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Read. Follow. Verify.Arizona SB 1302 requires trench safety training for excavation contractors and license applicants
Last action · January 26, 2026: Senate Second ReadingSponsor: Rosanna Gabaldón
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What This Bill Proposed
The bill requires contractors who perform excavation work, along with their trench-entering employees and s, to complete Division of Occupational Safety and Health-approved trench safety training and renew it every two years. The measure amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 32-1122 to add trench safety training as a condition for obtaining and maintaining a contractor's license.
Contractors seeking or maintaining an excavation license in Arizona must incur the cost and time of completing and periodically renewing approved safety training or face license denial or revocation.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Contractors
Contractors must ensure qualifying parties and relevant employees complete and biennially renew approved trench safety training to obtain or maintain their licenses.
Excavation workers
Employees who enter trenches are required to complete trench safety training and renew it every two years.
Registrar of Contractors
The registrar must verify compliance with new trench safety training requirements for license applicants and renewal holders.
Key Facts
- Licensees whose scope of work includes excavation must ensure that competent persons and employees expected to enter trenches are properly trained in trench safety.
- Competent persons and prescribed employees must renew their trench safety training every two years or upon license renewal.
- Before a license is issued, the qualifying party must successfully show participation in a Division of Occupational Safety and Health-approved trench safety training course.
- A 'competent person' is defined as an individual who is knowledgeable about excavation standards, able to identify hazards, and has the authority to take immediate corrective action.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
2 actions- Jan 26, 2026SenateFloorSenate Second Reading
- Jan 22, 2026SenateIntroducedSenate First Reading
Version history
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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