---
type: "Bill"
title: "student athletes; employment status; restrictions"
description: "student athletes; employment status; restrictions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1615"
citation: "Arizona SB 1615 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thomas \"T.J.\" Shope"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-05-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e2b1c2b-b18b-4d8e-9102-a5c0045bea5c"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/83066?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "8514251379670d53b3a02ab5cc39a3ff2ad82900b334b911cd6cbae8b16d01d1"
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 1615 (57th-1st-regular) — student athletes; employment status; restrictions

## 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/0143.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - 1615EDUCATION.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/528527)
3. **HOUSE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/528204)
4. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1615h.pdf)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1615p.pdf)
6. **SENATE - Shope flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/526991)
7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1615s.pdf)

## Votes

- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **22–0** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **26–1** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **51–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thomas "T.J." Shope — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-13** Transmit to House
- **2025-03-19** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-09** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-14** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-14** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-05-01** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-01** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-01** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07** 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/6e2b1c2b-b18b-4d8e-9102-a5c0045bea5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).