---
type: "Bill"
title: "health professionals; preceptorships"
description: "health professionals; preceptorships"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1278"
citation: "Arizona SB 1278 (55th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEFINITIONS", "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES (DHS)", "DHS (SEE: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES)", "DISPENSING OF DRUGS (H)", "EXCEPTIONS (H)", "EXEMPTION", "HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS", "HEALTH PROFESSIONALS", "MEDICAL PRECEPTOR", "ONLINE MEDICAL PRECEPTORSHIP AVAILABILITY LIST", "PRECEPTORSHIP AWARENESS CAMPAIGN", "PRECEPTORSHIPS", "PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS - TITLE 32", "PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY - TITLE 36", "RULEMAKING EXEMPTION", "RULES", "STUDENT", "STUDENTS (H)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tyler Pace"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/638681af-bb53-4fef-bb95-c2695810a3ec"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/75066?SessionId=123"
source_hash: "f1a14317ec34057f7f2cb5ed0859806925ea4f35b1662b453da7fc130e4e0d10"
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 1278 (55th-1st-regular) — health professionals; preceptorships

## 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/0213.htm)
2. **HOUSE - Amended by HHS - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/488548)
3. **HOUSE - Health & Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/H.1278HEALTH  HUMAN SERVICES.DOCX.htm)
4. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1278H.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1278P.htm)
6. **SENATE - Health and Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/S.1278HHS.DOCX.htm)
7. **SENATE - Pace flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/S.1278PACE0820.docx.htm)
8. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1278S.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **60–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tyler Pace — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-01-25** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-10** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-18** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-22** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-22** Transmit to House
- **2021-03-01** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2021-03-02** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-05** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-05** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Transmit to Senate
- **2021-04-07** PASSED `passage`
- **2021-04-07** PASSED `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-09** 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/638681af-bb53-4fef-bb95-c2695810a3ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).