SB289 Alabama 2021 Session

Under existing law, the recovery of damages under any judgment against a governmental entity is limited to a certain amount of damages depending upon the type of claim and the number of injured persons involved.

Also under existing law, certain regional mental health programs and facilities are authorized to incorporate as a public corporation with powers prescribed by law, including the power to provide services such as inpatient, outpatient, partial hospitalization, emergency care, residential care, and aftercare for persons combating all forms of mental or emotional illnesses or disabilities, including alcoholism, drug addiction, epilepsy, and intellectual disability. The public corporations are exempted from state taxation by law.

This bill would include those regional mental health programs and facilities within the meaning of the term governmental entity to provide those programs and facilities with a statutory limitation of liability.

Relating to tort claims and judgments against local governmental entities; to amend Section 11-93-1, Code of Alabama 1975, to include certain public mental health programs and facilities within the limitation of liability provided for governmental entities.