HB240 Alabama 2019 Session
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
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April Weaver SenatorRepublican - Session
- Regular Session 2019
- 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
Bill Actions
Judiciary first Amendment Offered
Pending third reading on day 10 Favorable from Judiciary with 1 amendment
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary
Bill Text
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Source: Alabama Legislature