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Yes: 107 • No: 74
ArizonaSB 1743Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular SessionSenateWALLET
2025-2026; human services
Sponsored By: Sponsor information unavailable
Signed by Governor
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12 provisions identified: 8 benefits, 2 costs, 2 mixed.
Coaching and services for foster youth
The Department of Child Safety must provide coaching and support for extended foster care participants ages 17½ to under 21. Services include help with housing, health, school, work, transportation, and life skills. Each coach can serve no more than 20 young adults. The department must select a program agency within 90 days and implement the model within 150 days after the law takes effect. A staff committee reviews participants’ plans and progress, and program funding stays available without expiring at the end of a budget period.
TANF cash aid drug testing
During fiscal year 2025–2026, Arizona must test adults otherwise eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cash aid when the state has reasonable cause to suspect illegal controlled-substance use. A positive test for a drug not prescribed by a licensed health care provider makes the adult ineligible for cash aid for one year.
Better oversight of disability group homes
Starting January 1, 2026, Arizona’s designated monitoring group must visit covered homes for people with developmental disabilities. It reviews care, health, food, staffing, equipment, and safety reports, and follows up on serious care concerns. The state must set up a faster way to send complaints and incident reports to the monitoring group by January 1, 2026. The state’s contract with the group depends on available funding, and the monitoring law remains in place through December 31, 2030.
More child care help for families
Arizona provides grants for care before school, after school, and when school is out. The program aims to cut participating families’ costs by at least two-thirds for children ages 5 through 12 in households earning $150,000 or less a year. At least 30% of grant money goes to rural providers unless there are too few rural applications.
More transitional housing for veterans
Arizona’s military transitional housing fund can pay for supportive services and repairs to transitional housing for veterans. It can also support newly built transitional housing for separating or recently separated service members, working with specified organizations. The law does not set a funding amount.
Shelter grants with drug-free rules
The Arizona Department of Housing must give grants for shelter and services for people experiencing homelessness. Shelters and transitional housing programs that receive department funding must have rules for responding to alleged drug sales, making, or possession. Those rules must require signs marking the facilities as drug-free zones. The shelter fund provision ends after June 30, 2027, and any unspent, uncommitted money moves to the state general fund.
Faster manufactured-home complaints
The Arizona Department of Housing must resolve manufactured housing complaints using the timelines and steps in federal housing rules. This gives people who file complaints a defined process for getting them resolved.
More Army family scholarships
The scholarship fund can support spouses of qualifying Army members, not only spouses of enlisted members. It can also support eligible children of current or former Army members. Applicants must meet the military service rules, and the law does not state the scholarship amount.
Stronger checks on housing funds
When the Arizona Department of Housing finds fraud involving state money, it must report it within 10 business days and begin efforts to recover the money within 30 days. The department must also report Housing Trust Fund spending, recipients, and results every three months. It must review payment requests dating back to July 1, 2021, for improper payments. This quarterly reporting requirement ends after December 31, 2026.
Arizona housing agency ends in 2027
The Arizona Department of Housing ends on July 1, 2027. The law repeals the department’s statutes on January 1, 2028. It does not say what happens to the department’s housing programs or services afterward.
More support for veterans’ homes
Arizona must move 15% of the money deposited each year in the veterans’ donations fund into an account for state veterans’ homes. The money can pay for residents’ needs, equipment, improvements, and upkeep. The department can also use up to $150,000 from the donations fund each fiscal year for administration and add two full-time staff positions. The law does not state the total fund revenue or how much any resident receives.
Housing trust fund priorities
For the first four months of each fiscal year, Arizona must prioritize trust fund money for emergency shelters and transitional housing. It must also prioritize housing the department finds best serves people who are seriously mentally ill and chronically resistant to treatment. These priorities limit how the fund can be used during that period. Afterward, only money not awarded or committed under those priorities can be allocated based on stakeholder feedback.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsors
There is no primary sponsor on record.
Cosponsors
John Kavanagh
Republican • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 6/27/2025
FINAL: Passed
Yes: 21 • No: 8
Senate vote • 6/27/2025
CONCUR: Passed
Yes: 0 • No: 0
Senate vote • 6/26/2025
THIRD: Passed
Yes: 42 • No: 14
Senate vote • 6/26/2025
DP/C&P
Yes: 8 • No: 0
Senate vote • 6/26/2025
MOTION: failed to pass
Yes: 11 • No: 37
Senate vote • 6/19/2025
THIRD: Passed
Yes: 17 • No: 13
Senate vote • 6/17/2025
DP
Yes: 8 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Final Reading: Passed
6/27/2025SenateConcurrence: Passed
6/27/2025SenateThird Reading: Passed
6/26/2025SenateCOW Motion to Amend: failed to pass
6/26/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole: do pass amended
6/26/2025SenateMiscellaneous Motion: Passed
6/26/2025Senateundefined: DP/C&P
6/26/2025SenateThird Reading: Passed
6/19/2025SenateCommittee of the Whole: do pass amended
6/19/2025Senateundefined: PFC
6/17/2025Senateundefined: DP
6/17/2025Senate
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