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HB389
175422-1:n:03/08/2016:PMG/th LRS2016-1030 HB389 By Representatives Patterson, Hanes, Pettus,
Whorton (R), Ledbetter, Rowe, Treadaway and Ball RFD State Government Rd 1 10-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS:
Existing law provides a defined benefit retirement plan for any public employee who is first
hired on or after January 1, 2013, by an employer who participates in the Teachers' Retirement
System or the Employees' Retirement System. This bill would redefine the term "Tier I
Plan Member" to include any person who, regardless of his or her date of employment,
is employed as a correctional officer, firefighter, law enforcement officer, or state policeman.
This bill would also redefine the term "Tier II Plan Member" to exclude a person
hired as a correctional officer, firefighter, law enforcement officer, or state policeman.
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Sections 36-27-1, 36-27-16, and 36-27-24, Code of Alabama
1975, relating to retirement; to define certain terms relating to the Retirement Systems...
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HB226
173621-1:n:02/08/2016:EBO-KB/jk HB226 By Representatives Rowe, Fridy, Henry, Hill (M), McCutcheon,
Treadaway, Rich, Patterson, South, Wood, Robinson, Moore (M) and Scott RFD Ways and Means
Education Rd 1 11-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under current law, the Board of Dental Scholarship Awards
gives scholarships for dental students in Alabama. This bill would amend Sections 16-47-76,
16-47-77, 16-47-78, 16-47-79, 16-47-80, and 16-47-81, Code of Alabama, 1975, to authorize
the Alabama Dental Service Program. This bill would provide for the administration of the
Program and would provide that the Program would be funded by appropriations from the Education
Trust Fund. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Sections 16-47-76, 16-47-77, 16-47-78, 16-47-79,
16-47-80, and 16-47-81, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Board of Dental Scholarship
Awards; to establish and describe the Alabama Dental Service Program, to be established and
operated by the Board; to state that the program shall be funded by...
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HB159
173640-1:n:02/09/2016:DSM*/th LRS2016-494 HB159 By Representatives Mooney, Weaver, Fridy, Rowe,
Williams (JD), Whorton (I), Williams (JW), Hanes, Ledbetter, Whorton (R), Butler, Hammon,
Wingo, Fincher, Beech and Greer RFD Health Rd 1 09-FEB-16 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
care providers for declining to participate in a health care service that violates their conscience.
The bill would also provide for injunctive relief and back pay for violation. A BILL TO BE
ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to health care, to allow health care providers to decline to perform
any health care service that violates their conscience...
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HB183
173116-1:n:01/20/2016:DSM*/mfc LRS2016-134 HB183 By Representative Rich RFD Health Rd 1 11-FEB-16
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law a physician and other qualified persons must provide certain
information to a woman at least 48 hours before performance of an abortion. This bill would
require an abortion provider to privately provide the woman with additional written and oral
information including a sonogram portraying the entire body of the unborn child and specific
information regarding that child as disclosed by the sonogram. This bill would impose certain
notice requirements and provide penalties for violations. 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...
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HB78
164053-1:n:11/03/2015:JET/tj LRS2015-2820 HB78 By Representative Pringle RFD State Government
Rd 1 02-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would establish the Alabama Cooperative Housing Corporation
Act of 2016, to regulate cooperatives, a form of ownership of real property in which legal
title is vested in a corporation or other entity, and the cooperative unit's occupants receive
an exclusive right to occupy the unit. This bill would require any cooperative housing corporation
formed after January 1, 2017, to organize under the Alabama Nonprofit Corporation Act, and
be subject to all the duties, requirements, obligations, rights, and privileges under the
act, and would require the filing of certain cooperative documents with the Secretary of State.
This bill would require the Secretary of State to implement and maintain an electronic database,
organized by cooperative name and accessible by the public through the Secretary of State's
website, with the capability to search and retrieve...
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SB355
175655-2:n:03/15/2016:MCS/th LRS2016-1065 SB355 By Senator Pittman RFD Finance and Taxation
General Fund Rd 1 15-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: Currently, a tax on certain insurance premiums is offset
by certain credits, including credits for insurance office facilities and real property investments.
This bill would eliminate the real property investment credit and would revise the credits
provided for certain office facilities to apply based on the number of insurance company employees
in the state. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Section 27-4A-3, Code of Alabama 1975,
relating to a tax on certain insurance premiums and credits for certain facilities and real
estate investments; to remove certain credits for the investments; and to eliminate the credit
for facilities and replace it with credits for the number of employees of insurance carriers.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 27-4A-3, Code of Alabama 1975,
is amended to read as follows: §27-4A-3. "(a) Subject...
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HB468
176199-1:n:03/23/2016:LFO-LC*/csh HB468 By Representatives Williams (P), Greer and Ball RFD
State Government Rd 1 23-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill provides certain governance provisions
that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers Retirement System and the Employees
Retirement System. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to retirement; to amend Sections
16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama 1975, to specify certain governance
provisions that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers Retirement System and
the Employees Retirement System. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1.
Sections 16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama 1975, are hereby amended
to read as follows: §16-25-19. "(a) The general administration and responsibility for
the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective the provisions of this
chapter are hereby vested in a board of trustees which shall be known as...
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SB387
176199-1:n:03/23/2016:LFO-LC*/csh SB387 By Senators Stutts, Bussman and Pittman RFD Fiscal
Responsibility and Economic Development Rd 1 05-APR-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill provides certain
governance provisions that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers Retirement
System and the Employees Retirement System. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to retirement;
to amend Sections 16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama 1975, to specify
certain governance provisions that shall apply to the Boards of Control of the Teachers
Retirement System and the Employees Retirement System. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 16-25-19, 16-25-20, 36-27-23, and 36-27-25, Code of Alabama
1975, are hereby amended to read as follows: §16-25-19. "(a) The general administration
and responsibility for the proper operation of the retirement system and for making effective
the provisions of this chapter are hereby vested in a board of trustees...
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SB279
174395-1:n:02/22/2016:JLB/mfc LRS2016-712 SB279 By Senator Dial RFD Governmental Affairs Rd
1 23-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the State Ethics Commission may issue advisory opinions
which provide immunity to the person requesting the opinion and any other person relying on
the opinion in good faith. Existing rules of the commission authorize the director and general
counsel of the commission to issue informal opinions on the application of the Code of Ethics
to a particular individual, but an informal opinion does not provide immunity. This bill would
establish a procedure for the issuance by the director or an attorney of the commission of
written informal opinions to public officers or employees that would provide immunity to the
officer or employee making the request if all pertinent information was presented and the
officer or employee acted in accordance with the relevant circumstances, factors, and requirements
set forth in the opinion. Under existing law, an elected...
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SB330
175097-1:n:03/07/2016:PMG/th LRS2016-916 SB330 By Senator Ward RFD Banking and Insurance Rd
1 08-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, lenders of $1,000 or less are licensed and regulated
under the Alabama Small Loan Act. This bill would authorize non-bank lenders to issue short-term
unsecured loans, known as flex loans. This bill would provide for the licensure and regulation
of lenders of flex loans by the State Banking Department. This bill would establish the maximum
interest rate and maximum duration of a flex loan and provide for fees that may be charged
to a customer. This bill would set qualifications, including financial guarantees, for lenders
and provide civil penalties for violations by lenders. This bill would also authorize the
State Banking Department to enforce the provisions of this act and promulgate rules. A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to short-term loans; to authorize non-bank lenders to issue
short-term unsecured loans, known as flex loans; to provide for...
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