Bill Text: AZ SB1062 | 2019 | Fifty-fourth Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered
Bill Title: Public disclosure; health professionals; address
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-06-07 - Chapter 299 [SB1062 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2019-SB1062-Chaptered.html
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House Engrossed Senate Bill |
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State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019
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CHAPTER 299
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SENATE BILL 1062 |
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AN ACT
amending title 32, chapter 32, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 32‑3226, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending section 32‑3801, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to health profession regulatory boards.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Title 32, chapter 32, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 32-3226, to read:
32-3226. Address of record; disclosure; telephone number or e‑mail address; definition
A. a health profession regulatory board shall have, for each licensee under the board's regulation, an address of record designated by the licensee that may be disclosed to the public. If the licensee designates the licensee's residential address as the address of record, the board shall notify the licensee of the public disclosure and allow the licensee to opt out of the disclosure.
B. Each licensee who is required to maintain patient medical records must have on file with the licensee's health profession regulatory board a telephone number or e‑mail address for the board to provide to a patient who is seeking medical records.
C. A health profession regulatory board shall designate associations of licensed health professionals that may receive on request the contact information and addresses of record for all health professionals under the board's regulation, including health professionals who have opted out of public disclosure. An association of licensed health professions that receives contact information and addresses of record from a health profession regulatory board may not transfer or sell that information.
D. This section does not prohibit a health profession regulatory board from providing to the department of health services or a university under the jurisdiction of the Arizona board of regents information and data concerning the health profession regulatory board's licensees for research purposes if the information and data are not distributed to the public in a format that includes a licensee's personally identifiable information.
E. For the purposes of this section, "address of record" means either:
1. The address where a health professional practices the person's health profession or is otherwise employed.
2. The health professional's residential address.
Sec. 2. Section 32-3801, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
32-3801. Personal information maintained by regulatory entities; confidentiality
Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, except as provided in section 32‑3226, a professional's residential address and residential telephone number or numbers maintained by a professional board regulatory entity established pursuant to this title are not available to the public unless they are the only address and numbers of record.
APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR JUNE 7, 2019.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE JUNE 7, 2019.
