This bill would specify that for purposes of municipal or county business licenses, a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies could not be required to purchase a municipal or county business license in a Class 7 or Class 8 municipality, as defined, unless it maintains its headquarters or any branch office in the municipality. In addition, a health care employee or other agent or representative of a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies would not be required to purchase a business license from a Class 7 or Class 8 municipality or a county, or their agent, including a private auditing firm, merely because the person visits a patient whose residence or the health care facility in which they are being treated is located within that municipality or county or furnishes equipment or health care supplies within the municipality or county.
Forwarded to Governor on May 4, 2016 at 11:59 p.m. on May 4, 2016
Enrolled
Signature Requested
Passed Second House
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 897
Johnson (R) motion to Table adopted Roll Call 896
Wood Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Johnson (R) motion to Carry Over Temporarily adopted Voice Vote
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 570
Third Reading Carried Over
Ward motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 569
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Ward first Substitute Offered
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health
Engrossed
Ward motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 568
Judiciary Amendment Offered
Third Reading Passed
Ward motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary
Source: Alabama Legislature