23-1-291
Section 23-1-291 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that certain portions of the state highway system provide access to state locales that are notable for their scenic, natural, historic, recreational, cultural, and archaeological value and are therefore worthy of designations as scenic byways in order to provide special consideration of their unique features and special role in the highway system. The Legislature further finds that the public interest would be served by the formation of a coordinated scenic byways program to enhance recreational, cultural, and archaeological resources, encourage economic development through tourism, improve the transportation system, and educate residents and visitors on the history, culture, and natural beauty of this state. In order to implement this program, the Legislature has determined that a two-tiered structure would best serve the governance of the Alabama Scenic Byways program. The Legislature recognizes that the application of this...
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26-22-1
Section 26-22-1 Legislative findings and intent. (a) The public policy of the State of Alabama is to protect life, born, and unborn. This is particularly true concerning unborn life that is capable of living outside the womb. The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds there are abortions being done in Alabama after the time of viability and in violation of its public policy. (b) The Legislature specifically finds the following: (1) Medical evidence shows there is a survival rate of babies born between ages 23 weeks to 29 weeks gestational age of 64 percent to 94 percent. (2) In Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, 492 U.S. 499 (1989), the United States Supreme Court determined that viability may occur as early as 23 to 24 weeks gestational age. Also, the United States Supreme Court determined that requiring fetal viability testing at 20 weeks gestational age is constitutional, because there is up to a four week margin of error in determining gestational age. (3) In the latest...
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22-40A-2
Section 22-40A-2 Legislative findings; purpose. (a) The Legislature finds as follows: (1) The Alabama Scrap Tire Study Commission (STSC) submitted a report as required by Section 22-40-10, and SJR 152, adopted May 11, 2000. The section and the resolution both directed the STSC to study the present law and recommend revisions that are needed. The report from the STSC recommended substantial changes to the present law, which are incorporated into this chapter. The study and report were necessary to address the estimated 14 to 20 million tires stockpiled or illegally dumped. (2) This state generates over five million scrap tires annually. Of these tires, an estimated two million are recycled annually and an estimated two million are disposed of legally in landfills. Many of the remaining tires are disposed of illegally and therefore may present a public health and/or environmental threat to the citizens of Alabama. (b) This chapter has the following stated purposes, to: (1) Remediate...
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6-5-751
Section 6-5-751 Legislative findings and objectives. (a) The Legislature finds that the recruitment, establishment, development, and growth of the commercial aviation aircraft manufacturing industry in the State of Alabama is important to the economic health of the state and its agencies and institutions and to the general health, welfare, and prosperity of its citizens. The Legislature finds that it is reasonable and important to the national and international companies and businesses involved in the commercial aviation aircraft manufacturing industry locating or considering locating in the State of Alabama to expect that civil liability actions against them, if any, will be governed by tort principles generally accepted in other jurisdictions outside this state that are home to such companies and businesses, but which are consistent with the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, and this state's public policy. The Legislature finds that the principles addressed in this article, namely,...
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40-18-370
Section 40-18-370 Short title; legislative findings; definitions. (a) This article shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Jobs Act. (b) The Legislature makes the following findings: (1) The economic well-being of the citizens of the state will be enhanced by the increased development and growth of employment within Alabama. (2) It is in the best interests of the state to provide certain incentives to allow the state to foster economic development through the recruitment of quality projects and the expansion of existing businesses within Alabama. (3) The incentives provided for in this article do not raise any taxes for any individuals or businesses in Alabama under state law. (4) The incentives provided in this article will allow the state to encourage the creation of new jobs that may not otherwise exist within the State of Alabama. (5) The incentives provided in this article will increase revenues for the state without increasing taxes. (6) The Constitution of the State of...
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16-44A-35
Section 16-44A-35 Legislative findings; designation and dedication as Veterans Living Legacy. (a) The Legislature of Alabama finds and declares all of the following: (1) That pursuant to Section 16-44A-31, a statewide extended classroom for education in critical academic areas of citizenship, civics, American history, and government is now operational as "the American Village" under the auspices of the Citizenship Trust, a public education corporation. (2) The nationally pioneering educational program serves students statewide and also school groups from other states. The United States Congress has provided support of the American Village as a national model and as an innovative civic education initiative that provides students with a better understanding of the United States Constitution and the historical and civic foundation of American self-government. (3) Recent studies indicate that many students have only a superficial knowledge and lack deeper understanding of the foundations...
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33-18-1
Section 33-18-1 Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact: Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact The States of Alabama and Georgia and the United States of America hereby agree to the following compact which shall become effective upon enactment of concurrent legislation by each respective state legislature and the Congress of the United States. Short Title This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin Compact" and shall be referred to hereafter in this document as the "ACT Compact" or "compact." Article I Compact Purposes This compact among the States of Alabama and Georgia and the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes of promoting interstate comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably apportioning the surface waters of the ACT, engaging in water planning,...
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33-19-1
Section 33-19-1 Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact. The State of Alabama hereby agrees to the following interstate compact known as the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact: Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact The States of Alabama, Florida and Georgia and the United States of America hereby agree to the following compact which shall become effective upon enactment of concurrent legislation by each respective state legislature and the Congress of the United States. Short Title This Act shall be known and may be cited as the "Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin Compact" and shall be referred to hereafter in this document as the "ACF Compact" or "compact." Article I Compact Purposes This compact among the States of Alabama, Florida and Georgia and the United States of America has been entered into for the purposes of promoting interstate comity, removing causes of present and future controversies, equitably apportioning the...
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16-68-1
Section 16-68-1 (Effective July 1, 2020) Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following findings: (1) Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, recognizes that all persons may speak, write, and publish their sentiments on all subjects, and that "no law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech...." (2) Alabama's public institutions of higher education have historically embraced a commitment to freedom of speech and expression. (3) The United States Supreme Court has called public universities "peculiarly the marketplace of ideas," Healy v. James, 408 U.S. 169, 180 (1972), where young adults learn to exercise those constitutional rights necessary to participate in our system of government and to tolerate the exercise of those rights by others, and there is "no room for the view that First Amendment protections should apply with less force on college campuses than in the community at large." Healy, 408 U.S. at 180. (4) The United...
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29-6-7.1
Section 29-6-7.1 Legislative findings as to speech and debate; definitions; privileged and confidential communication; waiver of privilege. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares the following: (1) Section 56 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 56 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, contains a speech or debate clause virtually identical to Section 6 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States, the federal speech and debate clause. (2) In the case of Gravel v. United States, 408 U.S. 606, the Supreme Court of the United States held the speech and debate clause in the Constitution of the United States makes the communications between members of the Congress and their staff privileged and confidential. (3) The Supreme Court explained its reasoning as follows: "[T]he day-to-day work of [legislative] aides is so critical to the Members' performance that they must be treated as the latter's alter ego;...
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