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22-11D-1
Section 22-11D-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that trauma is one of many severe
health problems in the State of Alabama and a major cause of death and long-term disability.
It is in the best interest of the citizens of Alabama to establish an efficient and well-coordinated
statewide trauma system and to provide for other systems of care as the needs are recognized
and funding becomes available to reduce costs and incidences of inappropriate or inadequate
emergency medical services. (Act 2007-299, p. 541, §1; Act 2012-526, p. 1556, §1.)...
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22-21-261
Section 22-21-261 Legislative findings; purpose of article. The Legislature of the State of
Alabama declares that it is the public policy of the State of Alabama that a certificate of
need program be administered in the state to assure that only those health care services and
facilities found to be in the public interest shall be offered or developed in the state.
It is the purpose of the Legislature in enacting this article to prevent the construction
of unnecessary and inappropriate health care facilities through a system of mandatory reviews
of new institutional health services, as the same are defined in this article. (Acts 1977,
1st Ex. Sess., No. 82, p. 1509, §1; Acts 1982, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 82-770, p. 249, §2.)...
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22-21-351
Section 22-21-351 Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:
(1) That in order to promote the public health of the people of the State of Alabama, the
Legislature enacted the enabling statute, whereunder, among other things: a. The several counties,
municipalities, and educational institutions of the state are effectively authorized to form
public corporations known as health care authorities, and b. Existing public hospital corporations
are authorized to reincorporate as health care authorities; (2) That all such health care
authorities are empowered under and pursuant to the enabling statute, among other things:
a. To own and operate public hospitals and other health care facilities; b. To furnish office
space to (among others) any nonhospital-based physician, dentist or other health care professional
for use in his private practice, subject to the conditions specified in the enabling statute;
and c. To appoint, employ, contract with, and provide for...
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22-4-31
Section 22-4-31 Legislative findings. The Legislature does hereby set out the following findings
and reasons for passage of this article. Alabama has adopted a system of health planning and
development administered by the State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA). In addition,
the Statewide Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) is charged with reviewing Alabama's health
planning needs and writing the State Health Plan to assist the Certificate of Need Review
Board. The Certificate of Need Review Board is responsible for reviewing and approving certificate
of need applications in Alabama. There is no current systematic way for the SHPDA, SHCC, or
the Certificate of Need Review Board to collect all the health care services information necessary
for proper health care planning in Alabama, because reporting to SHPDA is voluntary. The Legislature
hereby finds and determines that collection of additional health care information is necessary
for informed statewide health planning. The...
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26-23C-2
Section 26-23C-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds all
of the following: (1) Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148,
federal tax dollars, via affordability credits, subsidies provided to individuals between
150-400 percent of the federal poverty level, are routed to exchange participating health
insurance plans, including plans that provide coverage for abortions. (2) Federal funding
of insurance plans that provide abortions is an unprecedented change in federal abortion funding
policy. The Hyde Amendment, as passed each year in the Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations
bill, and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, FEHBP, prohibit federal funds from
subsidizing health insurance plans that provide abortions. Under this new law, however, exchange
participating health insurance plans that provide abortions can receive federal funds. (3)
The provision of federal funding for health insurance plans that...
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27-49-2
Section 27-49-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that the specialty of obstetrics
and gynecology is devoted to primary and preventive health care of women throughout their
lifetime. Significant numbers of women view their obstetrician and gynecologist as their primary
or only physician. For many women, an obstetrician or gynecologist is often the only physician
they see regularly during their reproductive years. A general medical examination was the
second most frequently cited purpose for patient visits to obstetricians and gynecologists
in 1989 and 1990. Obstetricians and gynecologists refer their patients less frequently than
other primary care physicians, thus avoiding costly and time consuming referrals to specialists.
Accordingly, it is the intent of the Legislature that women enrolled or covered by health
benefit plans have direct access to the services of a participating obstetrician or a participating
gynecologist. (Acts 1996, No. 96-671, p. 1135, §2.)...
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29-2A-4
Section 29-2A-4 Funding; fees for services. (a) The commission shall be funded from the annual
appropriation to the Legislative Services Agency for program evaluation until otherwise funded
from state appropriations. (b) The commission may receive state appropriations and apply for
and receive grant funds from other sources including, but not limited to, foundations, government
entities, federal grants, and businesses. No public monies shall be expended by the director
for any purpose unless the monies have been appropriated by the Legislature to the entity
from which the funds are received or to the commission. Any monies appropriated shall be budgeted
and allotted pursuant to the Budget Management Act in accordance with Article 4 of Chapter
4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts provided by the Legislature in the general appropriations
act or other appropriation acts. (c) Upon agreement, the Director of the Legislative Services
Agency and the Director of the Department of Finance may...
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38-9-3
Section 38-9-3 Legislative findings and intent. The legislature recognizes that there are many
adult citizens of the state who, because of the infirmities of age, disabilities or like incapacities,
are in need of protective services. Such services should, to the maximum degree of feasibility,
allow the individual the same rights as other citizens, and at the same time protect the individual
from exploitation, neglect, abuse and degrading treatment. This chapter is designed to establish
those services and assure their availability to all persons when in need of them, and to place
the least possible restriction on personal liberty and exercise of constitutional rights consistent
with due process and protection from abuse, exploitation and neglect. (Acts 1977, No. 780,
p. 1340, §1.)...
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38-9B-1
Section 38-9B-1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following:
(1) It is an essential function of state government to provide basic support for persons with
a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities,
whether the impairment is congenital or occurs by reason of accident, injury, age, or disease.
(2) The cost of providing basic support for persons with a mental or physical impairment is
difficult for many citizens to afford, and they are forced to rely upon the government to
provide that support. (3) The families and friends of persons with a mental or physical impairment
desire to supplement, but not replace, the basic support provided by state government and
other governmental programs. (4) Medical, social, and other supplemental services are often
provided by family members and friends of persons with a mental or physical impairment, for
the lifetime of the impaired persons. (5) It is necessary and desirable...
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40-6A-1
Section 40-6A-1 Legislative intent. The Legislature recognizes the necessity of an equitable,
fair, and efficiently administered ad valorem tax program to the revenue producing functions
of government, both state and local, and it further recognizes that since the implementation
of statewide reappraisal of property and the equalization of ad valorem taxes in this state,
the complexity and burden on the officials charged with assessing and collecting such taxes
has greatly increased. Likewise, great disparity has developed among the various counties
of this state in both the adequacy of compensation of such officials and the distribution
of the cost of administering the ad valorem tax program among the various agencies and funds
receiving such taxes. Therefore, in order to secure the services of competent officials in
all counties of this state to administer the ad valorem tax program and to fairly distribute
the burden of funding the costs of such program, it is the intent of this...
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