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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "notaries; businesses; prohibition"
+description: "notaries; businesses; prohibition"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
+legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
+session: "57th-1st-regular"
+identifier: "HB 2344"
+citation: "Arizona HB 2344 (57th-1st-regular)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Laurin Hendrix"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-05-12"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb565780-d40d-4126-8d97-576de284a05b"
+source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/82122?SessionId=129"
+source_hash: "a7aefde945ce7df11f2e93673be4eab12086ff8671613d438fbbd6a9638a81ce"
+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 HB 2344 (57th-1st-regular) — notaries; businesses; prohibition
+
+## 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/57leg/1r/laws/0169.pdf)
+2. **HOUSE - Government** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/525202)
+3. **HOUSE - SUB Floor Amend to GOV - Hendrix - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/525800)
+4. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2344h.pdf)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2344p.pdf)
+6. **SENATE - Hoffman flr amend (ref House Engrossed Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/529437)
+7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2344s.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passed — **28–0** (pass) · upper
+- Passed — **52–3** (pass) · lower
+- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passed — **60–0** (pass) · lower
+- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
+- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Laurin Hendrix — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** House First Reading. `reading-1`
+- **2025-01-27** House Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-19** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-25** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-02-26** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-02-26** Transmit to Senate
+- **2025-03-03** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-04** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-19** DP `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-17** DPA `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-29** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-29** Transmit to House
+- **2025-05-06** PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-05-06** PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-05-06** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-12** 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/fb565780-d40d-4126-8d97-576de284a05b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).
+