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Arizona House completes readings, refers dozens of measures for printing
Summary
On Jan. 27, 2025, the Arizona House of Representatives completed first and second readings of a wide slate of bills across education, elections, water, public safety and appropriations and announced that measures first read would be referred for printing and placement on the House calendar.
The Arizona House of Representatives completed first and second readings of dozens of bills on Jan. 27, 2025, and the chamber announced that measures which had been first read were being referred for printing and placed on the House calendar.
The referrals followed a lengthy formal reading by the clerk of bills spanning numerous policy areas, including elections, education, natural resources and water policy, appropriations and public safety. Examples listed during the session included bills on voter procedures and early voting, school funding and assessments, groundwater replenishment and augmentation, tax credits and multiple appropriations measures. The clerk also read items related to municipal and county rules, public employee issues, and several determinations tied to the state’s water and groundwater management systems.
Why it matters: referring measures for printing formally advances them in the legislative process and clears them for committee referral, hearings and eventual floor consideration. The breadth of measures read signals that committees and lawmakers will soon be receiving material across many policy areas.
Details from the session: - The clerk and the presiding officer conducted the formal readings that populated the House calendar with the listed bills. The session record shows multiple first- and second-reading entries covering a long list of bill numbers (examples cited during the reading included measures labeled in the HB 2000–2699 range and HB 2200–2699 range across several subject committees). - The House announced that "all House measures which have been first read are referred for printing." The announcement was recorded on the floor and entered in the journal.
No floor debate on the measures was recorded in the transcript excerpt. The House also followed routine procedure granting committees permission to continue meeting under House Rule 9(e), which was referenced during the session.
The House adjourned after making calendar announcements and referring first-read measures for printing; the journal records a motion to adjourn that carried without recorded roll-call opposition.
