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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES57th Legislature, 2nd Regular Session |
House: TI DPA 6-0-1-0 |
HB 2772: license; driver; nonoperating; medical indicia
Sponsor: Representative Powell, LD 14
Caucus & COW
Overview
Requires the Arizona Department of transportation (ADOT) to provide space on each driver license and nonoperating identification license (license) where a licensee may indicate that the licensee has a prehospital medical care directive (directive) by using an orange symbol prescribed by ADOT. Exempts ADOT, this state, system personnel, hospital emergency department personnel and direct care staff from liability.
History
ADOT must provide on each license a space where a licensee may indicate that the licensee suffers from some sort of adverse medical condition using a medical code prescribed by ADOT if the licensee presents a signed statement from a licensed physician stating that the person suffers from the condition.
ADOT must prescribe by rule a medical code to identify the medical conditions using a system of numeral or letters commonly accepted by the medical profession. Except for the purposes of entering the medical code on the license, and unless the person affirmatively requests in writing that the person wants medical code as part of the computer record, ADOT must not maintain the medical code in the ADOT computer after the department issues the license (A.R.S. § 28-3167).
A person may execute a directive that, in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest, directs the withholding of cardiopulmonary resuscitation by emergency medical system personnel, hospital emergency department personnel and direct care staff persons (A.R.S. § 36-3251).
A health care provider who makes good faith health care decisions in reliance on the provisions of an apparently genuine health care directive or the direction of a surrogate is immune from criminal and civil liability and is not subject to professional discipline for that reliance (A.R.S. § 36-3205).
Provisions
1. Requires ADOT to provide a space on each license where a licensee may indicate that the licensee has a directive by using an orange symbol, if the licensee provides proof to ADOT of the directive that fulfills prescribed requirements. (Sec. 1)
2. Stipulates that ADOT is not required to accept or interpret directives that do not meet statutory requirements on the directives. (Sec. 1)
3. Directs the licensee to affirm to ADOT, at each renewal, that the directive remains in effect for the licensee. (Sec. 1)
4. Allows ADOT to maintain the directive in their computer records, only if it is for the purpose of indicating the orange symbol on the license and the licensee affirmatively requests in writing that the licensee wants the directive as part of the computer records. (Sec. 1)
5. Tasks ADOT with prescribing, by rule, an orange symbol to identify the directive. (Sec. 1)
6. Exempts ADOT and this state from liability or damages from the use of the directive information on a license. (Sec. 1)
7. Exempts medical system personnel, hospital emergency department personnel and direct care staff from liability if they make a good faith effort to identify the patient and rely on an orange symbol indicated on the patient's license. (Sec. 2)
Amendments
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
1. Expands immunity from liability to any civilian bystanders who make a good faith effort to identify the patient and rely on an orange symbol indicated on the patient's license.
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