---
type: "Bill"
title: "mandatory reporting; school employees; investigations"
description: "mandatory reporting; school employees; investigations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1437"
citation: "Arizona SB 1437 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carine Werner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 18
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2025-02-04"
last_action: "2025-04-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a07f707-faeb-4966-88eb-890495a45a55"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/82855?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "e00470231eb4ed41332bac15b1bbf285f5c5a8b828839d3aa94b013743db575f"
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 1437 (57th-1st-regular) — mandatory reporting; school employees; investigations

## 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/0040.pdf)
2. **HOUSE - 1437EDUCATION.PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/526838)
3. **HOUSE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/526669)
4. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1437h.pdf)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1437p.pdf)
6. **SENATE - Education** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/523158)
7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1437s.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **38–20** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper
- Passed — **17–12** (pass) · upper
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- failed to pass — **24–32** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **22–8** (pass) · upper
- Passed — **0–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carine Werner — primary (person)
- Hildy Angius — cosponsor (person)
- Janae Shamp — cosponsor (person)
- Matt Gress — cosponsor (person)
- Selina Bliss — cosponsor (person)
- Shawnna Bolick — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas "T.J." Shope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-05** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-05** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-02-20** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-20** Transmit to House
- **2025-02-26** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03** W/D `withdrawal`
- **2025-03-04** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13** DPA `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-13** FAILED `failure`
- **2025-03-18** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-18** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-04-02** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-04-02** PASSED `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-07** 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/3a07f707-faeb-4966-88eb-890495a45a55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).