---
type: "Bill"
title: "behavioral health professionals; unauthorized practice"
description: "behavioral health professionals; unauthorized practice"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "55th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1089"
citation: "Arizona SB 1089 (55th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUTHORIZATION", "BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS", "CIVIL PENALTY", "CLASS 6 FELONY", "CLINICAL EXPERIENCE", "CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK", "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES (DHS)", "DHS (SEE: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES)", "DIRECT CLIENT CONTACT", "FEES", "LICENSED PROFESSIONALS (H)", "PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS - TITLE 32", "THERAPIST (H)", "UNAUTHORIZED PRACTICE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tyler Pace"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 18
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-01-20"
last_action: "2021-03-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f312e1ed-7b26-4d38-b8d4-45690da11c91"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/74445?SessionId=123"
source_hash: "3fa78f19e67f1344cfa66edc61d1e4177e5b11a54c8c1acd34ea284929d9850e"
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 1089 (55th-1st-regular) — behavioral health professionals; unauthorized practice

## 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/0062.htm)
2. **HOUSE - Amended by HHS - passed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/486894)
3. **HOUSE - Health & Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/H.1089HEALTH  HUMAN SERVICES.DOCX.htm)
4. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1089H.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1089P.htm)
6. **SENATE - Health and Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/S.1089HHS.DOCX.htm)
7. **SENATE - Pace flr amend (ref HHS) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/adopted/S.1089FLOORPACE.docx.htm)
8. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/55leg/1R/bills/SB1089S.htm)

## Votes

- Passed — **21–9** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **29–1** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- failed to pass — **14–15** (fail) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **56–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Tyler Pace — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-20** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2021-01-21** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-02-03** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-10** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11** FAILED `failure, reading-3`
- **2021-02-11** PASSED `passage`
- **2021-02-18** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Transmit to House
- **2021-02-23** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-24** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2021-03-01** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-11** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2021-03-15** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2021-03-15** Transmit to Senate
- **2021-03-16** PASSED `passage`
- **2021-03-16** PASSED `passage`
- **2021-03-16** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-18** 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/f312e1ed-7b26-4d38-b8d4-45690da11c91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).