health professionals; patients; vaccination status

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on enforcement mechanisms or consequences for violations.

Health Professionals and Patient Vaccinations

This bill makes it illegal for health professionals to deny medical care to patients because of their vaccination status.

What This Bill Does

• Adds a new law stating that refusing to provide medical care based on someone's vaccination status is considered unprofessional conduct.

Who It Names or Affects

• Health professionals like doctors and nurses.
• Patients who might face discrimination based on their vaccination status.

Terms To Know

Unprofessional conduct

Actions by health workers that are not appropriate or acceptable in the medical field.

Vaccination status

Whether someone has received vaccines and which ones they have had.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if a health professional breaks this rule.
• It is unclear how the new law will be enforced or who will ensure compliance with it.

Official Summary Text

HB2335 - health professionals; patients; vaccination status

Current Bill Text

HB2335 - 572R - I Ver

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health professionals; patients; vaccination status

State of Arizona

House of Representatives

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

HB 2335

Introduced by

Representatives
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AN
ACT

Amending title 32, chapter 32, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 32-3230.03; relating to
health professionals.

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

Section 1. Title 32, chapter 32, article 1,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 32-3230.03, to read:

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32-3230.03.

Vaccination status; unprofessional conduct

It is an act of unprofessional conduct for a
health professional to refuse to provide medical care to a person based on the
person's vaccination status.
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