ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session

Majority Research Staff

Senate: RAGE DP 7-0-0-0 | Third Read 28-1-1-0

House: HHS DP 10-0-1-1

☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☒ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal Note

SB 1247: assisted living; occupants

Sponsor: Senator Petersen, LD 14

Caucus & COW

Overview

An emergency measure that prescribes 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.

History

To establish, conduct or maintain a health care institution or any class or subclass of health care institution, a person must hold a current and valid license issued by the Department of Health Services (DHS) specifying the class or subclass of health care institution the person is seeking to administer. Statute also asserts that the license is valid only for the establishment, operation and maintenance of the health care institution, the type of services, and except for emergency admissions as prescribed by the Director of DHS, the licensed capacity specified by the license.  

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, 36-407).

Provisions

1.   Allows an individual who does not receive supervisory, personal or directed care services, to live with a resident in the assisted living center or home in the resident's unit or another unit, if authorized by the assisted living center or home. (Sec. 1)

2.   Prohibits DHS from:

a.   placing any requirement on that individual with which a resident would not need to comply; and

b.   requiring that individual to have a service plan or receive supervisory, personal or directed care services. (Sec. 1)

3.   Contains an emergency clause. (Sec. 2)

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7.   Initials AG/LK                SB 1247

8.   3/2/2026    Page 0 Caucus & COW

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