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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41-10-391
Section 41-10-391 Legislative findings of fact and declaration of intent; construction of article. The Legislature hereby makes the following findings of fact and declares its intent to be: Supercomputer technology is expected to have a significant impact on the research capabilities of research institutions, governmental agencies and private industries. The police power of the state authorizes the state to promote the prosperity and general welfare of its citizens. The development of supercomputer technology will greatly enhance research capabilities of the state's major research institutions and governmental agencies, and will attract industry to the state. For these reasons, it is the intent of the Legislature by the passage of this article to exercise its police power to authorize the incorporation by the Governor, the Director of Finance, the Secretary of the Alabama Department of Commerce, the Lieutenant Governor and the Speaker of the House, of a public corporation for the...
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6-12-1
Section 6-12-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds as follows: (1) Cigarette smoking presents serious public health concerns to the state and to the citizens of the state. The Surgeon General has determined that smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases, and that there are hundreds of thousands of tobacco-related deaths in the United States each year. These diseases most often do not appear until many years after the person in question begins smoking. (2) Cigarette smoking also presents serious financial concerns for the state. Under certain health care programs, the state may have a legal obligation to provide medical assistance to eligible persons for health conditions associated with cigarette smoking, and those persons may have a legal entitlement to receive such medical assistance. (3) Under these programs, the state pays millions of dollars each year to provide medical assistance for these persons for health conditions associated...
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16-17A-18
Section 16-17A-18 Legislative findings. In support of and in furtherance of the powers granted in Section 16-17A-8, the Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following: (1) Authorities organized under this chapter and its university affiliates are performing essential public functions on behalf of the state, the sponsoring university, and other governmental entities in the state. (2) The nature and scope of the powers conferred on authorities and their university affiliates by this chapter are such as may compel each authority and each university affiliate, in the course of exercising its powers or by virtue of such exercise of such powers, to engage in activities itself or in collaboration with public or private entities and individuals that may be characterized as anticompetitive or may result in the acquisition or maintenance of monopoly power within the meaning of state and federal antitrust laws or otherwise may have the effect of displacing competition in the provision...
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37-14-30
Section 37-14-30 Declaration of findings and policy; relationship to 1984 act. The Legislature of the State of Alabama has investigated the economic, financial and environmental impact associated with the potential for duplication of electric distribution facilities used for the furnishing of retail electric service. It has been determined that with respect to retail electric sales, the benefit normally associated with competition between two or more entities for customers is outweighed by the tremendous cost burden which must be borne by such customers associated with the maintenance of two or more duplicate sets of facilities. It is the further finding of the legislature that the existence of duplicate facilities for the furnishing of electricity at retail is not in the public interest because of the adverse impact which such duplication has on environmental and aesthetic values and on safety. It is therefore declared that the policy of the State of Alabama is to ensure effective,...
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22-6-191
Section 22-6-191 Legislative intent. The intent of this article is to allow the only PACE provider in the State of Alabama to continue to provide services to nursing home eligible patients as the PACE program provides treatment to patients for fewer federal and state taxpayer dollars than other programs existing in the state. The Legislature declares that this article is broad-based in nature as the assessment herein is imposed on all health care or services in the class of providers and is uniformly imposed across all providers. The Legislature further declares that the entire PACE industry in Alabama exists only in Class 2 municipalities. The Legislature further recognizes that a Class 2 municipality bill is a general bill under the Alabama Constitution. (Act 2014-126, p. 236, §2.)...
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36-25-2
Section 36-25-2 Legislative findings and declarations; purpose of chapter. (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (1) It is essential to the proper operation of democratic government that public officials be independent and impartial. (2) Governmental decisions and policy should be made in the proper channels of the governmental structure. (3) No public office should be used for private gain other than the remuneration provided by law. (4) It is important that there be public confidence in the integrity of government. (5) The attainment of one or more of the ends set forth in this subsection is impaired whenever there exists a conflict of interest between the private interests of a public official or a public employee and the duties of the public official or public employee. (6) The public interest requires that the law protect against such conflicts of interest and establish appropriate ethical standards with respect to the conduct of public officials and public employees in...
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41-10-720
Section 41-10-720 Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following findings: (1) At any given time, the level of activity in our construction industry is a primary yardstick for measuring the overall economic health of this country and this state, and that the success and stability of the building, manufacturing, and commercial businesses are dependent upon a sufficient supply of skilled artisans and craft persons who can produce quality products that inspire public confidence. The State of Alabama and the nation has a great need for a program that provides for the recruitment of, and training programs and opportunities for, new construction craft trade workers. It is desirable and in the public interest to establish a public authority at the state level to create and implement such a program. (2) The passage of a federal economic stimulus package provides substantial funding for significant new highway, road, bridge, and public infrastructure projects, and the Legislature...
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22-30A-1
Section 22-30A-1 Legislative findings; purpose and intent of chapter. The Legislature finds that hazardous substances have been treated, stored or disposed of at sites which are inactive or abandoned and that such sites have the potential for deleterious impacts on groundwater, human health or the environment. The Legislature, therefore, declares that it is in the public interest to assure that such sites are identified and that action is taken to provide for the cleanup and rehabilitation of such sites within the State of Alabama. The Legislature intends that funds provided under this chapter be used primarily to clean up and rehabilitate sites not qualified for or unlikely to receive funding under the Federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.) but that the funds provided under this chapter may also be used to provide state matching funds for cleanups and for operation and maintenance of sites which have completed...
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22-30-2
Section 22-30-2 Legislative findings; purpose and intent of chapter. The Legislature finds that the generation and management of hazardous waste is a continuing problem. Further, that without adequate safeguards, the generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal of such wastes can create conditions which threaten human health or the environment. The Legislature, therefore, declares that in order to minimize and control any such hazardous conditions, it is in the public interest to establish and to maintain a statewide program, administered by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, to provide for the safe management of hazardous wastes. It is the intent of the Legislature that the Alabama Department of Environmental Management seek and retain authorization to operate the State Hazardous Waste Management Program. It is also the intent of the Legislature that the rules, regulations, guidelines and criteria promulgated under authority of this chapter encourage...
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