Bill Text: AZ HB2139 | 2024 | Fifty-sixth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Medical records; minors; confidentiality; consent

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-16 - House read second time [HB2139 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2024-HB2139-Introduced.html

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PREFILED    JAN 05 2024

REFERENCE TITLE:  medical records; minors; confidentiality; consent

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2024

 

 

 

HB 2139

 

Introduced by

Representative Willoughby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending section 12-2292, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to medical records.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Section 12-2292, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE12-2292. Confidentiality of medical records and payment records

A. Unless otherwise provided by law, all medical records and payment records, and the information contained in medical records and payment records, are privileged and confidential.  A health care provider may only disclose that part or all of a patient's medical records and payment records as authorized by state or federal law or written authorization signed by the patient or the patient's health care decision maker.

B. Unless otherwise provided by law and under the circumstances in which a minor patient may consent to the minor patient's own medical care and in which the minor patient has the mental capacity to consent, the minor patient's medical records are not privileged and confidential and may be disclosed to the minor patient's parent or guardian unless the minor patient notifies the health care provider, by written authorization signed by the minor patient, that the minor patient's medical records are privileged and confidential and may not be disclosed to the minor patient's parent or guardian. A health care provider shall inform a minor patient about the minor patient's option to keep the minor patient's medical records privileged and confidential. This subsection does not apply to the medical records of a minor patient who is emancipated.

B. c. This article does not limit the effect of any other federal or state law governing the confidentiality of medical records and payment records. END_STATUTE