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22-28A-2
Section 22-28A-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama hereby finds as follows:
(1) The United States is a signatory to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Global
Climate Change (FCCC). (2) The Kyoto Protocol to expand the scope of the FCCC was negotiated
in December 1997, in Kyoto, Japan, requiring the United States to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases such as carbon dioxide and methane by seven percent from 1990 emission levels during
the period 2008 to 2012, with similar reduction obligations for other major industrial nations.
(3) Developing nations, including China, India, Mexico, Indonesia, and Brazil are exempt from
greenhouse gas emission limitation requirements in the FCCC. (4) Developing nations refused
in the Kyoto negotiations to accept any new commitments for greenhouse gas emission limitations
through the Kyoto Protocol or other agreements. (5) With respect to new commitments under
the FCCC, President Clinton pledged on October 22, 1997, that the...
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22-2A-1
Section 22-2A-1 Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama finds that the high cost of
pharmaceuticals is a matter of much concern to this state, especially as the cost and utilization
of drug therapy continues to rise. Insofar as this rise represents a trend towards drug therapy
in lieu of more invasive and expensive procedures, it represents a positive change. At the
same time, increasing drug costs can effectively prevent large numbers of patients from accessing
vital medication. The solution to this problem should be market-based. This legislation attempts
such a solution by (1) consolidating the state's buying power in the pharmaceutical market,
and (2) authorizing the State Health Officer to negotiate rebates and discounts from pharmaceutical
manufacturers. The result should be better prices for agencies and departments of the State
of Alabama and better access to life-saving drugs for clients, by law, they are mandated to
serve. (Act 2002-494, p. 1262, §1.)...
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2-6-11
Section 2-6-11 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds that the Garrett Coliseum and the
Alabama Agricultural Center, hereinafter the facility, is a significant historic facility
owned by the State of Alabama and which faces imminent closure because of operational and
public safety concerns if it is not restored, renovated, and improved. The facility was designed
in 1949 by Betty Robinson, the first woman graduate from Auburn University with a degree in
architecture. The facility, completed in 1953, is of historic and cultural significance to
the State of Alabama and its restoration will enhance opportunities for economic development
that will benefit the state. The Legislature further finds that the most efficient way to
restore the facility and to operate it profitably is for the Alabama Agricultural Center Board,
hereinafter referred to as the board, to enter into agreements with public institutions and
other entities through which the use of private funding is primarily used to...
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26-23C-2
Section 26-23C-2 Legislative findings. (a) The Legislature of the State of Alabama finds all
of the following: (1) Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, P.L. 111-148,
federal tax dollars, via affordability credits, subsidies provided to individuals between
150-400 percent of the federal poverty level, are routed to exchange participating health
insurance plans, including plans that provide coverage for abortions. (2) Federal funding
of insurance plans that provide abortions is an unprecedented change in federal abortion funding
policy. The Hyde Amendment, as passed each year in the Labor Health and Human Services Appropriations
bill, and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, FEHBP, prohibit federal funds from
subsidizing health insurance plans that provide abortions. Under this new law, however, exchange
participating health insurance plans that provide abortions can receive federal funds. (3)
The provision of federal funding for health insurance plans that...
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37-11B-2
Section 37-11B-2 Legislative findings. The Legislature finds and determines that: (1) There
exists in the State of Alabama a continuing need to construct, improve, and invest in rail
and rail infrastructure within the state. A strong rail infrastructure promotes economic development
and employment opportunities and promotes the public good and general welfare of the state.
(2) The public purpose of this chapter is to develop a coordinated program related to the
rail infrastructure within the State of Alabama, including, but not limited to, the construction
of such additional rail lines or tracks as may be necessary or advisable, the maintenance
and improvement of the existing rail infrastructure, and the prudent use of state funds to
take advantage of any opportunities for federal funding assistance that may be available.
(Act 2009-787, p. 2472, §2.)...
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45-49-42
Section 45-49-42 Legislative findings. The Legislature of the State of Alabama declares and
finds that the business of operating massage parlors as defined herein are businesses affecting
the public health, safety, and general welfare; that such businesses have been used in Mobile
County and elsewhere as fronts for the conduct of prostitution, assignation, and lewdness;
that the method of operation of such business generally is such that female persons bargain
with male customers for illicit sexual activities, including prostitution and sodomy, only
after performing so-called massages while the male customer is nude, and after engaging the
customer as part of the so-called massage in sexual foreplay to the point of sexual arousal;
that because of the method of operation the gathering of evidence by law enforcement officers
sufficient for the officers to make an arrest or to institute some other civil proceeding
requires male officers to pose as customers, and to perform degrading,...
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45-37A-461
Section 45-37A-461 Electric supplier service territories. (a) 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 in and around the City of Tarrant City, Alabama. Among its findings
is that with respect to retail electric service industry, the benefits normally associated
with competition between two suppliers 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 in Tarrant City 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...
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9-16-103
Section 9-16-103 Alabama Surface Mining Fund. (a) All sums received through the payment of
fees, the forfeiture of bonds, the recovery of civil penalties or appropriations by the Legislature
shall be placed in the State Treasury and credited to an open account designated as the Alabama
Surface Mining Fund. This fund, which shall include the Alabama Surface Mining Reclamation
Fund established by Act No. 551, 1975 Regular Session, shall be available to the regulatory
authority for expenditure in the administration and enforcement of this article, and training,
reclamation and research programs; provided, that the proceeds from the forfeiture of any
bond shall be used to the extent required by law in completing reclamation and revegetation
of the area with respect to which the bond applies. Any unencumbered and any unexpended balance
of this fund remaining at the end of any fiscal year shall not lapse, but shall be carried
forward for the purposes of this article until expended. (b) There...
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16-68-1
Section 16-68-1 (Effective July 1, 2020) Legislative findings. The Legislature makes the following
findings: (1) Article I, Section 4 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, recognizes that
all persons may speak, write, and publish their sentiments on all subjects, and that "no
law shall ever be passed to curtail or restrain the liberty of speech...." (2) Alabama's
public institutions of higher education have historically embraced a commitment to freedom
of speech and expression. (3) The United States Supreme Court has called public universities
"peculiarly the marketplace of ideas," Healy v. James, 408 U.S. 169, 180 (1972),
where young adults learn to exercise those constitutional rights necessary to participate
in our system of government and to tolerate the exercise of those rights by others, and there
is "no room for the view that First Amendment protections should apply with less force
on college campuses than in the community at large." Healy, 408 U.S. at 180. (4) The
United...
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22-22A-17
Section 22-22A-17 Navigable Waters Dredging Fund. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law,
the budget proposed each year for the Alabama Department of Environmental Management shall
include as a line item in the General Fund Budget the Navigable Waters Dredging Fund for the
dredging of the navigable waters of this state and for sediment reuse. The director of the
department shall present the proposed budget at the appropriate budget hearing scheduled by
the Alabama Legislature. (b) There is established a Navigable Waters Dredging Fund which shall
be administered by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management which funds shall be
paid to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the purposes of dredging the navigable waters
of this state and for sediment reuse. The principal of the fund shall consist of the following:
(1) Funds appropriated by any governmental entity. (2) Funds received as gifts from any source.
(c) All funds collected or received by the department for the Navigable...
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