(a) Any department, agency, institution, and establishment of the executive branch of government and regulatory agency or regulatory commission of the state, excluding entities that do not receive a direct appropriation from the state General Fund or the Education Trust Fund, shall furnish to the commission any available material, subject to the restrictions and limitations of federal law or regulations limiting the sharing of personally identifying information, which the commission determines to be necessary in the performance of the duties and functions of the commission.
Terms Used In Alabama Code 29-2A-5
Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) Any collection of data by a department, agency, institution, establishment, or regulatory agency or regulatory commission of the state, excluding entities that do not receive a direct appropriation from the state General Fund or the Education Trust Fund, shall be furnished to the commission, if available, upon request by the director or an employee of the commission.(c) The commission may take application for and award grant funds to any department, agency, establishment, or regulatory agency or regulatory commission to further the purposes, policies, recommendations, and objectives of the commission subject to the availability of funding.
