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SB266
XDQ9MZZ-1
By Senators Butler, Roberts, Beasley
RFD: State Governmental Affairs
First Read: 19-Mar-25
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First Read: 19-Mar-25
SYNOPSIS:
Under existing law, the Contract Review
Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee is
responsible for reviewing state contracts for personal
or professional services with private entities or
individuals to be paid out of appropriated state or
federal funds.
This bill would clarify that all occupational
and professional licensing board or commission funds
are subject to review.
This bill would also remove the requirement that
the review of personal or professional services
contracts be limited to those contracts paid out of
appropriated funds issued on a state warrant.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to the Contract Review Permanent Legislative
Oversight Committee; to amend Section 29-2-41, Code of Alabama
1975, to clarify that all occupational and professional
licensing board, commission, and agency funds are subject to
review; and to remove the requirement that the review of
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review; and to remove the requirement that the review of
personal or professional services contracts be limited to
those contracts paid out of appropriated funds issued on a
state warrant.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 29-2-41 of the Code of Alabama 1975,
is amended to read as follows:
"ยง29-2-41
(a) Each member of the committee shall be entitled to
regular legislative compensation, per diem, and travel
expenses for each day he or she attends a meeting of the
committee, which shall be paid out of the funds appropriated
to the use of the Legislature, on warrants drawn on the state
Comptroller upon requisition signed by the committee's chair.
Members shall not receive additional compensation or per diem
when the Legislature is in session. The Department of
Examiners of Public Accounts shall furnish assistance and any
relevant information to the committee.
(b)(1) The committee shall have the responsibility of
reviewing contracts for personal or professional services with
private entities or individuals to be paid out of appropriated
funds, federal or state, on a state warrant issued as
recompense for those services.
(2) Each state department entering into a contract to
be paid out of appropriated funds, federal or state, on a
state warrant which is notified by the committee, shall submit
to the committee any proposed contract for personal or
professional services. Each contract shall be accompanied by
an itemization of the total cost estimate of the contract.
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an itemization of the total cost estimate of the contract.
(c) A department, in lieu of the proposed contract, may
submit to the committee a letter of intent to contract. A
letter of intent to contract shall indicate the contracting
parties, the services to be performed, an itemization of the
total cost estimate of the contract, and such other
information as the department may deem pertinent to the
committee review of the contract. If a department elects to
submit a letter of intent to contract in lieu of a proposed
contract, the department shall be required to submit to the
committee for its information the contract described in the
letter of intent upon the execution of the contract.
(d) The committee shall hold a hearing to review and
comment where necessary on any contract or letter of intent to
contract within a reasonable time not to exceed 45 days after
a department has submitted the contract or letter of intent to
contract to the committee. If the committee fails to hold a
hearing to review a contract or letter of intent to contract
within the 45-day time period, the contract shall be deemed to
have been reviewed in compliance with this section. The
committee may hold a contract considered at a meeting for up
to 45 days following the meeting to review and comment on the
contract.
(e) Any contract made by the state or any of its
agencies or departments in violation of this section and
without prior review by the committee of either the contract
or the letter of intent to contract shall be void ab initio.
(f) The committee may issue subpoenas for any witnesses
and require the production of any documents or contracts the
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and require the production of any documents or contracts the
committee deems necessary to examine in order to conduct its
duties.
(g) The committee shall organize itself at the first
meeting following a new quadrennium and elect from among its
membership a chair and a vice-chair. Any committee member
reelected to a new quadrennium shall continue to serve on the
committee until such time the committee reorganizes itself.
(h) The committee shall hold regular meetings at least
once each month, the regular meetings to be held during the
first week of each month.
(i) For purposes of this section, the term "state
department" or "department" includes, but is not limited to,
occupational or professional licensing boards, commissions,
and agencies."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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