Many notable bills that seemed on their way to success this session suddenly faltered — sometimes for personal reasons, sometimes for ideological reasons and sometimes because there just wasn’t enough time to smooth out the details.

Bills are never dead until the session ends — there are always ways to bring them back through such strategies such as strike-everything amendments and floor amendments. But the final deadline for committee hearings has passed, closing off the standard route for bills to become law for dozens of measures that sponsors marshaled most of the way through the process.

Below is a sample of some of the bills that were successful in one chamber, but were held up in the opposing chamber’s committees.

HB2047 pupil assessments; aims transition — Rep. Paul Boyer. The bill would eliminate the Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test and replace it with a competency test adopted by the State Board of Education. Held in Senate Education and Government and Environment committees

HB2073 Animal abuse; prohibited animal ownership — Rep. John Kavanagh. The bill would prohibit a person who is convicted of certain animal cruelty related crimes from adopting, owning or otherwise having care or custody of any animal in the person’s household. Violations would be a class 1 misdemeanor. Held in Senate Natural Resources and Rural Affairs Committee.

HB2121 Live animal prizes; prohibition — Rep. John Kavanagh. The bill would make it a class 3 misdemeanor for any person to give away any live animals as a prize for or as an inducement to enter any contest, game or other competition or as an inducement to enter a place of amusement. Would not apply to gold fish, pet stores, or animals that are used in activities permitted by agricultural statutes. Held in Senate Judiciary and Natural Resources and Rural Affairs committees

HB2037 School tax credit; unified sports programs — Rep. Heather Carter. The bill would allow contributions to public schools for school tax credits to be used for unified sports programs, defined as an inclusive program that combines students with intellectual disabilities and students without intellectual disabilities on sports teams for training and competition. Held in Senate Finance and Education committees

HB2276 Benefit Corporations — Rep. Tom Forese The bill would allow for the creation of and regulation of “benefit corporations,” defined as creating a material positive impact on society and the environment. Held in Senate Government and Energy Committee.

HB2563 Teacher prep programs; common core — Rep. Catherine Miranda. State Board of Education rules for teacher certification must ensure that postsecondary education programs that prepare students to teach in elementary and secondary schools remain current, reflect a rigorous course of study aligned to state and national standards and that students be assessed to determine their knowledge that is aligned with the common core standards. Held in Senate Education Committee.

HCR2011 Personal property tax exemption amount — Rep. Adam Kwasman. The measure would place on the 2014 general election ballot the question of whether to amend the state Constitution to increase the amount of personal property that is exempt from personal property tax beginning in tax year 2015. Held in Senate Finance Committee.

SB1045 Health professionals; claim of specialties — Sen. Nancy Barto. The bill would make it an act of unprofessional conduct for a health professional to claim “board certification” as a specialist if this is not true or the status is not current, or to claim board certification in any form of advertisement without supplying the full name of the specific entity that granted the certification. Held in House Health Committee

SB1262 Campaign finance limits; recall election — Sen. Michele Reagan. The bill would apply campaign finance regulations to supporting or opposing the circulation of a recall petition before a recall election is called. Held in House Judiciary Committee

SB1263 paid circulators; statewide measures; recall — Sen. Michele Reagan. The bill would require any person who intends to circulate a petition as a paid circulator for a candidate for statewide office, a statewide ballot measure or question or a statewide or legislative recall to register with the Secretary of State’s Office before circulating petitions. Held in House Judiciary Committee.

SB1287 Military retire; pension exclusion amount — Sen. Judy Burges. The list of subtractions from Arizona gross income for income tax purposes would be modified to include benefits, annuities and pensions totaling up to $5,000 received from retired or retainer pay of the U.S. uniformed services. Held in House Ways and Means Committee.