Alabama Healthcare Bills

State Health Planning and Development Agency; Rural Health Antitrust Immunity Act created, collaboration among rural health care providers authorized; certification and supervision framework established, limited immunity from state and federal antitrust laws provided

Physician Assistants; interstate licensure compact, established

Public health, authorized forms of single-dose epinephrine used by public schools and authorized entities expanded

State Board of Adjustment, provide death benefit to survivors of volunteer firefighters who die of cancer

Appropriations, supplemental appropriations from the Opioid Treatment and Abatement Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

Health care plans; to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in determinations of coverage

Living organ donors; to prohibit discrimination in obtaining insurance coverage, provide paid medical leave for public employees who donate organs and a tax credit to private sector employers that provide similar paid leave to their employees

Alabama Mental Health Task Force, established

Expressing gratitude to the Alabama Congressional Delegation

Urging the State Committee of Public Health to review and consider adding the novel synthetic opioid N-Propionitrile Chlorphine as a Schedule I controlled substance

Volunteer Rescue Squad Tuition Reimbursement Program; to permit EMS regional agencies to participate in education instruction

Department of Insurance; Pharmacy Benefits Manager Division; two exempt personnel positions authorized

Public assistance; Department of Human Resources required to request waiver to prohibit the purchase of soda and candy with SNAP benefits, implementation of prohibition provided for

Alabama Clean Indoor Air Act, renamed Vivian Davis Figures Clean Indoor Air Act; vaping included as prohibited smoking in public places.

Alabama Rural Emergency Medical Services and Volunteer Fire Department Study Commission, created

Food enrichment; corn masa folic acid requirements, corn masa flour added, exempt products revised

Chronic Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes Task Force, extended

Veterinary medicine; veterinarian-client-patient relationship further specified; scope of practice inside and outside veterinarian-client-patient relationship further defined

Rural Health Transformation Program, appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027

University of Alabama; Physicians Advisory Board of the University of Alabama School of Medicine repealed