---
type: "Bill"
title: "residential care institutions; employment"
description: "residential care institutions; employment"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "53rd-1st-regular"
identifier: "HB 2196"
citation: "Arizona HB 2196 (53rd-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES", "HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS", "PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-18"
last_action: "2017-04-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e779e6a3-d718-46d7-907e-7ebb06f72631"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/68691?SessionId=117"
source_hash: "22d016f620a534c629df760a0611bee085b49637101b7ae93dc83cde7ca4fc52"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-az"]
---

# Arizona HB 2196 (53rd-1st-regular) — residential care institutions; employment

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Chaptered Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/53leg/1R/laws/0134.htm)
2. **House Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/53leg/1R/bills/HB2196H.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/53leg/1R/bills/HB2196P.htm)

## Sponsors

- Regina E. Cobb — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-02-22** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-03-30** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-01-18** house first reading. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-19** house second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-28** senate second reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-27** senate first reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-04** signed by governor `executive-signature`
- **2017-02-22** transmit to senate
- **2017-03-30** transmit to house
- **2017-03-30** transmit to governor `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e779e6a3-d718-46d7-907e-7ebb06f72631`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).