Senate Bill 1317 Summary

• Amends Arizona law to allow public safety employees, volunteers, or their employing agencies to petition courts for disease testing orders when exposed to blood or bodily fluids during official duties, including new provisions for medical emergency response situations.

• Adds two new grounds for testing petitions: exposure to blood or bodily fluids while rendering aid during a medical emergency (whether the exposed person is alive or deceased).

• Maintains existing petition grounds including exposure through biting, scratching, spitting, or blood transfer during interference with official duties, and expands to cover probable cause situations for deceased persons.

• Requires courts to order testing (two blood specimens) if probable cause exists for possible bodily fluid transfer, with special procedures for deceased persons where medical examiners may draw specimens during autopsy pending court order.

• Specifies that test results notification goes to the tested person, the exposed employee/volunteer, their employer, and facility medical officers if the tested person is incarcerated or detained.