---
type: "Bill"
title: "vulnerable adults; financial exploitation"
description: "vulnerable adults; financial exploitation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "54th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1483"
citation: "Arizona SB 1483 (54th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION", "VULNERABLE ADULTS", "WELFARE - TITLE 46"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J.D. Mesnard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-05"
last_action: "2019-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a19d904-9ded-453e-8857-31413f891b8f"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/72165?SessionId=121"
source_hash: "784ac127fb93286193894c32488f81452219ad60b6ba7af7a404f0e1e3449a48"
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 1483 (54th-1st-regular) — vulnerable adults; financial exploitation

## 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/54leg/1R/laws/0221.htm)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1483P.htm)
3. **SENATE - Mesnard flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/adopted/S.1483FLOORMESNARD.docx.htm)
4. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1483S.htm)

## Votes

- retained — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **58–0** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- retained — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **26–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- J.D. Mesnard — primary (person)
- Aaron Lieberman — cosponsor (person)
- David Livingston — cosponsor (person)
- Heather Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Lela Alston — cosponsor (person)
- Sean Bowie — cosponsor (person)
- Sine Kerr — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-20** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-07** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-21** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-05-06** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-12** house first reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-13** house second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-08** house placed on consent calendar
- **2019-02-05** senate first reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-06** senate second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-13** signed by governor `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-07** transmit to house
- **2019-05-06** transmit to senate
- **2019-05-07** transmit to governor `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a19d904-9ded-453e-8857-31413f891b8f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).