HB294 Alabama 2019 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Bill Poole

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2019

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 annual general sessions of the legislature for non-budgetary matters and for fiscal sessions of the legislature for revenue and for appropriation bills for a biennial budget period for all funds of the state; 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 to repeal 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