restaurants; water; hotels; laundry

Plain English Breakdown

Checked against official source text during the last sync.

HB2562: Water Service Rules for Restaurants and Linen Options for Hotels

This bill requires restaurants to serve water only when asked and mandates that hotels offer guests the choice to skip daily towel and linen washing.

What This Bill Does

• Changes a law chapter heading from 'Businesses Exempt From Mask Mandate' to 'Businesses Generally'.
• Requires restaurants and food service places in Arizona to serve water only when customers ask for it.
• Requires hotel and motel operators to give guests an option not to have towels or linens washed daily.
• Mandates that hotels must clearly display a notice telling guests about the choice to skip daily laundry.

Who It Names or Affects

• Restaurants and other food service establishments in Arizona
• Operators of hotels and motels in Arizona

Terms To Know

On request

Only given when a customer asks for it, not automatically placed on the table.

Laundered daily

Washed and cleaned every single day during a guest's stay.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill text does not state when these rules will officially start.
• The source material does not list any penalties for businesses that do not follow the new water or laundry rules.

Official Summary Text

HB2562 - restaurants; water; hotels; laundry

Current Bill Text

HB2562 - 572R - I Ver

REFERENCE TITLE:
restaurants; water; hotels; laundry

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2562

Introduced by

Representatives
Contreras P: Cavero, Liguori, Simacek, Stahl Hamilton, Villegas

AN
ACT

amending title 44, chapter 38, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 44-7952; relating to
businesses.

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

Section 1.
Heading change

The chapter heading of title 44,
chapter 38, Arizona Revised Statutes, is changed from "BUSINESSES EXEMPT FROM
MASK MANDATE" to "BUSINESSES GENERALLY".

Sec. 2. Title 44, chapter 38, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 44-7952, to read:

START_STATUTE
44-7952.

Water conservation; restaurants; food service establishments;
hotels; motels

A. Restaurants and other food service
establishments in this state may only serve water to customers on request.

B. Operators of hotels and motels in
this state shall provide customers with the option to choose not to have towels
and linens laundered daily and shall prominently display a notice of this
option.
END_STATUTE