I. Licensing examinations.

There is no provision in the Alabama Open Meetings Act to close a meeting that is otherwise due to be open simply because the meeting deals with licensing examinations, except to the extent, if any, that the discussion falls within the statutory exceptions to the Act. Ala. Code § 36-25A-1 et seq. (Supp. 2005). Licensing by written examination is typically administered by the staff of a state agency, not by or at any assembled meeting of a public entity, and thus would not fall within the Alabama Open Meetings Act. Notwithstanding the lack of a statutory exclusion in the Act, however, at least one "licensing examination" meeting is closed by separate statute: Meetings of the Driver License Medical Advisory Board are closed by statutory mandate if reports are "received for the purpose of determining the medical condition of an applicant [for a driver's license] . . . since those reports are confidential under section 32-6-43." Ala. Code §  32-6-46 (1999). Also, hearings of the Medical Licensure Commission of the State Board of Examiners are closed. Ala. Code §  34-24-361.1 (2002).