---
type: "Bill"
title: "behavioral health; temporary licensure; graduates"
description: "behavioral health; temporary licensure; graduates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "HB 2001"
citation: "Arizona HB 2001 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matt Gress"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2024-11-26"
last_action: "2025-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7beb5371-5f5e-474b-8cc7-7b1f27b54227"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/81592?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "6c07f455e1a50aaee550f3bb779dbb4d0f755404046161a94e23f98d3bf08375"
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 2001 (57th-1st-regular) — behavioral health; temporary licensure; graduates

## 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/0118.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Gress - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/524026)
3. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2001h.pdf)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2001p.pdf)
5. **SENATE - Health and Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/527808)
6. **SENATE - Health and Human Services - Strike Everything** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/527915)
7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2001s.pdf)

## Votes

- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **50–5** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **36–23** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **19–9** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Matt Gress — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-11-26** Prefiled. `filing`
- **2025-01-13** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-15** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-27** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-03** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2025-02-12** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-17** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-17** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-02-24** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-25** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19** DPA/SE `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-03** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-08** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Transmit to House
- **2025-04-28** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-04-28** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-04-28** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-02** 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/7beb5371-5f5e-474b-8cc7-7b1f27b54227`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).