HB174 Alabama 2013 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Certificates of Need, health care facilities, transfer of ownership, includes legal entities, retro. effect, Secs. 22-21-260, 22-21-263, 22-21-270 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, the Court of Civil Appeals has ruled that a certificate of need (CON) issued to a business entity not specified in the law for a health care facility or health maintenance organization, or issued for an institutional health service, is generally not transferable by sale, lease, or other transaction</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would specify that the transfer of a certificate of need by lease issued to a limited liability company or other legal entity by lease, sale, or other transaction involving an existing health care facility, health maintenance organization, or institutional health service does not require a new or additional CON</p><p class="bill_description"> The bill would apply retroactively when an amendment to the CON law was enacted which had previously been interpreted as authorizing the transfers without a new CON</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 22-21-260, 22-21-263, and 22-21-270, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the issuance of a certificates of need for health care facilities, health maintenance organizations, and the institutional health services; to specify that health care facilities and health maintenance organizations may be organized in limited liability companies and other legal entities; and to provide that this act would be retroactive to July 30, 1979. </p>

Subjects

Health