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16-1-41.1
Section 16-1-41.1 School board governance improvement. (a) This section shall be known and
may be cited as the School Board Governance Improvement Act of 2012. (b) The Legislature finds
and declares all of the following: (1) That the purpose of this section is to enhance the
effectiveness of public education governance in Alabama through the establishment of training
requirements, boardsmanship standards, and accountability measures that are designed to promote
informed deliberations and decisions, to revise the qualifications for serving as a member
of a local board of education, to provide for a code of conduct for each member of a local
board of education in order to better ensure that any decision or action of a local board
of education is based on the interests of students or the system, and to foster the development
and implementation of organizational practices that are designed to promote broad support
of the public schools. (2) A local board of education is the legally...
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16-28B-8
Section 16-28B-8 Suicide prevention programs, training, and policies; advisory committee; liability.
(a) To the extent that the Legislature shall appropriate funds, or to the extent that any
local board may provide funds from other sources, each school system shall implement the following
standards and policies for programs in an effort to prevent student suicide: (1) Foster individual,
family, and group counseling services related to suicide prevention. (2) Make referral, crisis
intervention, and other related information available for students, parents, and school personnel.
(3) Foster training for school personnel who are responsible for counseling and supervising
students. (4) Increase student awareness of the relationship between drug and alcohol use
and suicide. (5) Educate students in recognizing signs of suicidal tendencies and other facts
and warning signs of suicide. (6) Inform students of available community suicide prevention
services. (7) Promote cooperative efforts...
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16-47-222
Section 16-47-222 Applications and awards; repayment of loans. (a) The board shall establish
and award, according to the judgment of the board, loans to provide for the training of qualified
applicants for admission or students in any accredited master's degree program for physician
assistant studies at a medical school or college. The board may permit eligible people to
apply for a loan under the Alabama Physician's Assistants Service Program in any scholastic
year and for any previously completed scholastic year. The board's awarding of loans shall
be done after consultation with the physician's assistant advisory committee of the Alabama
Board of Medical Examiners. (b) The board may award to an eligible person a loan or loans
totaling in value as much as the average in-state tuition and required fees charged at public
institutions in Alabama for completing on time a master's degree program for physician assistant
studies. But a loan or loans may be awarded only to people who have...
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16-5-1
Section 16-5-1 Definitions. The following terms shall have the meanings respectively prescribed
for them, except when the context otherwise requires: (1) PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
Those public educational institutions in Alabama which have been authorized by the Legislature
or by the constitution to provide formal education, including vocational, technical, collegiate,
professional or any other form of education, above the secondary school level. (2) COMMISSION.
The Alabama Commission on Higher Education created by this article. (3) INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAM.
A series of courses at any one location which culminates in a degree, certificate or other
formal recognition of academic credit. (4) UNIT. A school, college, division or institute
and includes the establishment of any new branch or campus. The term does not include reasonable
extension or alterations of existing curricula or programs which have a direct relationship
to existing programs previously approved by the...
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22-6-151
Section 22-6-151 Regional care organizations; governing board of directors; citizen's advisory
committee; solvency and financial requirements; reporting; provider standards committee. (a)
A regional care organization shall serve only Medicaid beneficiaries in providing medical
care and services. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a regional care organization
shall not be deemed an insurance company under state law. (c)(1) A regional care organization
and an organization with probationary regional care organization certification shall have
a governing board of directors composed of the following members: a. Twelve members shall
be persons representing risk-bearing participants in the regional care organization or organization
with probationary certification. A participant bears risk by contributing cash, capital, or
other assets to the regional care organization. A participant also bears risk by contracting
with the regional care organization to treat Medicaid beneficiaries...
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34-43-3
Section 34-43-3 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) ADVERTISE. Distributing a card, flier, sign, or device to any person
or organization, or allowing any sign or marking on any building, radio, television, or by
advertising by any other means designed to attract public attention. (2) BOARD. The Alabama
Board of Massage Therapy created pursuant to this chapter. (3) BOARD-APPROVED MASSAGE THERAPY
SCHOOL. A school where massage therapy is taught which is one of the following: a. If located
in Alabama is approved by the board as meeting the minimum established standards of training
and curriculum as determined by the board. b. If located outside of Alabama is recognized
by the board and by a regionally recognized professional accrediting body. c. Is a postgraduate
training institute accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Massage Therapy. (4)
ESTABLISHMENT. A site, premises, or business where massage therapy is...
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39-2-12
Section 39-2-12 Partial and final payments of contractors by awarding authorities. (a) As used
in this section the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them as follows: (1)
CONTRACTOR. Any natural person, partnership, company, firm, corporation, association, limited
liability company, cooperative, or other legal entity licensed by the Alabama State Licensing
Board for General Contractors. (2) NONRESIDENT CONTRACTOR. A contractor which is neither a.
organized and existing under the laws of the State of Alabama, nor b. maintains its principal
place of business in the State of Alabama. A nonresident contractor which has maintained a
permanent branch office within the State of Alabama for at least five continuous years shall
not thereafter be deemed to be a nonresident contractor so long as the contractor continues
to maintain a branch office within Alabama. (3) RETAINAGE. That money belonging to the contractor
which has been retained by the awarding authority conditioned on...
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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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11-91A-7
Section 11-91A-7 Jurisdiction of board; funding; powers of board. The board shall have full,
complete, and exclusive jurisdiction over the program and shall allocate funds from its treasury
for the fulfillment and accomplishment of its duties and responsibilities in a manner as may
be necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The board shall have
the general powers and authority granted under the laws of this state for health insurers,
and in addition thereto, the specific authority to do all of the following: (a) Subject to
compliance with Section 11-91A-8 where applicable, execute a contract or contracts to provide
for the administration of the program in accordance with this chapter. The contract or contracts
may be executed with one or more agencies or corporations licensed to transact or administer
group health care business in this state with similar plans of the state for the joint performance
of common administrative functions. (b) Establish, and...
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34-22-42
Section 34-22-42 Powers and duties generally. The board shall exercise and perform, subject
to this chapter, each of the following powers and duties: (1) Conduct examinations at least
once each year to ascertain the qualifications and fitness of applicants for licenses to practice
optometry. (2) Prescribe rules and regulations for conducting and administering an examination
of applicants for licensing as optometrists and to effectuate this chapter. (3) Institute,
upon a complaint or petition, hearings of charges against licensed optometrists or other persons
as provided in this chapter. (4) Institute legal proceedings for violations of this chapter.
(5) Grant and deny licenses in conformity with this chapter, including applications for approval
to use pharmaceutical agents. (6) Formulate rules and regulations by which the board shall
determine which optometry schools and colleges in or out of the State of Alabama have been
duly accredited by a recognized and properly authorized...
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