---
type: "Bill"
title: "employment practices; wage claims"
description: "employment practices; wage claims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1159"
citation: "Arizona SB 1159 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Gowan"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-04-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d3aad19-31f1-4d3b-b820-4737c569ed4e"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/82335?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "166b044431d5aa52b3d4af395bc015a738ee869aa950f87467afef87b78d901e"
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 1159 (57th-1st-regular) — employment practices; wage claims

## 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/57leg/1r/laws/0038.pdf)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1159p.pdf)
3. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1159s.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **25–3** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **42–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- David Gowan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-23** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-03** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27** Transmit to House
- **2025-03-06** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-10** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2025-03-27** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-03-31** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-02** 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/3d3aad19-31f1-4d3b-b820-4737c569ed4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).