SB150 Alabama 2014 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Gerald H. Allen Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2014

Title

Plumbers and Gas Fitters, definitions, examining board, disbursement of funds, certification, renewals, fees, disciplinary actions, Secs. 34-37-1, 34-37-2, 34-37-5, 34-37-6, 34-37-8, 34-37-9, 34-37-12, 34-37-13, 34-37-14, 34-37-15, 34-37-17 am'd.

Description

This bill would amend the statute relating to the State of Alabama Plumbers and Gas Fitters Examining Board and the licensing and regulation of plumbers and gas fitters.

This bill would provide further for definitions; provide that unencumbered funds be transferred to the Alabama Home Builders Foundation for classroom training; provide further for displaying business names and require master plumbers and journeymen plumbers to have current certification for installing, testing, or maintaining backflow prevention devices; provide further for renewal of certificates; provide for reissuance fees for replacement certificates; provide for certain disciplinary actions by the board; provide for posting of bonds by principal master plumbers and gas fitters; provide further for inactive status of certified plumbers and gas fitters; provide further for exempted activities and entities; and provide further for administrative and disciplinary actions by the board.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Boards and Commissions