Code of Alabama - Title 16: Education - Chapter 44A - Alabama Compact for Leadership and Citizenship Education

• Article 1 General Provisions.
• Section 16-44A-1 Legislative intent
  (a) The Legislature finds that the 1986 and 1992 Commissions on the Future of the South, under the auspices of the Southern Growth Policies Board,...
• Section 16-44A-2 Authorization, enactment, and adoption of the Alabama Compact for Leadership and Citizenship Education; purpose, intent, and member parties to the compact
  The following compact, to be known as the Alabama Compact for Leadership and Citizenship Education, is hereby expressly authorized, enacted, and adopted: (1) The purpose...
• Section 16-44A-3 Frequency and purpose of membership meetings
  (a) The compact membership shall meet annually for the purpose of transacting the following business: (1) Hear reports and make recommendations to the board of...
• Section 16-44A-4 Voting
  Each member party shall be entitled to one vote. The chief executive officer of the member party, by whatever title or in whatever manner defined...
• Section 16-44A-5 Non-profit public corporation
  This voluntary educational compact shall be deemed and constitute a non-profit public corporation in Alabama, and none of the net proceeds of funds shall inure...
• Section 16-44A-6 Board of directors; election, composition, term
  The board of directors shall be elected at the annual membership meeting, and shall take office immediately upon its adjournment. The board of directors shall...
• Section 16-44A-7 Representation of the board of directors members; meetings of board
  (a) Board members shall be chosen to represent each of the following segments or areas: (1) Executive and Legislative Branches of state government, in the...
• Section 16-44A-8 Governor of Alabama as ex officio president; election of chair and vice-chair
  (a) The Governor of Alabama shall be the ex officio president of the compact, and preside at the annual and special compact membership meetings. (b)...
• Section 16-44A-9 Authority, duties, and responsibilities of executive director; board of directors as nominating committee
  (a) The executive director shall be the ex officio, non-voting secretary of the compact and of the board, and shall keep all records and minutes,...
• Section 16-44A-10 Membership and fiscal year; dues
  The membership and fiscal year shall begin on October 1 annually and end on the following September 30. Dues shall be set as provided in...
• Section 16-44A-11 Creation of advisory committees; purpose and composition
  Advisory committees shall be created to make recommendations regarding strategies to meet the purposes of the compact. Committees shall include compact members, potential users of...
• Section 16-44A-12 Adoption of plan of educational work which furthers purposes of compact; plan objectives; programs and activities under plan
  (a) The board of directors shall consider recommendations of advisory committees and may hold hearings, review, revise, and adopt a plan of educational work which...
• Section 16-44A-13 Programs and experiences encouraged and supported by compact
  The compact shall encourage, support, and provide high quality educational programs, learning, and service experiences related to the history and diverse cultures of the United...
• Section 16-44A-14 Powers of board of directors
  In furtherance of the purposes of the compact, the board of directors may do the following: (1) Accept donations of funds or land, bequests, grants,...
• Section 16-44A-15 Remuneration of board of directors members
  The members of the board shall not be compensated for their services, but shall be entitled to the same expense and per diem as authorized...
• Section 16-44A-16 Establishment of bank accounts; adoption of annual budget; performance of independent annual audit
  (a) The board shall establish its account(s) and deposit its funds therein with any bank qualified to serve as a state depositary. All funds shall...
• Section 16-44A-17 Distribution of residual assets in the event of dissolution of compact
  In the event of dissolution of the compact, which may be accomplished only by legislative act, the residual assets shall be turned over to another...
• Section 16-44A-18 Organization of compact as voluntary public-private partnership constituted as not-for-profit public corporation; affirmative action required in initial membership invitations; filing of papers for incorporation of compact
  (a) The compact shall be organized as a voluntary public-private partnership and shall be constituted as a not-for-profit public corporation. The members of the Joint...
• Section 16-44A-19 Exemption from state taxes; authority to solicit gifts and donations; tax treatment of gifts, grants, devises, and bequests; liberal construction
  (a) The compact shall be exempt from all taxes of the State of Alabama and its political subdivisions to the same extent as public schools...
• Article 2 The Citizenship Trust.
• Section 16-44A-30 Legislative findings
  (a) Under Article 1 of this chapter, the Joint Legislative Committee on Southern Leadership Goals authorized and consented to the formation of a non-profit entity,...
• Section 16-44A-31 Citizenship Trust established
  (a) The State of Alabama hereby establishes and authorizes the Citizenship Trust, herein referred to as the "trust." (b) The purpose of the trust is...
• Section 16-44A-32 Powers and duties of board
  In furtherance of the purposes of the trust, the board of trustees shall have the following powers and duties: (1) Accept gifts, contributions, donations of...
• Section 16-44A-33 Incorporation
  To effectuate the purposes of this article, the Board of Directors of The Citizenship Trust, an unincorporated non-profit association domiciled in Shelby County, Alabama, may...
• Section 16-44A-34 Exemption from state and local taxes; acts in agreement authorized
  (a) The trust shall be exempt from all taxes of the State of Alabama and its political subdivisions. Provided that the trust's "unrelated business taxable...
• Section 16-44A-35 Legislative findings; designation and dedication as Veterans Living Legacy
  (a) The Legislature of Alabama finds and declares all of the following: (1) That pursuant to Section 16-44A-31, a statewide extended classroom for education in...
• Section 16-44A-36 Functions and oversight
  The trust shall continue to be designated as the entity to coordinate the voluntary Alabama student mock election in cooperation with the office of Secretary...
• Division 2 Alabama Veterans Living Legacy Act of 2008.
• Section 16-44A-50 Short title
  This division may be cited as the Alabama Veterans Living Legacy Act of 2008 in honor of all Alabama veterans, living and dead, and members...
• Section 16-44A-51 Designation and dedication
  Section 16-44A-35(b) previously designated the American Village administered by the Citizenship Trust, herein the Trust, as a Veterans Living Legacy, and it is hereby redesignated...
• Section 16-44A-52 Purpose
  The Alabama Veterans Living Legacy shall fulfill four vital public purposes, namely: (1) Publicly to remember, respect, thank, and honor United States veterans, living and...
• Section 16-44A-53 Adoption and administration of master plan
  In addition to such powers conferred on it by Section 16-44A-32, the governing board of the Citizenship Trust shall adopt, subject to consultation and review...
• Section 16-44A-54 Alabama Veterans Living Legacy Trust Fund
  On and after September 1, 2008, to ensure accountability for receiving and administering public funds, the public funds provided for by Section 16-44A-55, or by...
• Section 16-44A-55 Administration of public funds
  The following public funds shall be administered by the trust for the support of the Alabama Veterans Living Legacy: (1) Net proceeds derived from this...
• Section 16-44A-56 Review of master plan
  The master plan provided for in Section 16-44A-53 shall be subject to consultation with and review by the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee provided in Section...
• Section 16-44A-57 Disposition of proceeds
  It is the intent of this division that the trust, and its associated public educational building authority, may pledge the proceeds of revenues earmarked, designated,...
• Section 16-44A-58 Funding
  The trust shall undertake efforts to secure private funds, gifts, grants, bequests, and other funds to construct, operate, and endow the Alabama Veterans Living Legacy.
• Section 16-44A-59 Joint legislative oversight committee
  (a) After September 1, 2008, the Joint Legislative Committee on the New National Veterans Cemetery created for this quadrennium by Act 2007-507 shall be constituted...

Last modified: May 3, 2021