HB379 Alabama 2016 Session

Updated Feb 26, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Chris SellsRepresentative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2016
Title: Fire departments, authorizing fire and rescue personnel to administer opioid, authorizing State Health Officer, County Health Officer authorized to publish orders/guidelines for dispensing opioids antagonists, immunity, Sec. 20-2-280 am'd.
Summary: The bill lets state and county health officers publish standing orders to dispense opioid antagonists, expands who can dispense them, and provides liability protections for those involved.
What This Bill Does
It authorizes standing orders for dispensing opioid antagonists under the direction of the State Health Officer or county health officers. Qualified individuals who dispense under these standing orders would be authorized to provide opioid antagonists. It also clarifies that rescue squads and volunteer fire departments may dispense opioid antagonists, and it extends liability protections to the issuing health officers, prescribers, administrators, and pharmacists involved.

Who It Affects
State Health Officer and county health officers, who would publish standing orders and receive liability protections when overseeing dispensing of opioid antagonists.
Rescue squads, volunteer fire departments, and other first responders that may dispense opioid antagonists under the standing orders.

Key Provisions
Section 1: Grants state and county health officers authority to publish standing orders and related requirements for dispensing opioid antagonists under 20-2-280.
Section 2: Allows any otherwise qualified individual who dispenses an opioid antagonist in accordance with the standing orders to dispense under 20-2-280.
Section 3: Amends 20-2-280 to explicitly allow rescue squads and volunteer fire departments to dispense opioid antagonists and to provide liability protections for standing-order issuers (health officers) and for prescribers, administrators, and pharmacists; establishes immunities for actions authorized under the article.

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Subjects: State Health Officer