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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-04-11 - Enacted [SB113 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]

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Voting Records

Chamber	Vote	Date	Yea	Nay	NV	Abs	Total	Result	Source	View
Senate	Concur In and Adopt	2023-04-11	31	0	0	4	35	Passed	Link	View
House	Read a Third Time and Pass	2023-04-06	100	1	4	0	105	Passed	Link	View
House	Adopt XS2MEZ-1	2023-04-06	101	0	4	0	105	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended	2023-03-23	33	0	0	2	35	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Adopt QH2M41-1	2023-03-23	31	0	0	4	35	Passed	Link	View
Senate	Adopt SYST57-1	2023-03-23	31	0	0	4	35	Passed	Link	View

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