Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB266 Compare Versions

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5	5	By Senators Butler, Roberts, Beasley
6	6	RFD: State Governmental Affairs
7	7	First Read: 19-Mar-25
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15	15	SYNOPSIS:
16	16	Under existing law, the Contract Review
17	17	Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee is
18	18	responsible for reviewing state contracts for personal
19	19	or professional services with private entities or
20	20	individuals to be paid out of appropriated state or
21	21	federal funds.
22	22	This bill would clarify that all occupational
23	23	and professional licensing board or commission funds
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25	25	This bill would also remove the requirement that
26	26	the review of personal or professional services
27	27	contracts be limited to those contracts paid out of
28	28	appropriated funds issued on a state warrant.
29	29	A BILL
30	30	TO BE ENTITLED
31	31	AN ACT
32	32	Relating to the Contract Review Permanent Legislative
33	33	Oversight Committee; to amend Section 29-2-41, Code of Alabama
34	34	1975, to clarify that all occupational and professional
35	35	licensing board, commission, and agency funds are subject to
36	36	review; and to remove the requirement that the review of
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66	66	review; and to remove the requirement that the review of
67	67	personal or professional services contracts be limited to
68	68	those contracts paid out of appropriated funds issued on a
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70	70	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
71	71	Section 1. Section 29-2-41 of the Code of Alabama 1975,
72	72	is amended to read as follows:
73	73	"§29-2-41
74	74	(a) Each member of the committee shall be entitled to
75	75	regular legislative compensation, per diem, and travel
76	76	expenses for each day he or she attends a meeting of the
77	77	committee, which shall be paid out of the funds appropriated
78	78	to the use of the Legislature, on warrants drawn on the state
79	79	Comptroller upon requisition signed by the committee's chair.
80	80	Members shall not receive additional compensation or per diem
81	81	when the Legislature is in session. The Department of
82	82	Examiners of Public Accounts shall furnish assistance and any
83	83	relevant information to the committee.
84	84	(b)(1) The committee shall have the responsibility of
85	85	reviewing contracts for personal or professional services with
86	86	private entities or individuals to be paid out of appropriated
87	87	funds, federal or state, on a state warrant issued as
88	88	recompense for those services.
89	89	(2) Each state department entering into a contract to
90	90	be paid out of appropriated funds, federal or state, on a
91	91	state warrant which is notified by the committee, shall submit
92	92	to the committee any proposed contract for personal or
93	93	professional services. Each contract shall be accompanied by
94	94	an itemization of the total cost estimate of the contract.
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124	124	an itemization of the total cost estimate of the contract.
125	125	(c) A department, in lieu of the proposed contract, may
126	126	submit to the committee a letter of intent to contract. A
127	127	letter of intent to contract shall indicate the contracting
128	128	parties, the services to be performed, an itemization of the
129	129	total cost estimate of the contract, and such other
130	130	information as the department may deem pertinent to the
131	131	committee review of the contract. If a department elects to
132	132	submit a letter of intent to contract in lieu of a proposed
133	133	contract, the department shall be required to submit to the
134	134	committee for its information the contract described in the
135	135	letter of intent upon the execution of the contract.
136	136	(d) The committee shall hold a hearing to review and
137	137	comment where necessary on any contract or letter of intent to
138	138	contract within a reasonable time not to exceed 45 days after
139	139	a department has submitted the contract or letter of intent to
140	140	contract to the committee. If the committee fails to hold a
141	141	hearing to review a contract or letter of intent to contract
142	142	within the 45-day time period, the contract shall be deemed to
143	143	have been reviewed in compliance with this section. The
144	144	committee may hold a contract considered at a meeting for up
145	145	to 45 days following the meeting to review and comment on the
146	146	contract.
147	147	(e) Any contract made by the state or any of its
148	148	agencies or departments in violation of this section and
149	149	without prior review by the committee of either the contract
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151	151	(f) The committee may issue subpoenas for any witnesses
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182	182	and require the production of any documents or contracts the
183	183	committee deems necessary to examine in order to conduct its
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185	185	(g) The committee shall organize itself at the first
186	186	meeting following a new quadrennium and elect from among its
187	187	membership a chair and a vice-chair. Any committee member
188	188	reelected to a new quadrennium shall continue to serve on the
189	189	committee until such time the committee reorganizes itself.
190	190	(h) The committee shall hold regular meetings at least
191	191	once each month, the regular meetings to be held during the
192	192	first week of each month.
193	193	(i) For purposes of this section, the term "state
194	194	department" or "department" includes, but is not limited to,
195	195	occupational or professional licensing boards, commissions,
196	196	and agencies."
197	197	Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
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