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SB168
SB168 By Senator Holley ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to service dogs; to make it a crime to harass,
injure, or cause the death of a service dog under certain conditions; to provide penalties;
to provide for restitution of certain expenses; and in connection therewith would have as
its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within
the meaning of 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. BE
IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. It is the policy of this state to recognize
the special role and value of service dogs, not only in the lives of those persons who use
them but also in society at large, and to encourage the use of service dogs by persons with
disabilities and to recognize that those persons have a right to use service dogs without
any interference with or injury to the service dog. Section 2. For...
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SB202
171463-1:n:08/17/2015:JET*/th LRS2015-2668 SB202 By Senators Coleman-Madison, Beasley, Singleton,
Pittman, Figures and Sanders RFD Finance and Taxation Education Rd 1 11-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under
current law, each entity, subject to the Alabama corporate income tax, is required to file
a separate return and calculate the income tax on its separately accounted for taxable income,
regardless whether the entity is part of a larger business that consists of an affiliated
group of entities. This filing method allows large corporate taxpayers to take advantage of
tax planning options to shift income to other entities within the affiliated group located
in tax favorable states. Most large corporate businesses consist of a parent corporation and
a number of corporate subsidiaries. This bill would amend the corporate income tax law to
require the operations of all related entities, involved in a unitary business, file one corporate
income tax return on a combined basis, known as combined...
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SB203
SB203 By Senator Bussman ENROLLED, 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 direct appropriation from
the Education Trust Fund; to outline the procedure for the Board to award loans to applicants
and to require participants in the Program to repay loans by working in full-time clinical
practice as licensed dentists in medically underserved areas known as areas of critical need;
to specify the lengths of service required to repay a loan; to require the Board to define
areas of critical need using certain guidelines; to require Program participants to participate
in the state Medicaid program; to create penalties for breach of contract by Program participants;
to modify how the Board may use the list of localities in...
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SB217
SB217 By Senators Ward and Holtzclaw ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to crimes and offenses; to
enact the crime of unlawful entry of a critical infrastructure and to provide criminal penalties;
and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or
increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. (a)
For the purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE. The term includes, but is not limited to, a chemical manufacturing facility,
a refinery, an electrical power generating facility and the area surrounding the facility,
an electrical transmission tower and substation and distribution substation, an electric utility
control center, communication equipment, a switching...
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SB24
164130-3:n:01/14/2016:FC/tj LRS2015-163R2 SB24 By Senator Whatley RFD Finance and Taxation
Education Rd 1 02-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, a sales and use tax of 1.5 percent
is levied by the state on the sale or the use of agricultural machinery and equipment. This
bill would provide that the sale or the use of agricultural machinery and equipment would
be exempt from state sales or use tax. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to agriculture;
to amend Sections 40-23-37 and 40-23-63 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that the sale
or the use, storage, and consumption of agricultural machinery and equipment for use on a
farm would be exempt from state sales and use tax; and to repeal Sections 40-23-38 and 40-23-64
of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the administration of sales and use tax on agricultural
machinery and equipment. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections 40-23-37
and 40-23-63 of the Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read as...
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SB240
SB240 By Senator Ward ENROLLED, An Act, Relating to the Alabama Board of Examiners in Psychology;
to amend Sections 34-26-21, 34-26-41, 34-26-43.1, 34-26-62, 34-26-65, and 34-26-66, Code of
Alabama 1975; to repeal Section 34-26-20, Code of Alabama 1975, to clarify the number and
qualifications of the members of the board; to further specify the procedure for a licensee
to request to be placed on inactive status by authorizing the board to charge an inactive
license fee; to require a criminal background check of each applicant for a license and to
specify the duties of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) in providing background
information; to remove obsolete language; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose
or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning
of 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...
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SB272
174272-1:n:02/17/2016:LFO-HP/bdl SB272 By Senator Dial RFD Finance and Taxation Education Rd
1 18-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the state imposes sales or use taxes upon certain
persons, firms, or corporations. Sales of certain items are taxed at a reduced rate. Sales
of other items are exempt from the taxes. This bill would increase the state sales and use
tax general rate to four and one-half percent on September 1, 2016 and to five percent on
September 1, 2017. This bill would phase out the state sales and use taxes on food over a
two-year period by reducing the rates by two percentage points per year beginning September
1, 2016. This bill would exempt sales of food from the sales and use taxes beginning September
1, 2017. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend Sections 40-23-2 and 40-23-61, Code of Alabama
1975, to increase the state sales and use tax general rates to four and one-half percent on
September 1, 2016 and five percent on September 1, 2017; to phase out the state...
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SB54
SB54 ENGROSSED By Senator Ward A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to the Alabama Trails
Commission; to amend Sections 41-23-140 and 41-23-141, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide
for the membership of the commission and the advisory board; to provide for terms; and to
provide that the commission may be transferred for administrative and staff purposes to another
state agency or department. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Sections
41-23-140 and 41-23-141, Code of Alabama 1975, are amended to read as follows: ยง41-23-140.
"(a) For the purposes of this article, the term trail means any form of paved or unpaved
trail including freshwater and saltwater paddling trails. The term trail user community includes,
but is not limited to, the following: Paved and unpaved trail users, hikers, off-road bicyclists,
users of off-road off-highway vehicles, paddlers, equestrians, disabled outdoor recreational
users, and commercial recreational interests. "(b) There is...
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HB257
164136-2:n:02/16/2016:FC/cj LRS2015-170R1 HB257 By Representative Todd RFD Judiciary Rd 1 18-FEB-16
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, a person who possess marijuana for other than personal use or
who possesses marijuana for personal use and has previously been convicted of unlawful possession
of marijuana in the second degree is guilty of a Class C felony. Under existing law, a person
who possesses marijuana for his or her personal use is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor, punishable
by imprisonment for not more than one year, a fine of not more than six thousand dollars,
or a combination of imprisonment and a fine. This bill would define unlawful possession of
marijuana in the first degree as possession of over one ounce of marijuana and unlawful possession
of marijuana in the second degree as possession of one ounce of marijuana or less. This bill
would make the first offense of unlawful possession of marijuana in the second degree a violation,
punishable by a fine only. A BILL TO BE...
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HB77
172309-1:n:10/14/2015:FC/tj LRS2015-3065 HB77 By Representatives Pringle and Mooney RFD Judiciary
Rd 1 02-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, a person is guilty of criminal trespass if the
person enters or remains unlawfully on property without permission of the owner. A violation
is a misdemeanor. This bill would establish a specific crime of unlawful entry of a critical
infrastructure. A violation would be a Class D felony. 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 unless: it comes within one
of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature
appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the...
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