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41-18-1
Section 41-18-1 Text. Article I. Findings and Purposes. (a) The party states find that the
South has a sense of community based on common social, cultural and economic needs and fostered
by a regional tradition. There are vast potentialities for mutual improvement of each state
in the region by cooperative planning for the development, conservation and efficient utilization
of human and natural resources in a geographic area large enough to afford a high degree of
flexibility in identifying and taking maximum advantage of opportunities for healthy and beneficial
growth. The independence of each state and the special needs of subregions are recognized
and are to be safeguarded. Accordingly, the cooperation resulting from this agreement is intended
to assist the states in meeting their own problems by enhancing their abilities to recognize
and analyze regional opportunities and take account of regional influences in planning and
implementing their public policies. (b) The purposes of...
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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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34-24-401
Section 34-24-401 Authority of board to contract for Physician Wellness Committee to undertake
certain functions. The Board of Medical Examiners shall have the authority to enter into an
agreement with a nonprofit corporation or medical professional association for the Alabama
Physician Wellness Committee to undertake those functions and responsibilities specified in
the agreement. Such functions and responsibilities may include any or all of the following:
(1) Contracting with providers of treatment programs; (2) Receiving and evaluating reports
of suspected impairment from any source; (3) Intervening in cases of verified impairment;
(4) Referring impaired physicians to treatment programs; (5) Monitoring the treatment and
rehabilitation of impaired physicians; (6) Providing post-treatment monitoring and support
of rehabilitated impaired physicians; and (7) Performing such other activities as agreed upon
by the Board of Medical Examiners and the Alabama Physician Wellness Committee....
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34-18-41
Section 34-18-41 Appointment. The Alabama Association of Medical Technicians, through its executive
committee, shall submit to the Governor a list containing the names of two regular physicians
who are properly qualified as to training, licensure, and ethical standing, two physician-pathologists
who are listed by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association
and six medical technicians who, in addition to two years' college instruction, shall have
completed a full internship in a school of training listed and approved by the Council on
Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, or approved by the Alabama
State Board of Censors, or who, prior to the time of appointment, had served an apprenticeship
instruction of at least one year under a qualified physician-pathologist, and who shall have
been engaged in medical technology for not less than five years after completion of training;
and the Governor shall appoint the members...
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22-2-8
Section 22-2-8 State Health Officer. The State Committee of Public Health shall elect an executive
officer who shall be a physician licensed in the State of Alabama to be known as the State
Health Officer and shall fix his term of office and salary. The qualifications of this individual
shall be determined by the State Committee of Public Health. Before entering upon the duties
of his office, the State Health Officer shall execute to the State of Alabama a bond, to be
approved by the Governor, in the amount of $5,000.00, for the faithful performance of his
duties. The State Health Officer so elected shall, under the direction of the State Committee
of Public Health and with the approval of the State Personnel Board, fix the salaries of the
medical employees of the State Committee of Public Health. When the State Committee of Public
Health is not in session, the State Health Officer, as executive officer of the Department
of Public Health, shall act for said committee and shall have and...
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34-24-400
Section 34-24-400 Identification, treatment, etc., of impaired physicians; Alabama Physician
Wellness Committee; funding. It shall be the duty and obligation of the State Board of Medical
Examiners to promote the early identification, intervention, treatment, and rehabilitation
of physicians and osteopaths licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama who may
be impaired by reason of illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol,
chemicals, or other substances or as a result of any physical or mental condition. For the
purposes of this article the term "impaired" shall mean the inability of a physician
or osteopath to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients by reason of
illness, inebriation, excessive use of drugs, narcotics, alcohol, chemicals, or other substances
or as a result of any physical or mental condition. In order to carry out this obligation
the State Board of Medical Examiners is hereby empowered to contract with any...
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34-24-58
Section 34-24-58 Decisions, opinions, etc., of utilization review committee privileged. (a)
The decisions, opinions, actions and proceedings rendered, entered or acted upon in good faith
and without malice and on the basis of facts reasonably known or reasonably believed to exist
of any committee of physicians or surgeons, acting as a committee of the Medical Association
of the State of Alabama, or any state, county, or municipal medical association or society,
or as a committee of any licensed hospital or clinic, or the medical staff thereof, undertaken
or performed within the scope and function of such committee as legally defined herein shall
be privileged, and no member thereof shall be liable for such decision, opinion, action, or
proceeding. (b) Within the words and meaning of this section, a committee shall include one
formed or appointed as a utilization review committee, or similar committee, or committee
of similar purpose, to evaluate or review the diagnosis or treatment or...
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22-6-121
Section 22-6-121 Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee - Composition; meetings. (a)
The Alabama Medicaid Agency shall utilize a Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee within
the agency for the purpose of advising and assisting Medicaid in the development of a preferred
drug plan pursuant to 42 U.S.C. ยง1396r-8. (b) The Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
shall be comprised and consist of three clinical pharmacists licensed to practice in the State
of Alabama and at least five physicians licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama.
Physician members will be appointed by the Medicaid Commissioner from a list of at least two
nominees for each position submitted by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. Clinical
pharmacist members will be nominated by the Alabama Pharmacy Association and appointed by
the Medicaid Commissioner. Members of the Medicaid Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee should
be enrolled Medicaid providers and have experience...
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25-5-311
Section 25-5-311 Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board; creation, members, functions.
There is established a Workers' Compensation Medical Services Board composed of five physicians
licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama who shall be appointed by the Secretary
of the Department of Labor. The initial board shall be selected from a list of 15 physicians
who are members of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, submitted by the association.
Members of the board shall serve terms of five years. In order that the appointments be staggered,
one member shall serve an initial term of six years, one member shall serve an initial term
of two years, one member shall serve an initial term of three years, one member shall serve
an initial term of four years, and the remaining member shall serve an initial term of five
years. Thereafter, successors shall be appointed by the secretary from among a list of three
nominees submitted by the Medical Association of the State...
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6-5-549.1
Section 6-5-549.1 Limits of liability insurance coverage in legal action against health care
providers; testimony of health care providers as specialists. (a) This section and Sections
6-5-548 and 6-5-549 shall be known and may be cited as "The Alabama Medical Liability
Act of 1996." (b) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds and declares that a crisis
continues to threaten the delivery and availability of medical services to the people of Alabama
and the health and safety of the citizens of this state are in jeopardy as a result of this
crisis. In accordance with the previous declarations of the Legislature of Alabama in Sections
6-5-480 to 6-5-488, inclusive, 27-26-1 to 27-26-4, inclusive, and 27-26-20 to 27-26-43, inclusive,
and Sections 6-5-540 to 6-5-552, inclusive, it is the declared intent of this Legislature
to ensure that quality medical services continue to be available at reasonable costs to the
citizens of the State of Alabama. The continuing and ever increasing...
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