HB558 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jan 10, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Terri CollinsRepresentative
Republican
Co-Sponsors: Ed Henry Wes Long Becky Nordgren John Merrill Ken Johnson
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Health, abortion coverage by exchange participating health plans, State of Alabama opts out of authorizing, Federal Abortion Mandate Opt Out Act
Description: Currently, the new federal health care reform law requires individual states to operate and maintain "health insurance exchanges." Health insurance plans offering abortion coverage are allowed to participate in a state's exchange and to receive federal subsidies unless the Legislature affirmatively opts out of offering these plans.
This bill would specifically provide that the State of Alabama affirmatively opts out of allowing abortion coverage by exchange participating health plans.
Subjects: Health

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health