Bill Text: AZ SB1197 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Wage history; disclosure; retaliation; prohibition

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-28 - Senate read second time [SB1197 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2025-SB1197-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: wage history; disclosure; retaliation; prohibition

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

SB 1197

 

Introduced by

Senators Ortiz: Kuby;  Representatives Abeytia, Garcia, Sandoval

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 23, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 23-207; relating to employment practices.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 23, chapter 2, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 23-207, to read:

START_STATUTE23-207. Wage history; disclosure; retaliation prohibited; definition

A. An employer may not refuse to interview, hire, promote or employ an applicant for employment or retaliate against an applicant for employment because the applicant does not provide wage history. 

B. For the purposes of this SECTION, "wage HISTORY" means the wages paid to an applicant for EMPLOYMENT by the applicant's current or former employer. END_STATUTE