Arizona Laws 36-673. Duties of local health departments; immunization; reimbursement; training; informed consent
A. A local health department in cooperation with each school within the county shall provide for the required immunization of pupils attending school.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 36-673
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Department: means the department of health services. See Arizona Laws 36-671
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Immunization: means the process of inoculation with a specific antigen to promote antibody formation in the body. See Arizona Laws 36-671
- Immunized: means the required initial immunization and boosters or reimmunization prescribed pursuant to section 36-672. See Arizona Laws 36-671
- Local health department: means local health departments established pursuant to chapter 1, article 4 of this title. See Arizona Laws 36-671
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Pupil: means a person who is eligible to receive instruction at a school and includes pre-kindergarten age children receiving either services for children with disabilities or day care on a school campus otherwise exempt from day care rules pursuant to section 36-884. See Arizona Laws 36-671
- School: means a public, private or parochial school that offers instruction at any level or grade through twelfth grade, except for day care facilities regulated pursuant to chapter 7. See Arizona Laws 36-671
- School administrator: means the principal or person having general daily control and supervision of the school or that person's designee. See Arizona Laws 36-671
B. A local health department shall provide immunizations required for school attendance at no cost to the pupil or pupil’s parent, guardian or person in loco parentis. In order to receive reimbursement for the cost of the immunization from the pupil’s or parent’s private health insurance coverage, the local health department may enter into a contract governing the terms of reimbursement and claims with the corresponding private health care insurer. The local health department may enter into a contract with a private health care insurer on its own, in conjunction with other local health departments or through a qualified intermediary. If the local health department chooses not to contract with a private health care insurer, or does not respond to the request to contract from a private health care insurer within ninety days of the request, the insurer is not required to reimburse the local health department for the immunization. If a private health care insurer declines or does not respond to a request to contract with a local health department, with a coalition of other local health departments or through a qualified intermediary within ninety days of the request to contract, the private health care insurer must reimburse the local health department at the rate paid to an in-network provider.
C. A local health department, on request by a school nurse and approval by the school administrator, shall train and authorize the school nurse to administer required immunizations.
D. A pupil shall not be immunized without the informed consent of the parent, guardian or person in loco parentis of the pupil. A pupil who is at least eighteen years of age or is emancipated may consent to immunization.