Bill Text: AZ HB2205 | 2017 | Fifty-third Legislature 1st Regular | Chaptered
Bill Title: DHS; commission; task force; repeal
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-04-04 - Chapter 136 [HB2205 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2017-HB2205-Chaptered.html
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House Engrossed |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature First Regular Session 2017
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CHAPTER 136
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HOUSE BILL 2205 |
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AN ACT
Amending sections 36‑101 and 36‑103.01, Arizona Revised Statutes; repealing sections 36‑109 and 36‑142, Arizona Revised Statutes; amending sections 36‑271 and 36‑272, Arizona Revised Statutes; repealing section 41‑3019.02, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to the department of health services.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 36-101, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
36-101. Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Agency" includes one or more of the governmental units consolidated into the department of health services by this chapter.
2. "Council" means the advisory health council.
3. 2. "Department" means the department of health services.
4. 3. "Director" means the director of the department of health services.
5. 4. "State plan" means any of the several state plans administered by the department which that meet the federal requirements necessary for federal funding.
Sec. 2. Section 36-103.01, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
36-103.01. Governmental units succeeded; statutory references to succeeded governmental units
A. The department succeeds to the authority, powers, duties and responsibilities of the following:
1. State department of health.
2. Arizona health planning authority.
3. Crippled children's services.
4. Arizona state hospital.
5. Anatomy board.
B. In the Arizona Revised Statutes, references to the agencies and departments listed in subsection A of this section shall be deemed to be references to the department of health services or its appropriate organizational units.
C. In the Arizona Revised Statutes, references to the state board of health, when utilized used in the context of and in connection with promulgation the adoption of rules and regulations, the appellate or original review of administrative decisions, or the approval of decisions by department officers, shall be references to the director of the department of health services. In all other places, references to the state board of health shall be references to the Arizona advisory health council department of health services.
D. In this title, and in the Arizona Revised Statutes, references to the commissioner of health shall be references to the director of the department of health services.
Sec. 3. Repeal
Sections 36-109 and 36‑142, Arizona Revised Statutes, are repealed.
Sec. 4. Section 36-271, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
36-271. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Commission" means the Arizona biomedical research commission.
2. 1. "Department" means the department of health services.
3. 2. "Disease" means a condition or disorder that causes the human body to deviate from its normal or healthy state and that has no known general cure or adequate medically accepted treatment.
4. 3. "Medically accepted treatment" means a methodology or protocol recognized by the American medical association, the American college of surgeons or the national cancer institute or taught by an approved school of medicine as defined in section 32‑1401 as a treatment that results in the restoration of the human body to a normal or healthy state.
Sec. 5. Section 36-272, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
36-272. Biomedical research
A. The biomedical research commission is established in the department consisting of the following members who are appointed by the governor pursuant to section 38‑211:
1. Three members representing the medical community who are experienced in disease related research, no more than one of whom may be employed by or otherwise associated with any state agency, state university or political subdivision of this state.
2. Three members representing the scientific research community, no more than two of whom may be employed by or otherwise associated with any state agency, state university or political subdivision of this state.
3. Three members representing the general public.
B. The commission shall advise the department regarding ways to shall advance research in this state relating to:
1. The causes, epidemiology and diagnosis of diseases.
2. The formulation of cures for diseases.
3. The development of medically accepted treatment and prevention of diseases, including the discovery and development of new drugs.
C. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the terms of members are three years beginning on May 1.
D. Commission members are eligible to receive compensation in the amount of two hundred dollars per day for every day of actual service in the business of the commission and are eligible for reimbursement of expenses necessarily and properly incurred in attending commission meetings.
E. The commission shall meet at least quarterly at the call of the chairperson. The commission shall also meet at the call of either three commission members or two commission members and the commission's executive director. The commission shall elect a chairperson and cochairperson from among its membership annually at its first quarterly meeting.
Sec. 6. Repeal
Section 41-3019.02, Arizona Revised Statutes, is repealed.
APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR APRIL 4, 2017.
FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE APRIL 4, 2017.
