AL HB151 | 2023 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on March 21 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-03-21 - Introduced and Referred to House Health
Pending: House Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Status: Introduced on March 21 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-03-21 - Introduced and Referred to House Health
Pending: House Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]
Summary
Relating to health care facilities; to add Section 22-21-437 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require health care facilities to adopt certain visitation policies; to provide that patients have a right to certain visitation; to allow patients to designate an essential caregiver and to guarantee that caregiver certain visitation rights; to prohibit a health care facility from adopting a visitation policy that is more stringent than certain employee policies; to prohibit a health care facility from requiring visitors to show proof of vaccination or from prohibiting consensual physical contact between visitors and patients; to provide for the circumstances in which patients may not be denied visitors who are not essential caregivers; to require health care facilities to provide visitation policies to the Department of Public Health; to require the Department of Public Health to develop a mechanism for complaints; to provide certain immunity from liability in certain circumstances; and to repeal Sections 22-21-430 through 22-21-436, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to hospital visitation during a public health emergency.
Title
Relating to health care facilities; to add Section 22-21-437 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require health care facilities to adopt certain visitation policies; to provide that patients have a right to certain visitation; to allow patients to designate an essential caregiver and to guarantee that caregiver certain visitation rights; to prohibit a health care facility from adopting a visitation policy that is more stringent than certain employee policies; to prohibit a health care facility from requiring visitors to show proof of vaccination or from prohibiting consensual physical contact between visitors and patients; to provide for the circumstances in which patients may not be denied visitors who are not essential caregivers; to require health care facilities to provide visitation policies to the Department of Public Health; to require the Department of Public Health to develop a mechanism for complaints; to provide certain immunity from liability in certain circumstances; and to repeal Sections 22-21-430 through 22-21-436, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to hospital visitation during a public health emergency.
Sponsors
Rep. Debbie Wood [R] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2023-03-21 | House | Introduced and Referred to House Health |
2023-03-21 | House | Read First Time in House of Origin |
Alabama State Sources
Type | Source |
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Summary | https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search |
Text | https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/HB151-int.pdf |