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SB239
165928-1:n:03/17/2015:JET/agb LRS2015-1119 SB239 By Senator Sanford RFD Fiscal Responsibility
and Economic Development Rd 1 17-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would give public owners a new
alternative means for procuring design and construction services for public works contracts
by making available the construction manager/general contractor option when determined by
the awarding authority that this alternative project delivery method potentially offers better
value to taxpayers than the design-bid-build method. In addition to the existing design-bid-build
project delivery method, this bill would provide awarding authorities the alternative of selecting
a construction manager/general contractor, would specify that a construction manager/general
contractor assumes the risk for construction, rehabilitation, renovation, alteration, or repair
of a public works project at the contracted price, and would set forth the selection process
for the CM/GC and subcontractors necessary to complete a...
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SB380
163907-2:n:03/10/2015:JET/th LRS2014-3830R1 SB380 By Senators Hightower, Melson, Glover and
Figures RFD Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Rd 1 14-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under
existing law, a secondary metals recycler must maintain certain information regarding cash
purchases of copper and other secondary metals. This bill would require the secondary metal
recycler to maintain additional information regarding each sale transaction. This bill would
clarify that the secondary metals recycler may accept only a personal identification card
containing a birth date and a unique identification number, which the secondary metals recycler
is required to record in his or her records. This bill would require the secondary metals
recycler to maintain this information in the record of the transaction along with the name
and address of both the person receiving consideration for the metal property and the person
delivering the metal property. This bill would also require the secondary metals...
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SB334
166856-1:n:04/01/2015:LLR/mfc LRS2015-1377 SB334 By Senator Holley RFD Education and Youth
Affairs Rd 1 07-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would enable county and municipal boards of education
to approve in their jurisdiction a process of civil enforcement of offenses related to overtaking
a school bus by using automated detection devices, and allowing a civil notice of violation
to be issued by mail. It would provide that the owner of the vehicle is presumptively responsible
but provide procedures to transfer responsibility or to contest the notice of violation. This
bill would allow a law enforcement agency or a local governing entity, in consultation with
a school system, to enter an agreement with a private contractor for the installation, operation,
notice processing, and administration of a school bus automated device. This bill would grant
subject matter jurisdiction to district and municipal courts to adjudicate the civil notice.
This bill would provide procedures for civil action...
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SB290
165024-3:n:03/05/2015:MCS/th LRS2015-809R1 SB290 By Senator Livingston RFD Fiscal Responsibility
and Economic Development Rd 1 19-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Current law provides for the regulation
of heating and air conditioning contracting. This bill would provide additional requirements
for individuals and entities regarding testing for duct tightness. This bill would also provide
for classroom training for home builders through the nonprofit Alabama Home Builders Foundation.
This bill would provide further for the renewal date for certification. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To amend Sections 34-31-18, 34-31-20, 34-31-21, 34-31-24, 34-31-25, and 34-31-26, Code
of Alabama 1975, relating to the regulation of heating and air conditioning contractors, to
include the regulation of the practices of checking duct tightness by the Board of Heating,
Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors; and to provide for the definition of terms,
fees, and training requirements for such practices; to provide...
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SB383
SB383 By Senator Brewbaker ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to the purchase of school textbooks;
to amend Sections 16-36-62, 16-36-64 and 16-36-65, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Sections 16-36-60.1
and 16-36-71 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to 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; to 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; to prohibit the price of any textbook to
exceed the costs already prescribed by law; to clarify that textbooks include digital textbooks
for the purposes of public school textbook purchasing; and to create a Digital Depository
Study Commission to examine the application of a depository to digital material. BE IT ENACTED
BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections...
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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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HB231
Rep(s). By Representative Williams (JD) HB231 ENROLLED, An Act, To amend Sections 34-31-18,
34-31-20, 34-31-21, 34-31-24, 34-31-25, and 34-31-26, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the
regulation of heating and air conditioning contractors, to include the regulation of the practices
of checking duct tightness by the Board of Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Contractors;
and to provide for the definition of terms, fees, and training requirements for such practices;
to provide for classroom training for home builders through the nonprofit Alabama Home Builders
Foundation; and to provide further for the renewal date for certification. BE IT ENACTED BY
THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 34-31-18, 34-31-20, 34-31-21, 34-31-24, 34-31-25,
and 34-31-26, Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read as follows: §34-31-18. "For
the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings herein ascribed
to them unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "(1)...
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SB29
162602-3:n:10/09/2014:LLR/tj LRS2014-2608R2 SB29 By Senator Coleman RFD Banking and Insurance
Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law a debt collector is required to be licensed to
collect debt in Alabama. This bill would require debt buyers and other debt collectors to
possess certain basic information about the debt before initiating collection efforts, including
proof of indebtedness by the consumer, date of the debt, identity of the original creditor,
and itemization of all fees, charges, and payments. This bill would prohibit the collection
of a consumer debt by any party not in possession of at least a copy of the original contract,
or other documentation evidencing the consumer's liability. This bill would require a creditor
and each subsequent holder of the debt to retain and pass on to the next holder all communications
from the consumer concerning the debt and information about all known disputes and defenses.
This bill would allow consumers to record abusive telephone...
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SB241
SB241 By Senator Orr ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to campaign financing; to amend Sections 17-5-2,
17-5-4, 17-5-5, 17-5-6, 17-5-7, 17-5-8, 17-5-9, 17-5-10, 17-5-19, 36-25-3, 36-25-4, 36-25-14,
and 36-25-15, Code of Alabama 1975; to add Sections 17-5-7.2, 17-5-19.1, 17-5-19.2, 17-5-21,
and 36-14-18 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to clarify when campaign contributions and expenditures
are made and would clarify the disposition of a campaign committee and its assets upon its
dissolution or termination; to clarify that legal costs associated with a civil action, criminal
prosecution, or investigation reasonably related to the performance of duties may be paid
using campaign funds; to decrease the civil penalties for failure to properly report contributions
or expenditures; to provide for the payment of civil penalties using campaign funds; and to
authorize the State Ethics Commission to affirm, reduce, or set aside civil penalties, to
take investigative actions of potential criminal...
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HB411
Rep(s). By Representative McCutcheon HB411 ENROLLED, An Act, To amend Sections 8-22-2, 8-22-4,
8-22-8, and 8-22-10, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Motor Fuel Marketing Act; to revise
and clarify legislative intent relating to combined sales of motor fuel and other goods. BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 8-22-2, 8-22-4, 8-22-8, and 8-22-10
of the Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read as follows: §8-22-2. "The Legislature
makes the following findings with respect to the marketing of motor fuel in Alabama: "(1)
Marketing of motor fuel is affected with the public interest. "(2) Unfair competition
in the marketing of motor fuel occurs whenever costs associated with the marketing of motor
fuel are recovered from other operations, allowing the refined motor fuel to be sold at subsidized
prices. Such subsidies most commonly occur in one of three ways: when refiners use profits
from refining of crude oil to cover below normal or negative returns earned...
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