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AZ HB2293

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/23/2017

Primary Sponsor

Anthony Kern

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-third Legislature - First Regular Session (2017)

AI Summary

  • Amends Arizona Revised Statutes section 31-201.01 to exclude gender reassignment surgery from medical and health services that the Department of Corrections must provide to prisoners.

  • Clarifies that medical and health services provided to inmates do not include gender reassignment surgery, while maintaining all other medical treatment obligations.

  • Makes grammatical corrections to existing statutory language, changing "which" to "that" and "provided" to "except" in relevant sections.

  • Preserves all existing exemptions from medical fee payments for specific inmate populations including juveniles, pregnant inmates, seriously mentally ill inmates, and those in special programs units.

Legislative Description

Prisoner medical care; excluded surgery

Department Of Corrections

Last Action

House read second time

1/24/2017

Full Bill Text

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