HB443 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: April WeaverSenator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Crimes of Violence Treatment Reporting Act, requiring physicians and health care professionals to report certain types of injuries and illnesses to police or appropriate law enforcement authorities
Description: Under existing law, there is no provision for a physician, health care professional, health care facility director, administrator, or his or her designee, to report an injury likely caused by a crime or an act of violence.
This bill would create the Crimes of Violence Treatment Reporting Act.
This bill would require a physician, health care professional, health care facility director, administrator, or a designee, to report to the appropriate law enforcement authorities when any person with a particular injury, wound, or illness is treated.
Subjects: Health Care Providers

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary