SB213 Alabama 2019 Session

Updated Apr 26, 2021

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2019

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: J.T. Waggoner Senator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2019
Title: Alabama Genetic Counselor Act, Board of Genetic Counseling created to license genetic counselors, powers of board, qualifications for licensure, exemptions from licensure provided, funding, and penalties for violations
Description: This bill creates the Alabama Genetic Counselor Act.
This bill would establish the Alabama Board of Genetic Counseling and would provide for the powers and authority of the board.
This bill would provide qualifications for licensure and requirements for license renewal and restoration of inactive licenses of genetic counselors.
This bill would provide that the practice of genetic counseling without a license is a criminal offense.
This bill would provide exemptions from licensure for physicians and other medical professionals and would clarify that genetic counselors are not authorized to practice medicine.
This bill would establish the Genetic Counseling Fund in the State Treasury.
Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.
Subjects: Boards and Commissions