HB441 Summary

• Exempts qualified home health care, hospice agencies, and durable medical equipment providers from municipal business license requirements unless they maintain headquarters or a branch office in the municipality or generate $75,000 or more in gross annual receipts there.

• Prohibits municipalities from requiring health care employees or representatives of qualified providers to purchase business licenses merely because they visit patients or deliver equipment and supplies within the municipality.

• Applies exemptions to services and products reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid, health benefit plans, health insurance, workers' compensation, or similar third-party payers.

• Defines "qualified provider" as entities licensed by the Alabama Board of Home Medical Equipment or Alabama State Board of Prosthetists and Orthotists, or holding a certificate of need from the State Health Planning and Development Agency.

• Becomes effective immediately upon passage and gubernatorial approval.