AHCCCS; remote work; prohibition

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary does not provide specific details on how the bill updates state agency laws beyond changing a chapter heading, which is why this information was removed.

AHCCCS; No Remote Work for Employees

This bill stops AHCCCS from allowing its employees to work remotely.

What This Bill Does

• Prohibits the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) from allowing its employees to work remotely.
• Defines working remotely as not having the agency's workplace as the main place of work and not regularly going there.

Who It Names or Affects

• AHCCCS employees who might want to work from home or other places outside their office.

Terms To Know

Remote Work

Working from a place that is not the main workplace of an organization.

AHCCCS

Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, which provides healthcare to eligible Arizonans.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much it will cost AHCCCS to provide office space for employees who can't work remotely.
• It is unclear if there are any exceptions or special cases where remote work might still be allowed.

Official Summary Text

SB1115 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet

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ARIZONA STATE SENATE

Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session

REVISED

FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1115

AHCCCS; remote
work; prohibition

Purpose

Prohibits the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) from
allowing employees to work remotely.

Background

AHCCCS serves as Arizona's Medicaid agency which offers qualifying
Arizona residents access to healthcare programs (
AHCCCS
). AHCCCS contracts with health
professionals to provide medically necessary health and medical services to
eligible members including

low-income adults, children, pregnant women and individuals with disabilities.
Statute outlines both financial and non-financial eligibility requirements for
a person to qualify as a member (
A.R.S.
� 36-2901
).

The AHCCCS baseline FY 2027 operating budget
includes 2,459.3 full-time equivalent employees (
JLBC
).

The Joint Legislative Budget Committee estimates that S.B. 1115 would have
ongoing costs of $2 million to $4.2 million annually for additional office
space to house returning AHCCCS employees, depending on whether the agency were
to utilize state-owned office space or private lease space (
JLBC
fiscal note
).

Provisions

1.

Prohibits AHCCCS
from allowing employees to work remotely.

2.

Defines

work remotely
to mean the employee's primary worksite is not the
agency's worksite and the employee is not expected to regularly report to the
agency's worksite on a regular and recurring basis.

3.

Defines

agency
as AHCCCS

4.

Makes
conforming changes.

5.

Becomes
effective on the general effective date.

Revisions

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Updates the fiscal impact statement.

Prepared by Senate Research

February 6, 2026

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Current Bill Text

SB1115 - 572R - S Ver

Senate Engrossed

AHCCCS; remote work;
prohibition

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1115

AN
ACT

Amending title 41, chapter 57, Arizona
Revised Statutes, by adding article 2; relating to state agencies.

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

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

Section 1.
Heading change

The chapter heading of title 41,
chapter 57, Arizona Revised Statutes, is changed from "MISCELLANEOUS"
to "STATE AGENCIES GENERALLY".

Sec. 2. Title 41, chapter 57, Arizona Revised
Statutes, is amended by adding article 2, to read:

ARTICLE
2. ARIZONA HEALTH CARE COST CONTAINMENT SYSTEM

START_STATUTE
41-5911.

Remote work; prohibition; definitions

A. The Arizona health care cost
containment system may not allow the agency's employees to work remotely.

B. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Agency" means the
Arizona health care cost containment system.

2. "Work remotely" means
the employee's primary worksite is not the agency's worksite and the employee
is not expected to regularly report to the agency's worksite on a regular and
recurring basis.
END_STATUTE