electronic monitoring; long-term care, the official text

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electronic
monitoring; long-term care

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1564

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:

START_STATUTE36-420.06. Electronic monitoring; disclosure; posting; definitions

A. On or before
December 1, 2026 or on initial licensure, each assisted living facility and
nursing care institution shall disclose to the department in a department-APPROVED format whether the assisted living
facility or nursing care institution:

1. allows residents to install an
electronic monitoring device in the resident's room or personal space.

2. Uses electronic monitoring devices
in the common spaces of the assisted living facility or nursing care
institution.

3. Uses a technology solution that
allows the assisted living facility or nursing care institution to monitor and
identify who enters and exits a resident's room and the movement or activity of
the person while in the resident's room.

B. a licensee
for an assisted living facility or nursing care institution shall ensure that
the department is notified in a department-approved format of any changes
with respect to whether the assisted living facility or nursing care
institution allows residents to install an electronic monitoring device in the
resident's room or personal space or changes its use of electronic monitoring
or a technology solution pursuant to subsection A of this section.

C. The DEPARTMENT shall make
information it receives pursuant to this section available on the department's
public website.

D. 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.