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22-8B-3
Section 22-8B-3 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) AID IN DYING. The act of a person providing the means or manner for another
person to be able to commit suicide, with actual knowledge that the person deliberately intends
on committing suicide by that means or manner. (2) ARTIFICIALLY PROVIDED NUTRITIONAL HYDRATION.
A medical treatment consisting of the administration of food and water through a tube or intravenous
line, where the recipient is not required to chew or swallow voluntarily. Artificially provided
nutrition and hydration does not include assisted feeding, such as spoon or bottle feeding.
(3) DELIBERATELY. More than knowing the consequences of an act or action; meaning to consider
carefully; done on purpose; intentional; requiring premeditation; with intent to cause the
death of a person. (4) HEALTH CARE PROVIDER. Any individual who may be asked to participate
in any way in a health care service, including, but...
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26-23E-2
Section 26-23E-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds all of the following: (1) That
the percentage of abortion or reproductive health centers that have been subject to adverse
licensure action vastly exceeds the percentage of facilities in any other category that have
similarly been subject to adverse licensure actions. This alarming level of regulatory non-compliance
among abortion and reproductive health centers in Alabama puts abortion patients at unreasonable
risk. (2) At abortion or reproductive health centers, patients are often treated in a manner
inconsistent with a traditional physician/patient relationship. (3) Abortion or reproductive
health centers are not operated in the same manner as ambulatory surgical treatment centers
or physician offices. (4) Abortion involves not only a surgical procedure with the usual risks
attending surgery, but also involves the taking of human life. (5) Abortion is a highly personal
and very sensitive procedure which results in stress...
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22-21-263
Section 22-21-263 New institutional health services subject to review. (a) All new institutional
health services which are subject to this article and which are proposed to be offered or
developed within the state shall be subject to review under this article. No institutional
health services which are subject to this article shall be permitted which are inconsistent
with the State Health Plan. For the purposes of this article, new institutional health services
shall include any of the following: (1) The construction, development, acquisition through
lease or purchase, or other establishment of a new health care facility or health maintenance
organization. A transaction involving the sale, lease, or other transfer or change of control
of an existing health care facility, existing health maintenance organization, or existing
institutional health service is not subject to certificate of need review or approval under
this article unless the transaction also involves implementing one or...
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22-50-17
Section 22-50-17 Operation of a facility for care or treatment of mental or emotional illness
or substance abuse, or services to persons with an intellectual disability. (a) No person,
partnership, corporation, or association of persons shall operate a facility or institution
for the care or treatment of any kind of mental or emotional illness or substance abuse or
for providing services to persons with an intellectual disability as defined in this chapter,
without being certified by the department or licensed by the State Board of Health; provided
that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to require a duly authorized physician,
psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, licensed professional counselor operating under
the scope of his or her license, or Christian Science practitioner to obtain a license for
treatment of patients in his private office, unless he keeps two or more patients in his office
for continuous periods of 24 hours or more in one week, or that a church...
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27-20-1
Section 27-20-1 Group disability insurance - Eligible groups. Group disability insurance is
hereby declared to be that form of disability insurance covering groups of persons as defined
in this section, with or without one or more members of their families or one or more of their
dependents, or covering one or more members of the families or one or more dependents of such
groups of persons, and issued upon the following basis: (1) Under a policy issued to an employer
or trustees of a fund established by an employer, who shall be deemed the policyholder, insuring
employees of such employer for the benefit of persons other than the employer. The term "employees"
as used in this subdivision shall be deemed to include the officers, managers, and employees
of the employer, the individual proprietor or partner if the employer is an individual proprietor
or partnership, the officers, managers, and employees of subsidiary or affiliated corporations
and the individual proprietors, partners, and...
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34-24-604
Section 34-24-604 Annual registration. (a) Beginning January 1, 2014, and continuing each year
thereafter: (1) All physicians providing pain management services shall obtain a pain management
registration from the board. (2) All physicians who otherwise meet the criteria established
by the board shall obtain a pain management registration from the board. (b) To register,
a physician applicant shall submit the following to the board: (1) A completed application
on a form prescribed by the board. (2) Proof of a current drug enforcement administration
registration. (3) Proof of an Alabama controlled substances certificate. (4) Proof of a current
registration with the Alabama Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. (5) A list of all registrants
who own, co-own, operate, or provide pain management services in the practice location. (6)
The disclosure of any controlled substances certificate or registration denial, restriction,
or discipline imposed on the registrant, or any disciplinary act...
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36-36-6
Section 36-36-6 Sources of funding; use of assets; distributions; modification and termination
of trusts; taxation; financial statement. (a) The sources of funding to the Alabama Retired
State Employees' Health Care Trust may be: (1) appropriations made by the Legislature; (2)
contributions by employees and retired employees; (3) employer contributions; (4) investment
income; (5) proceeds of any gifts, grants, or contributions; (6) transfers from the State
Employees' Insurance Fund; and (7) all other sources permitted by law. (b) The sources of
funding to the Alabama Retired Education Employees' Health Care Trust may be: (1) appropriations
made by the Legislature; (2) contributions by employees and retired employees; (3) employer
contributions; (4) investment income; (5) proceeds of any gifts, grants, or contributions;
(6) transfers from the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Fund; and (7) all other
sources permitted by law. (c) The agreements creating the trusts shall be...
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45-37-123.22
Section 45-37-123.22 Powers and duties of the pension board. (a) The pension board shall be
responsible for the general administration and proper operation of the plan, and shall administer
the plan for the exclusive benefit of the members and their beneficiaries, subject to the
specific terms of the plan. The pension board shall administer the plan in accordance with
its terms and shall have the power and discretion to construe the terms of the plan and the
act and to determine all questions arising in connection with the administration, interpretation,
and application of the plan. Any such determination by the pension board shall be conclusive
and binding upon all persons. The pension board may establish procedures, correct any defect,
supply any information, or reconcile any inconsistency in such manner and to such extent as
shall be deemed necessary or advisable to carry out the purpose of the plan; provided, however,
that any procedure, discretionary act, interpretation, or...
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22-13-70
Section 22-13-70 Standardized summary of treatment methods, reconstruction options, and availability
of coverage. (a) The Alabama Department of Public Health shall develop a standardized written
summary, in plain nontechnical language, which shall contain all of the following: (1) An
explanation of the alternative medically viable methods of treating breast cancer including,
but not limited to, hormonal, radiological, chemotherapeutic, or surgical treatments, or combinations
thereof. (2) Information on breast reconstructive surgery including, but not limited to, the
use of breast implants, their side effects, risks, and other pertinent information to aid
a person in deciding on a course of treatment. (3) An explanation of the special provisions
relating to mastectomy, lymph node dissection, lumpectomy, and breast reconstructive surgery
coverage, and second opinion coverage, including out-of-network options, under the insurance
law, Section 22-6-10, Section 22-6-11, and Chapter 50,...
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22-20-3
Section 22-20-3 Neonatal testing for certain diseases; rules and regulations for treatment
thereof. (a) It shall be the duty of the administrative officer or other persons in charge
of each institution caring for infants 28 days or less of age, or the physician attending
a newborn child or the person attending a newborn child that was not attended by a physician
to cause to have administered to every such infant or child in his care a reliable test for
hypothyroidism and a reliable test for phenylketonuria (PKU), such as the Guthrie test, or
any other test considered equally reliable by the State Board of Health and a reliable test
for sickle cell anemia, sickle cell trait, and/or abnormal hemoglobin and such other tests
relating to mental retardation or other heritable diseases and conditions as are designated
by the Board of Health. Provided, however, that the Board of Health shall designate only conditions
that are detectable by mass screening of newborn infants. Initial mass...
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