health facilities; licensure; complaints; investigations
HB 2176 updates Arizona's healthcare facility licensing rules to strengthen patient safety protections. It allows the state to deny new licenses or block ownership changes if applicants or their business associates have had licenses revoked, suspended, or faced serious safety violations in the past. The bill also limits complaint investigations to violations occurring within 12 months of the complaint date and requires clear deficiency statements with a formal dispute process for facilities to challenge findings. These changes directly affect healthcare facilities seeking new licenses, undergoing ownership transitions, or responding to complaints.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2026
Committee Review
Mar 2026
House Passage
Jun 2026
Senate Passage
Apr 2026
Signed into Law
Jun 2026
Introduced Jan 9, 2026
Signed Jun 4, 2026
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The bill was formally enacted into law after being approved by the Governor and filed with the Secretary of State. The substantive legal text remains largely unchanged, with only minor formatting adjustments to the header and a punctuation correction in the body of the law.
Scope change
None; the bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged.
TECHNICAL
Minor formatting updates to the document header, including changing the title from 'HB 2176' to 'CHAPTER 83' and adding official approval and filing dates.
A punctuation mark was added to a sentence regarding written decisions to improve grammatical clarity.
Floor votes · Senate Apr 7, 2026 · House Feb 25, 2026
How they voted
27–2
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 30
Apr 7, 2026
D
Democratic13
100% Yea
R
Republican17
82% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
9
Committee
2
Amendments
2
Jun 4, 2026
Signed into law
Signed by Governor
executive
Jun 1, 2026
Lower · Passed
PASSED
lower
Apr 9, 2026
Lower · Passed
PASSED
lower
Apr 7, 2026
Upper · Passed
PASSED
upper
Apr 2, 2026
Upper · Passed
DPA
upper
Mar 11, 2026
Upper · Passed
DP
upper
Feb 25, 2026
Lower · Passed
PASSED
lower
Feb 24, 2026
Lower · Passed
DPA
lower
Feb 9, 2026
Lower · Passed
DP
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Julie Willoughby
RRepublican
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