Arizona Senate places dozens of bills on second-reading calendar and adjourns until Jan. 28
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The Arizona Senate read a long second-reading calendar on Jan. 27, 2026 (bills on topics from digital currency to water and education), announced committee schedules, and adjourned after a motion carried to reconvene Jan. 28 at 10 a.m.
The Arizona Senate on Jan. 27 read a lengthy second-reading calendar that placed a broad slate of bills and concurrent resolutions on the floor calendar for future consideration.
Items announced included SB 1278 (solar radiation management prohibition enforcement), bills on pharmacist and veterinarian practice updates, public-records digital-media copies, water and aquifer management, a proposal to prohibit a central bank digital currency in the state, measures affecting charter-school oversight and auditor-general reviews, and bills addressing county and municipal authorities. Committee referrals were announced alongside many bills (for example, natural-resources, government, health and human services, judiciary and elections).
The President Pro Tem also noted standing-committee reports would be entered in the journal without being read aloud and announced that the Health and Human Services Committee would meet Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in Senate Hearing Room 2.
Late in the session the Senate Whip moved to adjourn the chamber until Thursday, Jan. 28, 2026, at 10 a.m. The motion carried by voice vote; the president declared the Senate adjourned. No floor votes on the listed second-reading bills were recorded during the Jan. 27 session.
