22-4-31
Section 22-4-31 Legislative findings. The Legislature does hereby set out the following findings
and reasons for passage of this article. Alabama has adopted a system of health planning and
development administered by the State Health Planning and Development Agency (SHPDA). In addition,
the Statewide Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) is charged with reviewing Alabama's health
planning needs and writing the State Health Plan to assist the Certificate of Need Review
Board. The Certificate of Need Review Board is responsible for reviewing and approving certificate
of need applications in Alabama. There is no current systematic way for the SHPDA, SHCC, or
the Certificate of Need Review Board to collect all the health care services information necessary
for proper health care planning in Alabama, because reporting to SHPDA is voluntary. The Legislature
hereby finds and determines that collection of additional health care information is necessary
for informed statewide health planning. The...
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22-57-2
Section 22-57-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
The Centers for Disease Control estimates that nationally 1 in 150 children have Autism Spectrum
Disorder (ASD). (2) Current studies indicate that ASD can often be detected by the age of
three years and in some cases as early as 18 months. (3) Early intervention can produce improved
outcomes. (4) These complex disorders are usually of lifelong duration and affect multiple
aspects of development, learning, and adaptation in the community. (5) There is an urgent
and substantial need to develop and implement a statewide comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary,
interagency system of care for individuals with ASD and their families. (Act 2009-295, p.
502, §2.)...
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22-8A-2
Section 22-8A-2 Legislative intent. The Legislature finds that competent adult persons have
the right to control the decisions relating to the rendering of their own medical care, including,
without limitation, the decision to have medical procedures, life-sustaining treatment, and
artificially provided nutrition and hydration provided, withheld, or withdrawn in instances
of terminal conditions and permanent unconsciousness. In order that the rights of individuals
may be respected even after they are no longer able to participate actively in decisions about
themselves, the Legislature hereby declares that the laws of this state shall recognize the
right of a competent adult person to make a written declaration instructing his or her physician
to provide, withhold, or withdraw life-sustaining treatment and artificially provided nutrition
and hydration or designate by lawful written form a health care proxy to make decisions on
behalf of the adult person concerning the providing,...
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24-1A-41
Section 24-1A-41 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that the effects of the global
and national recession are now affecting Alabama's housing industry and adversely affecting
the state's economic development activity. The large number of homes on the market is causing
a reduction in housing starts, resulting in fewer construction jobs and lower tax collections
from the sale of building materials. In addition, the large number of existing homes on the
market is adversely affecting the states economic recovery. The Legislature desires to provide
a stimulus to provide a boost to the housing industry and to facilitate economic development
and industrial recruitment by creating a guarantee fund that would encourage investments in
new thirty-year, fixed-rate conventional mortgage loans through a program administered by
the Alabama Housing Finance Authority. The guarantee fund will reduce the investor's potential
for losses. (Act 2009-284, p. 487,§2.)...
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25-11-2
Section 25-11-2 Legislative findings and intent. The Legislature finds that individuals need
to take more personal responsibility for their actions. The Legislature further finds that
certain individuals are not meeting their legal child support obligations. It is the express
intent of the Legislature that individuals with legal child support obligations be located
and required to take financial responsibility for their children by paying these child support
obligations. A "new hire" reporting procedure shall require employers to obtain
certain information from newly hired, recalled, or rehired individuals. This information shall
be reported to the Department of Labor which shall form a State Directory of New Hires and
the information shall be used by the Department of Human Resources to cross-match these individuals
with individuals having outstanding legal child support obligations. The Legislature further
finds that there are certain individuals being overpaid unemployment...
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26-16-111
Section 26-16-111 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares all the following:
(1) Protection of the health and welfare of the infants of this state is a goal of its people
and the unexpected or unexplained death of an infant is an important public health concern
that requires legislative action. (2) Death scene investigations and findings thereof can
be particularly important in accurately diagnosing the manners and causes of infant deaths.
(3) Collecting accurate data on the cause and manner of unexpected infant deaths will better
enable the state to protect infants from preventable deaths and will help reduce the incidence
of infant deaths. (Act 2011-705, p. 2184, §2.)...
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26-16-90
Section 26-16-90 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares that: Every child
is entitled to live in safety and in health and to survive into adulthood; there are concerns
about the adequacy of efforts in this state to identify deaths; and recognizing that no single
agency or person is responsible, that multidisciplinary, multiagency child death review teams
are methods of achieving the state policy. (Act 97-893, p. 252, §1.)...
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26-23B-2
Section 26-23B-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes all of the following findings:
(1) Pain receptors (nociceptors) are present throughout the unborn child's entire body by
no later than 16 weeks after fertilization and nerves link these receptors to the brain's
thalamus and subcortical plate by no later than 20 weeks. (2) By eight weeks after fertilization,
the unborn child reacts to touch. After 20 weeks, the unborn child reacts to stimuli that
would be recognized as painful if applied to an adult human, for example by recoiling. (3)
For the purposes of surgery on unborn children, fetal anesthesia is routinely administered
and is associated with a decrease in stress hormones compared to their level when painful
stimuli is applied without such anesthesia. (4) In the unborn child, application of such painful
stimuli is associated with significant increases in stress hormones known as the stress response.
(5) Subjection to such painful stimuli is associated with long-term...
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29-2-270
Section 29-2-270 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following findings and statements:
(1) The reduction of the dependence on foreign oil is necessary to preserve and protect our
national security. (2) Reliable, plentiful, and affordable energy and the effective distribution
of energy are vital to the support and growth of all sectors of Alabama's economy. (3) The
future energy needs of the state also present unique opportunities to diversify the state's
energy supply and provide new opportunities for agriculturally based products and Alabama
based clean energy technologies. (4) Energy derived from agriculturally and forest based products
offers the potential to expand rural and economic development in Alabama. (5) Increasing the
efficiency of existing technology combined with the development of new technologies, including
coal gasification, coal liquification, advanced coal-based generation, and nuclear power,
should be encouraged as ways of producing more energy with...
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3-6A-2
Section 3-6A-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that certain dogs are an increasingly
serious and widespread threat to the safety and welfare of citizens of this state by virtue
of their unjustified attacks on and associated injury to individuals; that these attacks are
in part attributable to the failure of owners to confine and properly train and control these
dogs; that existing laws inadequately address this problem; and that it is therefore appropriate
and necessary to impose a uniform set of state requirements on the owners of dangerous dogs.
(Act 2018-182, §2.)...
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