AZBio Legislative Watch List for 2025
The Second Regular Session, 56th Legislature, 2024, adjourned Sine Die on June 16, 2024
This page will be updated with bills from the First Regular Session of the 57th Legislature once bills are introduced.
As Arizona’s Statewide Bioscience Industry Association, AZBio works with our elected leaders to educate and inform on the key issues that will help to make Arizona a Top-Ten Bioscience State and works across our community to support our members, our industry, our healthcare partners, and patient advocacy organizations.
Each year, AZBio publishes its Policy Initiatives as approved by the AZBio Board of Directors.
Click here to view the AZBio Government Affairs Policy Guide for 2025.
AZBio is supported at the State Capitol by our contract lobbyists at Dorn Policy Group.
Legislative Deadlines: First Regular Session, 57th Legislature, 2025
Dates are estimates until the official schedule is published.
First Day of Session is January 13, 2025
January 2025
- Monday 1/13 Deadline for pre-files is 12:00 PM
- Thursday 1/16 Last day for sponsorship of bills before the seven-bill limit begins (5:00 PM)
- Monday 1/13 Senate Bill Request Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
- Tuesday 1/21* Senate Bill Intro Set Preparation Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
FEBRUARY 2025
- Monday 2/3 Senate Bill Introduction Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
- Friday 2/7 House Bill Request Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
- Monday 2/10 House Bill Introduction Deadline (5:00 p.m.)
- Friday 2/21 Last Day to Hear SBs in Senate Committees / Last Day to Hear HBs in House Committees
MARCH 2025
- Friday 3/28 Last day for House consideration of Senate bills; Last day for Senate consideration of House bills (Note 1)
APRIL 2025
- Friday, 4/18 Last day for consideration of bills in Conference Committees
- Tuesday, 4/22 100th day of session
- Saturday, April 26, 2025 – Sine Die
Note:
- Appropriations bills have an additional 2 weeks.
Adjournment sine die on Saturday, April 26, 2025– regular sessions shall be adjourned sine die no later than the Saturday of the week in which the 100th day of session falls. (The Speaker and the President may extend the session for a period not to exceed seven additional days. Thereafter, the session can be extended only by a majority vote of the Members.
* 1/20/25 Martin Luther King, Jr./Civil Rights Day
Tracked Bills in the First Regular Session, 57th Legislature, 2025
The list below highlights bills that pertain to our areas of focus. As these bills progress, our positions to support, monitor, or oppose will be added. All AZBio Members have the option to add bills to the Watch List. To do so, email AZBio.
Transmitted to the Governor
House Bills
| HCR2012 | income tax; rate; reduction |
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| HCR2015 | federal funds; legislative approval |
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| HCR2026 | legislative sessions; subjects; even-numbered years |
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| HB2001 | behavioral health; temporary licensure; graduates |
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H-HHS
| HB2012 | emergency use products; employers; prohibition |
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| HB2055 | immunizations; requirements; exemption |
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| HB2058 | school immunizations; exemption; adult students |
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H-ED ; H-RULES
| HB2063 | parental notification; school immunization exemptions |
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H-ED ; H-RULES
| HB2109 | forced organ harvesting; insurance; prohibition |
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H-HHS : H-RULES
| HB2125 | insurance coverage; hearing aids; children |
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| HB2126 | medical records; parental rights |
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| HB2127 | hazardous substance release; notice; liability |
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H-NREW; H-RULES
| HB2184 | appropriations; health innovation trust fund |
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| HB2187 | ABOR; university presidents; compensation |
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| HB2199 | prescription drugs; advertising; requirements |
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| HB2283 | emergencies; price regulations; unlawful practices |
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| HB2291 | opioids; containers; labeling; requirements; repeal |
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| HB2292 | cancer screening; coverage; gene mutation |
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| HB2320 | appropriation; veterans’ services; mental health |
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| HB2348 | behavioral health services; insurance coverage |
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| HB2380 | rare disease advisory council |
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| HB2383 | appropriations; applied research centers; technology |
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| HB2404 | commerce authority; board of directors |
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| HB2405 | topical medications |
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| HB2429 | pharmacy benefits; pharmacy management networks |
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Senate Bills
| SB1008 | eyeglasses; prescriptions |
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S-RAGE ; S-RULES
| SB1031 | cosmetics sales; animal testing; prohibitions |
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| SB1054 | assisted living; hyperbaric oxygen therapy |
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S-HHS ; S-RULES
| SB1076 | newborn screening; Duchenne muscular dystrophy |
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S-HHS ; S-APPROP; S-RULES
| SB1083 | appropriation; university of Arizona; agriculture |
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S-NR ; S-APPROP; S-RULES
| SB1100 | Maricopa county; division; new counties |
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S-GOV ; S-RULES
| SB1101 | Maricopa county; new counties; division |
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S-GOV; S-RULES
| SB1102 | pharmacy benefits; prescribing; exemption |
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S-HHS ; S-RULES
| SB1140 | telehealth program; homeless; recovery services |
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