SB205 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2014

Session

8

Summary

Primary Sponsor: William “Bill” M. Beasley Senator
Democrat
Co-Sponsors: Gerald O. Dial Hank Sanders Vivian Davis Figures Rodger Smitherman Roger Bedford, Jr.Del Marsh Linda Coleman-Madison
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Workers' compensation, medicines, employee may choose his or her own pharmacy, Sec. 25-5-77 am'd.
Description: Under existing Workers' Compensation law, an employee injured in an accident in the course of employment is entitled to medical care including medicines to treat injuries related to the accident.
This bill would specify that under the Workers' Compensation Law an employee would have the right to select his or her own pharmacy or pharmacist to dispense and fill prescriptions under the law.
Subjects: Workers' Compensation

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Health