republic-os/legislation/us/states/az/55th-2nd-regular/hb-2251.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	lasers; assault; peace officers; penalty	lasers; assault; peace officers; penalty	us/states/az	Arizona Legislature	55th-2nd-regular	HB 2251	Arizona HB 2251 (55th-2nd-regular)	bill		enacted	Mark W. Finchem	5	17	6	2022-01-18	2022-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/4688c718-43c2-44e0-ad4f-1df3375a2488	https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/76709?SessionId=125	af304e903ff31d533ad2cf843da5ac928017cf1b7cc09b0af6b2d3609ea929b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-az

Arizona HB 2251 (55th-2nd-regular) — lasers; assault; peace officers; penalty

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Chaptered Version (committee substitute) — source
2. House Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. SENATE - Judiciary - Strike Everything (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed — 16–12 (pass) · upper
• do pass — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• Passed — 35–23 (pass) · lower
• Passed — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• Passed — 32–27 (pass) · lower
• do pass amended — 0–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark W. Finchem — primary (person)
• Brenda Barton — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-18 House First Reading. reading-1
• 2022-01-19 House Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-01-26 DP committee-passage
• 2022-01-31 House Placed on Consent Calendar
• 2022-02-03 DP passage
• 2022-02-03 PASSED passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-04 Transmit to Senate
• 2022-02-17 Senate First Reading reading-1
• 2022-02-21 Senate Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-03-24 DPA/SE amendment-passage
• 2022-04-06 DPA amendment-passage
• 2022-05-17 PASSED passage, reading-3
• 2022-05-17 Transmit to House
• 2022-05-25 PASSED passage
• 2022-05-25 PASSED passage
• 2022-05-26 Transmit to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-05-27 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4688c718-43c2-44e0-ad4f-1df3375a2488. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).