HB 2118 Arizona House · 57th Legislature - Second Regular Session

mobile food vendors; licensure

HB 2118 standardizes Arizona's licensing and health regulations for mobile food vendors statewide. It requires each mobile food unit to have a separate annual license, mandates food handler certifications for employees, and establishes three licensing categories based on food type and preparation needs. County health departments (where the vendor's commissary is located) will issue licenses using uniform statewide inspection standards, with licenses valid across all counties. The bill prohibits local governments from requiring vendors to operate a specific distance from restaurants and does not address operating hours. This directly affects mobile food vendors, county health departments, and cities/towns managing local licensing systems.

Bill status vetoed 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

House Passage

Jun 2026

Senate Passage

Apr 2026

Vetoed

Jun 2026

Introduced Jan 2, 2026 Vetoed Jun 19, 2026

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What changed between versions

House Engrossed Version (02/24/2026) → Senate Engrossed Version (04/20/2026) · 5 edits · Apr 20, 2026

MODERATE

The bill was renumbered and reclassified from a House version to a Senate version. The most significant substantive change is the addition of new authority for counties to license mobile food vendors and collect enforcement fees, expanding local regulatory power beyond cities and towns. Minor formatting adjustments were also made to the text regarding parking restrictions and the description of existing Maricopa County regulations.

Scope change

The bill's applicability was expanded to explicitly include counties, which previously were not listed as entities with specific licensing authority in the new section D.

TECHNICAL

The bill title and version headers were updated from 'House Engrossed' to 'Senate Engrossed' and the bill number designation was changed from H Ver to S Ver.

REQUIREMENT

A comma was added to the list of amended statutes to improve grammatical flow.

Minor text reformatting was applied to the parking restriction clause to improve readability.

ENFORCEMENT

New subsection D was added to explicitly grant counties the authority to require mobile food vendor licenses and to collect fees or impose identification requirements for enforcement.

DEFINITION

The reference to Maricopa County regulations was split across lines to match the new formatting style of the document.

Floor votes · House Feb 24, 2026

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).

Full legislative history

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Committee

Amendments

Jun 19, 2026

Vetoed

Vetoed by Governor

executive

Jun 9, 2026

Lower · Passed

PASSED

lower

Apr 20, 2026

Upper · Passed

PASSED

upper

Apr 14, 2026

Upper · Passed

DPA

upper

Mar 25, 2026

Upper · Passed

DPA

upper

Feb 24, 2026

Lower · Passed

PASSED

lower

Feb 23, 2026

Lower · Passed

DPA

lower

Feb 3, 2026

Lower · Passed

DPA

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors