SB 210

Under existing law, the membership of the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee includes the budget committee chair of the Senate, the budget committee chair of the House, and three additional members appointed from each house

This bill would revise the law to clarify that the two budget committee chairs of the Senate and the two budget committee chairs of the House are included on the committee

This bill would also authorize a member to continue to serve on the committee until a successor is appointed under certain specific circumstances

To amend Section 29-2-40, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee, to increase the membership of the board from five to seven members; to clarify that the membership of the committee includes the Chairs of the Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund and Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committees and the Chairs of the House Ways and Means General Fund and House Ways and Means Education Committees; and to authorize a member to continue to serve on the committee until a successor is appointed under certain specific circumstances.

Section 1

Section 29-2-40 of the Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows:

§29-2-40.

(a) There is hereby created the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee. Said The committee shall be composed of the Chairman Chairs of the Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee and the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee and the Chairman Chairs of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee and the House Ways and Means Education Committee, and three additional members of the Senate, to be appointed by the President of the Senate, and three additional members of the House, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House.

(b) A member of the committee may serve on the committee as long as the member retains the office that qualified the member for service or during the term to which the member was appointed and, if reelected to the same house without a break in service to that house, during the succeeding legislative term until a successor is appointed as provided in subsection (a)."

Section 2

This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.