12-25-31.1
Section 12-25-31.1 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature finds the Alabama Sentencing Commission
has followed the directives of the Legislature in this article, to develop and recommend to
the Legislature a discretionary sentencing structure designed to protect public safety by
providing a fair, effective, and efficient criminal sentencing system for this state by doing
all of the following: (1) By developing a system of statewide voluntary sentencing standards
and worksheets for use in felony cases for 26 felony offenses representing 87 percent of all
felony convictions in Alabama over a five-year period. (2) By taking into account historical
sentencing data concerning time imposed and other factors that, after analysis of historical
data, appear to be relevant in determining both the duration and disposition of sentences
in the applicable felony cases. (3) By basing the voluntary sentencing standards on historical
sentencing practices adjusted to achieve sentencing goals as...
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16-36-71
Section 16-36-71 Qualified depository for textbooks. (a) A qualified depository of textbooks
shall be responsible for receiving textbook orders from the State Board of Education or local
boards of education, storing sufficient quantities of textbooks, and distributing textbooks
in accordance with this article. (b) A qualified depository shall do all of the following:
(1) Have sufficient warehouse space to maintain sufficient stock. (2) Be located within the
state. (3) Have the financial capacity to provide steady and continuous operations upon which
the State Board of Education and local boards of education can rely. The financial capacity
may be maintained in a qualified depository or in another member of the same Alabama affiliated
group, as that term is defined in Section 40-18-39. (c) For the services provided herein,
a qualified depository may not charge the State Board of Education or a local board of education,
but rather shall sell the textbooks in accordance with the prices...
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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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25-14-2
Section 25-14-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1)
That employee leasing is a growing industry in the State of Alabama and that professional
employer organizations provide increased opportunities for employers to develop cost-effective
methods of satisfying their personnel requirements and providing employees with access to
certain employment benefits which might otherwise not be available to them. (2) The Legislature
deems it necessary, however, in the interest of the welfare of workers and employers to establish
standards for the operation, regulation, and registration of professional employer organizations
in Alabama to be administered by the Workers' Compensation Division of the Department of Labor,
and it is the intent of the Legislature that this be accomplished pursuant to the Alabama
Professional Employer Organization Registration Act. (3) That any allocation of the employer
duties and responsibilities pursuant to this chapter will...
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37-11-1
Section 37-11-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, is hereby
authorized to execute a compact in substantially the following form with the states of Louisiana
and Mississippi, and the legislature hereby signifies in advance its approval and ratification
of such compact, which compact is as follows: Southern High-Speed Rail Commission. Article
I. The purpose of this compact is to study the feasibility of rapid rail transit service between
the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama and to establish a joint interstate commission
to assist in this effort. Article II. This compact shall become effective immediately as to
the states ratifying it whenever the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama have ratified
it and Congress has given consent thereto. Any state not mentioned in this article which is
contiguous with any member state may become a party to this compact, subject to approval by
the legislature of each of the member states. Article...
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40-13-36
Section 40-13-36 Construction of article. The provisions of this article are supplemental and
shall be construed in pari materia with Article 1 of this chapter and Act No. 906, H. 1867,
1975 Regular Session (Acts 1975, p. 1803) as amended by Act No. 368, S. 262, Regular Session
of 1976, and any other laws regulating excise and privilege taxes on the severance of coal
or lignite; provided, however, that those laws or parts of laws, including specifically any
laws imposing or authorizing local, county, municipal, or other severance taxes, except as
set out in this section, on coal or lignite, are hereby repealed and all counties, municipalities,
and taxing authorities now or hereafter existing in the State of Alabama are prohibited from
enacting and implementing any excise or privilege tax on any person severing coal or lignite
within the State of Alabama. (Acts 1977, No. 598, p. 799, §7.)...
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41-19-3
Section 41-19-3 Purpose of chapter; Governor to develop and present four-year strategic plan.
(a) It is the purpose of this chapter to establish a comprehensive system for budgeting and
financial management which furthers the capacity of the Governor and the Legislature to plan
and finance the services which they determine the state will provide for citizens. The system
shall include procedures for all of the following: (1) The orderly establishment, continuing
review, and periodic revision of the program and financial goals and policies of the state.
(2) The development, coordination, and review of long-range program and financial plans that
will implement established state goals and policies. (3) The preparation, coordination, analysis,
and enactment of a budget, organized to focus on state services and their costs, that authorizes
the implementation of policies and plans in the succeeding budget period. (4) The evaluation
of alternatives to existing policies, plans, and procedures...
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9-13-240
Section 9-13-240 Findings and purpose. The Legislature has found that ginseng Panax quinquefolius
L., is listed as endangered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
of Wild Fauna and Flora, and as such, must be protected from extinction. The purpose of this
article is to provide a mechanism for collection and exportation of ginseng while at the same
time preventing the depletion of wild ginseng populations throughout the state. (Acts 1987,
No. 87-582, §1.)...
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9-18-5
Section 9-18-5 When supplementary agreements requiring expenditure of funds, etc., become effective.
Any supplementary agreement entered into pursuant to Article VI of the compact requiring the
expenditure of funds or the assumption of an obligation to expend funds in addition to those
already appropriated shall not become effective as to this state prior to the making of an
appropriation by the Legislature therefor. (Acts 1961, Ex. Sess., No. 52, p. 1909, §5.)...

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14-13-2
Section 14-13-2 Adoption and text of Interstate Corrections Compact. The Interstate Corrections
Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with any and all
states legally joining therein, in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially as
follows: INTERSTATE CORRECTIONS COMPACT Article I (Purpose and Policy) The party states, desiring
by common action to fully utilize and improve their institutional facilities and provide adequate
programs for the confinement, treatment, and rehabilitation of various types of offenders,
declare that it is the policy of each of the party states to provide such facilities and programs
on a basis of cooperation with one another, thereby serving the best interests of such offenders
and of society and effecting economies in capital expenditures and operational costs. The
purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual development and execution of such programs
of cooperation for the confinement, treatment and...
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