SB4 Alabama 2014 Session

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Bill Summary

Sponsors

Gerald O. Dial

Session

Regular Session 2014

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 to the Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and the timing of such distribution

Relating to the distribution of excess funds created pursuant to a class action lawsuit filed in Alabama; to provide that all settlements or orders entering judgment in a class action lawsuit filed in Alabama and governed by Alabama law that result 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 to the Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention and the timing of such distribution.

Subjects

Civil Procedure

Bill Actions

Action Date	Chamber	Action
March 6, 2014	H	Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means General Fund
March 6, 2014	S	Engrossed
March 5, 2014	S	Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 691
March 5, 2014	S	Dial motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 690
March 5, 2014	S	Dial Amendment Offered
March 5, 2014	S	Third Reading Passed
February 26, 2014	S	Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
January 14, 2014	S	Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund