HR184 Alabama 2015 Session

Summary

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

House of Representatives, Special Order Calendar

Summary

HR184 sets a Special Order Calendar that makes a specific list of bills the priority items for the 17th legislative day, taking precedence over all other business.

What This Bill Does

If adopted, the resolution immediately makes the listed bills the special and paramount order of business for the 17th day, overriding the regular or unfinished business. Lawmakers would have to address these bills first on that day. The items cover topics such as consumer finance, product liability, agriculture, professional licensing, utilities, youth programs, scholarships, higher education reciprocity, tax credits, vehicle tags, state office duties, and local government taxation and regulation.

Who It Affects

• Members of the Alabama House of Representatives, who must consider the listed bills before any other business on the 17th day.
• Stakeholders related to the listed policy areas, including consumers and businesses affected by the bills on deferred presentment and product liability, the agriculture and beekeeping community, licensed professionals (e.g., chiropractors), electric utilities and their customers, inmates and youth programs, students and institutions involved in scholarships or reciprocity, taxpayers and property owners affected by tax credits and licensing rules, veterans and vehicle tag recipients, and local governments and homeowners associations.

Key Provisions

• Designates the listed bills as the Special and Paramount Order of Business for the 17th legislative day, taking precedence over the regular order and any pending or unfinished business.
• The listed bills and topics include: HB417 (Deferred Presentment Services Act amendments requiring a licensing database to ensure customers have no deferred presentment transaction over $500), SB80 (product liability immunity related to non-design/manufacture/sale/lease by manufacturers), HB286 (Queen honey bee designated as the Official State Agricultural Insect), HB190 (Chiropractic Examiners Board licensing, fees, renewal grace period, reinstatement, fines, and board qualifications), SB52 (electric utility transmission facilities and PSC regulation), SB271 (priority for training adult inmates at Frank Lee Youth Center), SB157 (Fostering Hope Scholarship Act provisions and funding controls), SB159 (reciprocity-based exemptions for degree-granting entities), HB214 (tax credits for rehabilitation of qualified structures extended to 2022), HB149 (prohibition of occupational tax by county/municipality via constitutional amendment), HB34 (veteran motorcycle tags at same cost as car tags), HB229 (creation of State Climatologist Office), SB49 (Transportation Department junkyard regulation near highway systems), HB319 (one subcontractor on State Licensing Board for General Contractors), HB236 (home-taught students’ eligibility for public extracurricular activities), HB185 (tax rules for business licenses tied to headquarters location), SB20 (in-state required procurement for Transportation Department fleet purchases), HB401 (insurer must pay interest on future policy contract money), HB241 (Homeowners' Associations formed as nonprofit corporations with governance rules).

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Subjects

Resolution, Legislative