31-12A-1
Section 31-12A-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature recognizes the importance of active military personnel, veterans, and military facilities to the well-being, safety, and economic development of the State of Alabama. The Legislature further recognizes and finds that discharged service members leave the military with documented training and experience that can prepare them for civilian employment; however, this documentation is not always able to result in qualifying them for licenses required for their occupation or providing them with academic credit. By providing for expedited licensure and increased academic credit recognition for a service member's military training and experience, the state can help promote the employment of veterans. (Act 2013-350, p. 1255, §1.)...
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22-18-50
Section 22-18-50 Enactment and text of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient care related activities all states license emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, such as emergency medical technicians (EMTs), advanced EMTs and paramedics. This Compact is intended to facilitate the day to day movement of EMS personnel across state boundaries in the performance of their EMS duties as assigned by an appropriate authority and authorize state EMS offices to afford immediate legal recognition to EMS personnel licensed in a member state. This Compact recognizes that states have a vested interest in protecting the public's health and safety...
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16-44B-1
Section 16-44B-1 Compact. ARTICLE I PURPOSE It is the purpose of this compact to remove barriers to education success imposed on children of military families because of frequent moves and deployment of their parents by: A. Facilitating the timely enrollment of children of military families and ensuring that they are not placed at a disadvantage due to difficulty in the transfer of education records from the previous school district(s) or variations in entrance/age requirements. B. Facilitating the student placement process through which children of military families are not disadvantaged by variations in attendance requirements, scheduling, sequencing, grading, course content or assessment. C. Facilitating the qualification and eligibility for enrollment, educational programs, and participation in extracurricular academic, athletic, and social activities. D. Facilitating the on-time graduation of children of military families. E. Providing for the promulgation and enforcement of...
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41-15B-2.2
Section 41-15B-2.2 Allocation of trust fund revenues. (a) For each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues and upon appropriation by the Legislature, an amount of up to and including two hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($225,000), or equivalent percentage of the total fund, shall be designated for the administration of the fund by the council and the Commissioner of Children's Affairs. (b) For the each fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1999, contingent upon the Children First Trust Fund receiving tobacco revenues, the remainder of the Children First Trust Fund, in the amounts provided for in Section 41-15B-2.1, shall be allocated as follows: (1) Ten percent of the fund shall be allocated to the Department of Public Health for distribution to one or more of the following: a. The Children's Health Insurance Program. b. Programs for tobacco control among children with the purpose being to reduce the consumption...
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31-5-7
Section 31-5-7 State Service Commissioner - Duties generally; compensation. (a) The State Service Commissioner shall submit to the State Board of Veterans' Affairs for its approval an annual budget of all funds appropriated by the Legislature to the department for the specific purposes for which they are appropriated, and also a budget of any federal funds which may be allotted to the state by the federal government for the purposes of the department according to the regulations of the federal authorities. He shall publish annually a full report of the operations and administration of the department, together with recommendations and suggestions, and submit such report to the state board. (b) It shall be the duty of the state commissioner to: (1) Prepare detailed plans for, and fully develop, a comprehensive statewide veterans' assistance program. (2) Cooperate with all other heads of the state departments in coordinating the plans and programs of state agencies which may properly be...
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40-18-324
Section 40-18-324 Duties and procedures. (a) The Department of Labor, in coordination with the Department of Revenue, the Department of Economic and Community Affairs, and the Department of Veterans' Affairs shall: (1) Promote awareness of the unemployed veteran tax credit authorized in this article to employers and eligible veterans. (2) Establish procedures for prequalifying an individual as an unemployed veteran and for providing notice to the Department of Labor when a new full-time employee is hired. (3) Establish procedures for certifying a qualified employer's compliance, or in the case of a credit under subsection (b) of Section 40-18-323, a recently deployed unemployed veteran's compliance, with the eligibility and expense verification requirements to claim the credit authorized under this section. (4) Adopt measurable goals, outcomes, and an audit strategy to assess the utilization and performance of the credits authorized in this article. (5) On or before January 15, 2014,...
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41-29-331
Section 41-29-331 Definitions. For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) APPRENTICE. A worker who is at least 16 years of age, except where a higher minimum age standard is otherwise fixed by law, who is employed to learn an apprenticeable occupation as provided in 29 C.F.R. Part 29.4. (2) APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENT. A written agreement between an apprentice and either the apprenticeship program sponsor, or an apprenticeship committee acting as agent for the apprenticeship program sponsor or sponsors, which contains the terms and conditions of the employment and training of the apprentice in conformance with 29 C.F.R., Subtitle A, Part 29 and Section 40-18-421. (3) APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. A plan containing all terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment, selection, employment, and training of apprentices, as required under the federal guidelines in 29 C.F.R., Subtitle A, Parts 29 and 30, U.S.C. §50, for apprenticeship...
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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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16-64-2
Section 16-64-2 Requirements for qualification as resident student; rules and guidelines. (a) For purposes of admission and tuition, a public institution of higher education may consider that the term resident student includes any of the following: (1) One who, at the time of registration, is not a minor and satisfies one of the following: a. Is a full-time permanent employee of the institution at which the student is registering or is the spouse of such an employee. b. Can verify full-time permanent employment within the State of Alabama or is the spouse of such an employee and will commence the employment within 90 days of registration with the institution. c. Is employed as a graduate assistant or fellow by the institution at which the student is registering. d. Is an accredited member of or the spouse of an accredited member of a consular staff assigned to duties in Alabama. e. Is in a program or takes courses within an interstate consortium of colleges or universities that either...
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41-29-1
Section 41-29-1 Creation; composition; support. (a)(1) There is hereby created the Department of Commerce within the office of the Governor and directly under his or her supervision and control. The Department of Commerce shall be headed by the Secretary of Commerce, who shall be a person possessed with extensive responsible experience in development of economic, human, and physical resources and promotion of industrial and commercial development. The secretary shall be appointed by the Governor and serve at his or her pleasure at a salary of any reasonable amount not to exceed by forty thousand dollars ($40,000) the highest authorized salary for employees of the Department of Commerce who are subject to the Merit System law. In fixing such salary, the Governor shall give due consideration of the salaries of comparable positions in other states and in private industry. All other employees necessary to carry out the duties and functions of the Department of Commerce shall be employed...
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