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AZ HB2293
Bill
Status
1/23/2017
Primary Sponsor
Anthony Kern
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AI Summary
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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.
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Clarifies that medical and health services provided to inmates do not include gender reassignment surgery, while maintaining all other medical treatment obligations.
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Makes grammatical corrections to existing statutory language, changing "which" to "that" and "provided" to "except" in relevant sections.
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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