AlabamaAlabama’s midwifery board may accept gifts and grants under its rules
Alabama’s State Board of Midwifery may accept outside gifts and grants under terms the board adopts through a formal vote.
What it does
Alabama’s midwifery board may accept gifts and grants under any terms and conditions it formally adopts. The board can choose whether to accept this support.
The board can elect the same chair for consecutive two-year terms. The Alabama Midwives Alliance supplies candidates for the board’s four professional midwife seats.
The board must use the latest national analysis of midwives’ work when writing rules. It does not have to follow Midwives Alliance of North America documents.
Licensed midwives do not have to collect client data for a separate North American statistics project. They still must send yearly birth and safety totals to the board.
Argument forGifts and grants could help the board pay for its work without drawing money from Alabama’s general state fund.
Argument againstWithout required client-level statistics, researchers could have less detailed information about birth outcomes than the board’s yearly totals provide.
More detail
Alabama’s State Board of Midwifery may accept gifts and grants. The permission applies to Alabama’s State Board of Midwifery. The board must follow any terms and conditions it adopts through a formal board resolution. The law took effect on October 1, 2026.
Board members elect their chair, and the Alabama Midwives Alliance submits candidates for the four professional midwife seats. The four seats require a valid certified professional midwife credential from the North American Registry of Midwives. The Governor appoints board members, and the Senate must confirm them. A successor professional midwifery organization may submit the candidate list. These provisions took effect on October 1, 2026.
The board must base its rules on the latest North American Registry of Midwives Job Analysis. The Job Analysis describes midwives’ work; board rules cover licensing, training, and safe professional practice. The board must follow the state’s process for adopting agency rules. Its rules must allow midwives to practice independently. This rulemaking provision took effect on October 1, 2026.
Licensed midwives are not required to collect client data for the Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics Project. These reporting provisions apply to Alabama’s licensed midwives. Annual reports must include births, hospital transfers, and maternal and infant deaths, including cases where the midwife assisted another licensed midwife. Required reports to the Alabama Department of Public Health still apply. These reporting provisions took effect on October 1, 2026.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Apr 9EnactedBecame Law
- Apr 2Signature Requested
- Apr 2Delivered to GovernorTo Governor
- Apr 1Third Reading in Second House
- Vote recorded Third Reading in Second House. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1051. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 1Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1051Passed Senate
- Apr 1Ready to Enroll
- Apr 1Enrolled
- Feb 25Reported Out of Committee Second House
- Feb 25Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Healthcare)Minor
- Jan 20Third Reading in House of Origin
- Vote recorded Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 52. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 69. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Third Reading in House of Origin. Result: pass.Lower
- Jan 20Boards, Agencies and Commissions Engrossed Substitute Offered (Boards, Agencies and Commissions)Minor
- Jan 20Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 52Major
- Jan 20Harrison 1st Amendment OfferedMinor
- Jan 20Carried Over to the Call of the Chair
- Jan 20Harrison Amendment Withdrawn
- Jan 20Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 69Passed House
- Jan 20Engrossed
- Jan 20Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on HealthcareMinor
- Jan 20Pending Committee Action in Second House (Healthcare)
- Jan 14Reported Out Committee House of Origin- Committee Amendment (Boards, Agencies and Commissions)
- Jan 14Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (Boards, Agencies and Commissions)
- Jan 14Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Boards, Agencies and Commissions)Minor
- Jan 13Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Boards, Agencies and CommissionsMinor
- Jan 13Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Boards, Agencies and Commissions)
- Jan 7FiledIntroduced
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