality permits; initially failed on third reading earlier in the day; the floor later moved to reconsider) — Failed on first third-reading vote as reported; a motion to reconsider was made later in the day (reconsideration motion was placed on the floor). - SB 17-09 (limited public-order offenses amendment) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 18 ayes, 9 nays, 3 not voting. - SB 17-21 (egg-laying hen housing / Department of Agriculture rule change) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting. - SCR 10-22 (state-conducted census referral to ballot) — Passed; recorded tally reported as 16 ayes, 11 nays, 3 not voting (floor language shows a recorded passage and transmittal to the House as a referral). - SCR 10-31 and SCR 10-32 (other constitutional referral measures) — SCR 10-31 passed (floor recorded 23 ayes, 4 nays, 3 not voting); SCR 10-32 failed on third reading (floor recorded 15 ayes, 12 nays, results noted as failed).

Notes on reporting: Where the transcript included an explicit recorded roll call summary (for example, “secretary to record the action” followed by numbers), those tallies are reported above. For several measures the transcript recorded only the floor statement “You pass” or “You fail” without a clear tally line; those bills are reported as passed or failed and marked “tally not specified” where an explicit roll-count string was not captured in the transcript excerpts. The session also included numerous committee reports and committee-amendment adoptions prior to third reading; committee-level motions reported on the floor are not repeated item-by-item here.

What happens next: Passed bills were ordered transmitted to the Arizona House; constitutional referrals and measures that cleared the Senate as ballot referrals will next follow the statutory referral process. Several bills that failed or were the subject of reconsideration motions may return to the floor under later procedures.

Provenance (selected floor evidence): - First transcript mention of the third-reading sequence and a major bill discussion: “Senate bill 13 o 8 … Amending sections … relating to sober living homes.” (Transcript block beginning at 2338.1199) - Final committee-of-the-whole report adopting a series of committee recommendations: “Your committee of the whole… SB 11 6, do pass as amended. SB 12 19, do pass as amended… SB 16 61, do pass as amended. Respectfully, chairman Vince Leach.” (Transcript block beginning at 2291.07)

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