---
type: "Bill"
title: "physician assistants; licensure; board"
description: "physician assistants; licensure; board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1015"
citation: "Arizona SB 1015 (55th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ARIZONA REGULATORY BOARD OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS", "BOARD (H)", "LICENSURE", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT BOARD", "PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS", "PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS - TITLE 32"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nancy Barto"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-12-16"
last_action: "2021-02-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/301a120c-d7b6-452b-9a02-598e18769df7"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/74284?SessionId=123"
source_hash: "7b21e727ccae6a77470fb6e72ea0d5d4b3d8e0e0cc9da5aa76cdd2ecc11b0097"
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 1015 (55th-1st-regular) — physician assistants; licensure; board

## 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/1R/laws/0013.htm)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1015P.htm)
3. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1015S.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **59–0** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nancy Barto — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-16** Prefiled. `filing`
- **2021-01-11** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-01-12** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-01-13** DP `committee-passage`
- **2021-01-28** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-01-28** Transmit to House
- **2021-02-04** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-04** Transmit to Senate
- **2021-02-08** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-12** 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/301a120c-d7b6-452b-9a02-598e18769df7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).