Bill Text: AZ HB2594 | 2012 | Fiftieth Legislature 2nd Regular | Introduced

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Bill Title: Emergency rooms; surveys; malnutrition

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-18 - Referred to House HHS Committee [HB2594 Detail]

Download: Arizona-2012-HB2594-Introduced.html

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REFERENCE TITLE: emergency rooms; surveys; malnutrition

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fiftieth Legislature

Second Regular Session

2012

 

 

HB 2594

 

Introduced by

Representatives Judd: Farley, Hobbs, Tovar

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending Title 36, chapter 4, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-415; relating to health care institutions.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

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

Section|1.||Title 36, chapter 4, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-415, to read:

START_STATUTE36-415.  Emergency departments; required information; malnutrition

A.  Every hospital emergency department in this state shall require admissions personnel to ask the following questions of each person admitted:

1.  Has the person skipped a meal for the sake of a child.

2.  Has the person ever gone without food for a period of time that the person felt hungry.

B.  Each hospital shall report its findings on a quarterly basis to the department of economic security to assist the department to determine areas of this state with high levels of malnutrition. END_STATUTE