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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22-11B-1
Section 22-11B-1 Health care providers upon request required to give immunization status of patients. (a) Notwithstanding any of the confidentiality provisions in Chapter 11A of this title, or any other provisions of law, every public and private health care provider shall, upon request of the persons or entities herein identified, provide information concerning the immunization status of any patient in accordance with rules promulgated by the State Board of Health to the following persons and entities: (1) Other public and private health care providers. (2) Health care insurers of all descriptions. (3) The Alabama Medicaid Agency. (4) Individuals and organizations with a need to verify the immunization status of persons in their care, custody, or enrollment, including but not limited to, the chief executive officer, or a designee of the officer, of a public or private day care center, school, or postsecondary educational institution. (b) The authorization granted pursuant to this...
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22-21-312
Section 22-21-312 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (1) That publicly-owned (as distinguished from investor-owned and community-nonprofit) hospitals and other health care facilities furnish a substantial part of the indigent and reduced-rate care and other health care services furnished to residents of the state by hospitals and other health care facilities generally; (2) That as a result of current significant fiscal and budgetary limitations or restrictions, the state and the various counties, municipalities, and educational institutions therein are no longer able to provide, from taxes and other general fund moneys, all the revenues and funds necessary to operate such publicly-owned hospitals and other health care facilities adequately and efficiently; and (3) That to enable such publicly-owned hospitals and other health care facilities to continue to operate adequately and efficiently, it is necessary that the entities and agencies...
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41-4-353
Section 41-4-353 Applicability of provisions; exceptions. (a) All real property owned or leased by state departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, agencies, offices, and other instruments of the state is subject to the requirements of this article and in Sections 41-4-2, 41-4-3, 41-4-261, and 41-9-141 except: (1) All educational facilities including K-12, postsecondary, and higher education facilities. (2) Facilities of the Legislative Branch of government. (3) Facilities of the Judicial Branch of government. (4) Facilities of the Retirement Systems of Alabama. (5) Facilities of the Alabama Port Authority. (6) Facilities of the State Military Department. (7) Lands managed by the Lands Division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (8) Right-of-way owned by the Department of Transportation. (9) Gulf State Park. (10) Facilities and real property owned or leased by departments, boards, bureaus, commissions, agencies, offices, and other instruments of the state that do...
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16-13-300
Section 16-13-300 Legislative intent; construction. (a) It is the intention of the Legislature by the adoption of this article to authorize each county board of education and each city board of education in the State of Alabama to issue and sell, at public or private sale, upon the prior written approval of the State Superintendent of Education, warrants payable from, and secured by a pledge of, revenues of such board which are lawfully available and are designated by the board therefor, for educational and public school purposes, including, without limitation, payment of the costs of public school facilities and the refunding of valid indebtedness of such board, regardless of whether such indebtedness was incurred under this article or under other provisions of law and regardless of whether such indebtedness is a direct or indirect obligation of such board and to authorize counties and municipalities to provide financial and other assistance to boards of education within the...
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16-3-32
Section 16-3-32 Providing instruction not available at state-supported institutions - Graduate and professional instruction. The State Board of Education, under such rules and regulations as it shall determine, may provide for residents of Alabama graduate and professional instruction not available to them at state-supported educational institutions. The State Board of Education shall, by its rules and regulations, determine the qualifications of persons who may be aided under this section, and the decisions as to qualifications of persons by the State Board of Education shall be final. The State Board of Education may provide such graduate and professional instruction at any educational institution as it deems necessary, within or without state boundaries. The State Board of Education shall provide such graduate and professional instruction, within the limits of the appropriations available for this purpose, at a cost to students not exceeding the probable cost of such instruction to...
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16-3-33
Section 16-3-33 Providing instruction not available at state-supported institutions - College or university instruction. The State Board of Education, under such rules and regulations as it shall determine, may provide assistance for residents of Alabama for instruction on the college or university level at private nondenominational institutions when such instruction is not available to such residents at public, state-supported educational institutions in Alabama. The State Board of Education shall, by its rules and regulations, determine the qualifications of persons who may be aided under the provisions of this section, and the decision as to the qualifications of persons by the State Board of Education shall be final. The State Board of Education may provide assistance for instruction on the college or university level at any private nondenominational institution as it deems necessary, within or without the state boundaries. The State Board of Education shall provide assistance for...
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16-47-78
Section 16-47-78 Types of scholarships; disposition of funds; operation of programs. (a) The board shall establish four types of scholarships as follows: (1) A number of loans equal to 20 percent of the number of students enrolled in the University of Alabama School of Dentistry, based on the economic need and scholastic ability of the applicant, in an amount not to exceed the annual tuition per annum or four times that amount over a four-year period, shall be available to any bona fide resident of Alabama of good character who has been accepted for matriculation by the University of Alabama School of Dentistry or any other educational institution accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of the American Dental Association. This section shall also apply to graduate students at the discretion of the board. (2) A number of nonrefundable merit scholarship awards equal in number to five percent of the number of students enrolled in the University of Alabama School of Dentistry,...
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29-2-273
Section 29-2-273 Goals and objectives; funding. (a) The committee shall make a continuous study of the energy supply for the state and make recommendations for legislation and initiatives that will create the necessary institutional and regulatory changes to accomplish the overall goals and objectives of the state in a manner that benefits the economy and protects the environment. (b) The continuing study conducted by the committee, and recommendations submitted to the Governor and the Legislature, shall be designed to achieve the following goals and objectives, provided that those goals and objectives may be met while still providing reliable and affordable energy to Alabama residents: (1) The expansion of diverse sources of fuels to be used to meet Alabama's current and future energy needs through each of the following methods: a. Encouraging a diverse fuel mix among electric supply generation that promotes reliability and minimizes negative impacts that would result from electric...
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45-37-249.10
Section 45-37-249.10 Jefferson County Community Service Committee; Jefferson County Community Service Fund. (a) There is hereby created the Jefferson County Community Service Committee. The committee shall consist of four members, one of whom shall be elected by each of the Jefferson County Democratic House Delegation, the Jefferson County Republican House Delegation, the Jefferson County Democratic Senate Delegation, and the Jefferson County Republican Senate Delegation. Members of the Jefferson County Legislative Delegation shall not be eligible for election to the committee. Members of the committee shall be elected at a meeting of the Jefferson County Legislative Delegation held in the first year of each quadrennium of the Legislature and shall be residents and qualified electors of the county. The committee shall establish rules and procedures for its proceedings and activities. (b) There is hereby created a public fund to be designated the Jefferson County Community Service Fund....
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