---
type: "Bill"
title: "marijuana violations; court jurisdiction; procedures"
description: "marijuana violations; court jurisdiction; procedures"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-1st-regular"
identifier: "HB 2171"
citation: "Arizona HB 2171 (55th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILD SAFETY - TITLE 8", "COURT JURISDICTION", "CRIMINAL CODE - TITLE 13", "EMERGENCY", "JUSTICE AND MUNICIPAL COURTS - TITLE 22", "JUVENILES", "MARIJUANA", "PROCEDURES", "VIOLATIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walter \"Walt\" Blackman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/31eccb13-2d56-4e82-814d-7faefc1d561c"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/74595?SessionId=123"
source_hash: "469be4124ff7a30848de881f89da11ae070eeab583dc24c0aeab3c56ada28b65"
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 2171 (55th-1st-regular) — marijuana violations; court jurisdiction; procedures

## 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/55leg/1R/laws/0222.htm)
2. **HOUSE - Amended by CJR - Blackman - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/483946)
3. **HOUSE - Criminal Justice Reform** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/H.2171CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.DOCX.htm)
4. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/HB2171H.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/HB2171P.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **58–1** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Walter "Walt" Blackman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-21** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-03** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-12** Transmit to Senate
- **2021-02-18** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** DP `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** Transmit to House
- **2021-04-08** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-14** 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/31eccb13-2d56-4e82-814d-7faefc1d561c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).