SB347
174366-2:n:03/09/2016:JMH/cj LRS2016-746R1 SB347 By Senators Bussman and Singleton RFD Agriculture,
Conservation, and Forestry Rd 1 10-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would authorize the Department
of Agriculture and Industries to administer an industrial hemp research program.
This bill would allow the department or an institution of higher learning could apply for
a permit or waiver to grow industrial hemp for the manufacture of hemp
products. This bill would revise the definition of marijuana in the controlled substances
law to exclude industrial hemp. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to industrial
hemp; to authorize the Department of Agriculture and Industries to administer an industrial
hemp research program; to authorize the production of industrial hemp
to be used for the manufacture of industrial hemp products; and to amend Section
20-2-2, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for the definition of marijuana. BE IT ENACTED
BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. This act...
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HB324
174367-1:n:02/23/2016:JMH/th LRS2016-726 HB324 By Representative Hill (J) RFD Judiciary Rd
1 25-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the maximum fee that counsel appointed to represent
an indigent defendant may collect is based on the degree of severity of the original charge
or the type of case to which the counsel is appointed. Under existing law, where the original
charge is a Class A felony, appointed counsel may collect a maximum of $4,000 for legal services.
This bill would authorize the court or the Director of Indigent Defense Services to waive
the $4,000 maximum in certain cases where the original charge was a Class A felony. This bill
would require a court waiving the limit to enter an order specifying the reasons for the waiver.
This bill would also require the director to submit a memo to the state Finance Director explaining
the reasons for any waiver granted by the director. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend
Section 15-12-21 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by...
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HB446
175363-1:n:03/08/2016:JET/th LRS2016-1014 HB446 By Representative Jones RFD Judiciary Rd 1
17-MAR-16 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, there are certain periods of confinement that may
be imposed for parolees and probationers who violate the terms of parole or probation, with
exceptions. Furthermore, significant revisions were made to the criminal justice, corrections,
and probation and parole systems during the 2015 Regular Session (Act 2015-185). This bill
would further clarify certain provisions of Act 2015-185, 2015 Regular Session, including
clarification of when modifications to the initial voluntary sentencing standards are effective
and the periods of confinement that may be imposed for violations and would specify that,
prior to the imposition of confinement, the parolee or probationer must be presented with
a written violation report. This bill would modify the predicate monetary values of theft
of property in the third degree, theft of lost property in the third degree, theft of...
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SB328
174367-1:n:02/23/2016:JMH/th LRS2016-726 SB328 By Senator Whatley RFD Judiciary Rd 1 08-MAR-16
SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the maximum fee that counsel appointed to represent an indigent
defendant may collect is based on the degree of severity of the original charge or the type
of case to which the counsel is appointed. Under existing law, where the original charge is
a Class A felony, appointed counsel may collect a maximum of $4,000 for legal services. This
bill would authorize the court or the Director of Indigent Defense Services to waive the $4,000
maximum in certain cases where the original charge was a Class A felony. This bill would require
a court waiving the limit to enter an order specifying the reasons for the waiver. This bill
would also require the director to submit a memo to the state Finance Director explaining
the reasons for any waiver granted by the director. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To amend
Section 15-12-21 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act...
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HB41
Rep(s). By Representative Chesteen HB41 ENROLLED, 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 2016-2017 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 delete the requirement
for the establishment of an advisory committee; to establish the Alabama Ahead Oversight Committee;
to make participation by local school systems voluntary; to provide that funds be used to
purchase and install, maintain or upgrade 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; and to amend Section 14 of Act 2012-560, 2012 Regular
Session, to delete the requirement that implementation of the act be contingent upon separate
legislative enactment. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF...
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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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SB351
SB351 ENGROSSED By Senators McClendon and Dial 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 2016-2017 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 delete the requirement for the establishment of an advisory committee; to establish the
Alabama Ahead Oversight Committee; to make participation by local school systems voluntary;
to provide that funds be used to purchase and install, maintain or upgrade 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; and to amend Section
14 of Act 2012-560, 2012 Regular Session, to delete the requirement that implementation of
the act be contingent upon separate legislative enactment. BE IT ENACTED BY...
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HB157
170702-1:n:06/24/2015:JET/th LRS2015-2337 HB157 By Representatives Mooney, Weaver, Harper,
Fridy, Chesteen, Lee, Ledbetter, Wilcox, Millican, Greer, Pettus, Hanes, Holmes (M), Robinson,
Whorton (I), McCutcheon, Williams (JD), Butler, Harbison, Hammon, Wingo and Beech RFD Health
Rd 1 09-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: This bill would establish the Assisted Suicide Ban Act to prohibit
a person or a health care provider from providing aid in dying to another person and would
provide civil and criminal 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 unless: it comes within one
of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity;...
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HB283
163367-1:n:10/10/2014:FC/tj LRS2014-3361 HB283 By Representative Polizos RFD Montgomery County
Legislation Rd 1 23-FEB-16 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To create the Montgomery County Planning
Commission; to provide for the organization membership, powers, personnel, jurisdiction, and
financial and legal status of the planning commission; to authorize the planning commission
to adopt a master plan and zoning regulations for the development of the unincorporated area
of Montgomery County; to provide for an election in each precinct prior to the application
of the authority of the planning commission in the precinct; to authorize the planning commission
to zone under certain conditions in the unincorporated areas within Montgomery County and
provide a procedure for the amendment of zoning regulations; to prohibit zoning regulations
from being retroactive; to provide remedies for the enforcement of the provisions of this
act; to provide exceptions to the zoning regulations; and to provide...
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HB199
173502-1:n:02/05/2016:LFO-KF*/bdl HB199 By Representative Poole RFD Ways and Means Education
Rd 1 11-FEB-16 SYNOPSIS: In order to further provide for efficient and effective budgeting
of the revenues of the state, this bill amends the Budget Management Act of 1976 so as to
provide for biennial budget periods, annual fiscal accounting, and performance review. Provision
is made for the State General Fund and the Education Trust Fund biennial budgets to be considered
on alternate years, enrolling sufficient financial detail into each budget so as to adequately
define each source of revenue and totals for each budgeted program, cost center, and line
item in each budget and the entire appropriation bill by each source of revenue, and to further
provide for performance review of the state agencies, departments, boards, bureaus, the Legislature,
and institutions of the state. This bill becoming law is contingent upon the constitutional
amendment proposed by HB ___ providing for biennial...
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