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AZ HB2438 (2025)
Birth certificates; amendments; prohibition
Anti-LGBTQ+
- Jurisdiction
- Arizona
- Session
- Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)
- Stage reported
- Vetoed
- First recorded action
- Latest action
- : Governor Vetoed
- Record retrieved
Bill types
As labelled in the project's tracker.
Birth Certificate or Identification Change BanGender Marker Change Ban
Links
- LegiScan record(opens another site)
- Official legislature page(opens another site)
- Introduced text (Jan 16, 2025)(opens another site)
- Engrossed text (Feb 17, 2025)(opens another site)
- Engrossed text (Apr 10, 2025)(opens another site)
- Bill page on this site
Recorded actions
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| House | Introduced in House and read first time | |
| House | Assigned to House JUD Committee | |
| House | Assigned to House RULES Committee | |
| House | House read second time | |
| House | House JUD Committee action: Do Pass Amended, voting: (6-3-0-0-0-0) | |
| House | House RULES Committee action: constitutional and in proper form, voting: (5-3-0-0-0-0) | |
| House | House majority caucus: Do pass | |
| House | House minority caucus: Do pass | |
| House | House Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended | |
| House | House third reading PASSED voting: (33-26-1-0) | |
| Senate | Transmit to Senate | |
| Senate | Introduced in Senate and read first time | |
| Senate | Assigned to Senate HHS Committee | |
| Senate | Assigned to Senate RULES Committee | |
| Senate | Senate read second time | |
| Senate | Senate HHS Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (4-3-0-0) | |
| Senate | Senate RULES Committee action: Proper For Consideration, voting: (5-4-0-0) | |
| Senate | Senate consent calendar | |
| Senate | Senate majority caucus: Do pass | |
| Senate | Senate minority caucus: Do pass | |
| Senate | Senate Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended | |
| Senate | Senate third reading PASSED voting: (17-13-0-0) | |
| House | Transmit to House | |
| House | House minority caucus: Conference | |
| House | House Conference Committee recommended | |
| House | House concurs | |
| House | House final reading PASSED, voting: (32-23-5-0) | |
| Transmitted to Governor | ||
| Governor Vetoed |
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