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SB63
156850-1:g:01/16/2014:FC/tan LRS2014-235 SB63 By Senator Sanders RFD Judiciary Rd 1 03-MAR-15
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, in a capital case, the jury may recommend to the court the sentence
of a person convicted of a capital offense, but the court is not required to accept the jury's
recommendation. This bill would prohibit a court from overriding a verdict by a jury in a
capital case. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Sections 13A-5-45, 13A-5-46, and 13A-5-47,
Code of Alabama 1975, relating to capital cases and to the determination of the sentence by
courts; to prohibit a court from overriding a jury verdict. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 13A-5-45, 13A-5-46, 13A-5-47, Code of Alabama 1975, are amended
to read as follows: §13A-5-45. "(a) Upon conviction of a defendant for a capital offense,
the trial court shall conduct a separate sentence hearing to determine whether the defendant
shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole or to...
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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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HB572
168543-1:n:04/29/2015:LFO-KF/bdl HB572 By Representative Todd RFD Ways and Means General Fund
Rd 1 30-APR-15 SYNOPSIS: Currently, the State of Alabama levies a tax on various tobacco products.
This bill would increase the tax on cigarettes from $.425 a pack to $.675 a pack and provide
for its distribution. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Section 40-25-2, Code of Alabama
1975, as amended by Act 2014 (2014 Regular Session) relating to the state tax on tobacco products,
to increase the tax on cigarettes and provide for its distribution. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 40-25-2, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows:
§40-25-2. "(a) In addition to all other taxes of every kind now imposed by law, every
person, firm, corporation, club, or association, within the State of Alabama, who sells or
stores or receives for the purpose of distribution to any person, firm, corporation, club,
or association within the State of Alabama, cigars,...
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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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SB272
165767-2:n:03/17/2015:JMH/cj LRS2015-1038R1 SB272 By Senators Stutts, Melson, Albritton, and
Glover RFD Judiciary Rd 1 18-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, sodomy in the second degree
requires both lack of consent due to mental defect and that the perpetrator be more than 16
and the victim be under 16 years of age, but older than 12 years of age. Under existing law,
sodomy in the first degree requires forcible compulsion or that the victim possess a mental
defect or be physically helpless, or the perpetrator be more than 16 years of age and the
victim less than 12 years of age. Under existing law, a person under age 16 is incapable of
consent. Under existing law, one circumstance in which a person commits the crime of sexual
misconduct is when he or she engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person under
circumstances not covered by sodomy in the first degree or sodomy in the second degree, and
consent is not a defense to prosecution under this circumstance regardless of...
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HB374
165767-2:n:03/17/2015:JMH/cj LRS2015-1038R1 HB374 By Representatives Rowe, Hill (M), Ball,
Pettus, Rich, Wood, Greer, Fridy, McCutcheon, Treadaway, South, Henry, Boothe, Givan, Harper,
Weaver and Faulkner RFD Judiciary Rd 1 31-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, sodomy in the
second degree requires both lack of consent due to mental defect and that the perpetrator
be more than 16 and the victim be under 16 years of age, but older than 12 years of age. Under
existing law, sodomy in the first degree requires forcible compulsion or that the victim possess
a mental defect or be physically helpless, or the perpetrator be more than 16 years of age
and the victim less than 12 years of age. Under existing law, a person under age 16 is incapable
of consent. Under existing law, one circumstance in which a person commits the crime of sexual
misconduct is when he or she engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person under
circumstances not covered by sodomy in the first degree or...
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HB45
164126-1:n:01/14/2015:LLR/tj LRS2015-159 HB45 By Representative Todd RFD Ways and Means General
Fund Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Currently, the State of Alabama levies a tax on various tobacco
products. This bill would increase the tax on cigarettes from $.42.5 a pack to $.75 a pack
and provide for its distribution. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Section 40-25-2, Code
of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2014 (2014 Regular Session) relating to the state tax on
tobacco products, to increase the tax on cigarettes and provide for its distribution. BE IT
ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 40-25-2, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows: §40-25-2. "(a) In addition to all other taxes of every kind
now imposed by law, every person, firm, corporation, club, or association, within the State
of Alabama, who sells or stores or receives for the purpose of distribution to any person,
firm, corporation, club, or association within the State of Alabama, cigars,...
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HB47
Rep(s). By Representative England HB47 ENGROSSED A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to firearms;
to amend Sections 13A-11-57, 13A-11-61.2, 13A-11-72, 13A-11-76, 13A-11-79, 22-52-10.8, 40-12-143,
Code of Alabama 1975, to allow a person under the age of 18 to receive or possess a pistol
under certain conditions; provide that a minor may receive title to a pistol, bowie knife,
or other knife of like kind by inheritance; to specify that a person may possess a firearm
or ammunition in an employee's privately owned vehicle while parked or operated in a public
or private parking area at a secure building where firearms are otherwise prohibited; to further
provide for the entry of certain mental health information into the National Instant Criminal
Background Check System (NICS); to allow a person who has been found insane, mentally incompetent,
or not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to petition for the removal of applicable
firearm prohibitions; to eliminate certain...
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SB21
SB21 ENGROSSED By Senator Ward A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to the Open Meetings Act
of 2005; to amend Sections 36-25A-1, 36-25A-2, 36-25A-3, and 36-25A-9, Code of Alabama 1975,
to define and prohibit serial meetings; to further define deliberation, governmental body,
and meeting to apply to the exchange of information or ideas among a quorum of members of
a committee, subcommittee, or full governmental body intended to arrive at or influence a
decision as to how any members of the governmental body should vote on a specific matter that,
at the time of the exchange, the participating members expect to come before the committee,
subcommittee, or full governmental body immediately following the discussion or at a later
time; to clarify that the Alabama Legislature is solely governed by the Alabama Constitution
which establishes that the doors of each house of the Alabama Legislature shall be open to
the public except when secrecy is required under the circumstances and that no...
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HB225
164479-2:n:02/25/2015:FC/th LRS2015-434R1 HB225 By Representative Lindsey RFD County and Municipal
Government Rd 1 10-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, counties may contract with the United
States, with the State of Alabama, and with other counties, but there is no general authority
for the county commission to contract with municipalities. This bill would authorize counties
to contract with municipalities in the state. Under existing law, county commissioners are
prohibited from contracting with the county or hiring family members. This bill would clarify
existing law to provide that a county commissioner may not contract with the county personally
or through his or her business and may not participate in the hiring of a family member. Additionally,
the bill would define family member as that term is defined in the state ethics law. Under
existing law, two or more counties may enter into agreements to self-fund liability and workers'
compensation insurance, but are not authorized...
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