Archives: Bill Tracker List

1/20/26: House Education Committee

HB2017

Representative Rachel Keshel (R-AZ-017)

Amend Section 1. Section 36-2153.01, Arizona Revised Statute to require the ARIZONA HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT SYSTEM to provide on the department’s public website home page FOR EACH AGENCY a conspicuous link that directs an individual to the following easily comprehensible information, in both English and Spanish: 1. A list of public and private agencies and services available to assist a woman through pregnancy, on childbirth and while her child is dependent. Any agency that counsels, refers, performs, induces, prescribes or provides any means for abortion may not be included on the list.

HB2039

Sponsor: Representative Travers

Summary: HB 2039 mandates that clergy, priests, and Christian Science practitioners report child abuse or neglect if they believe it is ongoing or likely to recur, even if learned through confidential confessions. By amending the “penitential privilege,” the bill forces religious leaders to prioritize protecting a child’s safety over protecting abusive predators. Incredible that law must specifically compel religious figures to do what basic morality should already dictate: protect children from predators.

Would require health clinics on public universities to discuss adoption with students who ask for contraception or STI tests/terament. This is a discussion that should only be between the patient and their healthcare provider. District and charter schools (but not private/voucher schools) would also be required to discuss adoption in sex ed classes.

HB 2043

Representative Selina Bliss (R-AZ-001)

Category: Reproductive Rights

Summary: AMENDS SECTION 13-1105, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES; RELATING TO HOMICIDE TO MAKE ABORTION A FELONY BY ADDING “UNBORN CHILD” TO LANGUAGE DESCRIBING THE DEFINITION HOMICIDE.

Grants legal rights to fetuses, laying the groundwork to restrict IVF, contraception, etc. More about fetal personhood bills. 

HB2060

Sponsor: Representative Rachel Keshel (R-AZ-017)

Summary:Prohibits Arizona public educational institutions, including universities under the Board of Regents, from encouraging or facilitating abortions. This restriction applies to the institutions themselves and to all employees acting in their official capacities, effectively banning school-sponsored resources, referrals, or assistance related to abortion services.

HB2074

Sponsor: Representative Lisa Fink (R-AZ-027)

Summary: Mandates that medical facility employees, contractors, or volunteers report any direct knowledge of partial-birth abortions to the County Attorney. Reports must identify the involved physician and facility. Failure to report constitutes a class 2 misdemeanor, legally compelling staff to act as informants against colleagues and medical institutions.

HB2085

Sponsor: Representative Lisa Fink (R-AZ-027)

Summary: Prohibits physicians and other health professionals from performing or referring minors (individuals under 18) for:

• Irreversible Gender Reassignment Surgery: Including procedures like mastectomies, phalloplasties, or augmentations for the purpose of gender transition;

• Gender Transition Procedures: This includes the administration of puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones (e.g., testosterone for biological females or estrogen for biological males); and

• Referrals: Professionals are barred from referring a minor to another health professional specifically for these procedures.

Violating these provisions would be considered “unprofessional conduct,” potentially leading to the revocation of a medical license and prohibits the use of public monies or state resources for gender transition procedures for minors.

The bill also  allows individuals who received these procedures as minors to sue the providing health professional. This right to sue lasts until 20 years after the individual turns 18.

More on anti-trans bills. 

bans mask and vaccine requirements for schools, government entities, and even private businesses. It removes flexibility to respond to outbreaks and limits the ability of employers and schools, especially medical settings, to protect employees, patients, and students.

HB2110

Sponsor: Representatives Martinez: Carbone, Carter N, Fink, Hendrix, Lopez, Peña

Summary:

Amends TITLE 15, CHAPTER 1, ARTICLE 1, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES so any member of a governing body of a public school or educational institution can request and must be allowed to pray during a meeting of that governing body. Includes school districts, charter schools, technical education insinuations, community colleges, state school for the deaf and blind, and public universities.

HB2135

Sponsor: Representative Michael Way (R-AZ-015)

Summary: AMENDING TITLE 12, CHAPTER 6, ARIZONA REVISED STATUTES, BY ADDING ARTICLE 20 to create a legal pathway for individuals to sue “covered entities” (corporations, agencies, or organizations) that enforce Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in violation of state or federal law. Prohibited DEI policies include the claim that the U.S. is “fundamentally racist or sexist” and “compelling individuals to believe or speak in a way that suggests an individual can change their sex or gender.”