---
type: "Bill"
title: "residential care institutions; children"
description: "residential care institutions; children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/az"
legislature: "Arizona Legislature"
session: "54th-1st-regular"
identifier: "SB 1247"
citation: "Arizona SB 1247 (54th-1st-regular)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CENTRAL REGISTRY", "CHILD SAFETY - TITLE 8", "CHILDREN", "DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES", "DHS", "EMERGENCY CLAUSE", "PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY - TITLE 36", "RESIDENTIAL CARE INSTITUTION", "RULEMAKING", "STATE GOVERNMENT - TITLE 41"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kate Brophy McGee"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 16
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-29"
last_action: "2019-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a5c5854-0424-4fc6-bd32-5b6e80753c8c"
source_url: "https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/BillOverview/71850?SessionId=121"
source_hash: "74cec97e837f7d197e960f4bd09c738c3dd90ae04ff0e3bed0528704b044fe87"
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 SB 1247 (54th-1st-regular) — residential care institutions; children

## Version chain

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

1. **Chaptered Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/laws/0134.htm)
2. **HOUSE - Floor Amend to Bill - Butler - failed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.azleg.gov/BillStatus/GetDocumentPdf/470244)
3. **HOUSE - Health & Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/proposed/H.1247BUTLER.DOCX.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1247P.htm)
5. **SENATE - Brophy McGee flr amend (ref Bill) adopted** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/adopted/S.1247FLOORBROPHY MCGEE.docx.htm)
6. **SENATE - Health and Human Services** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/adopted/S.1247HHS.DOCX.htm)
7. **Senate Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.azleg.gov/legtext/54leg/1R/bills/SB1247S.htm)

## Votes

- failed to pass — **27–31** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- do pass — **0–0** (fail) · lower
- Passed — **59–0** (pass) · lower
- do pass amended — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kate Brophy McGee — primary (person)
- Heather Carter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-29** senate first reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-13** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-01-30** senate second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** dpa `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-27** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** transmit to house
- **2019-03-05** house first reading. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-21** dp `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** house second reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-15** dp `passage`
- **2019-04-08** house placed on consent calendar
- **2019-04-15** failed `failure`
- **2019-04-17** passed `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-17** transmit to senate
- **2019-04-18** transmit to governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-04-24** signed by governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a5c5854-0424-4fc6-bd32-5b6e80753c8c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Arizona legislature records).