36-35-3
Section 36-35-3 Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Board. (a) The Alabama Prescription Cost
Initiative Board is created. (b) The board shall consist of the following voting members:
The executive director or chief staff person of the State Employees Insurance Board (SEIB)
and the Public Education Employees Health Insurance Plan (PEEHIP), the Chair of the Board
of Directors of SEIB, the Chair of the Board of Directors of PEEHIP, and the State Health
Officer. The Director of the Medicaid Agency may serve in a nonvoting capacity. (c) The board
shall promulgate policies to implement this chapter and may hire an executive director and
necessary staff to implement and administer this chapter with or without regard to the state
Merit System. (d) The board through its executive director may enter into agreements with
a prescription drug buying group or manufacturer to negotiate price discounts or rebates on
behalf of the board or any participating department or governmental entity. (e) The...
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34-23-8.1
Section 34-23-8.1 Substitution of certain biological products; notice. (a) No person shall
dispense or cause to be dispensed a different biological or brand of biological product in
lieu of that ordered or prescribed without the express permission in each case of the person
ordering or prescribing the drug, except as provided in this section. (b) A licensed pharmacist
in this state shall be permitted to select for the brand name biological product prescribed
by a licensed physician or other practitioner who is located in this state and authorized
by law to write prescriptions, hereinafter referred to as "practitioner," a less
expensive interchangeable biological product in all cases where the practitioner expressly
authorizes the selection in accordance with subsection (d). (c) A licensed pharmacist located
in this state may select for the brand name biological product prescribed by a practitioner
who is located in another state or licensing jurisdiction and who is authorized by the...

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16-5-8
Section 16-5-8 Review, coordination, establishment, etc., of programs; transfer of credits;
Articulation and General Studies Committee. (a)(1) The Commission on Higher Education is authorized
to review periodically all new and existing programs and units of instruction, research, and
public service funded by state appropriations at the state universities and colleges and to
share with the appropriate governing board, through the president of the institution, and
state Legislature, its recommendations. (2) As a part of its program review process, the commission
shall enforce, monitor, and report on minimum degree productivity standards for all existing
programs of instruction at public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education.
Productivity standards shall be based, primarily, but not exclusively, on the annual average
number of degrees conferred during a five-year period for senior institutions and a three-year
period for two-year institutions, as verified by the...
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22-21-265
Section 22-21-265 Certificates of need - Required for new institutional health service. (a)
On or after July 30, 1979, no person to which this article applies shall acquire, construct,
or operate a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or furnish or offer,
or purport to furnish a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or make
an arrangement or commitment for financing the offering of a new institutional health service,
unless the person shall first obtain from the SHPDA a certificate of need therefor. Notwithstanding
any provisions of this article to the contrary, those facilities and distinct units operated
by the Department of Mental Health, and those facilities and distinct units operating under
contract or subcontract with the Department of Mental Health where the contract constitutes
the primary source of income to the facility, shall not be required to obtain a certificate
of need under this article. (b) Notwithstanding all other...
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