Arizona 2025 Regular Session

Arizona House Bill HB2721 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/31/2025

                            REFERENCE TITLE: ambulance services; public information             State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025           HB 2721           Introduced by  Representative Willoughby                    An Act   amending title 36, chapter 21.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-2220.01; relating to emergency medical services.     (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)   

 

 

 

 

REFERENCE TITLE: ambulance services; public information
State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session 2025
HB 2721
Introduced by  Representative Willoughby

REFERENCE TITLE: ambulance services; public information

 

 

 

 

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

First Regular Session

2025

 

 

 

HB 2721

 

Introduced by 

Representative Willoughby

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An Act

 

amending title 36, chapter 21.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 36-2220.01; relating to emergency medical services.

 

 

(TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)

 

 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona: Section 1. Title 36, chapter 21.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-2220.01, to read: START_STATUTE36-2220.01. Private ambulance services; information on calls; public availability A. A privately owned ambulance service shall provide the following information to the department in a department-approved format, as applicable:  1. The types of calls received, whether Advanced life support, basic life support or interfacility transfer, and the following information for each call: (a) Dispatch time. (b) On-scene time. (c) Hospital arrival time. (d) Hospital release time. 2. Reports provided when an ambulance service has only one ambulance available in a service area, including the time, date and duration. 3. Reports provided when an ambulance service does not have an ambulance available in a service area, including the time, date and duration. 4. The date and time the ambulance service refused to provide back-up assistance to another certificate of necessity holder. 5. The date and time the ambulance service refused to provide mutual aid to another certificate of necessity holder. 6. the details of any complaint received from individuals. 7. The details of any complaint received from health care facilities. 8. The details of any complaint received from hospitals. B. The department shall make the information received pursuant to subsection A of this section available to the public on request, except that the department shall redact any personally identifying information. The department shall post the information received pursuant to subsection a of this section, as redacted, on the department's public website. END_STATUTE 

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

Section 1. Title 36, chapter 21.1, article 1, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 36-2220.01, to read:

START_STATUTE36-2220.01. Private ambulance services; information on calls; public availability

A. A privately owned ambulance service shall provide the following information to the department in a department-approved format, as applicable: 

1. The types of calls received, whether Advanced life support, basic life support or interfacility transfer, and the following information for each call:

(a) Dispatch time.

(b) On-scene time.

(c) Hospital arrival time.

(d) Hospital release time.

2. Reports provided when an ambulance service has only one ambulance available in a service area, including the time, date and duration.

3. Reports provided when an ambulance service does not have an ambulance available in a service area, including the time, date and duration.

4. The date and time the ambulance service refused to provide back-up assistance to another certificate of necessity holder.

5. The date and time the ambulance service refused to provide mutual aid to another certificate of necessity holder.

6. the details of any complaint received from individuals.

7. The details of any complaint received from health care facilities.

8. The details of any complaint received from hospitals.

B. The department shall make the information received pursuant to subsection A of this section available to the public on request, except that the department shall redact any personally identifying information. The department shall post the information received pursuant to subsection a of this section, as redacted, on the department's public website. END_STATUTE