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SB196
164570-2:n:02/23/2015:FC/agb LRS2015-477R1 SB196 By Senator Smitherman RFD Judiciary Rd 1 10-MAR-15
SYNOPSIS: Under current law, the primary remedy against asset dissipation has traditionally
been an "in rem" order prohibiting the transfer of specific assets. Such prejudgment
attachments are based in equity and require particularized showings of fraud. This bill would
enact the Alabama Uniform Asset-Preservation Orders Act. The bill would create a process for
the issuance of asset preservation orders, which are in personam orders that prevent the dissipation
of assets of parties to a civil action and imposing collateral restraint on nonparties such
as the party's bank, in order to preserve assets from dissipation, pending judgment. A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To enact the Alabama Uniform Asset-Preservation Orders Act; to provide
procedures in civil actions for the court to issue asset-preservation orders against parties
and nonparties to the civil action under certain conditions. BE...
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SB74
164633-1:n:02/13/2015:PMG/tj LRS2015-548 SB74 By Senator Albritton RFD Judiciary Rd 1 03-MAR-15
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the district court has jurisdiction over cases where the amount
in controversy is $10,000 or less, and the small claims division of the district court has
jurisdiction over cases where the amount in controversy does not exceed $3,000. Under existing
law, a plaintiff filing a case in the district court is charged a filing fee. The amount of
the filing fee is less for cases filed in the small claims division of the district court.
This bill would increase the jurisdiction of the small claims division of the district court
to cover all cases where the amount in controversy is $6,000 or less. This bill would revise
the filing fee and filing fee distribution statutes to reflect the new jurisdiction of the
small claims division, but would keep the filing fees and distribution of filing fees at the
same amounts as before the revisions provided in this act. A BILL TO BE...
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HB56
164963-1:n:02/27/2015:FC*/mfc LRS2015-802 HB56 By Representative Hill (J) RFD Judiciary Rd
1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would enact the Freedom of Religion in Marriage Protection
Act by amending Section 30-1-7, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to persons authorized to solemnize
marriages. This bill would specify that those authorized or permitted to solemnize marriages
pursuant to Alabama law are not required to solemnize the marriage of any person. This bill
would also specify the rights of those associated with religious organizations, institutions,
and societies as related to marriage recognition and solemnization. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To enact the Freedom of Religion in Marriage Protection Act; to amend Section 30-1-7,
Code of Alabama 1975, relating to persons authorized to solemnize marriages; to specify that
those authorized to solemnize marriages pursuant to the laws of this state are not required
to solemnize the marriage of any person; and to specify and further...
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SB26
163387-1:n:10/20/2014:KMS/tj LRS2014-3371 SB26 By Senator Albritton RFD Constitution, Ethics
and Elections Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Article VII of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901,
provides for impeachments in Alabama. This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution
of Alabama of 1901, to repeal the existing Article VII and to readopt Article VII to make
nonsubstantive technical amendments, including renumbering sections, capitalization, and gender
neutral references, throughout the article and to make all of the following substantive changes:
Section 173. The rewritten section would remove the State Superintendent of Education and
include the members of the State Board of Education as officers who are subject to impeachment,
would require a two-thirds vote of the Senate, sitting as a court of impeachment, for conviction,
and would delete the requirement that members of the Legislature be summoned to the capitol
for impeachment proceedings by publication in a newspaper....
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HB292
165373-1:n:03/09/2015:JET*/th LRS2015-1030 HB292 By Representative England RFD Judiciary Rd
1 17-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would provide that a circuit or district judge may issue a
warrant for the installation, removal, maintenance, use, or monitoring of a tracking device.
This bill would also establish the crime of unlawfully installing a tracking device if any
person installs a tracking device without following the procedures of the act and would provide
certain exceptions. 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 increased expenditure
of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without
enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it
is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates...
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HB302
Rep(s). By Representatives Fridy, Rowe, Hill (M), Weaver, McCutcheon, Beckman, Ledbetter, Whorton
(R), Williams (JD), Ball, Williams (P), Patterson, Mooney, Faulkner and Jones HB302 ENGROSSED
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to the judges of probate in counties where a probate
court of the county has concurrent equity jurisdiction with the circuit court of the county;
to amend Section 12-13-9 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that the judge of probate
would have the same power to punish for civil contempts as judges of the circuit courts. BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 12-13-9 of the Code of Alabama
1975, is amended to read as follows: §12-13-9. "(a) The probate court may issue show
cause orders and attachment for contempts offered to the court or its process by any executor,
administrator, guardian or other person and may punish the same by fine not exceeding $20.00
and imprisonment not exceeding 24 hours, or both. "(b) In all cases or other...
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HB454
164709-1:n:02/18/2015:DSM/th LRS2015-590 HB454 By Representative Davis RFD Financial Services
Rd 1 09-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, all covered public entities and covered public
officials are required to place their funds in one or more qualified public depositories pursuant
to the Security for Alabama Funds Enhancement Program (SAFE Program) administered by the State
Treasurer. This bill would amend certain definitions. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend
Section 41-14A-2 of the Code of Alabama 1975, the Security for Alabama Funds Enhancement (SAFE)
Act, to amend certain definitions. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1.
Section 41-14A-2 of the Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows: §41-14A-2. "As
used in this chapter, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings: "(1)
AVERAGE MONTHLY BALANCE OF PUBLIC DEPOSITS. The sum of the average daily balances of public
deposits, meaning the net average daily balances of public...
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SB125
SB125 By Senators Reed, Waggoner, Dial, Marsh, Melson, Stutts and Bussman ENROLLED, An Act,
Relating to medical licensure, to provide and adopt the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
to develop a comprehensive licensing process complementing existing licensing and regulatory
authority of state medical boards in member states; to provide a streamlined process for physicians
to become licensed in multiple states; to provide eligibility requirements for physicians;
to require the designation of a state of principal license; to provide for the application,
issuance, and fees for expedited and continued licensure of physicians under the compact;
to provide for a coordinated information system, joint investigations, and disciplinary actions;
to establish the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission, and to provide for membership,
powers, duties, and terms of office; to provide for the funding of and rulemaking functions
of the interstate commission; to provide for oversight of the...
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HB206
Rep(s). By Representative Bracy HB206 ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to Mobile County; to authorize
the Mobile County Commission to create a North Mobile County Volunteer Fire Department Board
to review and evaluate the delivery of volunteer fire services to property owners within the
unincorporated area in Mobile County Commission District 1 and any incorporated area in the
district served by a volunteer fire department; to authorize the Mobile County Commission
to assess and implement a fire protection and suppression plan and service fee on certain
owners of dwellings and commercial buildings in Mobile County Commission District 1; to provide
for certain exemptions and collection of the service fee; and to provide for the distribution
of funds derived from the service fee. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section
1. This act shall only apply to Mobile County. Section 2. For the purposes of this act, the
following words shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMERCIAL...
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HB347
Rep(s). By Representative Hill (J) HB347 ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to St. Clair County; to
provide for a booking fee to be assessed as court costs in certain cases in which the defendant
is booked or incarcerated in any county jail in St. Clair County if the defendant is convicted
or pleads guilty in the circuit court or district court of the county; and to provide for
the distribution of revenue from the fee. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section
1. (a) In St. Clair County, a booking fee in the amount of thirty dollars ($30) shall be assessed
by the clerk of the court as court costs against each defendant incarcerated in or booked
in any county jail in St. Clair County if the defendant is convicted or pleads guilty in cases
prosecuted in the circuit court or district court of the county. (b) The clerk of the court
shall enter the booking fee on the docket sheet and collect the fee in the same manner and
at the same time as other court costs are collected. The booking...
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