HB197 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Bill Poole

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Legislature, new biennial legislative sessions to consider bills making appropriations, established, const. amend.

Description

Currently, the state legislature meets annually in regular session for all legislative matters including annual budgets for all funds of the state. This bill proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 to provide for regular sessions of the legislature for non-budgetary matters and for fiscal sessions of the legislature for appropriations bills for a biennial budget period for all funds of the state, and to repeal Amendment 339 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 76 of Article IV of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of 1901, as amended, and Amendment 448 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 71.01 of Article IV of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments