HB240 Alabama 2019 Session

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.

To create the Crimes of Violence Treatment Reporting Act; to require a physician, health care professional, health care facility director, administrator, or his or her designee, to report to the appropriate law enforcement authorities when any person with a particular injury, wound, or illness is treated; to require a treating physician, health care professional, health care facility director, administrator, or his or her designee, to report to the appropriate law enforcement authorities if the injury, wound, or illness appears to be the result of non-accidental trauma; and to provide immunity to a reporting health care official for reporting the treatment of an individual for certain injuries and illnesses.