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HB42
163640-1:n:12/01/2014:LLR/th LRS2014-3639 HB42 By Representative Melton RFD Commerce and Small
Business Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Currently, Alabama does not have a state minimum wage law.
This bill would propose a constitutional amendment to increase the state minimum wage to $9.80
per hour in three steps ending January 1, 2018. This bill would provide that tipped employees'
wages may not fall 30 percent of the minimum wage at any time. The bill would provide for
an increase commencing on January 1, 2020, and every three years thereafter based on the Consumer
Price Index for the July 1st of the year preceding the year of the increase. The bill would
require the State Finance Director to notify the Alabama Department of Labor in writing between
October 1 and October 15 each year preceding a wage adjustment of the percentage to be used
for the cost-of-living adjustment for the next three calendar years. This bill would require
the Alabama Department of Labor to post any change in the...
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HB491
167173-2:n:04/13/2015:DSM*/th LRS2015-1375R1 HB491 By Representatives Mooney, Collins, Weaver,
Nordgren, Wilcox, Beech, Fridy, Hubbard, Rowe, Carns, Wingo, Ainsworth, Lee, Patterson, Holmes
(M), Polizos, Ingram, Sells, Johnson (R), Williams (JW), Hanes, Ledbetter, Whorton (R), Henry,
Gaston, Pringle, Sessions, Faust, Shedd, Hill (M), Greer, Standridge, Wood, Ball, Sanderford,
Farley, Rich, Moore (B), Boothe, Clouse, Baker, Shiver, Beckman, McMillan, Williams (JD),
Brown, Drake, Davis, Johnson (K), Hammon, McCutcheon, Butler, Treadaway, Pettus and Harper
RFD Health Rd 1 14-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would give health care providers the following:
The authority to refuse to perform or to participate in health care services that violate
their conscience; immunity from civil, criminal, or administrative liability for refusing
to provide or participate in a health care service that violates their conscience. This bill
would declare it unlawful for any person to discriminate against health...
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SB147
SB147 By Senator Blackwell ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to insurance regulation by the Department
of Insurance; to amend Section 27-2-24, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide procedures for reports
of examination of insurance companies consistent with the model act developed by the National
Association of Insurance Commissioners; to require an examiner to file a verified report of
examination within 60 days of completion of an examination; to allow the insurer 30 days to
file a rebuttal, after which time the Commissioner of Insurance could order the adoption of
the report or the rejection of the report with direction to reopen the examination or call
for a hearing; to require the commissioner to hold the content of an examination as private
and confidential for a certain period and thereafter make the report open for public inspection,
with certain exceptions; to require the commissioner to hold all documents, material, or other
information created, produced, or obtained by or disclosed to...
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HB126
165079-2:n:03/03/2015:LLR/agb LRS2015-837R1 HB126 By Representative Martin RFD Economic Development
and Tourism Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Currently, any municipality, excluding municipalities
in Clay, Randolph, and Blount Counties, having a population of 1,000 or more may determine
by a local option election whether alcoholic beverages may be legally sold and distributed
within the corporate limits of the municipalities. This bill would decrease the population
threshold from 1,000 to 500 for municipalities to change from dry to wet. This bill would
remove the exception for municipalities in Clay, Randolph, and Blount Counties which would
allow them to determine by a local option election whether alcoholic beverages may be legally
sold and distributed within the corporate limits of the municipalities. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To amend Sections 28-2A-1 and 28-2A-3, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to municipal
option elections as to the sale of alcoholic beverages within municipalities;...
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HB155
156834-13:e:02/28/2015:EBO-KB/br HB155 By Representative Poole RFD Ways and Means Education
Rd 1 05-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill makes appropriations for the support, maintenance and development
of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2016. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To make appropriations for the support,
maintenance and development of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital
outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF
ALABAMA: Section 1. There is hereby appropriated for the support of public education in Alabama
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, for debt service, and for capital outlay to
be paid out of funds specified in subsection (a) of Section 2 of this act, the amounts specified
in subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e) of Section 3 of this act. For the purpose specified
in subsection (b) of Section 2 of this act, amounts are...
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HB43
163521-2:n:11/26/2014:FC/tj LRS2014-3515R1 HB43 By Representative Johnson (R) RFD Boards, Agencies
and Commissions Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the Alabama Municipal Electric
Authority is a public corporation comprised of member municipalities which purchases and otherwise
provides electric power for distribution by participating municipalities to their citizens.
The authority is governed by a board of directors of nine members which number was originally
based on the number of member municipalities participating in the authority. Currently, 13
municipalities participate in the authority. The terms of board members are for three years
and the terms are staggered. Also, under existing law, the board members are not provided
compensation and the accounting firm that audits the authority is required to be a nationally
recognized accounting firm. This bill would provide that the number of board members of the
authority would equal the number of municipalities participating...
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HB495
164661-4:n:04/09/2015:MCS/th LRS2015-513R3 HB495 By Representatives Mooney, Henry, Hubbard,
Hill (M), Fridy, Drake, Carns, Wingo, Holmes (M) and Beech RFD State Government Rd 1 14-APR-15
SYNOPSIS: The bill would further specify Alabama's status as a right to work state. A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to prohibited practices relating to employer and employee relationships;
to prohibit local governmental entities from requiring leave for employees of employers; to
prohibit interfering with an employer's right to obtain background information about employees
and prospective employees; and to provide for the Alabama Employment Fairness Act to retain
the authority of the state to regulate collective bargaining under federal labor laws. BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. (a) The Legislature recognizes that fair,
secure, and safe workplaces are critical to high employer and employee productivity and that
increased employer and employee productivity improves the...
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HB509
164943-3:n:04/16/2015:KBH/th LRS2015-719R2 HB509 By Representative Williams (JD) RFD Commerce
and Small Business Rd 1 16-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: Existing law does not specifically provide for
the operation of a transportation network company (TNC) in the state. A TNC is a company that
uses an online-enabled digital network to connect TNC riders with TNC drivers who use their
personal vehicles to transport the TNC riders on a prearranged ride. This bill would authorize
the operation of a TNC in the state and would require the Alabama Public Service Commission
to issue annual permits for a fee and to promulgate rules consistent with this act. This bill
would provide for fares charged for a prearranged ride and would require the TNC to send an
electronic receipt of the fees charged to the TNC rider. This bill would require certain TNC
and TNC driver insurance requirements, including TNC and insurer disclosure requirements regarding
insurance coverage and limits of liability. This bill would...
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HB617
168687-1:n:05/04/2045:LLR*/th LRS2015-1860 HB617 By Representative Warren RFD Ways and Means
General Fund Rd 1 05-MAY-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, a person who owns or operates, or
both, a motor vehicle that uses natural gas does not have to obtain an annual decal from the
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board or remit the motor fuel excise tax prescribed in Article 3A
of Chapter 17 of Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975, until October 1, 2016. This bill would establish
a uniform motor fuel and enforcement system for the collection of excise tax on compressed
natural gas and liquefied natural gas. This bill would provide for civil and criminal penalties
for a violation. 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...
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SB104
164850-1:n:02/24/2015:JET/cj LRS2015-599 SB104 By Senator Orr RFD Education & Youth Affairs
Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Existing law provides for the adoption of policies by public school
systems pertaining to the prevention of harassment of one student against another student
and requires the Department of Education to develop a model policy for local boards of education
pertaining to student harassment prevention. This bill would create the crime of cyber-bullying
of another student or school employee by a student and provide for penalties and restitution.
This bill would allow prosecutors to defer prosecution of cyber-bullying crimes and provide
for the expungement of the criminal record of the student under certain conditions. This bill
would require school employees to report cyber-bullying incidents and would provide immunity
from civil liability for persons reporting cyber-bullying. Amendment 621 of the Constitution
of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the...
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