---
type: "Bill"
title: "health insurance; surprise billing; disputes"
description: "health insurance; surprise billing; disputes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "57th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1626"
citation: "Arizona SB 1626 (57th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carine Werner"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-05-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26ab08cf-5b58-4c19-885e-e922890863cd"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/83061?SessionId=129"
source_hash: "5e3a06fa7a7a0d78cba69f7581dc8a806821ce886874458336cf73e373786f44"
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 1626 (57th-1st-regular) — health insurance; surprise billing; disputes

## 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/0114.pdf)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1626p.pdf)
3. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/57leg/1r/bills/sb1626s.pdf)

## Votes

- Passed — **50–5** (pass) · lower
- Passed — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carine Werner — primary (person)
- David Gowan — cosponsor (person)
- Frank Carroll — cosponsor (person)
- Hildy Angius — cosponsor (person)
- Janae Shamp — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas "T.J." Shope — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-10** Senate First Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-11** Senate Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-12** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-27** Transmit to House
- **2025-03-03** House First Reading. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** House Second Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-10** DP `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-17** House Placed on Consent Calendar
- **2025-04-16** PASSED `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Transmit to Senate
- **2025-04-29** Transmit to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-02** 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/26ab08cf-5b58-4c19-885e-e922890863cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).