---
type: "Bill"
title: "health care decisions; living wills"
description: "health care decisions; living wills"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "56th-2nd-regular"
identifier: "HB 2254"
citation: "Arizona HB 2254 (56th-2nd-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Justin Wilmeth"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-19"
last_action: "2024-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a21d58fc-edbf-4700-8a68-89d6dc52b3d1"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/80090?SessionId=128"
source_hash: "d6976a94ca86eac9d8b9a2bfcbb57f85e705579b7751bce46500df1bf3f9de49"
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 2254 (56th-2nd-regular) — health care decisions; living wills

## 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/56leg/2r/laws/0140.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - Appropriations - Strike Everything** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/adopted/h.2254appropriations.pdf)
3. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to APPROP - Wilmeth - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/516086)
4. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2254h.pdf)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2254p.pdf)
6. **SENATE - Gowan flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/518295)
7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/56leg/2r/bills/hb2254s.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · lower
- Retained on the Calendar — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **18–9** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **47–12** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **43–16** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Justin Wilmeth — primary (person)
- Eva Burch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19** DPA/SE `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-19** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-02-29** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Transmit to Senate
- **2024-03-07** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2024-03-11** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-13** DP `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-28** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2024-04-01** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-01** Transmit to House
- **2024-04-04** PASSED `passage`
- **2024-04-04** PASSED `passage`
- **2024-04-04** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2024-04-10** 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/a21d58fc-edbf-4700-8a68-89d6dc52b3d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).