HB122 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Debbie Wood

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to health care; to prohibit discrimination against an individual with a disability in receiving an anatomical gift or organ transplant based on his or her disability; to require health care providers and organ transplant centers to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability in medical need of an anatomical gift or organ transplant; and to provide disabled individuals the right to equitable relief.

Description

This bill would prohibit discrimination against an individual from receiving an organ transplant based on the individual having a disability.

This bill would also require health care practitioners, hospitals and other health care facilities, and organ transplant centers to provide reasonable accommodations to an individual with a disability in medical need of an anatomical gift or organ transplant.

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Subjects

Discrimination and Civil Protections, disabled persons, organ transplants