Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB346 Compare Versions

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3	3	HB346
4	4	BYM2DQ4-1
5	5	By Representative Lee
6	6	RFD: Health
7	7	First Read: 27-Feb-25
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14	14	First Read: 27-Feb-25
15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	Under existing law, the Retired Senior Volunteer
17	17	Program, administered by the State Board of Medical
18	18	Examiners, authorizes retired physicians to provide
19	19	volunteer medical care at free medical clinics and
20	20	other facilities approved by the board to patients who
21	21	are unable to pay for medical care.
22	22	To qualify, a retired physician must perform a
23	23	minimum of 100 hours of voluntary service annually.
24	24	This bill would remove the requirement that a
25	25	retired physician perform at least 100 hours of annual
26	26	service.
27	27	A BILL
28	28	TO BE ENTITLED
29	29	AN ACT
30	30	Relating to physicians; to amend Section 34-24-75.1,
31	31	Code of Alabama 1975; to remove a requirement that a physician
32	32	volunteer at least 100 hours annually to qualify under the
33	33	Retired Senior Volunteer Program administered by the State
34	34	Board of Medical Examiners.
35	35	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
36	36	Section 1. Section 34-24-75.1, Code of Alabama 1975, is
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66	66	Section 1. Section 34-24-75.1, Code of Alabama 1975, is
67	67	amended to read as follows:
68	68	"§34-24-75.1
69	69	(a)(1) The State Board of Medical Examiners may board,
70	70	at its discretion and subject to the rules and regulations
71	71	promulgated adopted by the board, may issue a certificate of
72	72	qualification in on behalf of physicians meeting the
73	73	requirements for participation in the Retired Senior Volunteer
74	74	Program (RSVP).
75	75	(2) The Retired Senior Volunteer Program is created for
76	76	the purpose of permitting doctors of medicine and doctors of
77	77	osteopathy who are fully retired from the active practice of
78	78	medicine to obtain a limited license without cost which would
79	79	permit the provision of outpatient health care services at
80	80	established free clinics operated pursuant to the Volunteer
81	81	Medical Professional Act, Section 6-5-660, et seq. Physicians
82	82	having certificates issued under this section must perform no
83	83	fewer than 100 hours of voluntary service annually and must
84	84	limit their practice to the confines of an established free
85	85	medical clinic, as that term is defined in Section 6-5-662, or
86	86	such other nonprofit organizations or facilities located in
87	87	Alabama which are approved by the board and which provide
88	88	outpatient medical care to individuals unable to pay for it
89	89	the care.
90	90	(3) Certificates issued under this section and licenses
91	91	based thereon shall state on their faces that they the
92	92	certificates are issued under the RSVP and are subject to
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94	94	(4) Any physician in on whose behalf a certificate of
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124	124	(4) Any physician in on whose behalf a certificate of
125	125	qualification is issued under this section shall be subject to
126	126	having his or her license suspended or revoked by the Medical
127	127	Licensure Commission for the same causes or reasons and in the
128	128	same manner as provided by law in the case of other
129	129	physicians.
130	130	(5) Certificates of qualification issued under this
131	131	section shall expire annually .and physiciansPhysicians may
132	132	apply to the board for renewal of their certificate, but the
133	133	board shall have full discretion to accept or reject the
134	134	application for renewal.
135	135	(b) A physician is eligible to receive a certificate of
136	136	qualification issued under subsection (a) if he or she meets
137	137	the following qualifications:
138	138	(1) The applicant currently has or has had a full and
139	139	unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of
140	140	Alabama or in any other state of the United States or the
141	141	District of Columbia, which license is or was at the time of
142	142	expiration unrestricted and in good standing with no pending
143	143	disciplinary actions or investigations at the time of
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145	145	(2) The applicant certifies, on a form prescribed by
146	146	the board, that he or she is fully retired from the active
147	147	practice of medicine.
148	148	(3) The applicant is in good health and is not
149	149	currently undergoing treatment for a physical or mental
150	150	condition which would impair the individual's ability to
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182	182	patients.
183	183	(4) The applicant certifies, on a form prescribed by
184	184	the board, that he or she intends to limit his or her medical
185	185	practice to the provision of outpatient services at an
186	186	established free medical clinic as that term is defined in
187	187	Section 6-5-662 or such other nonprofit organization or
188	188	facility that has been approved by the board and that
189	189	furnishes outpatient medical care to patients unable to pay
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191	191	(5) The applicant certifies, on a form prescribed by
192	192	the board, that his or her license to practice medicine in any
193	193	state or the District of Columbia has never been revoked,
194	194	suspended, placed on probation, or otherwise subject to
195	195	disciplinary action and that the applicant has not had his or
196	196	her hospital medical staff privileges revoked, suspended,
197	197	curtailed, limited, or surrendered while under investigation.
198	198	(6) The applicant acknowledges, on a form prescribed by
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200	200	education requirements for physicians as specified in Chapter
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203	203	(7) The applicant furnishes a certification of the
204	204	employment arrangements or agreement with the qualified clinic
205	205	or nonprofit organization.
206	206	(c) A certificate of qualification issued under
207	207	subsection (a) shall be issued at no cost to the applicant.
208	208	(d) The Medical Licensure Commission and the State
209	209	Board of Medical Examiners are each authorized to
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240	240	promulgateeach may adopt reasonable rules and regulations
241	241	necessary to implement the requirements of this section and
242	242	subsection (b) of Section 34-24-333 (b)."
243	243	Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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