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16-44A-1
Section 16-44A-1 Legislative intent. (a) The Legislature finds that the 1986 and 1992 Commissions
on the Future of the South, under the auspices of the Southern Growth Policies Board, called
for youth and community leadership development and support as critical to southern economic
development and progress. The Legislature further finds that citizenship and leadership programs
are vital to the well-being of our American system of self-government, and to the civic well-being,
economic development, and quality of life in Alabama, the South, and the nation. (b) It is
the intent of the Legislature to work to achieve these southern leadership goals by creating
a voluntary compact of public, non-profit, and private sectors to enhance and expand leadership
and citizenship education in Alabama. (Acts 1994, No. 94-482, p. 799, ยง1.)...
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16-44A-2
Section 16-44A-2 Authorization, enactment, and adoption of the Alabama Compact for Leadership
and Citizenship Education; purpose, intent, and member parties to the compact. The following
compact, to be known as the Alabama Compact for Leadership and Citizenship Education, is hereby
expressly authorized, enacted, and adopted: (1) The purpose of this compact is to promote
realization of the leadership development goals of the 1986 and 1992 Commissions on the Future
of the South by cooperative efforts to enhance and expand leadership and citizenship education
in Alabama. (2) It is the intent of this compact that membership, programs, operations, and
services of the compact should be inclusive and reflect the racial, geographic, urban/rural,
and economic diversity of the state. (3) Member parties to the compact shall be any organization,
agency, or institution of the public, non-profit, or private sector which voluntarily chooses
to subscribe to the purposes of the compact. Ex officio...
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16-44A-30
Section 16-44A-30 Legislative findings. (a) Under Article 1 of this chapter, the Joint Legislative
Committee on Southern Leadership Goals authorized and consented to the formation of a non-profit
entity, subsequently organized as The Citizenship Trust and domiciled in Shelby County, Alabama,
for the purpose of, among other things, proposing to the Legislature a voluntary compact to
promote citizenship education programs. (b) The Legislature now finds that the voluntary partnership,
compact, or trust should be authorized and ratified whereby public and private entities which
desire to work together may do so to enhance and expand citizenship education for students.
The Legislature further finds that citizenship and character education of young people in
the principles of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other great foundations of the American
Republic are essential to the civic, political, economic, security, and social well-being
of our society, and to the advancement and progress...
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9-18A-1
Section 9-18A-1 Enactment of Southern States Energy Compact. The Legislature hereby enacts,
and the State of Alabama hereby enters into, the Southern States Energy Compact with any and
all states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially
as follows: "SOUTHERN STATES ENERGY COMPACT "Article I. Policy and Purpose. "The
party states recognize that the proper employment and conservation of energy and employment
of energy-related facilities, materials, and products, within the context of a responsible
regard for the environment, can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south
and the development of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum
benefit from an acquisition of energy resources and facilities require systematic encouragement,
guidance and assistance from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of
the party states to undertake such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of...
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9-18-1
Section 9-18-1 Enactment of Southern Interstate Nuclear Compact. The Southern Interstate Nuclear
Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the state of Alabama with any and all
states legally joining therein in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as
follows: "SOUTHERN INTERSTATE NUCLEAR COMPACT "Article I. Policy and Purpose "The
party states recognize that the proper employment of nuclear energy, facilities, materials,
and products can assist substantially in the industrialization of the south and the development
of a balanced economy for the region. They also recognize that optimum benefit from and acquisition
of nuclear resources and facilities requires systematic encouragement, guidance, and assistance
from the party states on a cooperative basis. It is the policy of the party states to undertake
such cooperation on a continuing basis; it is the purpose of this compact to provide the instruments
and framework for such a cooperative effort to improve...
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41-18-1
Section 41-18-1 Text. Article I. Findings and Purposes. (a) The party states find that the
South has a sense of community based on common social, cultural and economic needs and fostered
by a regional tradition. There are vast potentialities for mutual improvement of each state
in the region by cooperative planning for the development, conservation and efficient utilization
of human and natural resources in a geographic area large enough to afford a high degree of
flexibility in identifying and taking maximum advantage of opportunities for healthy and beneficial
growth. The independence of each state and the special needs of subregions are recognized
and are to be safeguarded. Accordingly, the cooperation resulting from this agreement is intended
to assist the states in meeting their own problems by enhancing their abilities to recognize
and analyze regional opportunities and take account of regional influences in planning and
implementing their public policies. (b) The purposes of...
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16-6F-6
Section 16-6F-6 Authorization of establishment; Alabama Public Charter School Commission; registration
requirements; powers and duties of authorizers. (a) Eligible authorizing entities. (1) A public
charter school shall not be established in this state unless its establishment is authorized
by this section. No governmental entity or other entity, other than an entity expressly granted
chartering authority as set forth in this section, may assume any authorizing function or
duty in any form. The following entities shall be authorizers of public charter schools: a.
A local school board, for chartering of schools within the boundaries of the school system
under its jurisdiction, pursuant to state law. b. The Alabama Public Charter School Commission,
pursuant to this section. (2) A local school board that registers as an authorizer may approve
or deny an application to form a public charter school within the boundaries of the local
school system overseen by the local school board. (3) All...
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16-23-16.1
Section 16-23-16.1 Creation of Professional Teachers Standards Commission; designation or development
of entry-level pre-certification examination for teacher candidates. (a) The Legislature finds
that Alabama is alone among the southern states in not testing teacher candidates before allowing
them in the classroom, and acknowledges that the need exists to establish, maintain, and enforce
minimum professional standards for teacher candidates in the State of Alabama. In response
to such need, there is hereby created a Professional Teachers Standards Commission (the commission)
for the State of Alabama. The commission shall consist of 11 members appointed by the Governor
in the following manner: The Alabama Congress of Parents and Teachers Association, Alabama
School Board Association, Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision, Alabama
Education Association, and the Alabama Association of Colleges for Teacher Education shall
each designate a representative that together...
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45-8-22.01
Section 45-8-22.01 Legislative intent; disposition of funds. (a) The Legislature of Alabama
finds and declares that it is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this section
clarify but not change existing law and supplement existing law, by clarifying and showing
the intent of the Legislature in, but not changing, Act 2001-361, 2001 Regular Session, and
supplementing Act 2001-361, 2001 Regular Session, concerning the distribution of the proceeds
of the Calhoun County portion of the levelized excise tax on beer levied pursuant to Chapter
3 of Title 28. (b) The Calhoun County portion of the proceeds of the levelized state excise
tax on beer levied pursuant to Chapter 3 of Title 28, shall be collected by the Calhoun County
Judge of Probate and paid to the Calhoun County Commission. All of the tax proceeds shall
be distributed by the Calhoun County Commission as follows: (1) The first one thousand five
hundred dollars ($1,500) of the proceeds each month shall be deposited in...
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41-10-44.1
Section 41-10-44.1 Legislative intent with respect to additional powers of the authority. The
Legislature has found and determined that the economic well-being of the citizens of the State
of Alabama will be enhanced by the increased development and growth of industry within the
state and that it is in the best interest of the state to induce the location or expansion
of industrial and research facilities within the state in order to promote the public purpose
of creating new jobs within the state. The Legislature further has found and determined that
the inducements herein provided will encourage the creation of jobs which would not otherwise
exist and will create new sources of tax revenues for the state and its political subdivisions.
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the powers to be granted to the authority by
this article and the purposes to be accomplished hereby are proper governmental and public
purposes and that the inducement of the location or expansion of...
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