HB124 Alabama 2021 Session

Under existing law, the expenditures of self-sustaining state professional licensing boards, agencies, and commissions and certain interscholastic athletic organizations 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, commissions and organizations 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 and certain interscholastic athletic organizations to publish their expenditure information on the public website of the board, agency, or commission, or on the website of the Comptroller for a reasonable fee.

This bill would also subject certain contracts for personal and professional services of self-sustaining state professional licensing boards, agencies, and commissions and certain interscholastic athletic organizations 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 and certain interscholastic athletic organizations; to require each self-sustaining board, agency, or commission previously 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, or on the website of the Comptroller for a reasonable fee; to require certain interscholastic athletic organizations to post expenditure information on the searchable public Internet database of the Comptroller or on the public website of the organization; and to subject personal and professional service contracts of those boards, agencies, commissions, and organizations to review by the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee.