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AZ HB2679

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

2/7/2023

Primary Sponsor

Oscar De Los Santos

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Origin

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature - First Regular Session (2023)

AI Summary

  • Appropriates $30,000,000 from the state general fund in fiscal year 2023-2024 to the Department of Health Services to award grants for paying medical debt.

  • Department shall award grants to individuals in Arizona who have medical debt pursuant to title 41, chapter 24 of Arizona Revised Statutes.

  • Department must conduct a study by September 1, 2025 to determine how grant recipients used funds that would have otherwise gone to medical debt, with option to contract with an Arizona Board of Regents university.

  • Legislature intends the appropriation to be ongoing funding in future years and for the state to pay all outstanding medical debt in Arizona.

  • Appropriation is exempt from lapsing provisions under Arizona Revised Statutes section 35-190.

Legislative Description

Appropriation; grants; medical debt

Grants

Last Action

House read second time

2/8/2023

Committee Referrals

Rules2/7/2023
Appropriations2/7/2023
Health and Human Services2/7/2023

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