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AL Code § 22-6A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 6A - The Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act.|Section 22-6A-1 - Short Title.

Section 22-6A-1Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as "The Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act." (Act 2012-430, p. 1187, §1.)
AL Code § 22-6A-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 6A - The Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act.|Section 22-6A-2 - Health Care Sharing Ministry.

Section 22-6A-2Health care sharing ministry. (a) Health care sharing ministry means a faith-based nonprofit organization that is tax exempt under the Internal Revenue Code and which does all of the following: (1) Limits its participants to those who are of a similar faith. (2) Acts as a facilitator among participants who have financial or medical needs and matches those participants with other participants with the present ability to assist those with financial or medical needs in accordance with criteria established by the health care sharing ministry. (3) Provides for the financial or medical needs of a participant through contributions from one participant to another. (b) The health care sharing ministry shall specify to participants that participants may contribute with no assumption of risk or promise to pay among the participants and no assumption of risk or promise to pay by the health care sharing ministry to the participants. (c) The health care sharing ministry shall provide a written monthly statement to all participants that lists the total dollar amount of qualified needs submitted to the health care sharing ministry, as well as the amount actually assigned to participants for their contribution. (d) The health care sharing ministry shall provide to all applicants for assistance a written disclaimer on or accompanying all applications and guideline materials distributed by or on behalf of the organization that reads, in substance: "Notice: The organization facilitating the sharing of medical expenses is not an insurance company, and neither its guidelines nor plan of operation is an insurance policy. Whether anyone chooses to assist you with your medical bills will be totally voluntary because no other participant will be compelled by law to contribute toward your medical bills. As such, participation in the organization or a subscription to any of its documents should never be considered to be insurance. Regardless of whether you receive any payment for medical expenses or whether this organization continues to operate, you are always personally responsible for the payment of your own medical bills." (Act 2012-430, p. 1187, §2.)
AL Code § 22-6A-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 6A - The Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act.|Section 22-6A-3 - Relation to Insurance Statutes.

Section 22-6A-3Relation to insurance statutes. A health care sharing ministry shall not be considered to be engaging in the business of insurance pursuant to Title 27, for purposes of this chapter. (Act 2012-430, p. 1187, §3.)
AL Code § 22-7-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 7 - Fees for Home Health Services.|Section 22-7-1 - Authority to Charge and Collect Fees or Charges.

Section 22-7-1Authority to charge and collect fees or charges. The State Board of Health is hereby authorized to charge and collect a reasonable fee or charge for services rendered by salaried employees of the State or County Board of Health or State or County Health Department in home health service programs administered by those agencies. (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §1.)
AL Code § 22-7-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 7 - Fees for Home Health Services.|Section 22-7-2 - Schedule of Fees; What Fees to Include.

Section 22-7-2Schedule of fees; what fees to include. The State Board of Health shall fix a reasonable schedule of fees to be charged and collected from, or on behalf of, persons receiving home health services, and the amount of such fees shall include charges for personal services of the said employee and the expense attendant upon such services, such as the expense of necessary drugs, medicines, supplies and equipment. (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §2.)
AL Code § 22-7-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 7 - Fees for Home Health Services.|Section 22-7-3 - Waiver of Payment.

Section 22-7-3Waiver of payment. The State Board of Health, on recommendation of the county health officer, may waive all, or any part of, the payment of said fees upon a finding satisfactory to said board that the person obligated to pay is medically indigent. (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §3.)
AL Code § 22-7-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 7 - Fees for Home Health Services.|Section 22-7-4 - Payment of Collected Fees Into Home Health Service Fund.

Section 22-7-4Payment of collected fees into Home Health Service Fund. Such fees when collected shall be paid into a special fund in the State Treasury to be called the Home Health Service Fund. (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §4.)
AL Code § 22-7-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 7 - Fees for Home Health Services.|Section 22-7-5 - Appropriation, Allocation and Expenditure of Receipts.

Section 22-7-5Appropriation, allocation and expenditure of receipts. All of the receipts of said Home Health Service Fund are hereby appropriated annually to the State Board of Health to be allocated and expended by said board in each of those counties respectively from which said receipts were collected and for the purpose of administering and operating a program of home health services. (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §5.)
AL Code § 22-7-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 7 - Fees for Home Health Services.|Section 22-7-6 - Rules and Regulations.

Section 22-7-6Rules and regulations. The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate reasonable rules and regulations prescribing the home health services which may be performed and other rules necessary or proper for the operation of this chapter. (Acts 1967, No. 374, p. 938, §6.)
AL Code § 22-8-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-1 - Persons Physically or Mentally Unable to Consent.

Section 22-8-1Persons physically or mentally unable to consent. No consent shall be required for a licensed physician, psychiatrist, psychologist, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant to provide any legally authorized medical or mental health services to a person when the person is either physically unable to consent or mentally unable to consent and who, but for the mental or physical disability, would be able to consent; provided, that two or more licensed physicians, psychiatrists, or psychologists, or one licensed physician, psychiatrist, or psychologist and one or more nurse practitioners or physician assistants, after having consultation, have signed a written statement finding, in their judgment, that the medical services are necessary and that a delay in treatment would increase the risk to the person's life or health. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §6; Act 2019-355, §1.)
AL Code § 22-8-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-2 - When Consent of Missing Husband or Wife Not Required.

Section 22-8-2When consent of missing husband or wife not required. When a person, minor or adult, has not lived with his or her husband or wife for a period of one year or longer and when the location of said person's husband or wife is not known by the person whose husband or wife is missing, then such person, minor or adult, may give his or her consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, health or mental health services, and the consent of the missing husband or wife shall not be required. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §5.)
AL Code § 22-8-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-3 - When Physician May Proceed Without Consent of Parent.

Section 22-8-3When physician may proceed without consent of parent. Any legally authorized medical, dental, health or mental health services may be rendered to minors of any age without the consent of a parent or legal guardian when, in the physician's judgment, an attempt to secure consent would result in delay of treatment which would increase the risk to the minor's life, health or mental health. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §4.)
AL Code § 22-8-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-4 - When Minor May Give Consent Generally.

Section 22-8-4When minor may give consent generally. Any minor who is 14 years of age or older, or has graduated from high school, or is married, or having been married is divorced or is pregnant may give effective consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, health or mental health services for himself or herself, and the consent of no other person shall be necessary. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §1.)
AL Code § 22-8-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-5 - Consent of Minor for Self and Child.

Section 22-8-5Consent of minor for self and child. Any minor who is married, or having been married is divorced or has borne a child may give effective consent to any legally authorized medical, dental, health or mental health services for himself or his child or for herself or her child. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §2.)
AL Code § 22-8-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-6 - Consent of Any Minor as to Pregnancy, Venereal Disease, Drug Dependency, Alcohol Toxicity and Reportable Diseases.

Section 22-8-6Consent of any minor as to pregnancy, venereal disease, drug dependency, alcohol toxicity and reportable diseases. Any minor may give effective consent for any legally authorized medical, health or mental health services to determine the presence of, or to treat, pregnancy, venereal disease, drug dependency, alcohol toxicity or any reportable disease, and the consent of no other person shall be deemed necessary. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §3.)
AL Code § 22-8-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-7 - Effect of Minor's Consent; Liability of Physicians, etc.; Waiver of Rights or Causes of Action.

Section 22-8-7Effect of minor's consent; liability of physicians, etc.; waiver of rights or causes of action. (a) The consent of a minor who professes to be, but is not, a minor whose consent alone is effective to medical, dental, health or mental health services shall be deemed effective without the consent of the minor's parent or legal guardian if the physician or other person relied in good faith upon the presentations of the minor. (b) Any physician or other person who has relied in good faith upon the representations of any persons under any of the provisions of this chapter or who acts in good faith under any of the provisions of this chapter shall not be liable for not having consent. (c) No provision of this chapter shall be interpreted to empower any minor, mental incompetent or any other person who is not otherwise by law entitled to enter into a binding agreement to, expressly or impliedly, waive any right or cause of action arising by virtue of any treatment or procedure described in this chapter. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §7.)
AL Code § 22-8-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-8 - Consents Authorized Deemed Cumulative.

Section 22-8-8Consents authorized deemed cumulative. Consents authorized by this chapter are cumulative to all other existing legal consents, and this chapter is not to be construed as revoking any existing legal consents to any authorized legal, dental, mental health or health service. (Acts 1971, No. 2281, p. 3681, §8.)
AL Code § 22-8-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-9 - Consent of Minor to Donation of Bone Marrow; Consent by Parent or Legal Guardian.

Section 22-8-9Consent of minor to donation of bone marrow; consent by parent or legal guardian. Any minor who is 14 years of age or older, or has graduated from high school, or is married, or having been married is divorced or is pregnant, may give effective consent to the donation of his or her bone marrow for the purpose of bone marrow transplantation. A parent or legal guardian may consent to such bone marrow donation on behalf of any other minor. (Acts 1981, No. 81-225, p. 301.)
AL Code § 22-8-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8 - Consent for Health Services.|Section 22-8-10 - Authorization of Medical Treatment for Mental Health Services of Certain Minors by Parent or Legal Guardian.

Section 22-8-10Authorization of medical treatment for mental health services of certain minors by parent or legal guardian.  The parent or legal guardian of a minor who is at least 14 years of age and under 19 years of age may authorize medical treatment for any mental health services even if the minor has expressly refused such treatment services if the parent or legal guardian and a mental health professional determine that clinical intervention is necessary and appropriate. Access to the mental health records of the minor will follow the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Public Law 104-191. (Act 2015-476, §1.)
AL Code § 22-8A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8A - Termination of Life-Support Procedures.|Section 22-8A-1 - Short Title.

Section 22-8A-1Short title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Natural Death Act." (Acts 1981, No. 81-772, p. 1329, §1.)
AL Code § 22-8A-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8A - Termination of Life-Support Procedures.|Section 22-8A-2 - Legislative Intent.

Section 22-8A-2Legislative intent. The Legislature finds that competent adult persons have the right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care, including, without limitation, the decision to have medical procedures, life-sustaining treatment, and artificially provided nutrition and hydration provided, withheld, or withdrawn in instances of terminal conditions and permanent unconsciousness. In order that the rights of individuals may be respected even after they are no longer able to participate actively in decisions about themselves, the Legislature hereby declares that the laws of this state shall recognize the right of a competent adult person to make a written declaration instructing his or her physician to provide, withhold, or withdraw life-sustaining treatment and artificially provided nutrition and hydration or designate by lawful written form a health care proxy to make decisions on behalf of the adult person concerning the providing, withholding, or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment and artificially provided nutrition and hydration in instances of terminal conditions and permanent unconsciousness. The Legislature further desires to provide for the appointment of surrogate decision-makers in instances where the individual has not made such a designation and to allow a health care provider to follow certain portable physician orders and orders for pediatric and palliative and end of life care as provided for in this chapter. (Acts 1981, No. 81-772, p. 1329, §2; Acts 1997, No. 97-187, p. 281, §1; Act 2016-96, p. 129, §1; Act 2018-466, §2.)
AL Code § 22-8A-4.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8A - Termination of Life-Support Procedures.|Section 22-8A-4.1 - Validity of Dnar Orders; Adoption of Rules.

Section 22-8A-4.1Validity of DNAR orders; adoption of rules.  (a) A completed DNAR order that is properly entered and received is deemed a valid order. (b) (1) The State Board of Health shall adopt by rule the form to be used for a portable DNAR order. (2) The State Board of Health and the Board of Medical Examiners may adopt rules to implement this section and the amendments made to Sections 22-8A-2, 22-8A-3, 22-8A-7, and 22-8A-8 by Act 2016-96. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Medical Examiners shall have exclusive authority to adopt rules relating to physicians in implementing this section and the amendments made to Sections 22-8A-2, 22-8A-3, 22-8A-7, and 22-8A-8 by Act 2016-96. (Act 2016-96, §2.)
AL Code § 22-8A-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8A - Termination of Life-Support Procedures.|Section 22-8A-5 - Revocation of Advance Directive for Health Care.

Section 22-8A-5Revocation of advance directive for health care. (a) An advance directive for health care may be revoked at any time by the declarant by any of the following methods: (1) By being obliterated, burnt, torn, or otherwise destroyed or defaced in a manner indicating intention to cancel; (2) By a written revocation of the advance directive for health care signed and dated by the declarant or person acting at the direction of the declarant; or (3) By a verbal expression of the intent to revoke the advance directive for health care in the presence of a witness 19 years of age or older who signs and dates a writing confirming that such expression of intent was made. Any verbal revocation shall become effective upon receipt by the attending physician or health care provider of the above mentioned writing. The attending physician or health care provider shall record in the patient's medical record the time, date and place of when he or she received notification of the revocation. (b) There shall be no criminal or civil liability on the part of any person for failure to act upon a revocation made pursuant to this section unless that person has actual knowledge of the revocation. (Acts 1981, No. 81-772, p. 1329, §5; Acts 1997, No. 97-187, p. 281, §1.)
AL Code § 22-8A-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 22 - Health, Mental Health, and Environmental Control.|Title 1 - Health and Environmental Control Generally.|Chapter 8A - Termination of Life-Support Procedures.|Section 22-8A-6 - Proxy to Comply With Instructions, Intent of Patient.

Section 22-8A-6Proxy to comply with instructions, intent of patient. An individual designated to make decisions regarding the providing, withholding, or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration for another pursuant to Section 22-8A-4(b) shall make those decisions according to the specific instructions or directions given to him or her in the designation or other document or by the individual making the designation. In the absence of specific directions or guidance, the designated proxy shall make those decisions that conform as closely as possible to what the patient would have done or intended under the circumstances, taking into account the patient's personal, philosophical, religious and moral beliefs, and ethical values relative to the decisions. Where possible, the designated proxy shall determine how the patient would have weighed the burdens and benefits of initiating or continuing life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration against the burdens and benefits to the patient of that treatment. (Acts 1981, No. 81-772, p. 1329, §6; Acts 1997, No. 97-187, p. 281, §1.)