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SB4 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021
SB4 Alabama 2014 Session
Senate Bill
Expired
Current Status
Regular Session 2014
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

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.

Subjects
Civil Procedure

Bill Actions

H

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

S

Engrossed

S

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 691

S

Dial motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 690

S

Dial Amendment Offered

S

Third Reading Passed

S

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

March 6, 2014 Senate Passed
Yes 27
Abstained 1
Absent 7

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature