---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health care providers, requiring physicians and health care professionals to report certain types of injuries to police or appropriate law enforcement authorities"
description: "Health care providers, requiring physicians and health care professionals to report certain types of injuries to police or appropriate law enforcement authorities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019rs"
identifier: "HB 288"
citation: "Alabama HB 288 (2019rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Providers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clarke"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-21T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80caac46-b0b6-4efe-9ed0-3e7cc6ecb7a7"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB288"
source_hash: "28b04a0892c520d508a8869626af259f1e5d346723a89dab5fcc8fdfd2ccf103"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-al"]
---

# Alabama HB 288 (2019rs) — Health care providers, requiring physicians and health care professionals to report certain types of injuries to police or appropriate law enforcement authorities

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/HB288-int.pdf)
2. **Amd/Sub 199016-2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/199016-2.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/HB288-eng.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/HB288-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 486 — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 487 — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1325 — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clarke — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment `reading-2`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Public Safety and Homeland Security Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 486 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 487 `passage`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2019-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1325 `passage`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-461. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 9:17 a.m. on May 30, 2019. `executive-receipt`
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Public Safety and Homeland Security first Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80caac46-b0b6-4efe-9ed0-3e7cc6ecb7a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).