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20-2-61
Section 20-2-61 Certification; access to records; establishment of protocols, formularies,
or medical regimens. (a) The board is designated as the certifying board for the registration
and approval of an assistant to physician in obtaining or renewing a Qualified Alabama Controlled
Substances Registration Certificate. The board is authorized to adopt regulations concerning
the application procedures, fees, fines, punishments, and conduct of any disciplinary hearings
for such applicants. The board shall establish a unique Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances
Registration Certificate number that identifies the particular applicant as an assistant to
physician with a valid Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate. (b)
The board, and its agents, attorneys, or investigators shall be permitted access to the records
of any assistant to physician, including patient records, which would relate to a request
for a QACSC, a renewal of a QACSC or the possible violations...
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26-23C-2
Section 26-23C-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds all
of the following: (1) Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148,
federal tax dollars, via affordability credits, subsidies provided to individuals between
150-400 percent of the federal poverty level, are routed to exchange participating health
insurance plans, including plans that provide coverage for abortions. (2) Federal funding
of insurance plans that provide abortions is an unprecedented change in federal abortion funding
policy. The Hyde Amendment, as passed each year in the Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations
bill, and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, FEHBP, prohibit federal funds from
subsidizing health insurance plans that provide abortions. Under this new law, however, exchange
participating health insurance plans that provide abortions can receive federal funds. (3)
The provision of federal funding for health insurance plans that...
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22-11A-72
Section 22-11A-72 Penalties. (a) It shall be grounds for revocation, suspension, or restriction
of the professional license of any licensed infected health care worker who shall be found
to perform invasive procedures and shall have failed to notify the State Health Officer as
provided in Section 22-11A-61. (b) Any physician providing care to an individual known to
the physician to be an infected health care worker who fails to report the infected health
care worker to the State Health Officer as provided in Section 22-11A-61 shall be guilty of
a Class C misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished as provided by law. (c) Any
individual who deliberately fails to provide records under his or her control or who falsifies
those records shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished
as provided by law. (Acts 1993, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-846, p. 57, §13.)...
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22-20-3.1
Section 22-20-3.1 Educational information on pertussis to be provided prior to discharge of
newborn child. (a) During the postpartum period, before discharging a newborn child, a hospital
shall provide parents with educational information on pertussis disease. The information provided
to parents shall contain the following statement: Pertussis, whooping cough, can cause serious
illness in infants, children, and adults and can even be life-threatening, especially in infants.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most effective way
to prevent pertussis is through vaccination of both children and parents. For more information
on protecting your child by obtaining the pertussis vaccination please contact your physician,
county health department, or the Alabama Department of Public Health. (b) Nothing in this
section shall require any hospital to provide or pay for any vaccination against pertussis.
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to establish...
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22-31-3
Section 22-31-3 Procedure where part of body to be used for transplantation. (a) When a part
of a donor is proposed to be used for transplantation pursuant to Article 3 of Chapter 19
of this title and the death of the donor is determined as set forth in Section 22-31-1, there
shall be an independent confirmation of the death by another medical doctor licensed in Alabama.
Neither the physician making the determination of death nor the physician making the independent
confirmation shall participate in the procedures for removing or transplanting a part. (b)
When a part of a donor is proposed to be used for transplantation pursuant to Article 3 of
Chapter 19 of this title and the death of the donor is determined as set forth in Section
22-31-1, complete patient medical records shall be kept, maintained and preserved. (Acts 1979,
No. 79-165, p. 276, §§3, 4.)...
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34-43-11
Section 34-43-11 Licensing of establishments. (a) Establishments shall be licensed by the board.
A sexually oriented business may not be licensed as an establishment and shall not operate
as an establishment licensed pursuant to this chapter. (b) Establishments shall employ only
licensed massage therapists to perform massage therapy. (c) The board shall provide by rule,
for a fair and reasonable procedure to grant exemptions from the licensure requirement of
this section when the applicant can show that the advertising of massage therapy services
is incidental to the primary function of his or her business. No such exemption shall be granted
to a sexually oriented business. (d) An establishment license issued pursuant to this chapter
is not assignable or transferable. (e) Subsequent to an official complaint, the board may
request a criminal background check of the establishment's licensees through the district
attorney of the circuit in which the licensee is located. (Acts 1996, No....
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22-11A-38
Section 22-11A-38 Notification of third parties of disease; rules; who may be notified; liability;
confidentiality; disclosure of information for certain criminal proceedings; penalty. (a)
The State Committee of Public Health is hereby authorized to establish the rules by which
exceptions may be made to the confidentiality provisions of this article and establish rules
for notification of third parties of such disease when exposure is indicated or a threat to
the health and welfare of others. All notifications authorized by this section shall be within
the rules established pursuant to this subsection. (b) Physicians and hospital administrators
or their designee may notify pre-hospital transport agencies and emergency medical personnel
of a patient's contagious condition. In case of a death in which there was a known contagious
disease, the physician or hospital administrator or their designee may notify the funeral
home director. (c) The attending physician or the State Health Officer...
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22-6-10
Section 22-6-10 Women's right to health care. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited
as the "Women's Right to Health Care Act." (b) Any state program funded under Title
XIX of the federal Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 1396 et seq., and any other publicly
funded state health care program which provides coverage for mastectomy surgery shall also
provide coverage for reconstruction of the breast on which surgery has been performed and
surgery and reconstruction of the other breast to produce a symmetrical appearance if the
patient is eligible for Medicaid and elects reconstruction within two years of the mastectomy
surgery and in the manner chosen by the patient and the physician, in accordance with guidelines
consistent with Medicare and other third party payers. Reimbursement is allowed only for breast
reconstructive surgery following a medically necessary mastectomy when performed for the removal
of cancer. As used in this section, the term "reconstruction" shall...
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27-1-20
Section 27-1-20 Patient Right to Know Act. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited
as the "Patient Right to Know Act." (b) As used in this section, unless the context
clearly indicates otherwise, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ENROLLEE.
A person who purchases individual health care coverage or an employer who purchases a group
health care plan. (2) PROVIDER. A physician, dentist, podiatrist, pharmacist, optometrist,
psychologist, clinical social worker, advanced nurse practitioner, registered optician, licensed
professional counselor, physical therapist, and chiropractor. (c)(1) All persons, firms, corporations,
associations, health maintenance organizations, health insurance services, or preferred provider
organizations, any employer-sponsored health benefit plan, or any similar organization or
entity, providing health, accident, or dental insurance coverage, either directly or indirectly,
shall provide an enrollee with a written description of the...
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45-36-252.06
Section 45-36-252.06 Bonds of the authority; obligations. (a) In addition to all other powers
now or hereafter granted by law, the authority shall have the following powers, together with
all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1)
To sell and issue bonds of the authority in order to provide funds for any corporate function,
use, or purpose, any such bonds to be payable solely out of one or more of the following:
a. Any or all proceeds or receipts from the privilege, license, or excise tax levied on the
sale, distribution, storage, use, or consumption of tobacco and certain tobacco products in
Jackson County by Section 45-36-247. b. Any or all proceeds from any tax received by the Jackson
County Commission which are required by law to be deposited to the credit of the Jackson County
Water Authority. c. The revenues derived from any water, sewer, or garbage system or facility
of the authority. (2) To pledge for payment of any bonds issued...
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