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+type: "Bill"
+title: "insurance; optometrists; contracts; covered services."
+description: "insurance; optometrists; contracts; covered services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
+legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
+session: "55th-1st-regular"
+identifier: "SB 1297"
+citation: "Arizona SB 1297 (55th-1st-regular)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["2020 (H)", "CONTRACTS", "COVERED SERVICE", "DEADLINES (H)", "DEFINITIONS", "EMERGENCY (H)", "INCOME TAX FILING EXTENSION (H)", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE - TITLE 20", "OPTOMETRIC SERVICE CORPORATION", "OPTOMETRISTS", "OPTOMETRY"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Thomas Shope"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2021-01-25"
+last_action: "2021-04-05"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ffbe1cc6-0070-4316-940c-87391e79a870"
+source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/75127?SessionId=123"
+source_hash: "ece978a3e82ec59971c2e690dbfd26eb16f788cad656f2ea44729db68ada73b3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-az"]
+---
+
+# Arizona SB 1297 (55th-1st-regular) — insurance; optometrists; contracts; covered services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Chaptered Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/laws/0177.htm)
+2. **HOUSE - Amended by WM - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/488360)
+3. **HOUSE - Ways & Means** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/proposed/H.1297BOLICK2.DOCX.htm)
+4. **HOUSE - Ways & Means - Strike Everything** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/H.1297WAYS  MEANS.DOCX.htm)
+5. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1297H.htm)
+6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1297P.htm)
+7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1297S.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- Passed — **28–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed — **58–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Thomas Shope — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-01-25** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2021-01-26** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-03** DP `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-16** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-02-16** Transmit to House
+- **2021-03-01** House First Reading. `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-02** House Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-16** W/D `withdrawal`
+- **2021-03-24** DPA/SE `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-31** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2021-03-31** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2021-03-31** Transmit to Senate
+- **2021-04-01** PASSED `passage`
+- **2021-04-01** PASSED `passage`
+- **2021-04-01** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-05** Signed by Governor `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ffbe1cc6-0070-4316-940c-87391e79a870`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).
+