---
type: "Bill"
title: "inpatient treatment days; computation; exclusion"
description: "inpatient treatment days; computation; exclusion"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "HB 2944"
citation: "Arizona HB 2944 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alma Hernandez"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-05-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0e726850-bed3-4ecb-842c-6075548a88cd"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/83425?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "8686f68aeb12637c326f960966ace62174a3a26ee6e29deb343b2cbc8ee486c9"
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 HB 2944 (57th-1st-regular) — inpatient treatment days; computation; exclusion

## 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/0214.pdf)
2. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2944h.pdf)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/hb2944p.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **56–1** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **24–4** (pass) · upper
- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alma Hernandez — primary (person)
- Consuelo Hernandez — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-24** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2025-02-25** DP `informal-passage`
- **2025-02-26** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-03-06** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-10** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-12** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-05-06** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Transmit to House
- **2025-05-07** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-13** 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/0e726850-bed3-4ecb-842c-6075548a88cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).