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41-9-1061
Section 41-9-1061 Purposes, duties. (a) The commission shall study the conditions, needs, issues,
and problems of the criminal justice system in Alabama as it affects girls and women by conducting
walk through inspections of each of the women's correctional facilities and female youth facilities
and shall have unimpeded access to all documents of public record produced, used, and maintained
by entities of the criminal justice system to assess the needs of the beneficiary population
and to assess the impact of the commission's recommendations. (b) The commission shall conduct
beneficiary panels and focus groups to assess needs of the beneficiary population to ensure
the responsiveness and accountability of the criminal justice system. (c) In conducting such
study, the commission shall study best practices regarding women victims and offenders in
Alabama and other states and shall elicit views from experts in the field of criminal justice,
drug treatment, and domestic violence. (d) The...
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41-9-1060
Section 41-9-1060 Creation; composition; meetings. (a) The Commission on Girls and Women in
the Criminal Justice System is created. (b) The commission shall be composed of all of the
following members: (1) Three members of each house, to be appointed by the presiding officer
in each house. One member of each house shall be designated the co-chairperson of the commission.
(2) The Director of the Board of Pardons and Paroles or his or her designee. (3) The Commissioner
of the Department of Corrections or his or her designee. (4) The Executive Director of the
Alabama Department of Youth Services or his or her designee. (5) The Commissioner of the Department
of Human Resources or his or her designee. (6) The Commissioner of the Department of Mental
Health or his or her designee. (7) The Executive Director of the Alabama Sentencing Commission
or his or her designee. (8) The State Health Officer of the Alabama Department of Public Health
or his or her designee. (9) The Chancellor of...
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16-1-24.2
Section 16-1-24.2 Department of Education to develop statewide violence prevention program.
(a) For purposes of this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) GUIDANCE COUNSELING PROCEDURES. Procedures providing planned, sequential activities and
services designed to help all students develop skills in the areas of personal and social
growth, educational planning, and career and vocational development. (2) LAW-RELATED EDUCATION.
Education which provides children and youth with the knowledge and skills pertaining to the
law, the legal process, school safety, and citizenship responsibilities to promote law-abiding
behavior with the purpose to prevent children and youth from engaging in delinquency or violence
and enable them to become productive citizens. (b) The Department of Education shall develop
a statewide violence prevention program using such resources as law-related education and
guidance counseling procedures to develop violence prevention...
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16-1-16.1
Section 16-1-16.1 Alabama Council on Family and Children. (a) The Legislature finds that there
is at present a need in Alabama to coordinate, at the state and local level, the efforts of
existing providers of services supporting early childhood development and family involvement
in education. (b) There is hereby established the Alabama Council on Family and Children to
be composed of the Governor, who shall be chairperson; the State Superintendent of Education;
the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources; the State Health Officer; the Commissioner
of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation; the Chairman of the Children's
Trust Fund; and the Director of the Department of Youth Services, or their designated representatives,
and one additional member from each congressional district to be appointed by the Governor.
Said council shall exist for the purpose of coordinating existing services, at the state and
local level, supporting early childhood development and...
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12-15-215
Section 12-15-215 Disposition of delinquent children or children in need of supervision generally.
(a) If the juvenile court finds on proof beyond a reasonable doubt, based upon competent,
material, and relevant evidence, that a child committed the acts by reason of which the child
is alleged to be delinquent or in need of supervision, it may proceed immediately to hear
evidence as to whether the child is in need of care or rehabilitation and to file its findings
thereon. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a finding that the child has committed
an act which constitutes a felony is sufficient to sustain a finding that the child is in
need of care or rehabilitation. If the juvenile court finds that the child is not in need
of care or rehabilitation, it shall dismiss the proceedings and discharge the child from any
detention or other temporary care theretofore ordered. If the juvenile court finds that the
child is in need of care or rehabilitation, it may make any of the...
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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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26-24-30
Section 26-24-30 Alabama Children's Policy Council. (a) The Alabama Children's Policy Council
is hereby created and shall consist of the following members: Three appointees from business
and industry made by the Governor; the Lieutenant Governor; the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
two members of the Alabama Senate, one appointed by the Lieutenant Governor and one appointed
by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; two members of the House of Representatives appointed
by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Alabama; the legal advisor to the Governor; the Attorney General; the President of the Juvenile
and Family Court Judges' Association; the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections; the
President of the District Attorneys' Association; the President of the Chief Juvenile Probation
Officers' Association; the Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources; the Administrative
Director of Courts; the Secretary of the...
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41-29-331
Section 41-29-331 Definitions. For the purposes of this division, the following terms shall
have the following meanings: (1) APPRENTICE. A worker who is at least 16 years of age, except
where a higher minimum age standard is otherwise fixed by law, who is employed to learn an
apprenticeable occupation as provided in 29 C.F.R. Part 29.4. (2) APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENT.
A written agreement between an apprentice and either the apprenticeship program sponsor, or
an apprenticeship committee acting as agent for the apprenticeship program sponsor or sponsors,
which contains the terms and conditions of the employment and training of the apprentice in
conformance with 29 C.F.R., Subtitle A, Part 29 and Section 40-18-421. (3) APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAM. A plan containing all terms and conditions for the qualification, recruitment, selection,
employment, and training of apprentices, as required under the federal guidelines in 29 C.F.R.,
Subtitle A, Parts 29 and 30, U.S.C. ยง50, for apprenticeship...
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34-39-3
Section 34-39-3 Definitions. In this chapter, the following terms shall have the respective
meanings provided in this section unless the context clearly requires a different meaning:
(1) ASSOCIATION. The Alabama Occupational Therapy Association. (2) BOARD. The Alabama State
Board of Occupational Therapy. (3) LICENSE. A valid and current certificate of registration
issued by the Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy. (4) OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY. a. The
practice of occupational therapy means the therapeutic use of occupations, including everyday
life activities with individuals, groups, populations, or organizations to support participation,
performance, and function in roles and situations in home, school, workplace, community, and
other settings. Occupational therapy services are provided for habilitation, rehabilitation,
and the promotion of health and wellness to those who have or are at risk for developing an
illness, injury, disease, disorder, condition, impairment, disability,...
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16-6G-5
Section 16-6G-5 Reading and intervention programs; individual reading improvement plan; summer
reading camps; Alabama Summer Achievement Program; retention of students; reporting requirements.
(a) To ensure that public school students are able to read at or above grade level by the
end of third grade, each local education agency shall offer a comprehensive core reading program
to all students based on the science of reading which develops foundational reading skills.
In addition, no school district may use any curriculum for public K-3 students that does not
have instructional time included. (b) Based on the results of the reading assessment in Section
16-6G-3, each K-3 student who exhibits a reading deficiency, or the characteristics of dyslexia,
shall be provided an appropriate reading intervention program to address his or her specific
deficiencies. Additionally, students shall be evaluated after every grading period and, if
a student is determined to have a reading deficiency, the...
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