SB165 Alabama 2019 Session

This bill would create the Alabama Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Patient Safety Act

This bill would provide for the standardized education and demonstration of competency by medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals under the jurisdiction of a licensing board

This bill would establish the Alabama Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Board to provide for the regulation and licensure of limited X-ray machine operators, magnetic resonance technologists, nuclear medicine technologists, radiation therapists, radiographers, and radiologist assistants

This bill would authorize the board to discipline licensees and individuals practicing without a license

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

To create the Alabama Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Patient Safety Act; to provide for the standardized education and demonstration of competency by medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals; to establish the Alabama Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Board; to authorize the board to provide for the regulation and licensure of limited X-ray machine operators, magnetic resonance technologists, nuclear medicine technologists, radiation therapists, radiographers, and radiologist assistants; to authorize the board to discipline medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals who perform diagnostic imaging or radiation therapy procedures for medical purposes; to provide civil and criminal penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.