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22-6-163
Section 22-6-163 Legislative findings; rules; collaboration; approval of agreements and contracts;
state action immunity; confidentiality of records; additional duties. (a) The Legislature
declares that collaboration among public payers, private health carriers, third party purchasers,
and providers to identify appropriate service delivery systems and reimbursement methods in
order to align incentives in support of integrated and coordinated health care delivery is
in the best interest of the public. Collaboration pursuant to this article is to provide quality
health care at the lowest possible cost to Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The
Legislature, therefore, declares that this health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates
the foreseeable displacement of competition, such that any anti-competitive effect may be
attributed to the state's policy to displace competition in the delivery of a coordinated
system of health care for the public benefit. In furtherance of...
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29-6-7.1
Section 29-6-7.1 Legislative findings as to speech and debate; definitions; privileged and
confidential communication; waiver of privilege. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares
the following: (1) Section 56 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section
56 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, contains
a speech or debate clause virtually identical to Section 6 of Article I of the Constitution
of the United States, the federal speech and debate clause. (2) In the case of Gravel v. United
States, 408 U.S. 606, the Supreme Court of the United States held the speech and debate clause
in the Constitution of the United States makes the communications between members of the Congress
and their staff privileged and confidential. (3) The Supreme Court explained its reasoning
as follows: "[T]he day-to-day work of [legislative] aides is so critical to the Members'
performance that they must be treated as the latter's alter ego;...
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34-11-35.1
Section 34-11-35.1 Legislative findings; rulemaking authority. (a) In addition to the powers
provided to the board by Section 34-11-35, the Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The power to adopt rules regulating the practice of engineering and land surveying in
the state includes the power to prohibit unlicensed persons from practicing engineering or
land surveying and the power to regulate how licensed persons practice. (2) The primary goal
of the provision of engineering and land surveying in the state is to prioritize health, life,
safety, welfare, and property. (3) The board is in the best position to determine the engineering
and land surveying practices that prioritize health, life, safety, welfare, and property.
(4) Prioritizing health, life, safety, welfare, and property may sometimes be at odds with
the goals of state and federal antitrust laws which include prioritizing competition and efficiency.
(5) It is the intent of the Legislature, by passage of...
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34-23-92.1
Section 34-23-92.1 Legislative findings; rulemaking authority; construction of section. (a)
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The power to make rules regulating
the practice of pharmacy includes the power to prohibit unlicensed persons from practicing
pharmacy and the power to regulate how licensed persons practice pharmacy. (2) A primary goal
of the provision of health care is to prioritize patient safety and wellness. (3) The board
is in the best position to determine the practice of pharmacy that prioritizes patient safety
and wellness. (4) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to immunize
the Board of Pharmacy and its members from liability under state and federal anti-trust laws
for the adoption of a rule that prioritizes patient safety and wellness but may be anti-competitive
when the effect on public safety and wellness is clearly demonstrated and documented by the
Board of Pharmacy. (b) Subject to subsection (c), rules adopted...
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34-9-43.2
Section 34-9-43.2 Legislative findings; rulemaking authority; liability; scope. (a) The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following: (1) The power to make rules regulating the practice
of dentistry and dental hygiene includes the power to prohibit unlicensed persons from practicing
dentistry and dental hygiene and the power to regulate how licensed persons practice the same.
(2) A primary goal of the provision of health care is to prioritize patient health, safety,
and welfare. (3) The board is in the best position to determine the dental practices that
affect and prioritize the health, safety, and welfare of the public. (4) It is the intent
of the Legislature in enacting this section to immunize the board, its members, employees,
and agents from liability under state and federal anti-trust laws for the adoption of a rule
that prioritizes patient health, safety, and welfare but appears to have elements that appear
anti-competitive or have an anti-competitive effect when the...
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36-18-20
Section 36-18-20 Declaration of purpose. The Legislature hereby finds, determines and declares:
(a) That the tragic incidence of violent crime in our society is growing at an alarming rate,
and that these offenses often times are committed by repeat or habitual offenders against
our most innocent and defenseless citizens. (b) That there is a critical and urgent need to
provide law enforcement officers and agencies with the latest scientific technology available
for the purpose of identifying, apprehending, arresting, and convicting those violent offenders.
(c) That DNA testing, profiling, and analysis allows a more certain and rapid identification
of such offenders as well as the exoneration of those wrongfully suspected or accused. (d)
That genetic identification technology through DNA testing is generally accepted by the relevant
scientific community. (e) That the procedures and techniques employing the underlying theory
of DNA identification is capable of producing reliable results...
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41-27-12
Section 41-27-12 Collection and compilation of data related to incidents involving excessive
force by law enforcement officers. (a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
The preservation of human life is of the highest value in this state. (2) It is of utmost
importance that law enforcement agencies implement policies and practices to prohibit the
use of unnecessary lethal force by law enforcement officers. (3) Law enforcement officers
should be properly trained to reduce the prevalence of incidents involving excessive force.
(b) Beginning on January 1, 2018, the Alabama Criminal Justice Information System shall collect
data regarding any and all allegations of excessive force by state, county, and municipal
law enforcement officers. (c) The Alabama Criminal Justice Information System shall collect
data for all incidents, including the race of the officer and the victim or victims, specific
facts relating to the incident, whether the incident was subject to court action...
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6-5-540
Section 6-5-540 Legislative intent. It is hereby declared by the Legislature of the State of
Alabama that a crisis threatens the delivery of medical services to the people of Alabama
and the health and safety of the citizens of this state are in jeopardy. In accordance with
the previous declaration of Legislature contained in Act 513 of the Regular Session of the
1975 Alabama Legislature it is the declared intent of this Legislature to insure that quality
medical 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
for alleged medical injury causes and contributes to an increase in health care costs and
places a heavy burden upon those who can least afford such increases, and that the threat
of such actions contributes to expensive medical procedures to be performed by physicians
and other health care providers which otherwise would not be considered necessary, and...
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16-1-20.6
Section 16-1-20.6 Released time for student participation in religious instruction. (a) This
section shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Released Time Credit Act. (b) The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the United States Supreme Court, in its
decision in Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952), upheld the constitutionality of released
time programs for religious instruction for public school students during the school day.
(2) That the United States Constitution and state law allows local school districts to offer
religious released time education for the benefit of public school students. (3) That the
purpose of this section is to incorporate a constitutionally acceptable method of allowing
school districts to offer released time classes and, in grades where credit is earned, to
award students elective credit for classes taken during the school day in released time programs.
(c) As used in this section, the term released time means a period of...
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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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