HB 2448 Arizona House · 57th Legislature - First Regular Session

voting locations; emergency designation; electioneering

HB 2448 updates Arizona's election rules for voting locations. It allows counties to combine polling places for efficiency, establishes procedures for emergency voting centers during elections (including updated voter registration at these sites), and requires school principals to provide written reasons if denying polling space. The bill also mandates that government-owned buildings be made available for voting locations starting in 2026. These changes directly affect local election officials and voters by altering where and how elections are conducted.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

House Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

Jun 2025

Governor

Introduced Jan 23, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025

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What changed between versions

House Engrossed Version → Senate Engrossed Version · 3 edits · Jun 16, 2025

MINOR

The bill was amended from the House to Senate version, primarily clarifying language around voting location availability and emergency nonelectioneering designations. The Senate version expands the definition of eligible government-owned facilities for voting locations to include those owned by counties, cities, or towns, while adding a restriction that state-owned facilities must not be used unless they are not owned by the state itself. Emergency nonelectioneering designations now require that facilities be neither state nor local government-owned, and the requirements for posting emergency designations on websites were streamlined.

Scope change

The scope of eligible facilities for voting locations was modified to exclude state-owned facilities from the emergency nonelectioneering designation process, while clarifying that county, city, or town-owned facilities remain eligible.

ELIGIBILITY

Expanded the definition of eligible government-owned buildings for voting locations to explicitly include those owned by counties, cities, or towns, while clarifying that state-owned facilities are excluded from emergency nonelectioneering designations.

REQUIREMENT

Modified the requirements for emergency nonelectioneering designations to apply only to facilities not owned by the state, counties, cities, or towns, and simplified the website posting requirements for emergency designations.

TECHNICAL

Corrected formatting and capitalization issues, including standardizing 'act of God' capitalization and removing redundant bracketed text from the House version.

Floor votes · House Feb 20, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 16, 2025

Upper · Passed

PASSED

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May 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

PASSED

lower

Apr 15, 2025

Upper · Passed

PASSED

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Apr 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

DPA

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

DPA

upper

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

PASSED

lower

Feb 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

DPA

lower

Feb 5, 2025

Lower · Passed

DPA

lower

1 primary · 21 co-sponsors