HB157
170702-1:n:06/24/2015:JET/th LRS2015-2337 HB157 By Representatives Mooney, Weaver, Harper,
Fridy, Chesteen, Lee, Ledbetter, Wilcox, Millican, Greer, Pettus, Hanes, Holmes (M), Robinson,
Whorton (I), McCutcheon, Williams (JD), Butler, Harbison, Hammon, Wingo and Beech RFD Health
Rd 1 09-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would establish the Assisted Suicide Ban Act to prohibit
a person or a health care provider from providing aid in dying to another person and would
provide civil and criminal penalties for violations. Amendment 621 of the Constitution of
Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution
of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to
require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard
to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one
of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity;...
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HB40
Rep(s). By Representative Johnson (R) HB40 ENGROSSED A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating
to the Natural Death Act; to amend Sections 22-8A-2, 22-8A-3, 22-8A-7, and 22-8A-8, Code of
Alabama 1975; to add Section 22-8A-4.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize health care
providers under certain conditions to follow a physician's do not attempt resuscitation order
duly entered in the medical record anywhere in the state, even if the person subject to the
order has become incapacitated and is unable to direct his or her medical treatment. BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 22-8A-2, 22-8A-3, 22-8A-7, and 22-8A-8,
Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read as follows: §22-8A-2. "The Legislature finds
that competent adult persons have the right to control the decisions relating to the rendering
of their own medical care, including, without limitation, the decision to have medical procedures,
life-sustaining treatment, and artificially provided nutrition and...
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SB138
SB138 By Senator Waggoner ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to the Natural Death Act; to amend Sections
22-8A-2, 22-8A-3, 22-8A-7, and 22-8A-8, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Section 22-8A-4.1 to
the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize health care providers under certain conditions to follow
a physician's do not attempt resuscitation order duly entered in the medical record anywhere
in the state, even if the person subject to the order has become incapacitated and is unable
to direct his or her medical treatment. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section
1. Sections 22-8A-2, 22-8A-3, 22-8A-7, and 22-8A-8, Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read
as follows: §22-8A-2. "The Legislature finds that competent adult persons have the right
to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care, including, without
limitation, the decision to have medical procedures, life-sustaining treatment, and artificially
provided nutrition and hydration provided, withheld, or...
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HB415
175510-1:n:03/10/2016:PMG/th LRS2016-1051 HB415 By Representative Johnson (R) RFD Commerce
and Small Business Rd 1 15-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would prohibit a health benefit plan
that covers intravenous insulin infusion from requiring the insured to use a hospital instead
of a medical clinic or office, or require a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount
for the same intravenous insulin infusion regardless of the formulation or benefit category
determination of the health benefit plan. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to health
insurance for intravenously administered insulin; to prohibit a health benefit plan that covers
intravenous insulin infusion from requiring the insured to use a hospital instead of a medical
clinic or office or require a higher copayment, deductible, or coinsurance amount for the
same intravenous insulin infusion regardless of the formulation or benefit category determination
of the health benefit plan. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF...
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SB291
SB291 By Senator Ross ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to health care contracts; to add Section 27-1-17.1
to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require contracts issued, amended, or renewed on and after
January 1, 2017, between a health insurer or its contracted vendor or a regional care organization
and a covered health care provider to include specific language stating that a provider's
request that a health care plan conduct a payment transaction with the provider using a transfer
of electronic funds through the Automated Clearing House network must be honored; and to allow
covered health care providers to be paid through the use of alternative electronic funds transfer
methods. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. Section 27-1-17.1 is added
to the Code of Alabama 1975, to read as follows: §27-1-17.1. (a) As used in this section,
the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ACH ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER.
An electronic funds transfer through the Health...
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SB306
SB306 By Senator Ward ENROLLED, An Act, To specify that for purposes of municipal business
licenses, a qualified provider that is a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a
qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies
could not be required to purchase a municipal or county business license in a municipality
unless the provider maintains its headquarters or any branch office in the municipality or
has a certain amount of gross receipts in the municipality per year; to further provide that
a health care employee or other agent or representative of a qualified provider could not
be required to purchase a business license from a municipality or its agent, including a private
auditing firm, merely because the person visits a patient whose residence or the health care
facility in which they are being treated is located within that municipality or because equipment
or health care supplies are furnished within the municipality; to...
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HB293
Rep(s). By Representatives South, Hill (M), Martin, Henry and Blackshear HB293 ENGROSSED A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to health care contracts; to add Section 27-1-17.1 to
the Code of Alabama 1975; to require contracts issued, amended, or renewed on and after January
1, 2017, between a health insurer or its contracted vendor or a regional care organization
and a covered health care provider to include specific language stating that a provider's
request that a health care plan conduct a payment transaction with the provider using a transfer
of electronic funds through the Automated Clearing House network must be honored; and to allow
covered health care providers to be paid through the use of alternative electronic funds transfer
methods. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. Section 27-1-17.1 is added
to the Code of Alabama 1975, to read as follows: §27-1-17.1. (a) As used in this section,
the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) ACH...
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HB159
173640-1:n:02/09/2016:DSM*/th LRS2016-494 HB159 By Representatives Mooney, Weaver, Fridy, Rowe,
Williams (JD), Whorton (I), Williams (JW), Hanes, Ledbetter, Whorton (R), Butler, Hammon,
Wingo, Fincher, Beech and Greer RFD Health Rd 1 09-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would give health
care providers the following: The authority to refuse to perform or to participate in health
care services that violate their conscience; immunity from civil, criminal, or administrative
liability for refusing to provide or participate in a health care service that violates their
conscience. This bill would declare it unlawful for any person to discriminate against health
care providers for declining to participate in a health care service that violates their conscience.
The bill would also provide for injunctive relief and back pay for violation. A BILL TO BE
ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to health care, to allow health care providers to decline to perform
any health care service that violates their conscience...
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HB316
172393-2:n:02/08/2016:FC/mfc LRS2015-3116R1 HB316 By Representative Johnson (R) RFD Judiciary
Rd 1 24-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would provide a lien for sums recovered as damages for
personal injury in any civil action for health care services rendered to the plaintiff. A
BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to damages recovered for personal injury in civil actions;
to provide a lien under certain conditions for health care services rendered to the plaintiff.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. (a) This act may be cited as the Health
Care Services Lien Act. (b) For purposes of this act, the following words have the following
meanings: (1) HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL. Any individual in any of the following license categories:
A licensed physician, licensed chiropractor, licensed dentist, licensed optometrist, licensed
orthotist, licensed prosthetist, or licensed physical therapist. (2) HEALTH CARE PROVIDER.
Any entity in any of the following license categories: A...
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SB116
173256-1:n:02/01/2016:PMG/th LRS2016-287 SB116 By Senator Ward RFD Banking and Insurance Rd
1 02-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would establish the Alabama Right to Shop Act. This bill would
require a health care provider to provide, upon a patient's request, an estimate of the allowed
amount or charge for health care services if the health care provider is in the patient's
health benefit plan network or amount or charge if the health care provider is out-of-network
and to assist a patient in obtaining information about the patient's out-of-pocket costs.
This bill would require a health benefit plan to establish a toll-free number and website
to provide information to enrollees about health care costs and to provide a binding estimate
for the maximum allowed amount or charge for in-network and out-of-network services for a
proposed admission, procedure, or service and the estimated amount the enrollee will be responsible
to pay for a proposed admission, procedure, or service that is a...
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