Arizona transportation laws
What Arizona has enacted on transportation, what each law requires, and what the bills still moving would do. Arizona is one of 41 states that enacted a transportation law in the 2025 and 2026 sessions.
- Bills in scope
- 15bills in scope
- Past committee
- 9past committee
- Most recent action
- 19 June 2026most recent action
Transportation laws enacted in Arizona
3 transportation laws enacted in the Arizona Legislature in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, newest first. Each links to the legislature's own page.
What it requires: Drivers of vehicles must stop 15 to 50 feet from railroad tracks when approaching grade crossings if warning signals, gates, flagmen, trains, or other on-track equipment are present or approaching. Operators of commercial motor vehicles must not enter crossings without sufficient space and undercarriage clearance. Persons moving heavy equipment must notify the railroad and stop before crossing.
Freight rail
What it requires: Motor carriers must not operate commercial motor vehicles in interstate or foreign commerce without registration pursuant to 49 United States Code sections 13901 and 13902, and must not operate beyond the scope of their registration. Drivers of overweight vehicles must comply with officer requests to shift loads to meet axle weight limitations.
Motor carriers and commercial drivers
What it requires: Beginning July 1, 2014, a person must be a separately authorized third party commercial driver license examiner to perform commercial driver license skills testing. Third party commercial driver license examiners must comply with all quality control requirements prescribed by the department.
Motor carriers and commercial drivers
Transportation in Arizona, by topic
Motor carriers and commercial drivers
7 bills, 2 enacted. Enacted in 34 states.
Freight rail
3 bills, 1 enacted. Enacted in 17 states.
Warehouses and delivery
2 bills. Enacted in 5 states.
Truck size, weight and road use
1 bill. Enacted in 17 states.
Ports, maritime and freight corridors
1 bill. Enacted in 10 states.
Autonomous trucks and delivery devices
1 bill. Enacted in 8 states.
Transportation bills in Arizona
The bills not yet law, furthest along first, with what each would do.
3Enacted
1Cleared both chambers
5Past committee
6Introduced or inactive
15 bills in scope
Cleared both chambers
1
What it would do: Requires nondomiciled commercial driver license holders to provide evidence of lawful immigration status or lawful presence in the United States when operating commercial motor vehicles. Authorizes law enforcement to request such evidence, impose civil penalties, issue citations, and impound vehicles for failure to comply.
Past committee
5
What it would do: Appropriates $5,000,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the state treasurer for distribution to the city of Douglas as state match for the Douglas port of entry, contingent on the general services administration providing a $678,000,000 award.
What it would do: Amends the commercial driver license requirements to add English proficiency as a required knowledge examination component, with testing in reading, speaking, writing, and listening.
Introduced or inactive
6
What it would do: Requires motor carriers transporting agricultural commodities in Arizona for intrastate commerce to maintain liability insurance covering emergency towing and recovery services. Creates a lien on the vehicle and commodity for unpaid towing services, perfected by recording with the secretary of state.
What it would do: Makes it unlawful for a person with unauthorized U.S. presence to possess a falsified commercial driver license, classifying the violation as a class 5 felony. Requires seizure and auction of the commercial motor vehicle and imposes civil penalties on employers who knowingly employed the violator.
What it would do: Establishes operational requirements for autonomous vehicles in Arizona, including approval of operational design domains, quarterly safety reporting, data retention for collisions and near-miss events, performance testing for vulnerable road users, and civil penalties up to $25,000 per violation.
What it would do: Requires warehouse employers with 100+ employees at one location or 500+ statewide to disclose quotas to workers, maintain work speed records, establish joint labor-management safety committees, and prohibits retaliation for requesting quota information or filing complaints.
What it would do: Requires warehouse employers with 100+ employees at one location or 500+ statewide to disclose quotas in writing, provide work speed data on request, establish joint labor-management safety committees, and prohibits retaliation for requesting quota information.
Bill titles link to the Arizona Legislature's own page.
What counts as transportation legislation
In scope: Motor carriers and commercial drivers; truck size, weight and road use; truck and fleet emissions; hazardous materials transport; freight rail; ports, maritime and freight corridors; warehouses and delivery; and autonomous trucks and delivery devices.
Questions
Does Arizona have a transportation law?
Yes. Arizona enacted 3 transportation laws in the 2025 and 2026 sessions, among them SB 1074, SB 1370 and HB 2166. Each is listed on this page with what it requires.
Which transportation bills are moving in Arizona?
6 bills not yet law have passed a committee or a chamber, the furthest along SB 1511 (vetoed), HB 2446 (passed chamber) and SB 1272 (passed chamber).
What does Arizona legislate on most in transportation?
Motor carriers and commercial drivers (7 bills), Freight rail (3 bills) and Warehouses and delivery (2 bills).
Are these summaries reviewed by a lawyer?
No. Which bills count as Transportation bills, and the line on what each law requires or each bill would do, are drafted by software from the bill's own text and not reviewed by an attorney. Every bill links to the legislature's own record: read the text before relying on it. The list covers bills from the 2025 and 2026 sessions.
Other practice areas in Arizona
- AI in Arizona20
- Alcohol in Arizona14
- Cannabis in Arizona25
- Children's Online Safety in Arizona16
- Cybersecurity in Arizona6
- Data center and energy in Arizona9
- Data Privacy in Arizona20
- Employment in Arizona74
- Healthcare in Arizona201
- Insurance in Arizona91
- Intellectual Property in Arizona7
- Packaging and PFAS in Arizona3
- Payments and fintech in Arizona12
- Rental housing in Arizona59
- Tobacco and nicotine in Arizona10
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Transportation legislation in other jurisdictions
52 more currently hold bills in this tracker
- Congress101
- New Jersey72
- Texas61
- New York49
- Missouri39
- Iowa34
- Oklahoma33
- California30
- Massachusetts30
- Louisiana25
- Illinois24
- Pennsylvania24
- Kentucky21
- Utah21
- Hawaii20
- Mississippi20
- Montana20
- Nebraska19
- Virginia18
- Maryland17
- Washington17
- New Mexico16
- Tennessee15
- Connecticut14
- West Virginia14
- Minnesota13
- Oregon11
- Florida10
- Michigan10
- Rhode Island10
- South Dakota9
- Arkansas8
- Colorado7
- Georgia7
- Kansas7
- Maine7
- North Carolina7
- Wisconsin7
- South Carolina6
- Alaska5
- District of Columbia5
- Delaware5
- Wyoming5
- Indiana4
- New Hampshire4
- Nevada4
- Vermont4
- Alabama3
- North Dakota3
- Idaho2
- Puerto Rico2
- Ohio1
Know when Arizona's transportation law changes
An alert when a bill moves, and one report a month on what changed in every state and Congress.