---
type: "Bill"
title: "physician assistants; physician relationship"
description: "physician assistants; physician relationship"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "54th-1st-regular"
identifier: "HB 2519"
citation: "Arizona HB 2519 (54th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS", "PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS - TITLE 32"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nancy Barto"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-05-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0628e74d-4c3a-4ffc-b3ec-f0c8e2de2a72"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/71683?SessionId=121"
source_hash: "28a98a86dd99cbaa4dce3806a7fef4d01ebe53d9e2f2ae995b8427e2f167f45d"
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 2519 (54th-1st-regular) — physician assistants; physician relationship

## 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/54leg/1R/laws/0204.htm)
2. **HOUSE - Health & Human Services - Strike Everything** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/adopted/H.2519HEALTH  HUMAN SERVICES.DOCX.htm)
3. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/HB2519H.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/HB2519P.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nancy Barto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** house first reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** dpa/se `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-05** house second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-26** transmit to senate
- **2019-02-26** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-28** senate first reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-13** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** senate second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-27** dp `passage`
- **2019-05-02** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** transmit to house
- **2019-05-06** transmit to governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-10** 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/0628e74d-4c3a-4ffc-b3ec-f0c8e2de2a72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).