House holds floor session, lists dozens of first‑read bills and votes to adjourn until Jan. 21

The House of Representatives convened for a floor session on Jan. 20, 2025, took first readings of numerous bills and resolutions, announced committee meetings and a bill‑filing deadline, and approved a motion to adjourn until 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.

The session included announcements about committee schedules and a reminder about a filing deadline tied to House Rule 8(c), which limits members to being the prime sponsor on no more than seven bills introduced after 5 p.m. on the fourth day of session. Clerks recorded attendance at 55 present, 1 absent and 4 excused.

Representative Colin Livingston, announcing committee business, said, “the joint appropriations committee will be meeting to review the Hobbs budget from 10 o'clock to 12 o'clock.” Representative Contreras invited members to a reorganization meeting of the LGBTQ caucus on Tuesday morning at 8:15 in the Cactus Wren room and introduced visiting students from the JAG program in the gallery.

Legislative staff read first‑reading notices for a long slate of bills and concurrent resolutions. Items announced on first reading included HB 2003 (real estate membership requirement); HB 2030 (impersonation of veterans); HB 2032 and HB 2033 (workers' compensation matters); HB 2043 (harassment intent defense); HB 2058 (school immunization exemption); HB 2079 (guardianship of minors); HB 2082 (TPT exemption — wastewater); HB 2083 (Game and Fish Commission); HB 2084 and HB 2086 (domestic water improvement district and water hauling programs); HB 2097 (voter rights restoration); HB 2101–2103 (appropriations including a Colorado River Compact item); HB 2109 (insurance — forced organ harvesting); HB 2111 (suicide prevention special plate); HB 2117 and HB 2127–2128 (appropriations and hazardous substance/environmental remediation); HB 2132–2135 (health services and physician assistant qualifications); HB 2155 (tax/ways and means item); HB 2160–2161 (Arizona Office of African American Affairs and greenhouse gas programs); HB 2169, HB 2174, HB 2179, HB 2180 and other bills on school, health and advertising rules; HB 2196 (AED/CPR training in schools); HB 2202–2204 (water and related items); HCR 2001–2003 (concurrent resolutions including a death penalty prohibition resolution and voting centers/precinct voting). The transcript lists these measures as first readings; substantive text, committee referrals and fiscal notes were not discussed on the floor during this session and are not specified in the transcript.

House officers also announced committee meetings: the Ethics Committee meeting in Hearing Room 4 at 10:30 a.m.; a joint Health and Human Services committee meeting with the Senate at 9 a.m. the following day in Hearing Room 1; and other committee scheduling adjustments. Representative Veil (Health and Human Services) and Representative Bliss made related announcements that the committee would meet jointly with the Senate and that the Health and Human Services Committee would not meet on Monday, respectively.

At the end of the session, Chairman Wang moved that the House “stand adjourned until 1:15 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.” The motion was approved by voice vote; a roll‑call tally was not recorded in the transcript. The clerk had earlier been instructed to record the actions of the House and entered the ethics committee report into the journal without reading it on the floor.

Votes at a glance

• Motion to adjourn the House until 1:15 p.m., Jan. 21, 2025 — Mover: Chairman Wang; second: not specified in transcript; Vote: approved by voice vote; notes: no roll‑call tally recorded in the transcript.

What the record shows and does not

The floor session was largely procedural: many bills were given first reading but were not debated on the floor during this session. The transcript does not include committee referrals, bill sponsors for most measures listed on first reading, fiscal notes, bill text, or recorded roll‑call votes for the measures announced. Where the transcript records only titles or short descriptions of measures, this article lists the bill numbers and the short descriptions as read on the floor; further details must be obtained from bill files or committee records.