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SB220 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021
SB220 Alabama 2012 Session
Senate Bill
Expired
Current Status
Regular Session 2012
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2012
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 (2012-20467)
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

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means General Fund

Engrossed

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 534

Dial motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 533

Judiciary first Substitute Offered

Third Reading Passed

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

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

April 13, 2012 Senate Passed
Yes 33
Absent 2

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature