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AZ SB1157

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/22/2014

Primary Sponsor

Kelli Ward

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Origin

Senate

Fifty-first Legislature - Second Regular Session (2014)

AI Summary

  • Amends Arizona law to define midwifery scope of practice and add specific prohibitions on midwife services.

  • Prohibits licensed midwives from accepting clients who have had previous cesarean sections or are pregnant with multiple fetuses.

  • Prohibits midwives from accepting clients for vaginal delivery if the fetus is in complete breech, frank breech, or incomplete breech presentation.

  • Requires any future expansion of midwife scope of practice to comply with title 32, chapter 31 (Arizona's regulatory review process).

  • Exempts the Department of Health Services from standard rulemaking requirements for one year to implement the new regulations.

Legislative Description

Midwives; scope of practice

Last Action

Referred to Senate RULES Committee

2/12/2014

Full Bill Text

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