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AL Code § 36-32-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 32 - Fire Fighters' Personnel Standards and Education Commission.|Section 36-32-13 - Joint Legislative Oversight Committee; Transfer of Certain Employees to State Merit System; Membership of Commission.

Section 36-32-13Joint Legislative Oversight Committee; transfer of certain employees to State Merit System; membership of commission. (a) There is created the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee of the Alabama Firefighters' Personnel Standards and Education Commission. The committee shall be composed of three members of each house. The senator and the representative from the districts where the Alabama Fire College is located shall be members of the committee. The remaining members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. The chair and vice chair of the oversight committee shall be elected at the first meeting by the members of the oversight committee. The oversight committee shall meet as it deems necessary and shall study and oversee all facets of the Alabama Firefighters' Personnel Standards and Education Commission. The committee shall review each report provided by the commission and may make recommendations as it deems appropriate. (b) Upon the request of the chair, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall provide the clerical assistance necessary for the work of the oversight committee. (c) Each member of the oversight committee shall be entitled to his or her regular legislative compensation, his or her per diem, and travel expenses for each day he or she attends a meeting of the oversight committee which shall be paid out of any funds appropriated to the use of the Legislature, upon warrants drawn on the state Comptroller upon requisitions signed by the chair of the oversight committee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no member shall receive additional legislative compensation or per diem when the Legislature is in session or if a member is being paid any other payments on the same dates for attendance of other state business. (d) Other than the executive director or any assistant or other officer, all persons employed by the Alabama Fire College on April 17, 2012, shall be automatically transferred to the State Merit System as exempt employees with no adverse effect as to salary or benefits. All transferred employees shall be entitled to all due process protections as classified Merit System employees regarding termination, including, but not limited to, an appeal to the Alabama State Personnel Board. (e) The membership of the commission shall be inclusive and shall reflect the racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state. (Act 2012-207, p. 340, §2.)
AL Code § 36-33-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 33 - Protection of Certain State Officers and Visitors.|Section 36-33-1 - Definitions.

Section 36-33-1Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) EXECUTIVE SECURITY OFFICERS. Any persons designated by the Director of Public Safety to protect the Governor and his or her immediate family at the Governor's Mansion, or a former governor who is physically disabled. (2) GOVERNOR-ELECT and LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR-ELECT and ATTORNEY GENERAL-ELECT. Such persons as are the apparent successful candidates for the offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General, respectively, as ascertained from the results of any primary or general election held to determine the successors of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. (3) OTHER OFFICERS NEXT IN THE ORDER OF SUCCESSION TO THE OFFICE OF GOVERNOR. The two persons next in order of succession to act as Governor after the Lieutenant Governor, in accordance with Article 5, Section 127, Constitution of Alabama of 1901, namely, the President Pro Tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, each until their successors are elected. (4) PROTECTEE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY. Such persons as are designated by the Governor or the Director of Public Safety to receive protection. (Acts 1975, No. 871, p. 1714, §1; Acts 1979, No. 79-207, p. 319, §1; Act 98-469, p. 906, §1.)
AL Code § 36-33-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 33 - Protection of Certain State Officers and Visitors.|Section 36-33-3 - Obstruction of Protective Functions.

Section 36-33-3Obstruction of protective functions. Whoever knowingly and willfully obstructs, resists or interferes with an officer of the Department of Public Safety engaged in the performance of the protective functions authorized by this chapter shall be fined not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. (Acts 1975, No. 871, p. 1714, §3.)
AL Code § 36-33-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 33 - Protection of Certain State Officers and Visitors.|Section 36-33-4 - Threatening, etc., Certain State Officers, Etc.

Section 36-33-4Threatening, etc., certain state officers, etc. (a) Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive or document containing any threat to take the life of or to inflict bodily harm upon the Governor of the State of Alabama, the Governor-elect, the Lieutenant Governor or other officer next in order of succession to the Office of Governor of the State of Alabama, or the Lieutenant Governor-elect or the Attorney General and the Attorney General-elect or protectee of the Department of Public Safety, or knowingly and willfully either telephonically or otherwise makes any such threat against the Governor, Governor-elect, Lieutenant Governor or other officer next in the order of succession to the Office of Governor, or the Lieutenant Governor-elect or the Attorney General and the Attorney General-elect or protectee of the Department of Public Safety, shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (b) Any of the offenses in subsection (a) of this section may be deemed to have been committed at either the place at which a letter, paper, writing, print, missive or document was deposited for conveyance or at the place where the same was received if either of said places is within this state; or at the place at which the telephone call or calls were made, or at the place where the telephone call or calls were received if either of said places be within this state. (Acts 1975, No. 871, p. 1714, §§4, 5.)
AL Code § 36-34-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 34 - Health Insurance Coverage by Local Unit Participants in Employees' Retirement System.|Section 36-34-1 - Local Units Authorized to Extend Health Insurance Coverage to Retirees.

Section 36-34-1Local units authorized to extend health insurance coverage to retirees. The local unit participants in the Employees' Retirement System under Section 36-27-6 are authorized to extend to the retirees, designated beneficiaries, and surviving spouses of active employees of the local units who are receiving benefits from the retirement system health insurance coverage in the insurance plan which covers those employees of the local units. The costs of extending the health insurance plan to the retirees, designated beneficiaries, and surviving spouses may be paid from any funds available to the local units boards which are otherwise unencumbered. (Acts 1995, No. 95-771, p. 1829, §1.)
AL Code § 36-34-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 34 - Health Insurance Coverage by Local Unit Participants in Employees' Retirement System.|Section 36-34-2 - Local Units Authorized to Participate in Certain Health Insurance Plan.

Section 36-34-2Local units authorized to participate in certain health insurance plan. As an alternative to the provisions of Section 36-34-1, the local units are authorized to participate in a health insurance plan developed by the State Employees' Insurance Board or the Alabama Retired State Employees' Association to provide health insurance coverage to retirees, designated beneficiaries, and surviving spouses of active members of the local units who are receiving benefits from the Employees' Retirement System. The costs of extending the health insurance to the retirees, designated beneficiaries, or surviving spouses under the aforementioned developed health insurance plan may be paid from any funds available to the local units which are otherwise unencumbered. (Acts 1995, No. 95-771, p. 1829, §2.)
AL Code § 36-35-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-1 - Short Title.

Section 36-35-1Short title. This chapter shall be called the Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §1.)
AL Code § 36-35-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-2 - Definitions.

Section 36-35-2Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Board created by Section 36-35-4 to administer the program. (2) COOPERATIVE. A business entity functioning on a cooperative basis that distributes its income to a particular member in proportion with that member's use of the cooperative on a patronage basis. (3) DEPARTMENT. Any department, agency, office, or program administered by the state for which the board or director has negotiated, or entered an agreement with a pharmacy benefits manager or cooperative to negotiate, a prescription drug rebate, or discount. (4) EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR. An executive director employed by the board to administer this chapter and the program. (5) GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. Any department of the State of Alabama; any county government or municipal government; any school system, college, or university; or any public authority. (6) MANUFACTURER. A manufacturer of prescription drugs as defined in 42 U.S.C. Section 1396r-S(k)(5), including a subsidiary or affiliate of a manufacturer. (7) PARTICIPATING RETAIL PHARMACY. A retail pharmacy or other business licensed to dispense prescription drugs in this state that participates in state employee health insurance plans. (8) PRESCRIPTION DRUG BUYING GROUP. Entities formed to enable retail pharmacies to aggregate their buying power in negotiating discounts and/or rebates on the purchase of pharmaceutical products from the manufacturers of pharmaceutical products, including, but not limited to, cooperatives and pharmacy benefits managers. The term pharmacy benefits manager includes any entity that procures prescription drugs at a negotiated rate for dispensing within this state to a department or governmental entity. (9) PROGRAM. The Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Program established by this chapter relating to supplemental drug rebates, and negotiated pricing of drugs. (10) WHOLESALER. A business licensed pursuant to state law to distribute prescription drugs in this state. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §2.)
AL Code § 36-35-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-3 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Board.

Section 36-35-3Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Board.  (a) The Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative Board is created. (b) The board shall consist of the following voting members: The executive director or chief staff person of the State Employees Insurance Board (SEIB) and the Public Education Employees Health Insurance Plan (PEEHIP), the Chair of the Board of Directors of SEIB, the Chair of the Board of Directors of PEEHIP, and the State Health Officer. The Director of the Medicaid Agency may serve in a nonvoting capacity. (c) The board shall promulgate policies to implement this chapter and may hire an executive director and necessary staff to implement and administer this chapter with or without regard to the state Merit System.  (d) The board through its executive director may enter into agreements with a prescription drug buying group or manufacturer to negotiate price discounts or rebates on behalf of the board or any participating department or governmental entity. (e) The board through its executive director may enter into agreements with, or affiliate with, a prescription drug buying group for centralized purchase and distribution of prescription drugs to retail pharmacies. Notwithstanding any provision of this subsection to the contrary, nothing herein shall require, nor be construed to require, any retail pharmacy to purchase prescription drugs from a central warehouse or central facility. (f) The board shall make recommendations to public employee insurance programs, departments, and governmental entities for prescription formulary design. (g) In conformity with the official policy of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and its regulations, the reimportation of prescription drugs is expressly prohibited pursuant to this chapter. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §3.)
AL Code § 36-35-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-4 - Calculation of Savings From Drug Discounts; Disbursement of Savings.

Section 36-35-4Calculation of savings from drug discounts; disbursement of savings. Savings achieved through drug discounts received by departments and governmental entities shall be calculated on a quarterly basis by the board. A prorated share of the savings of each department or governmental entity, based on the percentage of the department or entity patronage as it bears to the total quarterly patronage, shall first be distributed to the board to reimburse the board for the administrative costs of the program. After administrative costs are fully reimbursed, any remaining savings shall be returned to the respective departments and governmental entities based on the prorated basis. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §4.)
AL Code § 36-35-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-5 - Negotiation of Discount Prices or Rebates.

Section 36-35-5Negotiation of discount prices or rebates.  The board through its executive director shall oversee the negotiation of discount prices or rebates for prescription drugs from drug manufacturers. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §5.)
AL Code § 36-35-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-6 - Annual Report.

Section 36-35-6Annual report. The board shall report the savings from rebates and discounts to the Legislature by February 1 of each year, beginning in 2005. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §6.)
AL Code § 36-35-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-7 - Combined Negotiations.

Section 36-35-7Combined negotiations. If the board through its executive director finds that it is beneficial to another state program to combine drug pricing negotiations to maximize drug rebates, the board through its executive director shall do so. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §7.)
AL Code § 36-35-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-8 - Election of Participation.

Section 36-35-8Election of participation. Any state department or other governmental entity may elect to participate in the Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative by providing written notice to the board. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Alabama Medicaid Agency may participate only if the agency's participation is approved by the Federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §8.)
AL Code § 36-35-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-9 - Rules and Regulations.

Section 36-35-9Rules and regulations. The board and each department and governmental entity shall promulgate and adopt rules to implement this chapter. Rules promulgated by the board, department, or governmental entity pursuant to this chapter are exempt from the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §9.)
AL Code § 36-35-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 35 - Alabama Prescription Cost Initiative and Board.|Section 36-35-10 - Waivers.

Section 36-35-10Waivers. A department or governmental entity may seek any waivers of federal law, rule, or regulation necessary to implement this chapter. (Act 2004-539, p. 1137, §10.)
AL Code § 36-36-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-1 - Legislative Findings.

Section 36-36-1Legislative findings. The Legislature of Alabama hereby finds and determines that the funding of accrued and accruing health care benefits to retired employees and their dependents is a proper governmental function and purpose of the state. The Governmental Accounting Standards Board has issued Statements 43 and 45, which set forth standards on accounting and reporting for post-employment benefits other than pensions by governments. The new standards will require the state to account for such post-employment benefits on an actuarial basis during an employee's career rather than on a pay-as-you-go basis during the employee's period of retirement. The Legislature has determined that it would be advisable for the state to create irrevocable trusts whereby the state may begin funding those benefits in advance to address and ultimately offset the state's accrued liabilities for such benefits. Therefore, the state, the State Employees' Insurance Board, and the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Board are authorized and directed to create irrevocable trusts to be named the "Alabama Retired State Employees' Health Care Trust" and the "Alabama Retired Education Employees' Health Care Trust," respectively, which shall be created, funded, and administered in accordance with the provisions of this chapter to protect and enhance the financial condition of the State. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §1.)
AL Code § 36-36-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-2 - Short Title.

Section 36-36-2Short title. The name of this chapter is the Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §2.)
AL Code § 36-36-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-4 - Trust Instrument; Trustees.

Section 36-36-4Trust instrument; trustees. The trusts created pursuant to this chapter shall be evidenced by a written trust instrument, the terms and conditions of which shall be determined by the board creating such trust and the Governor on behalf of the state as long as such terms and conditions do not conflict with this chapter. The Trustees of the Alabama Retired State Employees' Health Care Trust shall be the members of the State Employees' Insurance Board serving from time to time, and the Trustees of the Alabama Retired Education Employees' Health Care Trust shall be the members of the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Board serving from time to time. Each trust shall be managed and controlled by its respective trustees separately from and independent of the management and control of the other trust. The trustees shall serve without compensation for their service as trustees, but may be reimbursed from the respective trust for all reasonable and necessary expenses that they incur in connection with their services as trustees. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §4.)
AL Code § 36-36-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-5 - Management and Control of Trust; Powers of Trustees; Payment of Expenses.

Section 36-36-5Management and control of trust; powers of trustees; payment of expenses. (a) The trusts shall be under the management and control of their respective trustees. All powers necessary or otherwise advisable for the management and control of the trusts shall be vested solely in the respective trustees. (b) The trustees shall have all of the powers necessary to carry out and effectuate the purposes and provisions of this chapter, all the power and authority granted under law to the board which created the trust, and all powers granted to trustees under Alabama law to the extent not in conflict with this chapter, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the following powers: (1) To adopt, alter, and repeal rules for the operation and conduct of the respective trust's affairs and business; (2) To make, enter into, and execute contracts, agreements, and other instruments and to take such other actions as may be necessary or otherwise advisable for the management and operation of the respective trust, to accomplish any purpose for which the respective trust was created, or to exercise any power granted by this chapter; (3) To enter into contracts with, to accept aid and grants from, to cooperate with, and to do any and all things that may be necessary or otherwise advisable in order to avail the respective trust of the aid and cooperation of the United States of America, the state, or any agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision of either thereof in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter; (4) To appoint, employ, and contract with such employees, agents, advisors, and consultants, including, but not limited to, attorneys, accountants, actuaries, financial experts, and such other advisors, consultants, and agents as may, in the trustees' judgment, be necessary or otherwise advisable and to determine and pay, from the funds of the trusts, the compensation of those persons; and (5) To invest the funds of the trusts in any permitted investment. (c) The expenses of making and disposing of investments, such as brokerage commissions, legal expenses referable to a particular transaction, transfer taxes, and other customary transactional expenses with respect to a trust shall be payable out of the funds of such trust. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §5.)
AL Code § 36-36-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees.|Chapter 36 - Alabama Retiree Health Care Funding Act of 2007,|Section 36-36-7 - Legislative Intent.

Section 36-36-7Legislative intent. It is the intent of the Legislature that the state and the boards establish and the trustees operate the trusts in compliance with the Internal Revenue Code of the United States of America in a manner which would allow the trusts to maximize investment earnings while minimizing the costs to the state and its employees and other citizens of satisfying the health care post-employment benefits obligation. It is also the intent of the Legislature that the trusts be operated in a manner that satisfies the definition of other post-employment benefits trusts under generally accepted governmental accounting principles. The trusts shall not be subject to any provision of a law of the state (or any subdivision thereof) which conflicts with that legislative intent or would prevent or unreasonably hinder the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter. (Act 2007-16, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 25, §7.)