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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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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HB256
172645-1:n:12/10/2015:FC/tj LRS2015-3316 HB256 By Representative Poole RFD Judiciary Rd 1 18-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Currently, the age of majority is 19 years. This bill would lower the age of majority to 18 years and provide for certain exceptions. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Section 26-1-1, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2015-167 of the 2015 Regular Session, relating to the age of majority, to lower the age of majority to 18 years; to provide for certain exceptions; and to amend Section 13A-12-3, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to selling tobacco products to minors, to retain the age limitation on sales. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 26-1-1, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2015-167 of the 2015 Regular Session, is amended to read as follows: §26-1-1. "(a) Any person in this state, at the arrival at the age of 19 18 years, shall be relieved of his or her disabilities of minority and thereafter shall have the same legal rights and...
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SB130
173058-1:n:01/29/2016:EBO-KB/mej SB130 By Senator Sanford RFD Finance and Taxation Education Rd 1 03-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would amend Sections 27-4A-3, 40-23-61 and 40-23-174, Code of Alabama 1975, and would also amend Section 40-23-85 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2015-539 of the 2015 Second Special Session, to provide further for the distribution of use tax and insurance premium tax funds. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Sections 27-4A-3, 40-23-61 and 40-23-174, Code of Alabama 1975; and to amend Section 40-23-85 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2015-539 of the 2015 Second Special Session, relating to use tax; to provide further for the distribution of use tax and insurance premium tax funds; and to provide that the changes made in tax distributions in this act shall not be considered in calculating the Education Trust Fund fiscal year appropriation cap for fiscal year 2017. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1....
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HB275
174431-1:n:02/22/2016:FC/tj LRS2016-725 HB275 By Representative Johnson (R) RFD Health Rd 1 23-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would specify that for purposes of municipal or county business licenses, a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies would only be required to purchase a municipal or county business license for its headquarters or any branch office that it maintains within the state. In addition, a health care employee or other agent or representative of a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies would not be required to purchase a business license from a municipality or county 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...
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HB466
Rep(s). By Representatives Williams (P), Greer and Ball HB466 ENGROSSED A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to individual retirement accounts administered by the Retirement Systems of Alabama; to amend Section 36-27A-5, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to contributions to individual retirement accounts, to require public employees first employed by a participating employer of the Teachers Retirement System, Employees Retirement System, or Judicial Retirement Fund on or after January 1, 2017 to make contributions to such individual retirement accounts through an automatic enrollment process, and to provide for opt-out provisions or enrollment in alternative retirement accounts offered by employers under certain conditions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 36-27A-5, Code of Alabama 1975, is hereby amended to read as follows: §36-27A-5. "(a) The PEIRAF shall be available to all public employees in the State of Alabama who are members of the Teachers'...
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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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HB468
176199-1:n:03/23/2016:LFO-LC*/csh HB468 By Representatives Williams (P), Greer and Ball RFD State Government Rd 1 23-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill provides certain governance provisions that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers Retirement System and the Employees Retirement System. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to retirement; to amend Sections 16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama 1975, to specify certain governance provisions that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers Retirement System and the Employees Retirement System. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama 1975, are hereby amended to read as follows: §16-25-19. "(a) The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are hereby vested in a board of trustees which shall be known as...
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HB51
Rep(s). By Representatives Fridy, Rowe, Butler, Whorton (I) and Whorton (R) HB51 ENROLLED, An Act, To amend Section 41-21-1, Code of Alabama 1975, to reduce the number of copies of the Code of Alabama 1975, and supplements and replacement volumes thereof, that the Secretary of State is required to distribute to certain departments, agencies, boards, commissions, and other entities of the state. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 41-21-1, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows: §41-21-1. "(a) It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, on publication and delivery to the state, to transmit sets of the Code of Alabama 1975, and supplements or replacement volumes thereof, subject to subsection (b), to all of the following agencies, departments, institutions, bureaus, boards, commissions, and offices: "(1) One set to the law library of Congress. "(2) One set to the custodian of the law library of the court of last resort of every state and...
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SB387
176199-1:n:03/23/2016:LFO-LC*/csh SB387 By Senators Stutts, Bussman and Pittman RFD Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Rd 1 05-APR-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill provides certain governance provisions that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers Retirement System and the Employees Retirement System. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to retirement; to amend Sections 16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama 1975, to specify certain governance provisions that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers Retirement System and the Employees Retirement System. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama 1975, are hereby amended to read as follows: §16-25-19. "(a) The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this chapter are hereby vested in a board of trustees...
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