SB306 Alabama 2016 Session

This bill would specify that for purposes of municipal or county business licenses, a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies could not be required to purchase a municipal or county business license in a Class 7 or Class 8 municipality, as defined, unless it maintains its headquarters or any branch office in the municipality. In addition, a health care employee or other agent or representative of a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies would not be required to purchase a business license from a Class 7 or Class 8 municipality or a county, or their agent, including a private auditing firm, merely because the person visits a patient whose residence or the health care facility in which they are being treated is located within that municipality or county or furnishes equipment or health care supplies within the municipality or county

To specify that for purposes of municipal or county business licenses, a qualified provider that is a qualified home health care or hospice agency or a qualified provider of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, or health care supplies could not be required to purchase a municipal or county business license in a Class 7 or Class 8 municipality, as defined, unless the provider maintains its headquarters or any branch office in the municipality or county; to further provide that a qualified provider or a health care employee or other agent or representative of a qualified provider could not be required to purchase a business license from a Class or 8 Class municipality, as defined, a county, or their agent, including a private auditing firm, merely because the person visits a patient whose residence or the health care facility in which they are being treated is located within that municipality or county or because equipment or health care supplies are furnished within the municipality or county; to provide that a qualified provider that provides a service or product reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid, or a health benefit plan could not be required to purchase in a Class 7 or Class municipality, as defined, or a county or certain county or municipal licenses except where its headquarters or a branch office is located; and for this purpose to add Section 11-51-90.4 to the Code of Alabama 1975.