Title 20

(a) Upon receipt of a Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate (QACSC) and a valid registration number issued by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, a certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNP) or certified nurse midwife (CNM) may prescr…

The Board of Medical Examiners may deny an application of a certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNP) or a certified nurse midwife (CNM) requesting a Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate (QACSC), deny a request for a renewal of a QACSC, or initiat…

(a) Any hearing regarding the issuance, restriction, limitation, suspension, or revocation of a Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate (QACSC) held by a certified registered nurse practitioner or a certified nurse midwife for any violations of this artic…

(a) A certified registered nurse practitioner (CRNP) or certified nurse midwife (CNM) adversely affected by an order of the Board of Medical Examiners denying an application for a Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate (QACSC) or the renewal of a QACSC m…

The Board of Medical Examiners may charge and collect fees to defray expenses incurred in the registration and issuance of a Qualified Alabama Controlled Substances Registration Certificate (QACSC) and the administration of this article shall be the same as other mid-level provid…

Any member of the Board of Medical Examiners, any agent, employee, consultant, or attorney of the board, any person making any report or rendering any opinion or supplying any evidence or information or offering any testimony to the board in connection with any investigation or h…

The Board of Medical Examiners may adopt rules necessary to carry out the intent, purposes, and provisions of this article. (Act 2013-223, p. 531, §1.)

(a) The Board of Medical Examiners may at any future date it chooses create a Limited Purpose Schedule II Permit (LPSP), and assess fees associated with the permit, that, along with any other necessary registration, may permit assistants to physicians, certified registered nurse …

(a) For the purposes of this section, “opioid antagonist” means naloxone hydrocholoride or other similarly acting drug that is approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of an opioid overdose. (b) A physician licensed under Article 3 of Chapter 24 of T…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, an individual under 21 years of age may not be prosecuted for the possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages if law enforcement, including campus safety police, became aware of the possession or consumption of alcohol solel…

On or before January 1, 2016, the Alabama Department of Public Health shall approve a specific training curriculum for completion by law enforcement officers who elect to carry and administer opioid antagonists. (Act 2015-364, §3.)

The State Health Officer or the respective county health officers shall have authority to publish the standing order or orders, including any necessary guidelines or other requirements that shall be followed, for dispensing opioid antagonists under Section 20-2-280 in their juris…

Any individual dispensing an opioid antagonist pursuant to Section 20-2-280 who is otherwise qualified, including a registered nurse in the employment of the State Health Department or a county health department, and who complies with the standing order or orders and other requir…

THIS SECTION REPEALED BY ACT 2023-339, EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2023. This article shall be known and may be cited as the MAT Act of 2019. (Act 2019-500, §1.)

THIS SECTION REPEALED BY ACT 2023-339, EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2023. (a)(1) For all patients receiving medication assisted treatment, adequate billing records shall be maintained, in any format, for all patient visits. Billing records shall be maintained for a period of three year…

THIS SECTION REPEALED BY ACT 2023-339, EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 1, 2023. Because the intent of the Legislature in this article is to educate physicians and to mitigate patient abuse and diversion of buprenorphine, nothing in this article shall modify, amend, repeal, or supersede any p…

(a) This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Agent Billy Clardy III Act. (b) For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) AGENCY. Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency. (2) AGGRIEVED INDIVIDUAL. An individual who was a party to …

(a) Any law enforcement officer who obtains, by any means authorized by this chapter, knowledge of the contents of a wire or electronic communication, or evidence derived from the communication, may disclose the contents, or evidence derived, to another law enforcement officer if…

(a) On or before January 31 of each year, any judge who has issued an order, or an extension of an order, pursuant to Section 20-2B-5 that expired during the preceding year, or who has denied approval of an intercept order during the preceding year, shall report to the Administra…

(a) An individual whose wire or electronic communication is intercepted, disclosed, or used in violation of this chapter shall have a civil cause of action against any person that intercepts, discloses, or uses, or procures another person to intercept, disclose, or use, the commu…

Any individual who knowingly and intentionally possesses, installs, operates, or monitors an electronic, mechanical, or other device in violation of this chapter shall be guilty of a Class C felony. (Act 2022-236, §2.)

(a) This chapter does not apply to an individual who is a subscriber to a service operated by a communication common carrier or communications service provider and who intercepts a communication on a telephone or similarly used device to which he or she subscribes. (b) This chapt…

The secretary may issue an administrative subpoena to a communication common carrier or a communications service provider to compel production of business records if the records requested satisfy both of the following: (1) Are local or long-distance toll records or subscriber inf…

(a) No individual or other agency, other than the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, may own or possess an electronic, mechanical, or other device. (b) Only investigative officers may install, operate, or monitor an electronic, mechanical, or other device. (c) Any law enforcem…

(a) Subject to the approval of the secretary, an intercept authorized pursuant to this chapter may be conducted with the aid of interpretive services in the following circumstances: (1) In anticipation of intercepting a wire or electronic communication using coded language or a f…

Orders authorizing, approving, or extending the interception of wire or electronic communications may be granted, subject to this chapter, when the intercept may provide or has provided evidence an individual is committing, has committed, or is about to commit a felony drug offen…

(a)(1) An investigative officer may submit a written request to the secretary requesting the secretary apply for an intercept order. If the secretary approves the request, the secretary may submit a written request to the Attorney General requesting the Attorney General apply for…

(a) Upon receiving an application from the Attorney General for an intercept order, a judge of competent jurisdiction may enter an ex parte intercept order as requested or as modified, authorizing an intercept within the territorial jurisdiction of the court if the judge determin…

(a) The contents of a wire or electronic communication intercepted by means authorized by this chapter shall be recorded on tape, wire, or other comparable device, to the extent practicable. The recording of the contents of a wire or electronic communication under this section sh…

(a) The judge of competent jurisdiction shall seal each application made, and order granted, under this chapter. Custody of the applications and orders shall be wherever the judge orders. An application or order may be disclosed only upon a showing of good cause before a judge of…

(a) Within a reasonable time, but not later than 90 days after the date an application for an order is denied or after the date an order, or the last extension, if any, expires, the judge who granted or denied the application shall serve an inventory on the individuals named in t…

(a) The contents of an intercepted wire or electronic communication, or evidence derived from the communication, may not be entered in evidence or otherwise disclosed in a trial, hearing, or other proceeding in a federal or state court unless each party has been furnished a copy …

This chapter shall be known and cited as the “John G. Page, Jr., Act.” (Act 2002-498, p. 1288, §1.)

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. An institution or facility licensed as an assisted living facility under regulations of the State Board of Health. (2) CHARITABLE CLINIC. The term includes an established…

(a)(1) Legend drugs, except controlled substances, dispensed to a patient in a hospital, nursing facility, assisted living facility, or specialty care assisted living facility may be donated and transferred pursuant to this section to a charitable clinic to be used by charitable …