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27-54-1
Section 27-54-1 Legislative intent; public policy. (a) The Legislature finds the following:
(1) Mental illness affects many citizens of this state each year, resulting in anguish, grief,
desperation, fear, isolation, and a sense of hopelessness of significant levels among victims
and families. (2) Consequences of mental illness include the significant expenditures of public
operating funds for treatment and losses of millions of dollars by businesses in the state
in accidents, absenteeism, nonproductivity, and turnover. Excessive stress and anxiety and
other forms of mental illness clearly contribute to general health problems and costs. (3)
Typical health coverage in this state by some insurers provides individuals and affected families
of mental illness with nonexistent or limited benefits compared to provisions for other illnesses.
(4) Experience in this state and several other states demonstrates that the risk of mental
illness can be insured at reasonable additional cost, provided...
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6-5-570
Section 6-5-570 Statement of legislative intent. It is hereby declared by the Legislature of
the State of Alabama that a crisis threatens the delivery of legal service to the people of
Alabama and that the quality of legal services which should be made available to the citizens
of this state is in jeopardy. It is the declared intent of this Legislature to insure that
quality legal services continue to be available at reasonable costs to the citizens of the
State of Alabama. This Legislature finds and declares that the increasing threat of legal
actions against legal service providers contributes to an increase in the cost of legal services
and places a heavy burden upon those who can least afford such cost and that the threat of
such legal actions contributes to the expense of providing legal services to be performed
by legal service providers which otherwise would not be considered necessary, and that the
spiraling costs and decreasing availability of essential legal services caused...
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40-18-130
Section 40-18-130 Legislative intent. It is the intent of the Legislature to institute programs
that will make Alabama more competitive with other states in the recruitment and retention
of physicians and reduce inequities that a small or rural hospital and small or rural communities
have in the funding and recruitment of physician services. (Acts 1993, No. 93-313, p. 470,
ยง1.)...
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16-60-82
Section 16-60-82 Legislative findings of fact and declaration of intent. The Legislature hereby
makes the following findings of fact and declares its intent to be as follows: The number
of students enrolled in trade schools and colleges supported wholly or in part by the state
has increased greatly during recent years. Further increases in enrollment are anticipated
because of the increased rate of births, the increased need for skilled workers and other
factors. In order to meet these needs and to provide residents of this state with the opportunity
to receive adequate instruction in the arts and sciences and in useful skills and trades,
it is imperative that junior colleges and additional trade schools be constructed, equipped
and operated. The tax revenues and other funds currently available for trade schools and junior
colleges are not sufficient to permit immediate outlays of the large amounts of capital necessary
for such construction and equipment and at the same time to permit...
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32-6-350
Section 32-6-350 Legislative intent. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an
Alabama Veteran Tag Program to recognize certain veterans. (b) The owner of a motor vehicle
who is a resident of this state and who is an eligible veteran pursuant to subsection (c)
of this section may be issued a distinctive license tag pursuant to this division. The veteran
shall make application to the judge of probate or commissioner of licenses, comply with state
motor vehicle laws relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles, pay the regular
license fee for a tag as provided by law for a private passenger or pleasure motor vehicle,
and pay an additional fee of three dollars ($3) for the initial issuance of the tag except
a Vietnam veteran's tag. In the case of a Vietnam veteran's tag, the additional fee for the
initial issuance of the tag shall be six dollars ($6), three dollars ($3) of which shall be
distributed to the Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., Alabama State Council,...
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11-92A-2
Section 11-92A-2 Legislative findings of fact and declaration of intent; construction of article.
(a) The Legislature hereby makes the following findings of fact and declares its intent to
be as follows: In recent years changes have taken place in the economy of the state that have
had a far-reaching effect on the welfare of its citizens. The agrarian economy that once prevailed
in the state and provided the principal means of livelihood for most of its citizens has proven
inadequate to provide employment for the state's growing population. The advent of mechanized
and scientific farming methods has reduced greatly the number of persons required to obtain
increased yields of agricultural products from land under cultivation. There has been a correspondingly
greater dependency upon industrial development as the bulwark of the economy of the state.
It is therefore appropriate and necessary that measures be taken to secure to the citizens
of the state the benefits of a strengthening...
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16-61C-3
Section 16-61C-3 Legislative intent - Program to augment science curriculum; administration
of program. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Alabama Science in Motion Program
shall augment the science curriculum of the public schools and be administered such that:
(1) The ASIM Program complement, enhance and facilitate the implementation of the Alabama
Course of Study: Science. (2) The State Superintendent of Education annually makes every effort
practical to expose the ASIM Program to the maximum number of students enrolled in science
coursework, regardless of the students' prior achievement levels in science or other academic
coursework. (3) Each of the core sciences covered under the ASIM Program be standardized among
the several networks, in terms of the scientific equipment that is utilized, the content of
instruction presented in the classroom and in the content and the extent of the staff development
training offered to science teachers. In the development of both the...
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5-18-2
Section 5-18-2 Legislative findings of fact and declaration of intent. (a) The Legislature
finds as facts and determines that: (1) There exists among citizens of this state a widespread
demand for small loans. The scope and intensity of this demand have been increased progressively
by many social and economic forces; (2) The expense of making and collecting small loans,
which are usually made on comparatively unsubstantial security to wage earners, salaried employees
and other persons of relatively low incomes, is necessarily high in relation to the amounts
lent; (3) Such loans cannot be made profitably under the limitations imposed by existing laws
relating to interest and usury. These limitations have tended to exclude lawful enterprises
from the small loan field. Since the demand for small loans cannot be legislated out of existence,
many small borrowers have been left to the mercy of those willing to bear the opprobrium and
risk the penalties of usury for a large profit; (4)...
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22-30E-2
Section 22-30E-2 Legislative findings; purpose and intent of chapter; establishment of voluntary
assessment and/or cleanup program for properties with potential environmental contamination.
(a) The Legislature finds that rural and urban property in Alabama may have areas of actual
or perceived contamination at levels that may not be subject to assessment or cleanup under
applicable laws and regulations. The Legislature finds that this perception of contamination
discourages the purchase and productive use of otherwise usable properties. The Legislature
further finds that the voluntary assessment and/or cleanup of such properties is in the public
interest. (b) The Legislature finds that industries and developers often give preference to
previously unused greenfield sites over previously used property due largely to concerns over
the financial and environmental liabilities which may be incurred in acquiring such previously
used property for reuse and redevelopment. The Legislature...
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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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