---
type: "Bill"
title: "Asian American; Pacific Islander month"
description: "Asian American; Pacific Islander month"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-2nd-regular"
identifier: "HB 2639"
citation: "Arizona HB 2639 (55th-2nd-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jennifer Pawlik"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e9761b6-3c38-4464-8706-578038e3367d"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/77471?SessionId=125"
source_hash: "6cc48c88e7dcfee77c0d76ef885de80c0d5c1fe5595b3f60908259487ec9ea63"
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 2639 (55th-2nd-regular) — Asian American; Pacific Islander month

## 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/2r/laws/0304.pdf)
2. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/bills/hb2639h.pdf)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/2r/bills/hb2639p.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **56–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jennifer Pawlik — primary (person)
- Alma Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Amish Shah — cosponsor (person)
- Andrea Dalessandro — cosponsor (person)
- Christian Solorio — cosponsor (person)
- César Chávez — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel Hernandez, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Frank P Carroll — cosponsor (person)
- Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren — cosponsor (person)
- Jeff Weninger — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer Jermaine — cosponsor (person)
- Jennifer L. Longdon — cosponsor (person)
- Joel John — cosponsor (person)
- John Kavanagh — cosponsor (person)
- John M. Fillmore — cosponsor (person)
- Judy Schwiebert — cosponsor (person)
- Lorenzo Sierra — cosponsor (person)
- Melody Hernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Mitzi Epstein — cosponsor (person)
- Pamela Powers Hannley — cosponsor (person)
- Quang H Nguyen — cosponsor (person)
- Sarah Liguori — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Bowie — cosponsor (person)
- Steve Kaiser — cosponsor (person)
- Walter "Walt" Blackman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-16** DP `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-21** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2022-02-23** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Transmit to Senate
- **2022-02-28** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2022-03-01** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2022-03-21** DP `committee-passage`
- **2022-06-08** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-06-08** Transmit to House
- **2022-06-14** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2022-06-17** 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/5e9761b6-3c38-4464-8706-578038e3367d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).