Bill Text: AZ HB2785 | 2025 | Fifty-seventh Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Health care facilities; electronic monitoring
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-17 - House HHS Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (11-1-0-0-0-0) [HB2785 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2025-HB2785-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: health care facilities; electronic monitoring |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
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HB 2785 |
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Introduced by Representatives Nguyen: Bliss, Hernandez C
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AN ACT
Amending title 36, chapter 4, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-420.06; 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 36-420.06, to read:
36-420.06. Electronic monitoring; nursing care institutions; assisted living facilities; prohibitions; civil penalty; definitions
A. An assisted living facility or nursing care institution may not:
1. Prohibit a current or potential resident from installing and using electronic monitoring in the resident's room.
2. Remove a current resident or refuse to admit a potential resident or otherwise discriminate or retaliate against a resident or potential resident because of the resident's or potential resident's decision to conduct electronic monitoring of the resident's private living space.
3. Retaliate or discriminate against any resident for consenting or refusing to consent to electronic monitoring.
B. The department may assess a civil penalty pursuant to section 36-431.01 against an assisted living facility or nursing care institution that violates subsection A of this section.
C. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Electronic monitoring":
(a) Means the use of an electronic monitoring device in the room of a resident of a nursing care institution or assisted living facility to record or transmit sounds or activity to or for the resident, the resident's authorized representative or an authorized third party.
(b) Includes the tapes or recordings from the electronic monitoring device.
2. "Electronic monitoring device" means any device or technology that has a placed, fixed or otherwise installed location, that captures, records or broadcasts audio or video, or both, and that is used for electronic monitoring.
3. "Resident" means a person who resides in an assisted living facility or nursing care institution and whose services provided by the assisted living facility or nursing care institution are paid for, in whole or in part, using public monies.
