GOVERNOR DOUGLAS A. DUCEY

STATE 
EXECUTIVE OQD

Executive Order 2020-42

 

 

 

 

 

 

 




 

Renewal of Executive Order 2020-27
The ?Good Samaritan? Order

WHEREAS, on April 9, 2020, Executive Order 2020?27, The ?Good Samaritan Order?, was issued to
provide additional protections for healthcare workers during the outbreak that has and
continues to ravage the world?s healthcare systems; and

WHEREAS, as of June 25, 2020, there have been 63,030 diagnosed cases of COVID-19 in Arizona
including 1,490 deaths, and the State is seeing an increase in the number of cases and hospitalizations;
and

WHEREAS, recently, capacity at intensive care units throughout the state has reached a level. of over 80
percent; and

WHEREAS, healthcare providers including doctors, nurses, and respiratory technicians are on the front
lines of treating and have exhibited heroism in doing so; and

WHEREAS, there is a compelling need to maximize participation of medical providers and healthcare
facilities in treating patients to ensure that Arizonans have access to treatment when needed;
and

WHEREAS, in needing to maximize participation of medical providers, the Arizona Department of
Health Services has activated the Arizona Emergency System for the Advance Registration of Volunteer
Health Professionals and

WHEREAS, many health professionals, including those that are volunteers, are concerned that in
providing care for patients with COVID-19, for which there are no de?ned treatments and for which
some localities across the globe have experienced a shortage of hospital beds and equipment for treating
such patients, they are subjecting themselves to liability; and

WHEREAS, it is in the public interest to afford such individuals protection against liability for their
good faith efforts to provide assistance in response to the State?s need to supplement the healthcare
workforce and to ensure that volunteers are willing to serve; and

WHEREAS, Arizona has a history of providing protections to healthcare providers, emergency medical
technicians and emergency workers who act in good faith in emergency situations through Good
Samaritan laws such as A.R.S. 32-1471, in order to encourage their participation in emergency
situations; and

 

WHEREAS, the Coron-avirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, provides protection-s
solely for volunteer healthcare professionals in the provision of healthcare services during the
public health emergency; and

WHEREAS, although state law provides some protections for healthcare professionals and volunteers,
it is necessary to provide assurance to those working on the front lines of this pandemic by providing
healthcare professionals and healthcare facilities with clear protections related speci?cally to the
response; and

WHEREAS, due to recent increases in the number of COVID-19 cases and increased demands on
Arizona?s hospital system, it is necessary to ensure that Arizona has an ample supply of healthcare
workers; and

WHEREAS, without continued protections, there is risk that healthcare providers will be reluctant to
serve during this crisis.

NOW, THEREFORE, 1, Douglas A. Ducey, Governor of the State of Arizona, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of this state, speci?cally A.R.S. 26?303 and
36-787, hereby order as follows:

Executive Order 2020-27 is extended until December 31, 2020.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused to be af?xedthe Great Seal of the State of
Arizona



GOVERNOR
I DONE at the Capitol in Phoenix on this twenty-?fth day of
June in the Year Two Thousand Twenty and of the

Independence of the United States of America the Two

Hundred and Forty?Fourth.

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Mitt?

ATTEST:

Secretary of State