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HB257
Rep(s). By Representatives Knight, Hubbard and McCutcheon HB257 ENGROSSED A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To create the permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Government Oversight and Accountability;
to provide for membership of the committee; to provide for the compensation of members; to
provide for the powers and duties of the committee; to specify time frames for meetings held
by the committee; to allow the committee to request audits of certain state agencies and other
entities under certain conditions; to authorize the committee to hold public hearings under
certain conditions; to amend Section 41-19-10, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the Department
of Finance to modify the planned expenditure of funds upon advice and consent of the committee;
and to prohibit certain interagency agreements unless certain notice is provided to the committee.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. (a) There is created a permanent Joint
Legislative Committee on Government...
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HB46
163668-2:n:02/20/2015:KMS/mfc LRS2014-3640 HB46 By Representative Chesteen RFD Ways and Means
Education Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the Alabama Ahead Act authorizes the
Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue up to $100,000,000 in bonds
to fund the purchase of digital textbooks for public high school students, with implementation
of the act contingent upon separate legislative enactment. This bill would amend the Alabama
Ahead Act to provide that the bonds be used to purchase and install, as a first priority,
a high quality standards-based broadband Wi-Fi infrastructure in every classroom in every
public school; and use remaining funds to purchase mobile digital computing devices to enable
access to digital resources in the state in lieu of digital textbooks for public high school
students. This bill would specify priorities and standards for wireless infrastructure and
a cost model. This bill would provide an implementation plan consisting of a...
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SB203
164467-1:n:03/06/2015:LFO-BD/bdl SB203 By Senator Orr RFD Finance and Taxation General Fund
Rd 1 10-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the State Forestry Commission is an independent
agency of the state, with the power to appoint the State Forester who is responsible for managing
everyday operations of the commission. This bill would rename the Department of Agriculture
and Industries to the Department of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Services. This bill
would create the Division of State Forestry within the Department of Agriculture, Forestry,
and Consumer Services. This bill would transfer the duties, responsibilities, papers, funds,
property, and other effects of the State Forestry Commission to the Division of State Forestry.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Sections 2-3-1, 2-3-2, 9-3-1, 9-3-4, 9-3-5, 9-3-6, 9-3-7,
9-3-8, 9-3-9, 9-3-10, 9-3-10.1, 9-3-11, 9-3-12, 9-3-13, 9-3-14, 9-3-15, 9-3-17, 9-3-19, 9-8A-3,
9-10A-4, 9-13-1, 9-13-3, 9-13-4, 9-13-5, 9-13-6, 9-13-8,...
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HB211
Rep(s). By Representative Ball HB211 ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to the Legislative Department,
to reconstitute the Legislative Council and create the Senate Legislative Council and the
House Legislative Council; to transfer to the councils functions from the House Legislative
Council, the entity consisting of the Senate members elected to the Legislative Council, the
Joint Fiscal Committee, and the Legislative Building Authority, and abolish those entities;
to assign additional administrative functions to the council; to delete a provision for an
automatic appropriation to the Legislature; to revise the procedure for the appointment and
tenure of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House; to specify the Alabama Law Institute
is part of the Legislative Department, revise the membership of the governing council of the
institute, and grant additional authority to the council and the president and director of
the institute; to restructure the Commission on Uniform State Laws; to...
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SB1
SB1 ENGROSSED By Senators Dial and McClendon A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Sections
16-16B-1 and 16-16B-2, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Alabama Ahead Act; commencing
with the 2015-2016 school year, to delete the requirement that tablets and mobile computers
be pen-enabled; to delete the phase-in provisions; to delete the reassignment provisions;
to revise the composition of the advisory committee; to make participation by local school
systems voluntary; to provide that funds be used to purchase and install a high-quality, standards-based,
broadband Wi-Fi infrastructure and mobile digital computing devices to enable access to digital
instructional materials in all public school classrooms, where feasible, in the state in lieu
of textbooks for public school students; to make an appropriation of $110,000,000 from the
Education Trust Fund to the Alabama Public School and College Authority for the purpose of
implementing the Alabama Ahead Act, for the fiscal year ending...
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HB48
164404-1:n:02/05/2015:FC/th LRS2015-344 HB48 By Representative McCutcheon RFD Public Safety
and Homeland Security Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would establish the Office of the
Ombudsman For Child Welfare. The bill would provide for the State Advisory Committee to the
ombudsman that would appoint the ombudsman. The bill would provide for the duties and powers
of the ombudsman. The bill would prohibit discrimination or retaliation against persons filing
complaints with the ombudsman and would provide criminal penalties for violations. The bill
would also require protocols and require the presiding circuit judge to establish a protocol
committee to recommend protocols for the investigation and prosecution of alleged cases of
child abuse. Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section
111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits
a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or...
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HB135
Program 7,935,026 24,206,365 32,141,391 Children's Health Insurance Program 167,984,830 167,984,830
Any funds appropriated for the CHIP Program in prior years which are reappropriated shall
be utilized for other public health services programs. Public Health Services Program 9,137,228
498,665,879 507,803,107 Of the above appropriation, $17,353 shall be expended for the Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Association for the Regional Certified Clinic; and $250,000 shall
be expended for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program. Of the above
appropriation, at least $2,419,796 shall be expended for the Alabama Drug Assistance Program
and other AIDS programs; $79,429 shall be expended for Hepatitis A and B vaccines to be provided
to adults; $60,000 shall be expended for prostate screening and colorectal cancer screening;
$100,000 shall be transferred to the Kidney Foundation for dialysis patient transportation;
$125,000 shall be expended for the Alabama Cancer Research...
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HB584
be deposited with the State Treasurer to be continuously appropriated to the Department of
Human Resources to assist all children in temporary or permanent custody in foster care. "(9)
Contributions designated for mental health on the Alabama state resident individual income
tax return shall be deposited with the State Treasurer and shall be distributed equally to
the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Alabama and to the Mental Health Consumers of Alabama.
"(10) Contributions to the Alabama Breast and Cervical Cancer Research Program
shall be deposited with the State Treasurer and distributed to the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, which shall implement and administer the program. "(11) Contributions to
the Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fund shall be deposited with the State Treasurer for distribution
by the Department of Economic and Community Affairs for weatherization assistance as provided
for under Article 6, commencing with Section 41-23-100, Chapter 23, Title 41. "(12)...
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SB67
SB67 By Senator Ward ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to crimes and offenses and supervision; to
amend Sections 12-25-32 and 12-25-33, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Alabama Sentencing
Commission; to amend Sections 13A-5-3, 13A-5-6, 13A-5-9, 13A-5-11, 13A-5-13, 13A-7-7, 13A-8-4,
13A-8-5, 13A-8-8, 13A-8-9, 13A-8-10.2, 13A-8-10.3, 13A-8-18, 13A-8-19, 13A-9-3, 13A-9-4, 13A-9-7,
13A-9-14, 13A-12-212, 13A-12-213, and 13A-12-291, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to crimes
and offenses to create a Class D felony offense classification and to reclassify certain crimes
and offenses based on such Class D classification and to revise certain driver license suspension
provisions for drug related offenses; to amend Sections 14-14-2, 14-14-4, 14-14-5, 15-12-21,
15-18-8, 15-18-171, 15-18-172, 15-18-174, 15-18-176, 15-18-180, 15-18-182, 15-22-24, 15-22-26,
15-22-28, 15-22-29, 15-22-31, 15-22-32, 15-22-33, 15-22-36, 15-22-36.2, 15-22-37, 15-22-50,
15-22-51, 15-22-52, 15-22-53, and 15-22-54, Code of...
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HB554
Rep(s). By Representatives Baker, Harper, Collins, Shiver, Hill (M), McCutcheon, Weaver, Gaston,
Sessions, Moore (B), Johnson (K), Nordgren, McMillan, Ingram and Davis HB554 ENROLLED, An
Act, Relating to the Department of Commerce; to transfer various departments, programs, duties,
functions, boards, and committees of the Department of Economic and Community Affairs and
the Department of Postsecondary Education to the Department of Commerce; to transfer certain
property, employees, and appropriations to the Department of Commerce; to reorganize the newly
constituted Department of Commerce and provide for its duties and functions; to amend and
renumber Sections 41-9-201, 41-9-202, 41-9-202.1, and 41-9-203 as Article 1, Chapter 29, of
Title 41 of; to add Section 41-29-5 to; to amend and renumber Sections 41-9-760 to 41-9-767,
inclusive, as Division 1, Part 1, Article 2, Chapter 29 of Title 41 of; to add Part 2 to Division
3, Article 2, Chapter 29 of Title 41 of; to add Division 4 to...
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