---
type: "Bill"
title: "town elected officials; term limits"
description: "town elected officials; term limits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "54th-1st-regular"
identifier: "HB 2721"
citation: "Arizona HB 2721 (54th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CITIES AND TOWNS - TITLE 9", "TERM LIMITS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jay Lawrence"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e69c492-6152-431e-92a6-73da6515c86a"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/72365?SessionId=121"
source_hash: "8489c9bfae928bee16108047a14ba8b2b2d454343010f236404db174d609c4c1"
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 2721 (54th-1st-regular) — town elected officials; term limits

## 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/0080.htm)
2. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/HB2721H.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/HB2721P.htm)

## Votes

- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **23–6** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **50–10** (pass) · lower
- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jay Lawrence — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** house first reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-14** house second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** dp `passage`
- **2019-02-28** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** senate first reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** transmit to senate
- **2019-03-11** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** senate second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-26** dp `passage`
- **2019-04-04** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-04** transmit to house
- **2019-04-08** transmit to governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-11** 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/8e69c492-6152-431e-92a6-73da6515c86a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).