---
type: "Bill"
title: "hospital; price transparency"
description: "hospital; price transparency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "56th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1603"
citation: "Arizona SB 1603 (56th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Janae Shamp"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-04-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb2d29a0-8554-4bed-8da9-cac3b1cb2714"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/79285?SessionId=127"
source_hash: "3d6474533e34118dcfb37eecab5ee72358cf8d740efc29af6007270043c12d43"
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 1603 (56th-1st-regular) — hospital; price transparency

## 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/56leg/1r/laws/0039.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - Health & Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1r/adopted/h.1603health  human services.pdf)
3. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1r/bills/sb1603h.pdf)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1r/bills/sb1603p.pdf)
5. **SENATE - Shamp flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/510046)
6. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/1r/bills/sb1603s.pdf)

## Votes

- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **22–8** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **31–27** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **18–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Janae Shamp — primary (person)
- Austin Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Sonny Borrelli — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Wendy Rogers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-01** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2023-02-07** DP `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-21** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2023-02-21** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-21** Transmit to House
- **2023-02-27** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-28** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2023-03-13** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-28** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2023-03-28** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-28** Transmit to Senate
- **2023-04-06** PASSED `passage`
- **2023-04-06** PASSED `passage`
- **2023-04-06** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2023-04-12** 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/cb2d29a0-8554-4bed-8da9-cac3b1cb2714`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).