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2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3009 - Disclosing location of shelters; prohibition; civil penalty

36-3009.
Disclosing location of shelters;  prohibition;  civil penalty
A. Information that may disclose the location or address of a shelter for victims of domestic violence is confidential and is not subject to public disclosure by a person or by a public or private agency in a manner that identifies the location or address as a shelter and threatens the safety of the inhabitants.
B. The program administrator shall impose a civil penalty of not more than one thousand dollars against a person or agency that knowingly and maliciously releases information in violation of this section.
C. The program administrator shall deposit,  pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147,  penalties collected pursuant to this section in the state general fund.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3102 - Sexual violence service fund; purpose; exemption

36-3102.
Sexual violence service fund;  purpose;  exemption
A. The sexual violence service fund is established consisting of legislative appropriations,  grants and contributions. The program administrator shall administer the fund for the purposes prescribed in this article. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to lapsing of appropriations.
B. The department,  in consultation with the federally designated statewide coalition to end sexual violence,  shall establish program priorities for the fund. The department shall spend monies in the fund to provide grants to service providers for victims of sexual violence.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3103 - Sexual violence service providers; requirements; eligibility

36-3103.
Sexual violence service providers;  requirements;  eligibility
A. To be eligible to receive a grant under this article,  a sexual violence service provider shall adhere to statewide service standards for sexual violence programs that are approved by the department in collaboration with the federally designated statewide coalition to end sexual violence.
B. A sexual violence service provider does not qualify for grant monies if the service provider discriminates in its admission or provision of services on the basis of race,  gender,  religion,  color,  age,  disability,  marital status,  national origin or ancestry.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3104 - Methodology for allocating grant monies

36-3104.
Methodology for allocating grant monies
The department,  in consultation with the federally designated statewide coalition to end sexual violence,  shall develop a weighted methodology for allocating grant monies that considers all of the following:
1. The need for services.
2. Existing services.
3. Geographic location.
4. Population ratios.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3105 - Annual report

36-3105.
Annual report
On or before October 1 of each year,  the department shall provide an annual report to the governor,  the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate that includes information from each sexual violence service provider that receives grant monies pursuant to this article on the population served. In preparing the report the department shall consult with the federally designated statewide coalition to end sexual violence. The department shall provide a copy of this report to the secretary of state.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3201 - Definitions

36-3201.
Definitions
In this chapter,  unless the context otherwise requires:
1. " Agent"  means an adult who has the authority to make health care treatment decisions for another person,  referred to as the principal,  pursuant to a health care power of attorney.
2. " Artificially administered"  means providing food or fluid through a medically invasive procedure.
3. " Attending physician"  means a physician who has the primary responsibility for a principal's health care.
4. " Comfort care"  means treatment given in an attempt to protect and enhance the quality of life without artificially prolonging that life.
5. " Health care directive"  means a document drafted in substantial compliance with this chapter,  including a mental health care power of attorney,  to deal with a person's future health care decisions.
6. " Health care power of attorney"  means a written designation of an agent to make health care decisions that meets the requirements of section 36-3221 and that comes into effect and is durable as provided in section 36-3223,  subsection A.
7. " Health care provider"  means a natural person who is licensed under title 32,  chapter 11,  13,  15,  17 or 25,  a hospice as defined in section 36-401 that is licensed under chapter 4 of this title or an organization that is licensed under this title,  that renders health care designed to prevent,  diagnose or treat illness or injury and that employs persons licensed under title 32,  chapter 11,  13,  15,  17 or 25.
8. " Inpatient psychiatric facility"  means a hospital that contains an organized psychiatric services unit or a special hospital that is licensed to provide psychiatric services.
9. " Interested person"  means the patient,  a person listed under section 36-3231,  subsection A,  a health care provider directly involved in the patient's medical care or an employee of a health care provider.
10. " Living will"  means a statement written either by a person who has not written a health care power of attorney or by the principal as an attachment to a health care power of attorney and intended to guide or control the health care treatment decisions that can be made on that person's behalf.
11. " Mental health care power of attorney"  means a written designation of an agency to make mental health care decisions that meets the requirements of section 36-3281.
12. " Physician"  means a doctor of medicine licensed pursuant to title 32,  chapter 13 or doctor of osteopathic medicine licensed pursuant to title 32,  chapter 17.
13. " Principal"  means a person who is the subject of a health care power of attorney.
14. " Qualifying health information exchange organization"  means a nonprofit health information organization as defined in section 36-3801 that is designated by the department of health services pursuant to section 36-3291 to operate the health care directives registry.
15. " Surrogate"  means a person authorized to make health care decisions for a patient by a power of attorney,  a court order or the provisions of section 36-3231.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3202 - Revocation of health care directive; disqualification of surrogate

36-3202.
Revocation of health care directive;  disqualification of surrogate
Except as provided in section 36-3285 in regard to a mental health care power of attorney,  a person may revoke the person's own health care directive or disqualify a surrogate by doing any of the following:
1. Making a written revocation of a health care directive or a written statement to disqualify a surrogate.
2. Orally notifying the surrogate or a health care provider.
3. Making a new health care directive.
4. Any other act that demonstrates a specific intent to revoke or to disqualify a surrogate.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3203 - Surrogate; authority; responsibilities; immunity

36-3203.
Surrogate;  authority;  responsibilities;  immunity
A. A person authorized as a surrogate to make health care decisions under this chapter is not responsible for paying the patient's health care costs unless the person is otherwise required to do so.
B. This chapter does not authorize a surrogate to consent to any act or omission to which the patient could not lawfully consent.
C. The surrogate shall make health care decisions for the patient in accordance with the patient's wishes as expressed in the health care directive. If the health care directive does not provide sufficient information to know what the patient would want in a particular circumstance,  the surrogate shall base these decisions on the surrogate's knowledge of the patient's values if those are known or can be determined to the surrogate's satisfaction. If neither the health care directive nor the surrogate's knowledge of the patient's values provides a sufficient basis for making a health care decision,  the surrogate shall decide based on the surrogate's good faith belief as to what is in the patient's best interest.
D. A surrogate who makes good faith health care decisions for a patient is not subject to civil or criminal liability for those decisions. Acts and refusals to act made in reliance on the provisions of a health care directive are presumed to be made in good faith. A court shall base a finding of an absence of good faith on information known to the surrogate and shall enter its finding only after it has made a determination of bad faith in written findings of fact based on clear and convincing evidence of improper motive. For the purposes of this subsection,  " good faith"  includes all health care decisions,  acts and refusals to act based on a surrogate's reasonable belief of a patient's desires or a patient's best interest if these decisions,  acts or refusals to act are not contrary to the patient's express written directions in a valid health care directive.
E. A surrogate who is not the patient's agent or guardian shall not consent to or approve the permanent withdrawal of the artificial administration of food or fluid.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3204 - Responsibilities of health care providers

36-3204.
Responsibilities of health care providers
A. A health care provider shall comply with health care decisions made by the patient's surrogate unless those decisions are inconsistent with the patient's health care directive as known to the provider or the provider has transferred responsibility to another provider pursuant to section 36-3205,  subsection C,  paragraph 1. If the directive requires provision of treatment,  food or fluids that would have a significant possibility of sustaining the patient's life,  the provider shall ensure the provision until the transfer is completed.
B. A health care provider has a duty to volunteer and otherwise disclose information about the patient's health status and care to the patient's surrogate to the same degree that the provider owes this duty to the patient.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3205 - Health care providers; immunity from liability; conditions

36-3205.
Health care providers;  immunity from liability;  conditions
A. A health care provider who makes good faith health care decisions in reliance on the provisions of an apparently genuine health care directive or the direction of a surrogate is immune from criminal and civil liability and is not subject to professional discipline for that reliance.
B. Health care provider acts and refusals to act made in reliance on the provisions of a health care directive or directions of a surrogate are presumed to be made in good faith. A court shall base a finding of an absence of good faith on information known to the provider and shall enter its finding only after it has made a determination of bad faith in written findings of fact based on clear and convincing evidence of improper motive. For the purposes of this subsection,  " good faith"  includes all health care decisions,  acts and refusals to act based on a health care provider's reasonable belief of a patient's desires,  a patient's best interest or the directives of a patient's surrogate if these decisions,  acts or refusals to act are not contrary to the patient's express written directions in a valid health care directive.
C. A health care provider is not subject to criminal or civil liability or professional discipline for any of the following:
1. Failing to comply with a decision or a direction that violates the provider's conscience if the provider promptly makes known the provider's unwillingness and promptly transfers the responsibility for the patient's care to another provider who is willing to act in accordance with the agent's direction.
2. Failing to consult a patient with a disability or incapacitated patient's surrogate if the surrogate cannot be contacted after the health care provider has made a reasonable effort to do so or if an emergency situation does not provide the health care provider with sufficient time to locate and consult with the surrogate.
3. Relying on a court order concerning a patient.
4. A guardian's failure to comply with section 14-5303,  subsection B relating to the requirement that the petition include a statement that the authority granted to the guardian may include the authority to withhold or withdraw life sustaining treatment,  including artificial food and fluid.
D. This section does not relieve a health care provider from civil or criminal liability or prevent a provider from being subjected to professional disciplinary action for the provider's negligent treatment of a patient if the negligence is unrelated to the provider's reliance on a health care directive,  directions from a surrogate or the recommendations of an institutional ethics committee pursuant to section 36-3231.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3207 - Health care directives; effect on insurance and medical coverage

36-3207.
Health care directives;  effect on insurance and medical coverage
A. A person shall not require a person to execute or prohibit a person from executing a health care directive as a condition for providing health care services or insurance.
B. An insurer shall not refuse to pay for goods or services under a patient's insurance policy because the decision to use the goods or services was made by the patient's surrogate.
C. If a patient's death follows the withholding or withdrawing of any medical care pursuant to a surrogate's decision not expressly precluded by the patient's health care directive,  that death does not constitute a homicide or a suicide and does not impair or invalidate an insurance policy,  an annuity or any other contract that is conditioned on the life or death of the patient regardless of any terms of that contract.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3208 - Prior and out of state health care directives; validity

36-3208.
Prior and out of state health care directives;  validity
A health care directive prepared before September 30,  1992,  or prepared in another state,  district or territory of the United States is valid in this state if it was valid in the place where and at the time when it was adopted and only to the extent that it does not conflict with the criminal laws of this state.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3209 - Health care directives; conflicts

36-3209.
Health care directives;  conflicts
A. If there are conflicts among the provisions of valid health care directives,  the most recent directive is deemed to represent the wishes of the patient.
B. Notwithstanding any other law,  if there is a conflict between a provision of a valid health care directive,  the decision of a patient's agent pursuant to a valid health care power of attorney or the decision of a surrogate decision maker pursuant to section 36-3231 and a health care provider's order,  including an order regarding life-sustaining treatment or a similar document,  the health care directive,  the decision of the patient's agent or the decision of the surrogate decision maker is presumed to represent the decision of the patient.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3221 - Health care power of attorney; scope; requirements; limitations; fiduciaries

36-3221.
Health care power of attorney;  scope;  requirements;  limitations;  fiduciaries
A. A person who is an adult may designate another adult individual or other adult individuals to make health care decisions on that person's behalf or to provide funeral and disposition arrangements in the event of the person's death by executing a written health care power of attorney that meets all of the following requirements:
1. Contains language that clearly indicates that the person intends to create a health care power of attorney.
2. Except as provided under subsection B of this section,  is dated and signed or marked by the person who is the subject of the health care power of attorney.
3. Is notarized or is witnessed in writing by at least one adult who affirms that the notary or witness was present when the person dated and signed or marked the health care power of attorney,  except as provided under subsection B,  and that the person appeared to be of sound mind and free from duress at the time of execution of the health care power of attorney.
B. If a person is physically unable to sign or mark a health care power of attorney,  the notary or each witness shall verify on the document that the person directly indicated to the notary or witness that the power of attorney expressed the person's wishes and that the person intended to adopt the power of attorney at that time.
C. A notary or witness shall not be any of the following:
1. A person designated to make medical decisions on the principal's behalf.
2. A person directly involved with the provision of health care to the principal at the time the health care power of attorney is executed.
D. If a health care power of attorney is witnessed by only one person,  that person may not be related to the principal by blood,  marriage or adoption and may not be entitled to any part of the principal's estate by will or by operation of law at the time that the power of attorney is executed.
E. A person whose license as a fiduciary has been suspended or revoked pursuant to section 14-5651 may not serve as an agent under a power of attorney in any capacity unless the person is related to the principal by blood,  adoption or marriage. This prohibition does not apply if the person's license has been reinstated and is in good standing.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3222 - Health care power of attorney; amendments

36-3222.
Health care power of attorney;  amendments
An amendment to a health care power of attorney shall meet the requirements of section 36-3221,  subsection A,  paragraphs 2 and 3 unless the amendment is only made to indicate an agent's change of address or telephone number.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3223 - Agents; powers and duties; removal; responsibility; fiduciaries

36-3223.
Agents;  powers and duties;  removal;  responsibility;  fiduciaries
A. The individual designated in a health care power of attorney to make health care decisions is an agent entitled to make and communicate these decisions while the principal is unable to do so.
B. An agent's authority to make health care decisions on behalf of the principal is limited only by the express language of the health care power of attorney or by court order as prescribed under section 36-3206.
C. The appointment of a person to act as an agent is effective until that authority is revoked by the principal or by court order.
D. A person whose license as a fiduciary has been suspended or revoked pursuant to section 14-5651 may not serve as an agent under a power of attorney in any capacity unless the person is related to the principal by blood,  adoption or marriage. This prohibition does not apply if the person's license has been reinstated and is in good standing.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3261 - Living will; verification; liability

36-3261.
Living will;  verification;  liability
A. An adult may prepare a written statement known as a living will to control the health care treatment decisions that can be made on that person's behalf. The person may use the living will as part of or instead of a health care power of attorney or to disqualify a surrogate.
B. If the living will is not part of a health care power of attorney,  the person shall verify his living will in the same manner as prescribed by section 36-3221.
C. A health care provider who makes good faith health care decisions based on the provisions of an apparently genuine living will is immune from criminal and civil liability for those decisions to the same extent and under the same conditions as prescribed in section 36-3205.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3262 - Sample living will

36-3262.
Sample living will
Any writing that meets the requirements of this article may be used to create a living will. A person may write and use a living will without writing a health care power of attorney or may attach a living will to the person's health care power of attorney. If a person has a health care power of attorney,  the agent must make health care decisions that are consistent with the person's known desires and that are medically reasonable and appropriate. A person can,  but is not required to,  state the person's desires in a living will. The following form is offered as a sample only and does not prevent a person from using other language or another form:
Living Will
(Some general statements concerning your health care options are outlined below. If you agree with one of the statements,  you should initial that statement. Read all of these statements carefully before you initial your selection. You can also write your own statement concerning life-sustaining treatment and other matters relating to your health care. You may initial any combination of paragraphs 1,  2,  3 and 4 but if you initial paragraph 5 the others should not be initialed.)
_____ 1. If I have a terminal condition I do not want my life to be prolonged and I do not want life-sustaining treatment,  beyond comfort care,  that would serve only to artificially delay the moment of my death.
_____ 2. If I am in a terminal condition or an irreversible coma or a persistent vegetative state that my doctors reasonably feel to be irreversible or incurable,  I do want the medical treatment necessary to provide care that would keep me comfortable,  but I do not want the following:
_____ (a) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation,  for example,  the use of drugs,  electric shock and artificial breathing.
_____ (b) Artificially administered food and fluids.
_____ (c) To be taken to a hospital if at all avoidable.
_____ 3. Notwithstanding my other directions,  if I am known to be pregnant,  I do not want life-sustaining treatment withheld or withdrawn if it is possible that the embryo/fetus will develop to the point of live birth with the continued application of life-sustaining treatment.
_____ 4. Notwithstanding my other directions I do want the use of all medical care necessary to treat my condition until my doctors reasonably conclude that my condition is terminal or is irreversible and incurable or I am in a persistent vegetative state.
_____ 5. I want my life to be prolonged to the greatest extent possible.
Other or Additional Statements of Desires
I have _____ I have not _____ attached additional special provisions or limitations to this document to be honored in the absence of my being able to give health care directions.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3281 - Mental health care power of attorney; scope; definition

36-3281.
Mental health care power of attorney;  scope;  definition
A. An adult,  known as the principal,  pursuant to section 36-3282 may designate another adult or adults,  known as the agent,  to act as an agent and to make mental health care decisions on that person's behalf. The principal may also designate an alternate adult or adults to act as agent if the original designated agent or agents are unwilling or unable to act.
B. An agent under section 36-3283 may make decisions about mental health treatment on behalf of the principal if the principal is found incapable. If an adult does not have a mental health care power of attorney pursuant to this section,  an agent with a health care power of attorney under section 36-3221 may make decisions about mental health treatment on behalf of the principal if the principal is found incapable,  except as provided in section 36-3283,  subsection F. These decisions shall be consistent with any wishes the principal has expressed in the mental health care directive,  mental health care power of attorney,  health care power of attorney or other advance directive.
C. An agent shall not be a person who is directly involved with the provision of health care to the principal at the time the mental health care power of attorney is executed.
D. For the purposes of this section,  " incapable"  means that in the opinion of a physician who is licensed pursuant to title 32,  chapter 13 or 17 and who is a specialist in neurology or psychiatry or a psychologist who is licensed pursuant to title 32,  chapter 19.1,  a person lacks the ability to give informed consent as defined in section 36-501.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3282 - Execution requirements

36-3282.
Execution requirements
A. To be valid,  a mental health care power of attorney shall:
1. Be executed by a principal who is not incapable,  as defined in section 36-3281.
2. Be in writing.
3. Contain language that clearly indicates that the principal intends to create a mental health care power of attorney.
4. Except as provided pursuant to subsection C of this section,  be dated and signed or marked by the principal.
5. Be notarized or witnessed in writing by at least one adult who affirms that the notary or witness was present when the principal dated and signed or marked the mental health care power of attorney and that the principal appeared to be of sound mind and free from duress,  fraud or undue influence at that time.
B. If a mental health care power of attorney expressly provides that the agent can admit the principal to an inpatient psychiatric facility licensed by the department of health services,  each paragraph that grants this authority must be separately initialed by the principal at the time the mental health care power of attorney is signed and witnessed.
C. If the principal is physically unable to sign or mark a mental health care power of attorney,  the notary and each witness shall verify on the document that the principal indicated to the notary or witness that the mental health care power of attorney expressed the principal's wishes and that the principal intended to adopt the mental health care power of attorney at that time.
D. A notary or witness shall not be any of the following:
1. A person designated to make medical decisions on the principal's behalf.
2. A professional care provider directly involved with the provision of care to the principal at the time the mental health care power of attorney is executed.
E. If a mental health care power of attorney is witnessed by only one person,  that person shall not be either:
1. Related to the principal by blood,  marriage or adoption.
2. Entitled to any part of the principal's estate by will or by operation of law at the time that the power of attorney is executed.
F. A mental health care power of attorney may be used as part of or independent of a health care power of attorney as defined in section 36-3201.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3283 - Powers and duties of an agent

36-3283.
Powers and duties of an agent
A. An agent may make mental health care decisions for the principal while the principal is incapable,  as defined in section 36-3281.
B. Except as limited by subsection F of this section,  an agent's authority to make mental health care decisions is limited only by the express language of the mental health care power of attorney or by a court order pursuant to section 36-3206.
C. The appointment of a person to act as an agent is effective until that authority is revoked by the principal or by a court order.
D. An agent has the same right as the principal to receive information and to review the principal's medical records regarding proposed mental health treatment and to receive,  review and consent to the disclosure of medical records relating to that treatment.
E. An agent shall act consistently with the wishes of the principal as expressed in the mental health care power of attorney. Except as limited by subsection F of this section,  if the principal's wishes are not expressed in the mental health care power of attorney and are not otherwise known by the agent,  the agent shall act in accordance with what the agent in good faith believes to be in the principal's best interests.
F. An agent may consent to admit the principal to an inpatient psychiatric facility licensed by the department of health services if this authority is expressly stated in the mental health care power of attorney or health care power of attorney under section 36-3221.
G. An agent is not subject to criminal or civil liability for decisions made in good faith pursuant to subsection E of this section.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3285 - Revocation; disqualification of agent

36-3285.
Revocation;  disqualification of agent
A. Except during times when the principal has been found to be incapable as defined in section 36-3281,  a principal under a mental health care power of attorney may disqualify an agent or revoke all or any portion of the power of attorney.
B. Unless a principal is incapable as defined in section 36-3281,  a principal may revoke all or any part of the principal's mental health care power of attorney by doing any of the following:
1. Making a written revocation of the mental health care power of attorney or a written statement to disqualify an agent.
2. Orally notifying the agent or a mental health care provider.
3. Making a new mental health care power of attorney.
4. Any other act that demonstrates a specific intent to revoke a mental health care power of attorney or disqualify an agent.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3291 - Health care directives registry; exemption

36-3291.
Health care directives registry;  exemption
A. The department of health services shall designate a qualifying health information exchange organization to operate a health care directives registry.
B. Subject to the availability of monies,  the qualifying health information exchange organization shall establish and maintain a health care directives registry.
C. Chapter 38 of this title does not apply to the health care directives registry or the qualifying health information exchange organization's operation of the registry.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3292 - Filing requirements

36-3292.
Filing requirements
A. A person may submit to the health care directives registry,  in a manner prescribed by the qualifying health information exchange organization,  health care directives,  including prehospital medical care directives and any amendments to or revocations of these documents.
B. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall establish a process for authenticating the identity of the person who submits a document to the health care directives registry.
C. Documents submitted pursuant to this section must be notarized or witnessed as prescribed by this chapter.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3292.01 - Transmission of records from a health information exchange organization to the registry

36-3292.01.
Transmission of records from a health information exchange organization to the registry
Notwithstanding any other provision of this article,  the qualifying health information exchange organization may establish a process for transmitting to the health care directives registry documents described in section 36-3292 from a health information organization as defined in section 36-3801.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3293 - Effect of nonregistration or revocation

36-3293.
Effect of nonregistration or revocation
A. Failure to register a document with the qualifying health information exchange organization pursuant to this article does not affect the validity of a health care directive.
B. Failure to notify the qualifying health information exchange organization of the revocation of a document filed pursuant to this article does not affect the validity of a revocation that otherwise meets the requirements for a revocation pursuant to this chapter.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3294 - Registration

36-3294.
Registration
A. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall establish a process to allow persons to submit documents described in section 36-3292 to the health care directives registry. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall adopt industry standard safeguards to ensure the security,  privacy and integrity of the documents submitted to and maintained in the health care directives registry.
B. The qualifying health information exchange organization is not required to review a document to ensure that it complies with the particular statutory requirements applicable to the document.
C. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall provide a person who submitted the document to the health care directives registry with a viewable record of the information entered into the registry and allow the person to submit corrected information.
D. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall activate the entry of a submitted document into the health care directives registry only after receiving confirmation that the information submitted is correct.
E. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall establish a process to allow persons who submit documents to the health care directives registry to review,  retrieve,  revoke and replace the documents.
F. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall establish a process for removing or distinguishing documents that have been revoked or replaced by more recent documents.
G. The entry of a document pursuant to this article does not:
1. Affect the validity of the document.
2. Relate to the accuracy of information contained in the document.
3. Create a presumption regarding the validity of the document or the accuracy of information contained in the document.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3295 - Registry information; confidentiality; health care provider access; use and transfer of information; definition

36-3295.
Registry information;  confidentiality;  health care provider access;  use and transfer of information;  definition
A. Information maintained by the qualifying health information exchange organization pursuant to this article is confidential and shall not be disclosed except as allowed by state or federal law.
B. The person who submits a document described in section 36-3292,  the person who is the subject of the document and the surrogate of the person who is the subject of the document may access the document in the health care directives registry in a manner prescribed by the qualifying health information exchange organization.
C. Notwithstanding subsection A of this section,  a health care provider may access the health care directives registry and receive a patient's health care directive documents for the provision of health care services.
D. The qualifying health information exchange organization shall use information contained in the registry only for purposes prescribed in this article,  except that the qualifying health information exchange organization may use,  disclose and make accessible the information contained in the registry through the health information organization as authorized by section 36-3805,  subsection A.
E. At the request of the person who submitted a document described in section 36-3292,  the qualifying health information exchange organization may transmit the information received regarding the document to the registry system of another jurisdiction.
F. For the purposes of this section,  " health care provider"  includes an emergency medical service provider and emergency service technician providing emergency medical services as defined in section 36-2201 and the organ procurement organization that maintains the donor registry established pursuant to section 36-858.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3296 - Liability; limitation

36-3296.
Liability;  limitation
A. Except for acts of gross negligence,  wilful misconduct or intentional wrongdoing,  the qualifying health information exchange organization and its contractors are not subject to civil liability for any claims or demands arising out of the administration or operation of,  or the provision of access to information stored in,  the registry established pursuant to this article.
B. This article does not require a health care provider to request from the registry information about whether a patient has executed a health care directive. A health care provider who makes good faith health care decisions in reliance on the provisions of an apparently genuine health care directive received from the registry is immune from criminal and civil liability to the same extent and under the same conditions as prescribed in sections 36-3205 and 36-3251,  except that the requirement that a prehospital medical care directive be on an orange form does not apply to a health care provider who relies on a prehospital medical care directive displayed through the registry.
C. This article does not affect the duty of a health care provider to provide information to a patient regarding health care directives pursuant to federal law.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3401 - Definitions

36-3401.
Definitions
In this chapter,  unless the context otherwise requires:
1. " Administration"  means the Arizona health care cost containment system administration.
2. " Advisory council"  means the Arizona state advisory council on the seriously mentally ill.
3. " Children"  means persons who are under the age of nineteen years or persons who are under the age of twenty-two years and enrolled in an educational facility.
4. " Clean claim"  means a claim that can be processed without obtaining additional information from the service provider or from a third party. Clean claim does not include claims under investigation for fraud or abuse or claims under review for medical necessity.
5. " Director"  means the director of the administration.
6. " Regional behavioral health authority"  means an organization under contract with the administration to coordinate the delivery of mental health services in a geographically specific service area of the state for eligible persons.
7. " Service provider"  means an organization or mental health professional that meets the criteria established by the administration and has a contract with the administration or a regional behavioral health authority.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3403 - Powers and duties of the director; study; capitation rates

36-3403.
Powers and duties of the director;  study;  capitation rates
A. In addition to the powers and duties prescribed in chapter 29 of this title,  in carrying out the duties of this chapter,  the director may:
1. Employ professional,  secretarial and clerical staff as are determined necessary by the director to carry out the functions and duties of the administration,  subject to legislative appropriation.
2. Contract for the services of consultants and other persons that are reasonably necessary to enable the administration to carry out its functions and duties,  subject to legislative appropriation.
3. Contract and incur obligations that are reasonably necessary within the general scope of the administration.
4. Adopt rules that are necessary to carry out the requirements of the administration.
5. Contract or enter into intergovernmental agreements with other public and private nonprofit agencies and entities.
6. Use monies,  facilities or services to provide matching contributions under federal or other programs that further the objectives and programs of the administration.
7. Accept gifts,  grants,  matching monies or direct payments from public or private agencies or private persons and enterprises for the conduct of programs that are consistent with the general purposes and objectives of the administration.
B. The director shall administer:
1. Unified mental health programs,  excluding the functions of the state hospital but including community mental health.
2. Addictive behavior programs to include alcohol and drug abuse.
C. Notwithstanding any other law,  the director may waive or reduce the requirements for local match.
D. Except as otherwise required by this chapter,  the director shall carry out the duties of this chapter subject to and consistent with chapter 29 of this title.
E. The administration shall contract with an independent consulting firm for an annual study of the adequacy and appropriateness of title XIX reimbursement rates to providers of behavioral health services. The administration may require and the regional behavioral health authorities and service providers shall provide to the administration financial data in the format prescribed by the administration to assist in the study. A complete study of reimbursement rates shall be completed at least once every five years. The administration shall provide the report to the joint legislative budget committee on or before October 1 of each year. If results of the study are not completely incorporated into the capitation rate,  the administration shall provide a report to the joint legislative budget committee within thirty days of setting the final capitation rate,  including reasons for differences between the rate and the study.
F. Capitation rate adjustments shall be limited to utilization of existing services and inflation unless policy changes,  including creation or expansion of programs,  have been approved by the legislature or are specifically required by federal law or court mandate.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3404 - Administration budget for behavioral health; funds

36-3404.
Administration budget for behavioral health;  funds
A. The administration shall present a budget request that includes all information on the potential availability of other monies,  including federal monies,  that may be used in the following fiscal year to fund behavioral health services other than with respect to the operation of the Arizona state hospital.
B. The budget request presented pursuant to subsection A of this section shall be divided as follows:
1. A proposed budget for the administration of behavioral health services.
2. A proposed budget for services for each behavioral health program.
C. The director shall establish funds for each behavioral health program. Monies appropriated to the administration for these programs,  fees generated by the provision of these programs and grants and gifts to the administration shall be maintained in the appropriate fund to pay program and administrative costs. The administrative costs of each program shall be separately identified in the accounting records of the administration.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3405 - Annual report; reports

36-3405.
Annual report;  reports
A. On or before January 1 of each year,  the director shall submit a financial and programmatic report for the preceding fiscal year to the governor,  the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate.
B. The report required pursuant to subsection A of this section shall include revenues and expenditures for behavioral health programs and total revenues and expenditures,  including specific identification of administrative costs for each behavioral health program by the following categories:
1. The seriously mentally ill.
2. Alcohol and drug abuse.
3. Children with severe emotional disabilities.
4. Domestic violence.
C. The report required pursuant to subsection A of this section shall include the number of clients served by each behavioral health service.
D. The director shall provide a monthly report to the governor,  the speaker of the house of representatives and the president of the senate that shall,  by regional behavioral health authority,  separately report title XIX and nontitle XIX categories and shall include for each category the number of persons served,  the units of service and the amount of funding provided for client services and the amount provided for regional behavioral health authority administration and case management expenses.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3406 - Arizona state advisory council on the seriously mentally ill; membership; compensation; duties

36-3406.
Arizona state advisory council on the seriously mentally ill;  membership;  compensation;  duties
A. The Arizona state advisory council on the seriously mentally ill is established.
B. The advisory council shall consist of the director or the director's designee and the following nine members appointed by the governor:
1. One member representing an advocacy group for the seriously mentally ill.
2. One service provider.
3. One member representing a behavioral health contract agency in an urban area.
4. One member representing a behavioral health contract agency in a rural area.
5. One member of a county health department specializing in the delivery of services to the seriously mentally ill.
6. One health care professional who works with the seriously mentally ill and who is not associated with a contract agency providing services.
7. Three family members of persons who are seriously mentally ill.
C. The director or the director's designee shall serve as chairman.
D. The advisory council shall meet at least every three months.
E. Members of the advisory council are not entitled to compensation but members appointed are entitled to reimbursement of expenses pursuant to title 38,  chapter 4,  article 2.
F. The administration shall provide necessary staff services to the advisory council.
G. The advisory council shall advise the administration on matters relating to the seriously mentally ill.
H. Appointed members of the advisory council shall serve staggered three-year terms.
2023 Arizona Revised Statutes › Title 36 - Public Health and Safety › § 36-3407 - Services; contract

36-3407.
Services;  contract
The administration shall contract for the provision of the following services relating to the seriously mentally ill:
1. Community education to increase public awareness of the needs of persons experiencing behavioral health problems.
2. Coordinated screening and intake.
3. A coordinated service delivery system.
4. Coordinated case management and individualized treatment planning for each client.
5. Ongoing family participation in the planning for and selection of continuum of care services.
6. A comprehensive continuum of care services,  as appropriate for each client,  that includes the following:
(a) Home-based services.
(b) Prevention and early intervention.
(c) Psychiatric evaluation and consultation.
(d) Ancillary support services.
(e) Crisis intervention,  including short-term and mobile crisis stabilization.
(f) Outpatient counseling.
(g) Residential treatment services.
(h) Case management.
(i) Partial care services.
(j) Secure residential treatment services.
(k) Residential treatment services for clients discharged from the Arizona state hospital.
(l) Hospitalization services.
(m) Psychotropic medication services.
(n) Independent living services.
(o) Detoxification services.
(p) Respite care.
(q) Vocational rehabilitation.
(r) Transportation.
(s) Socialization and recreation.