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SB1247 - 572R - Senate Fact Sheet
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Fifty-Seventh
Legislature, Second Regular Session
AMENDED
FACT SHEET FOR
S.B. 1247
assisted
living centers; occupants
(
NOW:
assisted living; occupants
)
Purpose
An emergency measure that outlines occupancy requirements for individuals
living with a resident in an assisted living center or home and who do not receive
supervisory, personal or directed care services.
Background
The Department of Health Services (DHS) licenses and oversees health care
institutions in Arizona, including enforcement of relevant statutes, rules and
regulations to ensure public health, safety and welfare. DHS must: 1) review
and approve plans and specifications for health care institution construction
or modification; 2) have access to books, records, accounts and other necessary
health care institution information; and 3) require as a condition of licensure
that nursing care institutions and assisted living facilities make vaccinations
for influenza and pneumonia available to residents on a yearly basis.
Additionally, DHS may: 1) inspect every part of a health care institution to
ensure compliance with standard medical practice; 2) conduct investigations of
health care institution conditions and problems with noncompliance; and 3)
develop facility manuals and guides to health care institutions and the general
public. A person must not establish, conduct or maintain a health care
institution or any subclass of a health care institution in Arizona unless that
person holds a current and valid license issued by DHS (A.R.S. ��
36-406
and
36-407
).
Health care institutions
are every place, institution, building or
agency, whether organized for profit or not, that provides facilities with
medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services, health
screening services, other health-related services, supervisory care services,
personal care services or directed care services and includes home health
agencies.
Assisted living centers
are an assisted living facility that
provides resident rooms or residential units to eleven or more residents.
Assisted
living facilities
are residential care institutions, including adult foster
care homes, that provide or contract to provide supervisory, personal or
directed care services on a continuous basis.
Assisted living homes
are
assisted living facilities that provide resident rooms to ten or fewer
residents (
A.R.S.
� 36-401
).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund
associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1.
Allows
an individual that does not receive supervisory, personal, or directed care
services, if allowed by an assisted living center or home, to live with a
resident in the assisted living center or home:
a)
in the resident's unit; or
b)
in any other unit within the assisted living center or home.
2.
Prohibits
DHS from the following:
a)
placing any requirement on the individual that a resident would not need
to comply; or
b)
requiring
the individual to have a service plan or to receive supervisory, personal or
directed care services.
3.
Becomes
effective on signature of the Governor, if the emergency clause is adopted.
Amendments Adopted by
Committee of the Whole
1.
Allows an individual who does not receive supervisory, personal care or
directed care services to live with a resident in an assisted living center or
home, rather than only an assisted living center.
2.
Adds an emergency clause.
Senate Action
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Chapter 0014 - 572R - S Ver of SB1247
Senate Engrossed
assisted
living centers; occupants
(now: assisted
living; occupants)
State of Arizona
Senate
Fifty-seventh Legislature
Second Regular Session
2026
CHAPTER 14
SENATE BILL 1247
AN
ACT
Amending title 36, chapter 4, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-407.04; relating to health
care institutions.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 36, chapter 4, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-407.04, to read:
START_STATUTE
36-407.04.
Assisted living centers; assisted living homes; occupants;
prohibitions
Notwithstanding section 36-407, subsection
A and if allowed by an assisted living center
or an
assisted living home, an individual who does not receive supervisory care
services, personal care services or directed care services may live with a
resident in the assisted living center
or assisted living
home in the resident's unit or may live in any other unit within the assisted
living center
or assisted living home.� The department
may not:
1. place any requirement on that
individual with which a resident would not need to comply.
2. Require that individual to have a
service plan or to receive supervisory care services, personal care services or
directed care services.
END_STATUTE
Sec. 2.
Emergency
This act is an emergency measure that
is necessary to preserve the public peace, health or safety and is operative
immediately as provided by law.
APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 6, 2026.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 6, 2026.