Alabama State Agencies: Featured Agencies

Ensures the preservation of Alabama's historical records and artifacts and promotes a better understanding of Alabama's history.

The purpose of this department is to license and regulate assisted living administrators in the state of Alabama.

The Attorney General is a constitutional officer whose main priorities are to provide legal advice and representation for the state agencies, departments, and officers of Alabama.

Serves as Alabama's agency for implementing and overseeing programs for the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

The Children's Justice Task Force is devoted to reducing trauma to child victims.

Serves as the State's administrative department with responsibility for administering and exercising direct and effective control over penal and corrections institutions throughout Alabama.

Financially assists innocent victims of violent crimes with losses incurred as a result of the act committed against them. The agency also advocates on behalf of victims of crime by supporting any laws or rules that would benefit crime victims.

Operates a statewide criminal justice information system to serve Alabama's criminal justice community.

Enforces Alabama labor laws, mediates labor disputes, conducts union representation elections and provides job-related health/safety statistics. Compiles a census of fatal occupational injuries.

The county prosecutor.

Ensures that public officials are independent and impartial; that decisions and policies are made in the proper governmental channels; that public office is not used for private gain; and that there is public confidence in the integrity of government.

The Board licenses and regulates commercial/industrial contractors in the major specialty classifications that constitute the industry.

Advises the Governor on issues affecting minorities, including women, focusing on the improvement of the overall quality of life of minorities, specifically in the areas of education, health, economics, political participation and empowerment, civil rights, criminal justice, and race relations.

The Governor is the chief executive of the State.

The House of Representatives determines its rues of procedure. It protects itself from violence and corruption and, on concurrence of two-thirds of its membership enforces the expulsion of a member, The house keeps a journal of its proceedings, originates all revenue bills, and considers measures introduced in the proper form by its members. It provides for committee consideration of such measures and, if deemed appropriate, debates such measures and votes on their passage.

To protect individuals who, by reason of age, disability or dependency, are unable to protect themselves from abuse, neglect, or exploitation; to strengthen families to enable them to protect their own children; to provide opportunities for children to have permanent families when they can no longer remain with their birth parents; to alleviate hunger and malnutrition among the state's low-income households; and to provide economic assistance to families and children who cannot otherwise afford basic necessities; to help dependent individuals and families to become financially self-sufficient through training, education, child care for their children and support services; and to ensure that children receive the financial support of their parents.

Provides for the defense of those indigent defendants who have been found by a court to be unable to pay for their defense or representation in a trial or appellate court proceedings.

Has the authority to conduct investigations and receive or initiate complaints concerning any state court judge, and to file complaints with the court of judiciary in the event of a majority of the commission members decide a reasonable basis exists to chard a judge with violation of a canon of judicial ethics, misconduct in office, failure to perform his or her duties, or physical or mental inability to perform his or her duties. all proceedings of the commission are confidential, except the filing of a complaint with the court of judiciary.

The agency succeeds to an is vested with all of the functions of the Legislative Reference Service, the Legislative Fiscal Office, and the Alabama Law Institute.

The Lieutenant Governor presides over the Senate and succeeds to the governorship under certain conditions.

To provide the best possible health care to low income people at the most affordable cost to the taxpayers.

The Department of Mental Health through its commissioner is authorized to act in any prudent way to provide mental health services for the people of Alabama.

To enhance the safety of citizens by providing the Board and the courts, which have probationary powers, with investigation of adult felony offenders and supervision of adult felony offenders who are placed on probation and parole.

Created to increase efficiency in governmental departments and agencies by improving methods of personnel administration. The Department is responsible for attracting persons of demonstrated capacity, ability, and training for state service and affording such persons and equal opportunity to compete for state employment.

To serve the people in Alabama by assuring conditions in which they live can be healthy. To provide caring, high quality and professional services for the improvement and protection of the public's health through disease prevention and the assurance of public health services to resident and transient populations of the state regardless of social circumstances or the ability to pay.

To aid and advise all legally established public libraries; to assist communities to establish public libraries; to assist in the improvement and/or expansion of established public libraries; to assist local governments to establish joint units of library service.

Enforce traffic law in the State of Alabama.

The Department of Revenue administers and supervises collection of all taxes assigned to it.

The Office of Secretary of State is a constitutional office responsible for custody and use of the Great Seal of Alabama and for other duties concerning public documents.

The Senate considers measures introduced in the proper form by members of the Senate, provides for committee consideration of such measures, and, if deemed appropriate, debates such measures and votes on their passage. The Senate advises the Governor concerning certain appointments, and approves appointments made by the Governor when such appointments are subject to Senate approval or confirmation.

A utility regulatory agency.

Responsible for the licensure and regulation of attorneys in the state of Alabama.

Created to assist Alabama veterans and their families to obtain full benefits due them. Dedicated to the purpose of assisting in the development of claims, obtain needed evidence, prepare necessary affidavits, and to personally present claims to appropriate agencies.

To promote and safeguard the social well being and general welfare of the youth of the State of Alabama through a comprehensive and coordinated program of public services for the prevention of juvenile delinquency and rehabilitation of delinquent youth.