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administrative deficiencies; cure period

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1233

AN ACT

Amending title 36, chapter 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding article 5; relating to state agencies.

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

Section 1. Title 36, chapter 2, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding article 5, to read:

ARTICLE 5. STATE AGENCIES

START_STATUTE36-281. Administrative deficiencies; cure period; definitions

A. An agency may take disciplinary or enforcement action against a facility that the agency either contracts with or licenses if only an administrative deficiency or deficiencies are identified, only if The agency allows the facility seventy-two hours to cure the identified administrative deficiency or deficiencies before the agency takes the action.

b. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Administrative deficiency" means a violation that does not impact a patient or resident physically or psychosocially and that has no potential to physically or psychosocially harm the patient or resident.

2. "Agency" means the department of health services, the Arizona health care cost containment system or the department of economic security. END_STATUTE