HB202 Alabama 2018 Session

Relating to terminally ill students participating in school activities; to add Chapter 30B to Title 16 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to create the Alex Hoover Palliative and End of Life Care Act; to provide for Palliative and End of Life Individual Health Plans to be created by school nurses in conjunction with the parents or guardians of a minor with a terminal illness; to provide immunity to individuals, physicians, and school employees who undertake to follow the directives of a Palliative and End of Life Individual Health Plan; to require the State Board of Education, in consultation with a task force, to adopt rules for administering Palliative and End of Life Individual Health Plans to be used in a school setting; and to establish a temporary task force under the supervision of the Department of Education to make recommendations for rules for administering Palliative and End of Life Individual Health Plans to be used in a school setting.