HB61 Alabama 2020 Session

Under existing law, the expenditures of self-sustaining state professional licensing boards, agencies, and commissions are not required to be published on the searchable public Internet database maintained by the Comptroller and contracts for personal and professional services entered into by those boards, agencies, and commissions are not subject to review by the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee.

This bill would require previously exempted self-sustaining state professional licensing boards, agencies, and commissions to publish their expenditure information on the public website of the board, agency, or commission.

This bill would also subject certain contracts for personal and professional services of self-sustaining state professional licensing boards, agencies, and commissions to review by the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee in the same manner as required for other state agencies.

Relating to professional licensing boards, agencies, and commissions; to require each self-sustaining board, agency, or commission exempted from posting expenditures through the searchable public Internet database of the Comptroller, to post the information on the public website of the board, agency, or commission; and to subject personal and professional service contracts of those boards, agencies, and commissions to review by the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee.