29-2-1
Section 29-2-1 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: improving the efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance of all branches of government can only be achieved with proper oversight, accountability, and transparency in government decision making and processes for service delivery; a long-range program of highway development and maintenance in Alabama (herein "the state") is vital to the safety of the traveling public as well as the industrial and agricultural growth of the state; the highway system in the state must be adequate to meet expanding needs; highway construction, maintenance, and administration to support such a system should include long-range planning, soundness in scope of the highway program, efficient performance, and fiscal responsibility in both policy and planning; the use of a long-range highway program will further the judicious expenditure of highway funds, will promote the public safety and convenience, will...
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37-11-1
Section 37-11-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, is hereby authorized to execute a compact in substantially the following form with the states of Louisiana and Mississippi, and the legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification of such compact, which compact is as follows: Southern High-Speed Rail Commission. Article I. The purpose of this compact is to study the feasibility of rapid rail transit service between the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama and to establish a joint interstate commission to assist in this effort. Article II. This compact shall become effective immediately as to the states ratifying it whenever the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have ratified it and Congress has given consent thereto. Any state not mentioned in this article which is contiguous with any member state may become a party to this compact, subject to approval by the legislature of each of the member states. Article...
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11-54-126
Section 11-54-126 Legislative findings and intent. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) That industrial development boards have been, and may hereafter be, organized, under the provisions of either industrial development board act, to promote industry, develop trade, and further the use of the agricultural products and natural and human resources of the State of Alabama and the development and preservation of such resources. (2) That in order to enable all industrial development boards to act more effectively to promote both the establishment of new business, manufacturing, industrial, commercial, service, and research enterprises, and the expansion of such enterprises already existing in Alabama, it is advisable that they be empowered to receive, manage, use, and expend contributions from private sources that are separate from and in addition to any other moneys or other properties that such boards are empowered by law to expend or to own. (3) That...
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16-47-240
Section 16-47-240 Alabama Rural Hospital Resource Center. (a) The University of Alabama at Birmingham shall establish the Alabama Rural Hospital Resource Center. (b) The purpose of the resource center is to facilitate access to high quality care for rural Alabamians and improve their health by increasing the viability and capabilities of eligible hospitals at no or minimal cost to those hospitals. (c) For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) ELIGIBLE HOSPITAL. A nonprofit or public rural hospital. (2) RESOURCE CENTER. The Rural Hospital Resource Center of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. (3) RURAL. Located in one of the following: a. An area designated as a shortage area as defined in 42 C.F.R. ยง 491.5(c) and (d); or b. A rural area as defined by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy. (d) The resource center shall do all of the following: (1) Hire necessary staff that is inclusive and reflects the racial, gender,...
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22-6-233
Section 22-6-233 Legislative findings; certification of collaborators; powers of Medicaid Agency; state action immunity. (a) The Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers, private health carriers, third party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service delivery systems and reimbursement methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated and coordinated health care delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration pursuant to this article is to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition, such that any anti-competitive effect may be attributed to the state's policy to displace competition in the delivery of a coordinated system of health care for the public benefit. In furtherance of this goal, the Legislature declares its intent...
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25-5-15.1
Section 25-5-15.1 State safety program; legislative intent; creation. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to promote safety education, safety planning, and to provide any needed technical assistance. (b) The Secretary of the Department of Labor shall coordinate with the safe state program, the safety and health consulting service, to establish a safety program for cooperating with industry to promote safety and provide technical assistance. Emphasis shall be placed on unsafe acts in both small industry and high risk industry. (c) Qualified safety management specialists shall be employed in the safe state program to assist employers in developing or improving their safety programs. Safe state program personnel shall, upon referral by the secretary of an employer's request, make inspections for safety monitoring and report the resulting findings and recommendations to the employer and to the secretary. (d) The safe state program shall establish and collect reasonable fees for...
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26-21-1
Section 26-21-1 Legislative purpose and findings. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this parental consent provision to further the important and compelling state interests of: (1) protecting minors against their own immaturity, (2) fostering the family structure and preserving it as a viable social unit, and (3) protecting the rights of parents to rear children who are members of their household. (b) The Legislature finds as fact that: (1) immature minors often lack the ability to make fully informed choices that take account of both immediate and long-range consequences, (2) the medical, emotional, and psychological consequences of abortion are serious and can be lasting, particularly when the patient is immature, (3) the capacity to become pregnant and the capacity for mature judgment concerning the wisdom of an abortion are not necessarily related, (4) parents ordinarily possess information essential to a physician's exercise of his or her best medical judgment...
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41-17A-1
Section 41-17A-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of Alabama makes the following findings and statements: (1) Energy use associated with the operation of state motor vehicle fleets exacerbates local air quality problems and results in greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change. (2) Agencies and departments of state government have a significant role to play in improving local air quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions by improving the energy efficiency of their fleets and reducing emissions from fleet operations. (3) Improving the energy efficiency of state fleets will result in a significant monetary savings in the long term. (b) The Legislature expresses its intent as follows: (1) To express its power as a participant in the marketplace to ensure that purchases and expenditures of public monies are made in a manner consistent with the policies of improving local air quality, reducing Alabama's water pollution of hazardous waste oil, reducing the...
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16-1-24.1
Section 16-1-24.1 Safe school and drug-free school policy; treatment of policy violators; promulgation and distribution of discipline policy; liability limited for discipline actions; local boards may adopt more stringent guidelines. (a) The Legislature finds a compelling public interest in ensuring that schools are made safe and drug-free for all students and school employees. The Legislature finds the need for a comprehensive safe school and drug-free school policy to be adopted by the State Board of Education. This policy should establish minimum standards for classes of offenses and prescribe uniform minimum procedures and penalties for those who violate the policies. It is the intent of the Legislature that our schools remain safe and drug-free for all students and school employees. The State Board of Education shall adopt and all local boards of education shall uniformly enforce policies that protect all students and school employees. The State Board of Education shall require...
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16-5-10
Section 16-5-10 Additional powers and duties of commission. The commission shall exercise the following powers and duties in addition to those otherwise specified in this article: (1) To cause to be made such surveys and evaluations of higher education as are believed necessary for the purpose of providing appropriate information to carry out its powers and duties. (2) To recommend to the Legislature of Alabama the enactment of such legislation as it deems necessary or desirable to insure the highest quality of higher education in this state taking into consideration the orderly development and maintenance of the state system of public higher education to meet trends in population and the change in social and technical requirements of the economy. (3) To advise and counsel the Governor, at his request, regarding any area of, or matter pertaining to, postsecondary education. (4) To establish definitions of a junior college, a community college, a technical college or institute, a senior...
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