Under existing law, the Home Medical Equipment Services Providers Board provides for the licensing and regulation of home medical equipment services providers.
This bill would rename the board the Board of Home Medical Equipment.
This bill would provide for the removal of board members and for the authority of the board to employ an administrator and other necessary employees, adopt a seal, and establish and charge reasonable fees.
This bill would prohibit the practice of providing home medical equipment services without a license and would provide a process for late renewal of a license and renewal of a lapsed license.
This bill would provide further for the authority of the board and the grounds necessary to deny, revoke, or suspend a license, and would provide for disciplinary hearings, administrative fines, injunctions, and other penalties against violators.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Pending third reading on day 22 Favorable from Health
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 349
Bussman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 348
Bussman Amendment Offered
Bussman motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 347
Health Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Reported from Health as Favorable with 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Health
Source: Alabama Legislature