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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Seventh Legislature, Second Regular Session
AMENDED
patient
rights; health care services
(NOW: foreign adversary; lobbying; registration; disclosure)
As passed by the Senate, S.B. 1100 granted patients specified rights when receiving care from a health professional in Arizona.
The House of Representatives adopted a strike-everything amendment that does the following:
Purpose
Applies the statutory requirements for lobbyist registration to a foreign adversary principal and a foreign adversary principal's lobbyist. Requires the Arizona Department of Homeland Security (AZDOHS) to publicly post a database of all foreign adversary principals and each foreign adversary principal's lobbyist. Establishes the Foreign Adversary Principal Lobbyist Registration Fund (Fund).
Background
Before any principal may cause any lobbying to occur on the principal's behalf, the principal must register with the Secretary of State (SOS) by filing a written statement, under penalty of perjury, that contains: 1) the name and business address of the principal; 2) the name and business address of a person who is the designated lobbyist for the principal; 3) the name and business address of each lobbyist for compensation or authorized lobbyist employed by, retained by or representing the principal; 4) for each lobbyist, the name and business address of all employees of the lobbyist who lobby on the principal's behalf; 5) the nature of the primary business or activity, issue, interest or purpose of the principal; 6) the duration of the engagement of any lobbyist; 7) a description of the expenses for which each lobbyist is to be reimbursed by the principal; and 8) a listing of the state entities the lobbyist has been engaged or designated to lobby, including the Legislature and state agencies, boards, commissions or councils.
A principal must file the lobbyist registration between December 1 in the even numbered year and 5:00 p.m. on the second Monday of January in the odd numbered year. A principal must amend the principal's registration statement within five business days of any change in the prescribed information. Each principal that registers a lobbyist for compensation or a designated lobbyist, at the time of registration, must pay a registration or reregistration fee of $25 to the SOS. Registration fees collected by the SOS are deposited in the state General Fund. The registration fees must be used to reduce the costs associated with enforcing the lobbyist registration laws (A.R.S. § 41-1232).
A person who is a registered lobbyist must disclose the name of the person's client and the fact that the person is a lobbyist to: 1) any legislator the person is lobbying for the first time or on subsequent request; and 2) any public official or employee of a public body each time that the person is lobbying for the procurement of materials, services or construction. Any person who knowingly violates or fails to comply with the statutory lobbyist registration or disclosure requirements or any person who knowingly files any materially false statement or material omission is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor. Any alleged violation may be investigated and prosecuted by the Attorney General or the county attorney of the county in which the alleged offense was committed (A.R.S. §§ 41-1233.01 and 41-1237).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Requires, notwithstanding any other law, a foreign adversary principal to submit to AZDOHS a copy of the foreign adversary principal's lobbying registration and a list of the foreign adversary principal's current lobbyists.
2.
Requires each foreign adversary principal to register between December 1
of each
even-numbered year and 5:00 p.m. on the second Monday in January of each
odd-numbered year unless, at that time, the foreign adversary principal no
longer engages, employs, retains or uses any lobbyists.
3. Requires, beginning December 1 of each even-numbered year, a foreign adversary principal, to file the lobbyist registration at any time.
4. Requires each foreign adversary principal to amend the lobbyist registration statement within five business days after any change in the required information.
5. Requires AZDOHS to publicly post, on the AZDOHS website, a database of all foreign principals and each foreign adversary principal's lobbyists in Arizona.
6. Requires a person who is a designated lobbyist, lobbyist for compensation or authorized lobbyist for a foreign adversary principal in Arizona to disclose:
a) the name of the person's client;
b) the fact that the person is a lobbyist for a foreign adversary principal to any legislator the person is lobbying for the first time or on subsequent request of a legislator; and
c) the fact that the person is a lobbyist for a foreign adversary principal to any public official or employee of a public body each time the person is lobbying for the procurement of materials, services or construction in Arizona.
7. Subjects a person to a class 1 misdemeanor if:
a) the person knowingly violates the prescribed lobbyist registration and disclosure requirements; or
b) the person knowingly submits any required information that contains any materially false statement or material omission.
8. Allows the Attorney General or county attorney of the county in which an alleged occurred to investigate and prosecute any alleged violation of the prescribed lobbyist registration and disclosure requirements.
9. Requires the Director of AZDOHS to:
a) prescribe and publish the registration and registration amendment forms; and
b) refer any matter in which the Director has reason to believe constitutes a violation of the prescribed registration and disclosure requirements to the AG or a county attorney.
10. Allows AZDOHS to adopt rules, develop forms and implement procedures as necessary to implement the prescribed lobbyist registration requirements.
11. Requires a foreign adversary principal, at the time of registering or reregistering, to pay a registration or reregistration fee set by AZDOHS.
12. Establishes the Fund consisting of legislative appropriations and lobbyist registration fees collected by the AZDOHS.
13. Requires AZDOHS to deposit lobbyist registration and reregistration fees collected in the Fund.
14. Requires AZDOHS to administer the Fund.
15. Specifies that Fund monies are subject to legislative appropriation and exempt from lapsing.
16. Defines foreign adversary principal as:
a) a government of a foreign adversary nation;
b) a foreign political party of a foreign adversary nation; or
c) a partnership, association, corporation, organization or other combination of persons that is organized under the laws of, or having its principal place of business in, a foreign adversary nation and that is at least 15 percent owned or controlled by a government of a foreign adversary nation or a foreign political party of a foreign adversary nation.
17. Defines foreign adversary nation as a country that is:
a) identified by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence as a country that poses a risk to the national security of the United States in each of the three most recent annual threat assessments of the U.S. Intelligence Community; or
b) pursuant to federal regulations for determining foreign adversaries.
18. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by the House of Representatives
· Adopted the strike-everything amendment relating to foreign adversary lobbyist registration.
House Action
HHS 3/10/26 DPA/SE 8-0-0-2
3rd Read 0/0/00 0-0-0
Prepared by Senate Research
June 9, 2026
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