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HB313
173595-1:n:02/18/2016:EBO-DHC/jk HB313 By Representative Clouse RFD Ways and Means General
Fund Rd 1 24-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill will be known as the Alabama Prison Transformation
Initiative Act. This bill would provide for the construction of four modern, efficient prison
facilities to reduce overcrowding, to improve safety conditions for corrections officers,
to allow for additional inmate re-entry programs and to improve operational practices and
procedures. This bill would require increased reporting to the Joint Legislative Prison Committee.
Under existing law, the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority is authorized to
issue bonds for prison construction purposes. The Authority is required to construct facilities
using plans and specifications of architects or engineers, or both. This bill would also allow
the Authority to construct women's and regional prison facilities using various types of construction
agreements. This bill would allow the Authority to issue...
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HB416
174954-1:n:03/01/2016:LLR/mfc LRS2016-81R1 HB416 By Representative England RFD County and Municipal
Government Rd 1 15-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would authorize the city council or other governing
body of a municipality to adopt a municipal ordinance providing for parking enforcement and
collection. This bill would provide for parking enforcement civil violations. This bill would
authorize each municipality to adopt a municipal ordinance consistent with this act. This
bill would provide certain procedures to be followed by the municipality for parking enforcement.
This bill would provide that the owner of the vehicle unlawfully parked shall be presumptively
liable for a parking violation and the payment of a civil fine, but providing procedures to
contest liability. This bill would provide for jurisdiction in the municipal court of the
municipality over the civil violations and allow appeals to the circuit court of the county
where the municipality is situated for trial de novo...
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SB243
SB243 By Senator Reed ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to universities; to enact the University Authority
Act of 2016, to authorize constitutionally created public universities and public universities
operating schools of medicine to form a new type of public corporation to be called an authority;
to express legislative intent; to establish procedures for incorporation of authorities by
universities; to prescribe requirements for and powers of a board of directors and officers
of an authority; to prescribe powers of an authority, which includes the power to form university
affiliates; to authorize authorities to exercise their powers even if the exercise of such
powers would be deemed anticompetitive or monopolistic under federal or state antitrust laws;
to grant authorities the power of eminent domain; to authorize authorities to issue obligations
such as bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebtedness; to authorize liens on the revenues
and assets of an authority or a university...
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SB301
173229-1:n:02/04/2016:PMG/mfc LRS2016-261 SB301 By Senator Orr RFD Fiscal Responsibility and
Economic Development Rd 1 24-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, title loan lenders are not
licensed. This bill would provide for the licensure and regulation of title loan lenders by
the State Banking Department. This bill would prescribe maximum annual interest rates for
title loans. This bill would prescribe procedures when there is a default of a title loan.
This bill would prohibit the issuance of a title loan to a person under the age of 19 years.
This bill would provide for the enforcement of the act by fines and criminal penalties. 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...
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SB334
164253-3:n:03/01/2016:PMG/mfc LRS2015-233R2 SB334 By Senators Orr and Bussman RFD Finance and
Taxation Education Rd 1 08-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, a high school student may
take college courses if it fits into his or her schedule. This bill would establish a program
allowing eligible 11th and 12th grade students admitted unconditionally to an eligible Alabama
public postsecondary institution to take all courses at the eligible public institution and
receive high school credit for the coursework with the goal of completing graduation and high
school diploma requirements. This bill would authorize the Department of Education to pay
an institution of higher learning for courses taken pursuant to the program through appropriation
of state funds, the amount being the lesser of either the actual cost of tuition or the amount
the student would have earned for the local school system had the student been in equivalent
instructional programs in the school system. This bill would...
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SB17
172859-1:n:01/06/2016:LFO-SS/bdl SB17 By Senators Dial and McClendon RFD Finance and Taxation
Education Rd 1 02-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the Alabama Ahead Act, commencing with
the 2012-2013 school year, phased in the provision of textbooks and other instructional materials
to students and teachers in electronic format through pen-enabled tablets and mobile computers.
The law provides for the reassignment of the tablets and mobile computers to students, requires
the State Department of Education to establish an advisory committee, and provides for a bond
issue. The law authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to issue bonds for
the purposes of the law contingent upon a separate legislative enactment. This bill, commencing
with the 2016-2017 school year, would delete the requirement that the tablets and mobile computers
be pen-enabled, would delete the phase-in provisions, would delete the reassignment provisions,
would delete the requirement for the...
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SB5
170635-1:n:06/05/2015:LFO-SS/bdl SB5 By Senator Dial RFD Finance and Taxation Education Rd
1 02-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the Alabama Ahead Act, commencing with the 2012-2013
school year, phased in the provision of textbooks and other instructional materials to students
and teachers in electronic format through pen-enabled tablets and mobile computers. The law
provides for the reassignment of the tablets and mobile computers to students, requires the
State Department of Education to establish an advisory committee, and provides for a bond
issue. The law authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to issue bonds for
the purposes of the law contingent upon a separate legislative enactment. This bill, commencing
with the 2015-2016 school year, would delete the requirement that the tablets and mobile computers
be pen-enabled, would delete the phase-in provisions, would delete the reassignment provisions,
would delete the requirement for the establishment of an...
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SB124
SB124 By Senator Pittman ENROLLED, An Act, To make an appropriation of $37,430,811 from the
Children First Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, to the entities and
for the purposes designated in Section 41-15B-2.2, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for the
deposit of tobacco settlement revenues into the Children First Trust Fund; to require written
notification of anticipated agency allocations by the State Director of Finance; to require
quarterly allocations; to condition allocations on receipt of tobacco revenues; to provide
for the transfer to the State General Fund during fiscal year 2016 that portion of Children
First Trust Fund receipts currently allocated for the State Board of Education; to make an
appropriation of $44,537,126 from other tobacco settlement funds for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2017; and to make a conditional appropriation and allocation of additional tobacco
revenues upon the recommendation of the Director of Finance, the Chairman...
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HB218
Rep(s). By Representatives Drake, Carns, Alexander, Grimsley, Fridy, Shedd, Butler, Farley,
Scott, Fincher, Wadsworth, Holmes (M), Sells, Daniels, Hill (J), McCutcheon and Treadaway
HB218 ENROLLED, An Act, To amend Section 16-6B-2, Code of Alabama 1975, to require that instruction
in handwriting for elementary school students include instruction in cursive writing by the
end of the third grade year. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. This
act shall be known and may be cited as Lexi's Law.Section 2. Section 16-6B-2 of the Code of
Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows: ยง16-6B-2. "Every Alabama student shall
be given instruction in grades kindergarten through twelve to prepare him or her to enter
the world of work and/or to complete course work at the postsecondary level. In addition to
a comprehensive core curriculum of academics, each local board of education shall offer a
program of vocational/technical education. "(a) The following words and phrases used
in...
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HB102
172962-1:g:01/12/2016:EBO-KB/ebo-mej HB102 By Representative Sells RFD Ways and Means General
Fund Rd 1 03-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, Children First Trust Fund programs are required
to be funded through a separate appropriation in a separate act. This bill would make an appropriation
of $37,430,811 from the Children First Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2017, to the entities and for the purposes designated in Section 41-15B-2.2, Code of Alabama
1975. This bill would provide for the deposit of tobacco settlement revenues into the Children
First Trust Fund, would require the State Director of Finance to notify each agency in writing
of the amount of each agency's anticipated allocation, would require quarterly allocation
to each agency, and would condition allocations upon the receipt of tobacco funds. This bill
would provide for the transfer to the State General Fund during fiscal year 2017 that portion
of Children First Trust Fund receipts currently...
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