SB115 Alabama 2019 Session

Updated Apr 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jim McClendon
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2019
Title: Health, neonatal abstinence centers, provide for licensure and regulation by State Board of Health
Description: Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome refers to a group of medical problems a baby experiences when withdrawing from exposure to certain narcotics.
This bill would authorize the State Board of Health to license and regulate neonatal abstinence care centers to treat infants suffering from Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.
This bill would provide minimum standards of operation and provide for services to be administered at neonatal abstinence care centers.
This bill would require the State Board of Health to adopt rules to implement this bill.
Subjects: Health Care Facilities

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Healthcare