Votes at a glance: three Senate items sent forward or retained Feb. 14

The Arizona Senate’s Committee of the Whole on Feb. 14 recommended passage or further action on several bills and approved committee and floor amendments for the measures listed below.

SB 10 49 — Nonresident real estate sales reporting (do pass as amended)

Summary: The Senate’s finance committee amended SB 10 49 to require the Arizona Department of Revenue (ADOR) to collaborate with stakeholders and develop recommendations to ensure compliance and to identify best practices for enforcing tax collection on nonresident real estate sales and related capital gains reporting. The Leach floor amendment requires ADOR to include recommendations in its annual report on nonresident real estate sales by June 30, 2027.

Action: The floor adopted the finance committee amendment and the Leach floor amendment; the committee report recommended the bill do pass as amended. The transcript shows the committee amendment and floor amendment were adopted on the floor; no roll-call tally for final passage on the floor was provided in the transcript excerpt.

SB 10 59 — Study committee on mover laws (do pass as amended)

Summary: SB 10 59, as considered by the public safety committee, creates a study committee to examine statutes related to “mover laws” (as described in the committee amendment and on the floor). The public safety committee recommended amendment and the committee amendment as amended was adopted on the floor.

Action: The public safety committee amendment was adopted; the committee reported the bill do pass as amended. Specific vote tallies were not recorded in the excerpt provided.

SB 10 70 — Retained on calendar

Summary: Senate Bill 10 70 was held and retained on the calendar for further consideration.

Why it matters: SB 10 49 directs ADOR to take a stakeholder-driven approach to tax compliance on nonresident transactions and sets a reporting milestone. SB 10 59 creates a study process for the subject matter identified in the bill text. SB 10 70 remains on the calendar for later action.

Procedure note: Each item above was reported in the Committee of the Whole and the committee chair presented the Committee of the Whole report to the Senate. Where the transcript showed floor adoption of committee or floor amendments the article notes that action; if the transcript did not include a roll-call final tally, the tally is recorded as not specified.

Votes-at-a-glance (from Committee of the Whole report)

- SB 10 11 (substituted by HB 2703) — Do pass as amended (see separate article) - SB 10 49 — Do pass as amended (adopted finance committee amendment and Leach floor amendment) — final floor tally: not specified in transcript - SB 10 59 — Do pass as amended (adopted public safety committee amendment) — final floor tally: not specified in transcript - SB 10 70 — Retained on calendar