Roll Call: AL SB113 | 2023 | Regular Session
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Bill 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; to exempt certain psychiatric care facilities from the provisions of this bill; and to repeal Sections 22-21-430 through 22-21-436, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to hospital visitation during a public health emergency.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-04-11 - Enacted [SB113 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Bill 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; to exempt certain psychiatric care facilities from the provisions of this bill; and to repeal Sections 22-21-430 through 22-21-436, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to hospital visitation during a public health emergency.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-04-11 - Enacted [SB113 Detail]
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Vote: Adopt QH2M41-1
| Vote | Tally | Democrat | Republican |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yea | 31 | 5 | 26 |
| Nay | - | - | - |
| Not Voting | - | - | - |
| Absent | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| TOTAL | 35 | 8 | 27 |
