HB169 Alabama 2021 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Labor Dept., definitions and references to Secretary of Labor updated in AL Surface Mining Act of 1969, departmental employee in lieu of registered forester to perform inspections, amount of fed funds retained in Special Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund increased, unemployment compensation language conformed and exclusivity of certain procedures specified, Secs. 25-4-59, 25-4-153 added; Secs. 9-16-2, 9-16-8, 9-16-135, 25-4-72 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the Department of Labor is responsible for surface mining reclamation, abandoned mine reclamation, and unemployment compensation.

This bill would update definitions and correct references to the Secretary of Labor, would specify that a departmental employee, rather than a registered forester, perform certain inspections, and would increase the amount of funds retained in the Special Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund in the State Treasury, from appropriated funds granted annually by the U.S. Department of the Interior, from 10 to 30 percent.

This bill would conform language relating to unemployment compensation benefit years beginning on or after July 2, 2006.

This bill would also require the department, during a statewide state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor or the Legislature, to work with the federal government in maximizing unemployment compensation benefits.

Relating to the Department of Labor; to amend Sections 9-16-2, 9-16-8 and 9-16-135, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Alabama Surface Mining Act of 1969, and abandoned mine reclamation, to update definitions; to correct references to the Secretary of Labor; to specify that a departmental employee, rather than a registered forester, perform certain inspections; and to increase the amount of funds retained in the Special Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund in the State Treasury, from appropriated funds granted annually by the U.S. Department of the Interior, from 10 to 30 percent; to amend Section 25-4-72, as amended by Act 2019-204, 2019 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to unemployment compensation, to conform language relating to benefit years beginning on or after July 2, 2006; to add Sections 25-4-59 and 25-4-153 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that procedures provided in Article 3 and Article 7 of Chapter 4, of Title 25 are exclusive; and to require the department, during a statewide state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor or the Legislature, to work with the federal government in maximizing unemployment compensation benefits.

Subjects

Labor Department