---
type: "Bill"
title: "recall elections; procedures; timeline"
description: "recall elections; procedures; timeline"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1040"
citation: "Arizona SB 1040 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["John Kavanagh"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-06"
last_action: "2025-03-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2792023f-a5ea-44d4-ac63-5d867888ed23"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/81666?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "9dadabe1cc3853557a011d744bd8300727b8901a84431644db356450c2833749"
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 1040 (57th-1st-regular) — recall elections; procedures; timeline

## 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/0003.pdf)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1040p.pdf)
3. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1040s.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **58–0** (pass) · lower
- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- John Kavanagh — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-06** Prefiled. `filing`
- **2025-01-14** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-15** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-01-29** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-12** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-12** Transmit to House
- **2025-02-24** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-25** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2025-03-13** DP `informal-passage`
- **2025-03-18** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-03-19** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-03-25** 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/2792023f-a5ea-44d4-ac63-5d867888ed23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).