ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session
	House: RO DP 5-0-0-0 | 3^rd Read 59-0-1-0

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HB 2052: license exemption; basic first aid

Sponsor: Representative Kolodin, LD 3

House Engrossed

Overview

Exempts any person while providing basic first aid in good faith and without compensation from medical licensing requirements.

History

Any person while engaged in the following acts are exempt from medical licensing requirements, including: 1) providing medical assistance in case of an emergency; 2) administering family remedies, including the sale of vitamins, health foods or health food supplements or any other natural remedies, except prescription drugs or medicines; 3) practicing religion, treatment by prayer or the laying on of hands as a religious rite or ordinance; 4) practicing any of the healing arts by Indian tribes in this state; 5) practicing lawfully any of the healing arts to the extent authorized by a state issued license; 6) activities or functions that do not require the exercise of a physician's judgement for their performance, are not in violation of state law and are not usually or customarily delegated by a physician; 7) official duties of a medical officer in the military or federal agencies or their successor agencies; 8) any act, task or function competently performed by a physician assistant; or 9) emergency harvesting of donor organs by a physician or team of physicians licensed to practice medicine in another state or country for use in another state or country (A.R.S. §32-1421).

Provisions

1. Excludes any person, while providing basic first aid to an injured person in good faith and without compensation, from medical licensing requirements. (Sec. 1)

2. Defines basic first aid to mean any of the following:

a) cleaning minor cuts, scrapes or scratches;

b) treating a minor burn;

c) applying bandages and dressings;

d) removing debris from the eyes;

e) providing fluids to relieve heat stress; and

f) administering nonprescription pain-relieving medication, antiseptic medication or topical ointments, creams or analgesics for the purpose of treating the ailments.     (Sec. 1)

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