HB515 Alabama 2012 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

William Roberts

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Mental Health, community programs for persons with intellectual disabilities, administration of medication and other medical need exempt from regulation by Board of Nursing.

Summary

HB515 would exempt certain Department of Mental Health–contracted community programs for people with intellectual disabilities from Board of Nursing rules on storing, handling, and administering medications.

What This Bill Does

If passed, the bill would let staff in DMH-contracted community programs store, handle, and administer medications and other medical needs to participants without being regulated by the Board of Nursing for those activities. It specifies that these storage, handling, and administration tasks would be exempt from BoN regulation. The act would shift regulatory oversight for these activities from the Board of Nursing to the DMH-contract program framework. It also repeals conflicting laws and sets an effective date a few months after passage and governor approval.

Who It Affects

• Staff and contractors working in DMH-contracted community programs would be authorized to store, handle, and administer medications and other medical needs to participants, with BoN oversight removed for these activities.
• The Board of Nursing would lose regulatory authority over storage, handling, and administration of medications and other medical needs in these DMH-contracted programs; participants would receive these services under the DMH program framework.

Key Provisions

• Defines 'community program' as a program under contract with the Department of Mental Health to provide services to persons with intellectual disabilities, which may include storage, handling, and administration of medications and other substances.
• Exempts the storage, handling, and administration of medications and other medical needs by personnel in these community programs from regulation by the Board of Nursing.
• Repeals any laws or parts of laws that conflict with this act.
• Sets effectiveness to the first day of the third month following passage and governor's approval (or becoming law).

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Subjects

Health