republic-os/legislation/us/states/az/55th-2nd-regular/sb-1159.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	teacher certification; leadership preparation programs	teacher certification; leadership preparation programs	us/states/az	Arizona Legislature	55th-2nd-regular	SB 1159	Arizona SB 1159 (55th-2nd-regular)	bill		enacted	Rick Gray	9	18	10	2022-01-13	2022-07-05	openstates	ocd-bill/6f411835-758f-4d97-a863-629331fac0bc	https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/76612?SessionId=125	551d436ca3393c5756e8e7be7ad8acf81235ce4c17aecf63d1b059f30bb36030	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-az

Arizona SB 1159 (55th-2nd-regular) — teacher certification; leadership preparation programs

Version chain

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

1. Chaptered Version (committee substitute) — source
2. HOUSE - Amended by ED - passed (committee substitute) — source
3. HOUSE - Education (committee substitute) — source
4. HOUSE - Floor Amend to Engrossed Bill - John - passed (committee substitute) — source
5. House Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
6. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
7. SENATE - Education (committee substitute) — source
8. SENATE - Gray flr amend (ref ED) adopted (committee substitute) — source
9. Senate Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passed — 16–10 (pass) · upper
• Passed — 31–27 (pass) · lower
• Passed — 0–0 (pass) · upper
• retained — 0–0 (fail) · upper
• do pass amended — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• do pass amended — 0–0 (fail) · lower
• do pass amended — 0–0 (fail) · upper
• Passed — 16–12 (pass) · upper
• Passed — 0–0 (pass) · lower
• retained — 0–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Rick Gray — primary (person)
• Ben Toma — cosponsor (person)
• David Gowan — cosponsor (person)
• David Livingston — cosponsor (person)
• J.D. Mesnard — cosponsor (person)
• Jeff Weninger — cosponsor (person)
• John Kavanagh — cosponsor (person)
• Justin Wilmeth — cosponsor (person)
• Kevin Payne — cosponsor (person)
• Nancy Barto — cosponsor (person)
• Paul Boyer — cosponsor (person)
• Shawnna Bolick — cosponsor (person)
• Sine Kerr — cosponsor (person)
• Sonny Borrelli — cosponsor (person)
• Vince Leach — cosponsor (person)
• Warren Petersen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-13 Senate First Reading reading-1
• 2022-01-18 Senate Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-01-25 DPA amendment-passage
• 2022-02-28 DPA amendment-passage
• 2022-03-02 PASSED passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-03 Transmit to House
• 2022-03-08 House First Reading. reading-1
• 2022-03-09 House Second Reading reading-2
• 2022-03-22 DPA amendment-passage
• 2022-04-11 DPA amendment-passage
• 2022-06-23 PASSED passage
• 2022-06-23 DPA amendment-passage
• 2022-06-23 PASSED passage, reading-3
• 2022-06-24 PASSED passage
• 2022-06-24 PASSED passage
• 2022-06-24 Transmit to Senate
• 2022-06-25 Transmit to Governor executive-receipt
• 2022-07-05 Signed by Governor executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6f411835-758f-4d97-a863-629331fac0bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).