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HB469
166471-1:n:03/26/2015:PMG/mfc LRS2015-1258 HB469 By Representatives Greer, Pettus, Henry and
Butler RFD Education Policy Rd 1 09-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: This act would establish qualified depositories
for textbooks, which would be facilities that receive textbook orders from boards of education,
store sufficient quantities of textbooks, and distribute textbooks to local school systems.
This bill would prohibit a qualified depository for textbooks from charging a board of education
for its services, but would authorize it to charge a publisher a fee for its services. The
bill would provide that a publisher of textbooks is responsible for ensuring that a sufficient
stock of textbooks is maintained at a qualified depository. This bill would prohibit the price
of any textbook sold through a qualified depository for textbooks from exceeding the costs
already prescribed by law. This bill would also clarify that textbooks include digital textbooks
for the purposes of public school textbook...
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HB582
168310-1:n:04/29/2015:PMG/agb LRS2015-1759 HB582 By Representative Weaver RFD State Government
Rd 1 30-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would authorize a public university in the state that operates
a school of medicine to organize and establish public corporations to own and operate health
care facilities or to collaborate with other health care providers. This bill would provide
procedures for the incorporations, reincorporation, and dissolution of authorities by a university.
This bill would provide for a board of directors to direct the operations of an authority
established under this act. This bill would also authorize these authorities to have any power
granted nonprofit corporations, the power of eminent domain as is vested by law in any municipality,
and the power to incur indebtedness. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to medical schools;
to authorize a public university in the state that operates a school of medicine to organize
and establish public corporations to own and...
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SB473
168718-2:n:05/11/2015:FC*/mfc LRS2015-1882R1 SB473 By Senators Figures, Hightower, Albritton
and Glover RFD Local Legislation, Mobile County Rd 1 12-MAY-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would apply
only to Class 2 municipalities and would authorize the establishment of Redevelopment Authorities
in the municipalities to finance projects in development areas to revitalize and redevelop
blighted or economically distressed areas of the municipalities. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN
ACT Relating to Class 2 municipalities; to authorize the establishment of Redevelopment Authorities
in the municipalities to finance projects in development areas to revitalize and redevelop
blighted or economically distressed areas of the municipalities. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF ALABAMA: Section 1. This act shall only apply in a Class 2 municipality. Section 2. Chapter
54C is added to Title 11, Code of Alabama 1975, to read as follows: Chapter 54C. REDEVELOPMENT
AUTHORITIES IN CLASS 2 MUNICIPALITIES. §11-54C-1....
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SB251
SB251 ENGROSSED By Senator Ward A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to the Alabama Board
of Examiners in Psychology; to amend Sections 34-26-21, 34-26-41, 34-26-43.1, 34-26-62, 34-26-65,
and 34-26-66, Code of Alabama 1975; to repeal Section 34-26-20, Code of Alabama 1975, to clarify
the number and qualifications of the members of the board; to further specify the procedure
for a licensee to request to be placed on inactive status by authorizing the board to charge
an inactive license fee; to require a criminal background check of each applicant for a license
and to specify the duties of the Alabama Bureau of Investigation in providing background information;
to remove obsolete language; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect
the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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...
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HB331
Rep(s). By Representative Scott HB331 ENROLLED, An Act, To amend Section 41-15-4, as amended
by Act 2014-261, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the State Insurance Fund, to require the
risk manager, with the approval of the Finance Director, to develop a program of gap coverage
and gap plus coverage to provide, within reasonable limitations, proceeds sufficient to allow
a public school building under the jurisdiction of the Department of Postsecondary Education
that has been rendered a total loss as a result of a covered peril to be reconstructed with
materials superior to its original construction and in an increased size if appropriate based
upon current construction standards and occupancy. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section
1. Section 41-15-4, as amended by Act 2014-261, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as
follows: §41-15-4. "(a) All covered property, unless otherwise provided in this section,
shall be insured for no more than its replacement cost and...
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HB107
164572-1:n:02/12/2015:KMS/th LRS2015-524 HB107 By Representatives Tuggle, Williams (P) and
Butler RFD Education Policy Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would establish the Virtual
Public Schools Act. This bill would provide families with an alternative choice to access
educational resources via the Internet in a virtual or remote setting. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT Relating to public K-12 education; to establish the Virtual Public Schools Act; to
provide for the establishment of virtual public schools by the State Board of Education, Department
of Postsecondary Education, or local board of education; to provide for the responsibilities
and duties of virtual public schools; to provide for the annual evaluation of each virtual
public school; and to require the State Department of Education to promulgate rules to implement
the act. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. This act shall be known and
may be cited as the Virtual Public Schools Act. Section 2. The purpose...
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HB192
165300-1:n:03/05/2015:KMS/mfc LRS2015-938 HB192 By Representatives Collins, Moore (B), Pringle,
Johnson (K), Henry, Williams (P), Shiver, Gaston, Weaver, Fridy, Davis, Brown, Hammon, Greer,
Wood, Rowe, Butler, Fincher, Tuggle and Hubbard RFD Education Policy Rd 1 05-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS:
This bill would create the Alabama School Choice and Student Opportunity Act. This bill would
create the Alabama Public Charter School Commission and would provide for the membership,
powers, duties, and liabilities of the commission. This bill would provide for the application
process for establishing public charter schools and conversion charter schools and would provide
for charter terms, charter contracts, and preopening requirements and conditions. This bill
would provide for accountability of charter schools pursuant to a performance framework, ongoing
oversight and corrective action, and renewal, revocation, and nonrenewal of charters. This
bill would provide for the operation and autonomy of public...
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HB307
162785-2:n:10/06/2014:JMH/th LRS2014-2763R1 HB307 By Representative Todd RFD Boards, Agencies
and Commissions Rd 1 18-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the practice of psychology is
regulated by the Board of Examiners in Psychology, which is comprised of members appointed
by the Governor. Existing law establishes the process and requirement for being licensed to
practice psychology in the state. This bill would clarify that the board is comprised of eight
members and that one of those members shall be primarily engaged in teaching, research, or
administration. This bill would revise the process for a licensee to request that the board
designate a license as inactive to authorize the board to assess an inactive licensee fee.
This bill would require an applicant for a license to submit fingerprints and execute criminal
history information release and would require the Alabama Bureau of Investigation to forward
the fingerprints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. This bill would...
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SB429
SB429 ENGROSSED By Senators Reed, Marsh and Waggoner A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating
to universities; to enact the University Authority Act of 2015, in order to authorize universities
operating schools of medicine to form a new type of public corporation to be called an authority;
to provide for definitions; to express legislative intent; to establish a procedure for incorporation
of authorities by universities; to prescribe the requirements for articles of incorporation
of an authority; to establish a procedure for amending articles of incorporation of an authority;
to prescribe requirements for and powers of a board of directors of an authority; to prescribe
requirements for and powers of officers of an authority; to prescribe powers of an authority,
which includes the power to form university affiliates; to authorize authorities to exercise
their powers even if the exercise of such powers would be deemed anticompetitive or monopolistic
under federal or state antitrust laws;...
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HB129
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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