HB241 Alabama 2012 Session

Under existing law, the Division of Purchasing in the Department of Finance is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system for the purchase of personal property by state departments, agencies, boards, and institutions. Act 2009-763, 2009 Regular Session, expanded certain duties of the Purchasing Agent and the Purchasing Division including providing for joint purchasing agreements, accepting electronic signatures on purchasing documents, allowing multiple awards on certain contracts, and authorizing the division to charge a fee for vendor registration on certain operating costs

Act 2009-763 also repealed certain sections of the Code of Alabama 1975, requiring printing and binding of the Acts and Resolutions of Alabama for each session of the Legislature

This bill would replace certain provisions related to reproducing and publishing the House and Senate Journals and the Acts of Alabama that existed as statutes before their repeal in Act 2009-763. This bill would provide for the duties of the Clerk of the House, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Secretary of State with regard to the publication of copies of the bills and joint resolutions passed by the Legislature and would provide for the duties of the Legislative Reference Service with regard to the index to the acts. This bill would require that copies of the bills and resolutions be delivered to the vendor within a specified time period and would provide a penalty for failure to deliver copies of the acts and resolutions within the specified time period

This bill would provide a maximum size for each volume of acts and resolutions. This act requires the bound volume to contain the names and addresses of certain state officials

This bill would provide a specified time period for the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate to deliver the journals to the vendor and a time for the vendor to complete the reproduction of the journals and acts

Relating to compiling, reproducing, and publishing the journals of the House of Representatives and the Senate and the official acts and resolutions; to designate Division and Division 2 of Article 1, Chapter 1 of Title 29, Code of Alabama 1975; to renumber Sections 29-1-12 and 29-1-13, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide a procedure for reproducing the acts and journals; to provide certification of the acts by the Secretary of State; to provide for the preparation of an index; to provide for the paper, type, and size of the acts and journals; and to provide a fine for failure to complete certain compiling, reproducing, or publishing duties within the specified time period.