SB179 Alabama 2010 Session

Existing law assesses a construction craft industry fee to be paid by certain employers in the commercial and industrial construction industry in Alabama to fund a program providing for the recruitment of, and training opportunities for, new construction craft trade workers. Existing law provides for the proceeds of the fee to be paid to the 21st Century Authority Fund and disbursed by the 21st Century Authority to the Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute. Existing law also provides for the creation of the institute as a public corporation and for oversight of the institute by the 21st Century Authority

This bill would create a new article in the Code of Alabama 1975, and would amend and renumber various sections of the code to separate the institute from the 21st Century Authority. This bill would remove the Construction Recruitment Institute from the oversight of the 21st Century Authority. This bill would provide further for the duties and powers of the board of the institute

This bill would subject the institute to annual audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts

This bill would authorize the Employees' Retirement System and the State Employees' Insurance Board to provide certain retirement and health insurance benefits to employees of the institute. This bill would also clarify that employees of the institute are not state employees

This bill would provide that the proceeds of the construction craft industry fee minus the administrative costs of the Department of Revenue in administering the fee would be paid directly to the Recruitment Training and Promotion Fund which would be continuously appropriated to the institute. This bill would provide that the portion of the fee previously paid into the 21st Century Fund would be transferred to the Recruitment Training and Promotion Fund. This bill would clarify which employers are subject to the fee and provide further for the effective date. The bill would further provide for the powers of the institute. This bill would provide express authority to the board of the institute to expend the moneys in the Recruitment Training and Promotion Fund for the purposes provided by law

Relating to the 21st Century Authority; to provide further for the Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute and its powers and the Recruitment Training and Promotion Fund; to amend Sections 41-10-621, 41-10-622, 41-10-626, 41-10-629, and 41-10-673, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2009-563, 2009 Regular Session (Acts 2009, p. 1762); to add Article 18 (commencing with Section 41-10-720) to Chapter 10 of Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; to amend and renumber Sections 1 to 6, inclusive, of Act 2009-561, 2009 Regular Session (Acts 2009, p. 1760), now appearing as Sections 41-10-700 to 41-10-705, inclusive, as Division 2 of Article 18 of Chapter 10, Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; to separate the institute from the authority; to authorize certain employees of the institute to receive certain retirement and health insurance benefits upon petition; to provide that employees of the institute are not state employees; to provide for deposit of certain construction craft industry fees into the Recruitment and Promotion Fund in the State Treasury and appropriate the fund to the institute; to provide for the transfer to the Recruitment Training and Promotion Fund of certain fees previously collected and paid to the 21st Century Authority Fund; to clarify which employers are subject to the fee; to provide further for the powers of the institute; to authorize the board of the institute to expend the moneys in the Recruitment Training and Promotion Fund; to subject the institute to annual audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts; and to provide further for the construction craft industry fee.