22-6-233
Section 22-6-233 Legislative findings; certification of collaborators; powers of Medicaid Agency; state action immunity. (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 this goal, the Legislature declares its intent...
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40-1-50
Section 40-1-50 Reporting requirements of state agencies administering economic tax incentives. (a) For the purpose of this section, the term economic tax incentive shall mean any tax credits, deductions, exemptions, abatements, preferential rates, or rebates given as an economic incentive. For the purpose of this section, the term economic incentive shall mean an inducement provided by the government, where the government promises to forgo tax revenues to which it is otherwise entitled or to provide some other benefit to an individual or an entity and in exchange the individual or entity promises to take specific action that contributes to economic development. In order for the Legislature to get accurate and complete information regarding the costs and benefits of economic tax incentives, each state agency that administers an economic tax incentive shall annually report the information required herein to the Legislature. (b) The head of each state agency that administers any economic...
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41-23-121
Section 41-23-121 Powers of office. The office shall have the following powers to: (1) Ensure that assets and needs of water transportation and intermodal infrastructure are properly considered and reflected in the state's comprehensive transportation and strategic planning policies. (2) Assist and coordinate with public and private entities in the development of the state's rivers, ports, harbors, and intermodal facilities. (3) Coordinate with the Coalition of Alabama Waterway Associations and other interests to formulate recommendations on annual budget requirements for federal waterway projects, infrastructure development, and related needs. (4) Coordinate with each of Alabama's individual waterway associations to promote the continued development, maintenance, and multiple use benefits of federally maintained navigation channels within the state and to market the benefits of improved water transportation. (5) Coordinate with local and state development agencies to ensure a better...
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6-5-333
Section 6-5-333 Dentists, chiropractors, and physicians serving on utilization and quality control committees, peer review committees, or professional standards review committees; consultants thereto and employees thereof; dental, chiropractic and medical societies and associations; appeal to Alabama Dental Association; confidentiality. (a) Any dentist, chiropractor, or physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama who serves on a peer review or a utilization and quality control committee or professional standards review committee or a similar committee or a committee of similar purpose or any dentist, physician, chiropractor, or individual who serves as a consultant or employee to one of said committees established either by a dental society or dental association or by a chiropractic society or chiropractic association or by a state medical association or county medical society to review any aspect of dental care, chiropractic care, or medical care at the request of a government...
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22-10C-3
Section 22-10C-3 (Effective until September 30, 2021, unless extended by the Legislature.) Purpose; meetings; reports; compensation. (a) The goal of the commission is to coordinate research and distribute funding for research on the study of tick borne illness in Alabama and to make suggestions for the treatment of and reduction and eradication of tick borne illness in the state. Research may include methods of prevention, treatment, surveillance, diagnosis, risk prediction, outreach, and intervention of tick borne illness. The commission may not issue any recommendation that would create or define standards for the practice of medicine. (b) Upon adjournment of the 2016 Regular Legislative Session, the commission shall schedule an initial meeting to organize and discuss a plan of action and create criteria and an application process for awarding research funds appropriated to the commission for such purposes, and the commission shall meet as necessary thereafter to achieve its goals....
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22-27-49
Section 22-27-49 Moratorium on issuance of permits. (a) For the purpose of evaluating solid waste management problems facing the state and to allow for the development of comprehensive plans to identify and provide for the state's solid waste management needs, there is hereby imposed a moratorium on the issuance by the Department of Environmental Management of any new or modified permits or transfers of existing permits for solid waste management facilities which receive or are intended to receive wastes not generated by the permittee. Said moratorium shall not apply to industrial landfills receiving waste generated in state only by the permittee. Modifications for the limited purposes of changing liner and leachate collection design, changes in waste streams from within the facility's designated service area, changes in sequence of fill, and changes to incorporate new technology, or changes intended to bring a facility into compliance with statutes and regulations are specifically...
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24-7-6
Section 24-7-6 Contract with government for loans and contributions; state to provide services, accept dedications, etc., on behalf of authority without charge. (a) The authority shall endeavor to secure a contract with the government for loans and annual contributions covering one or more projects comprising units of low-rent housing and to develop and administer such projects, each of which shall be located within the operating area of the Mowa Choctaw reservation. (b) During the period commencing with the date of acquisition of any part of the site or sites of any project and continuing so long as either such project is owned by a public body or governmental agency and is used for low-rent housing purposes, or any contract between the authority and the government for loans or annual contributions, or both, in connection with such projects remain unpaid, whichever period is the longest, the state without cost or charge to the authority or the tenants of such project shall: (1)...
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31-9-87
Section 31-9-87 Alabama Statewide Emergency Notification System Fund. (a) Funds shall be appropriated by the Legislature to the Alabama Statewide Emergency Notification System Fund within the recovery fund for the purposes of establishing, implementing, maintaining, and operating the system, and, thereafter, shall be appropriated annually by the Legislature for continuous maintenance and operation of the system. Funding for the system may also be derived from gifts, federal grants, other appropriations from the Legislature, fees and contributions from users, or any other sources permitted by law. Any disbursement from the Alabama Statewide Emergency Notification System Fund shall be authorized in advance by the committee. (b) Within three months after the Legislature appropriates funds for the system, the committee and the State Emergency Management Agency shall jointly develop requirements and specifications for the system. The State Emergency Management Agency shall provide...
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40-2B-2
Section 40-2B-2 Alabama Tax Tribunal. (a) Statement of Purpose. To increase public confidence in the fairness of the state tax system, the state shall provide an independent agency with tax expertise to resolve disputes between the Department of Revenue and taxpayers, prior to requiring the payment of the amounts in issue or the posting of a bond, but after the taxpayer has had a full opportunity to attempt settlement with the Department of Revenue based, among other things, on the hazards of litigation. By establishing an independent Alabama Tax Tribunal within the executive branch of government, this chapter provides taxpayers with a means of resolving controversies that insures both the appearance and the reality of due process and fundamental fairness. The tax tribunal shall provide hearings in all tax matters, except those specified by statute, and render decisions and orders relating thereto. A tax tribunal hearing shall be commenced by the filing of a notice of appeal protesting...
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41-17A-6
Section 41-17A-6 Green Fleets Review Committee. (a) In order to ensure compliance with the goals outlined in Section 41-17A-4, as well as to monitor the actions outlined in Section 41-17A-5, a Green Fleets Review Committee is created. The Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Energy will appoint the members of the Green Fleets Review Committee. The membership of the committee shall reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural and economic diversity of the state. The Chair of the Green Fleets Review Committee may create advisory subcommittees and appoint members thereto, which may include members of the Green Fleets Review Committee, representatives from governmental agencies, and members of the public with interest and expertise in the objectives of the committee. The Green Fleets Review Committee shall create no more than two active advisory subcommittees at any given time unless the committee votes unanimously for additional subcommittees. (b) The committee shall thereafter...
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