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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
House Engrossed
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 an advanced health care directive including a health care power of attorney, a pre-hospital medical care directive, a living will or a mental health care power of attorney (medical care directive) using a medical indicator on their license.
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 on license a space where a licensee may indicate the licensee suffers from some type of adverse medical condition using a medical indicator. (Sec. 2)
2. Removes the requirement for ADOT to prescribe by rule, a medical code to identify the medical conditions using a system of numerals or letters commonly accepted by the medical profession. (Sec. 2)
3. Eliminates the ability for a person, to affirmatively request in writing, that they want the medical code as part of the computer record. (Sec. 2)
4. Tasks a person, who indicates that they have a medical care directive using a medical indicator on their license, with affirming to ADOT at each license renewal, that the indicator remains in effect for the licensee. (Sec. 2)
5. Mandates ADOT with providing space on a license to indicate a medical care directive. (Sec. 2)
6. Prevents ADOT from maintaining any document relating to the adverse medical condition in their computer records after issuing the license, except for the purpose of indicating the symbol on the license. (Sec. 2)
7. Stipulates that ADOT is not required to accept or interpret medical care directives that do not meet statutory requirements on the directives. (Sec. 2)
8. Directs the licensee to affirm to ADOT, at each renewal, that a medical care directive remains in effect for the licensee. (Sec. 2)
9. Exempts ADOT from liability for damages from the use of indicator information provided on a license. (Sec. 3)
10. Redefines medical or disability information to mean a restriction or medical indicator placed on a person's motor vehicle record. (Sec. 1)
11. Contains a legislative intent clause and a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. (Sec. 3)
12. Makes technical and conforming changes. (Sec. 1, 2, 3)
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Initials LM/IC HB 2772
3/9/2026 Page 0 House Engrossed
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