This bill would provide for the creation of a health care authority in a Class 1 municipality for the purpose of operating a health care facility and providing health care; provide for the membership, powers, and duties of the health care authority; authorize the authority to purchase any general-care hospital owned by the county where the authority is located, including the real property and any other assets of the hospital; authorize the health care authority to sell or lease the parking deck of the general-care hospital; authorize the authority to construct new health care facilities and other facilities related thereto; and require the authority take one of the following actions: (1) Convert the general-care hospital and/or to construct new facilities to operate an outpatient clinic; (2) Continue to operate the hospital as a 50 to 150 bed acute care hospital; or (3) Enter into a management affiliation for the operation of the general-care hospital with the goal to reduce the size, scope, and operation of the hospital.
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Jefferson County Legislation
Engrossed
Smitherman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1213
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1214
Smitherman first Substitute Offered
Third Reading Passed
Blackwell motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Blackwell motion to Table adopted Voice Vote
Local Legislation No. 2 first Substitute Offered
Pending third reading on day 26 Favorable from Local Legislation No. 2 with 1 substitute
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation No. 2
Source: Alabama Legislature