Title 32 — Professions and Occupations

A health professional is not required to participate in any public or private third-party reimbursement program as a condition of licensure under this title.

A. This state, any political subdivision of this state or any department or agency of this state, including a health profession regulatory board, or a private entity contracted with a health profession regulatory board to carry out functions of the board may not punish a health p…

A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this title and except as provided in this subsection, a member of a health profession regulatory board is not eligible for reappointment to that board once the person has been appointed for two full terms, in addition to any time served o…

A. Each health profession regulatory board may establish a nondisciplinary confidential program, including enrollment criteria for participation in the program, for the monitoring of a licensee or certificate holder who has been reported to or who voluntarily reports to the licen…

A. A health profession regulatory board may not include any question on an application for a license, permit, certificate or endorsement that requests information about whether the applicant has sought mental health assistance or received a mental health diagnosis or treatment. T…

Notwithstanding any time limit to the contrary in this title, a health profession regulatory board may not act on its own motion or on any complaint received by the board in which an allegation of unprofessional conduct or any other violation of the chapter that applies to a prof…

[Repealed or reserved.]

A. A health profession regulatory board shall have, for each licensee under the board's regulation, an address of record designated by the licensee that may be disclosed to the public. If the licensee designates the licensee's residential address as the address of record, the boa…

A. A health profession regulatory board shall regulate the unauthorized practice of the health profession the board regulates. B. A health profession regulatory board or the executive director of the board, if delegated and consistent with each regulatory board's statutory author…

1. A description of the risks of breast implants and of the surgical procedures used in breast implant surgery. 2. Manufacturer patient information materials, in a hard copy or an electronic format, on the implants that will be used in the surgery, including warning requirements …

1. Within the scope of the surgical procedure or diagnostic examination to be performed on the patient for which informed consent has otherwise been obtained. 2. In the case of an unconscious patient, required for diagnostic purposes and is medically necessary. 3. A forensic medi…

B. A record of a health professional's participation in a health professional wellness program is confidential and not subject to discovery, subpoena or a reporting requirement to the applicable health profession regulatory board, unless either: 1. The health professional volunta…

B. A physician may provide any of the following to an individual who is under eighteen years of age: 1. Services to an individual born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development, including an individual with external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvab…

Except as provided in section 32-1753, a health professional may engage in the practice for which the health professional is licensed in any form of business entity in this state or as an employee of any form of business entity in this state.

If a health profession regulatory board suspends the processing of renewal applications for licensure or certification: 1. All current licenses and certificates that were previously issued by that health profession regulatory board are extended through the suspension period. 2. D…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Administer" means the direct application of or dispensing or furnishing a prescription medication or a prescription-only device, whether by injection or any other means, to the body of a patient by a health professional …

Only a health professional, who has prescribing authority and who is acting within the health professional's scope of practice, may administer or supervise another health professional, who is acting within the health professional's scope of practice, in the administration of pres…

A. A health professional may register, operate and use a laser or IPL device that is registered with the department or administer drugs or devices for cosmetic purposes to the extent the use is allowed by the health professional's scope of practice and the health professional has…

The laser safety fund is established consisting of fees collected by the department pursuant to section 32-3233. The department shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated.

(Conditionally Rpld.) The medical licensure compact is enacted into law as follows: Section 1. Purpose In order to strengthen access to health care, and in recognition of the advances in the delivery of health care, the member states of the interstate Medical Licensure Compact ha…

(Conditionally Rpld.) A subpoena issued pursuant to section 32-3241, section 9 for the attendance and testimony of witnesses or the production of evidence from this state shall be enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction in this state according to that court's practice and…

(Conditionally Rpld.) An employer may not require a physician to seek licensure through the medical licensure compact enacted by section 32-3241 as a condition of initial or continued employment as an allopathic or osteopathic physician in this state. An employer may require that…

(Conditionally Rpld.) If a meeting, or a portion of a meeting, of the interstate commission is closed pursuant to section 32-3241, section 11, subsection H, the commission's legal counsel or designee shall certify that the meeting may be closed and shall reference each relevant e…

(Conditionally Rpld.) The Arizona medical board and the Arizona board of osteopathic examiners in medicine and surgery: 1. Within thirty days after an interstate commission action shall post on the board's public website notice of any commission action that may affect a physician…

(Conditionally Rpld.) A. This article is repealed if either of the following occurs: 1. The interstate medical licensure compact commission created pursuant to section 32-3241, section 11 issues a rule or decision that would change the scope of practice of or the definition of un…

A. A health professional who is authorized under this title to prescribe controlled substances shall limit the initial prescription for a patient for a schedule II controlled substance that is an opioid to not more than a five-day supply, except that an initial prescription for a…

A. A health professional who is authorized under this title to prescribe controlled substances may not issue a new prescription to be filled or dispensed for a patient outside of a health care institution for a schedule II controlled substance that is an opioid that exceeds ninet…

A health professional who is authorized under this title to prescribe schedule II controlled substances and who has a valid United States drug enforcement administration registration number or who is authorized under chapter 18 of this title to dispense controlled substances shal…

B. For the purposes of this section, "health professional" means a person who is licensed pursuant to chapter 7, 13, 15, 17 or 25 of this title and who holds a valid United States drug enforcement administration registration number.

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means a health profession regulatory board that provides licensure, certification or registration and regulation pursuant to chapter 13, 15, 17, 19, 19.1 or 33 of this title. 2. "Database" means the health profess…

A. Beginning January 2, 2021, each board shall request from applicants for initial or renewal licensure, certification or registration or otherwise on an annual basis the designated database information prescribed in rule by the director pursuant to section 36-104. Each board sha…

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the board of behavioral health examiners. 2. "Client" means a patient who receives behavioral health services from a person licensed pursuant to this chapter. 3. "Direct client contact" means the performance…

A. The board of behavioral health examiners is established consisting of the following members appointed by the governor: 1. The following professional members: (a) Two members who are licensed in social work pursuant to this chapter, at least one of whom is a licensed clinical s…

A. The board shall: 1. Adopt rules consistent with and necessary or proper to carry out the purposes of this chapter. 2. Administer and enforce this chapter, rules adopted pursuant to this chapter and orders of the board. 3. Issue a license by examination, endorsement or temporar…

A. The board of behavioral health examiners fund is established. Pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the board shall deposit fifteen percent of all monies received by the board in the state general fund and deposit the remaining eighty-five percent in the board of behavioral …

(L24, Ch. 222, sec. 42. Eff. 7/1/28) A. The board of behavioral health examiners fund is established. Pursuant to sections 35-146 and 35-147, the board shall deposit ten percent of all monies received by the board in the state general fund and deposit the remaining ninety percent…

A. Subject to title 41, chapter 4, article 4, the committee on executive director selection and retention established by section 32-3253 shall appoint an executive director who serves at the pleasure of the committee. The executive director is eligible to receive compensation set…

A. If delegated by the board, the executive director may dismiss a complaint if the investigative staff's review indicates that the complaint is without merit and that dismissal is appropriate. B. At each regularly scheduled board meeting, the executive director shall provide to …

For the purposes of this chapter, notifications or communications required to be written or in writing may be transmitted or received by mail, electronic transmission, facsimile transmission or hand delivery and shall not be transmitted or received orally.

A. The board shall establish an academic review committee for each professional area licensed pursuant to this chapter to do the following: 1. Review applications referred to the committee by the board or the executive director to determine whether an applicant, whose curriculum …

A. This chapter does not apply to: 1. A person who is currently licensed, certified or regulated pursuant to another chapter of this title and who provides services within the person's scope of practice if the person does not claim to be licensed pursuant to this chapter. 2. A pe…

A. For issuance of a license pursuant to this chapter, including application fees, the board shall establish and charge reasonable fees not to exceed $500. B. For renewal of a license pursuant to this chapter, the board shall establish and charge reasonable fees not to exceed $50…

A. Except as provided in section 32-4301, a license issued pursuant to this chapter is renewable every two years by paying the renewal fee prescribed by the board and submitting documentation prescribed by the board by rule of completion of relevant continuing education experienc…

A. The board may issue a license by endorsement to a person in that person's behavioral health discipline if the person is licensed or certified by the regulatory agency of one or more other states or federal jurisdictions at a substantially equivalent or higher practice level as…

A. An applicant for licensure must meet all of the following requirements: 1. Submit an application as prescribed by the board. 2. Be at least twenty-one years of age. 3. Pay all applicable fees prescribed by the board. 4. Have the physical and mental capability to safely and com…

A. A licensee must provide the board with the licensee's current home address and telephone number and office address and telephone number and promptly and in writing inform the board of any change in this information. B. The board may assess the costs it incurs in locating a lic…

A. A person who does not renew a license is ineligible to practice pursuant to this chapter. B. The board may reinstate an expired license if the person submits an application for reinstatement within ninety days after the expiration of the license. The application must document …

A. The board by rule may establish procedures for a licensee to delay renewal of the license for good cause and to place the licensee on inactive status. A person on inactive status shall not practice behavioral health or claim to be a licensee. B. A licensee on inactive status m…

A. If an applicant does not meet the basic requirements for licensure prescribed in section 32-3275, the board may issue a probationary license that is subject to any of the following: 1. A requirement that the licensee's practice be supervised. 2. A restriction on the licensee's…

B. The board shall waive the records check required in subsection A of this section for an applicant who provides evidence acceptable to the board that the applicant holds a valid fingerprint clearance card issued by the department of public safety.