HB519 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ernie YarbroughRepresentative

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Organ donation; condition of donation or receipt on vaccine status prohibited, Attorney General authorized to enforce

Summary

HB519, The Adaline Deal Act, would prohibit conditioning organ donation or receipt on vaccine status and authorize enforcement by the Alabama Attorney General.

What This Bill Does

If passed, the bill would bar hospitals, transplant centers, procurement organizations, health insurers, physicians, and other health care providers from requiring a donor's or recipient's vaccine status to donate or receive an anatomical gift. It creates definitions for vaccine and vaccine status to cover a broad range of products and technologies. The Attorney General would enforce the law, can seek injunctive relief, and may levy a $50,000 fine for violations, with the act taking effect on October 1, 2025.

Who It Affects

• Donors and recipients of anatomical gifts (organs) who would be protected from any requirement that vaccine status affect donation or receipt.
• Hospitals, transplant centers, procurement organizations, health insurance providers, physicians, and other health care providers who would be prohibited from conditioning donation or receipt on vaccine status and would face enforcement and penalties for violations.

Key Provisions

• Prohibits conditioning the donation or receipt of an anatomical gift on the donor's or recipient's vaccine status by listed health entities.
• Defines vaccine and vaccine status to include a wide range of biological products, DNA-based products, immunizations, gene editing, mRNA-based products, or injectable drugs used to prevent or treat infectious disease.
• Empowers the Attorney General to enforce the section, seek injunctive relief, and impose a $50,000 fine on violators.
• Sets an effective date of October 1, 2025.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.

Subjects

Health