Bill Text: AZ HB2328 | 2022 | Fifty-fifth Legislature 2nd Regular | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Arizona correctional industries; workplace injuries

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-03-30 - Chapter 90 [HB2328 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2022-HB2328-Chaptered.html

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House Engrossed

 

Arizona correctional industries; workplace injuries

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-fifth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2022

 

 

 

CHAPTER 90

 

HOUSE BILL 2328

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 41, chapter 11, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 41-1625; relating to Arizona correctional industries.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section 1. Title 41, chapter 11, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 41-1625, to read:

START_STATUTE41-1625. Arizona correctional industries; prisoner workplace injuries; evidence; medical and health services

IN AN ACTION FOR DAMAGES THAT A PRISONER BRINGS AGAINST A PRIVATE PERSON, FIRM, CORPORATION OR ASSOCIATION THAT IS ENGAGED IN A CONTRACT PURSUANT TO SECTION 41-1624.01 FOR INJURY OR DEATH ARISING FROM THE PRISONER'S WORK IN ARIZONA CORRECTIONAL INDUSTRIES, THE PRISONER MAY NOT INTRODUCE INTO EVIDENCE THE AMOUNT OR COST OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES THE DEPARTMENT OR this STATE PROVIDED TO THE PRISONER OR PAID ON THE PRISONER'S BEHALF PURSUANT TO SECTION 31-201.01 AS A RESULT OF THE PRISONER'S INJURY OR DEATH, EXCEPT that the prisoner may INTRODUCE into evidence ANY AMOUNT THE PRISONER HAS PAID FOR OR CONTRIBUTED TO SECURE THE PRISONER'S RIGHT TO MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICES. END_STATUTE

 

 

 

APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR MARCH 30, 2022.

 

FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE MARCH 30, 2022.