HB373 Alabama 2017 Session

Under existing law, an adult may execute an advance directive for health care

This bill would create the Alex Hoover Act

This bill would provide for portable medical orders to be created by the parent or guardian of a minor with a chronic or terminal illness, in consultation with the minor's treating physician, to guide health care professionals in medical treatment and guide others outside the medical community in allowing the minor to participate in school and other activities, in accordance with the wishes of the minor and his or her parents or guardians

This bill would provide civil and criminal immunity to individuals, health care providers, health care facilities, schools, organizations, and other entities who undertake to follow the directives of a portable medical order in good faith

This bill would also define terms and provide procedures for executing portable medical orders

To create the Alex Hoover Act; relating to chronically or terminally ill minors; to provide for portable medical orders to be created by the parent or guardian of a minor with a chronic or terminal illness, in consultation with the minor's treating physician, to guide health care professionals in medical treatment and guide others outside the medical community in allowing the minor to participate in school and other activities, in accordance with the wishes of the minor and his or her parents or guardians; to provide civil and criminal immunity to individuals, health care providers, health care facilities, schools, organizations, and other entities who undertake to follow the directives of a portable medical order in good faith; and to define terms and provide procedures for executing portable medical orders.