SB35 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Cam Ward
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Class action lawsuits filed in Alabama, plan for undistributed funds to be distributed to Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Department if class members cannot be located, or if distribution to class is not economically feasible, or if class members do not make a claim to the class funds
Description: This bill would provide that all settlements or orders entering judgment in a class action lawsuit filed in Alabama and governed by Alabama law that results in the creation of a common fund for the benefit of a class shall establish a plan for determining the distribution of the residual remaining funds and the timing of such distribution to the Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention.
Subjects: Civil Procedure

Bill Actions

Pending third reading on day 16 Favorable from Judiciary with 1 substitute

Indefinitely Postponed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary

Bill Text

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Documents

Bill Text (Introduced) SB35 Alabama 2011 Session - Introduced

Source: Alabama Legislature