AL HB289

Authorizes unlicensed non-emergency medical transport services to transport patients on stretchers, gurneys, or cots to medical care facilities, reversing current law that restricts this to licensed ambulances.

Requires transport vehicles to be designed and equipped to hold stretchers, gurneys, or cots.

Limits authorization to non-emergency circumstances, defined as situations where a patient's health and life are not at serious risk without immediate medical treatment, excluding conditions like uncontrolled bleeding, heart attacks, automobile accidents, or serious trauma.

Permits the State Board of Health to adopt rules further defining non-emergency circumstances and governing the operation and conduct of non-emergency medical transport services and vehicles.

Becomes effective October 1, 2024.