HB515 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jan 11, 2026

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.
Description: Under existing law, the Department of Mental Health regulates certain community programs that provide services to persons with intellectual disabilities.
Under existing law, the Board of Nursing directs and controls the storage, handling, and administration of medications and certain other medical needs to persons participating in these community programs and these programs are subject to rules of the Board of Nursing related to the storage, handling, and administration of medications and other substances.
This bill would authorize a person working in a community program that is under contract with the Department of Mental Health to provide services to individuals with intellectual disabilities to store, handle, and administer medications and other substances to participants in the program.
This bill would specify that the storage, handling, and administration of such medications and other needs are exempt from regulation by the Board of Nursing.
Subjects: Health

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