HB179 Alabama 2021 Session

Current law provides that the director of the Alabama State Port Authority may appoint nine executive level employees

This bill would provide that the director may appoint up to 11 executive level employees

This bill would also provide for an exemption from other laws that would require disclosure of the commercial terms of contracts entered into with customers of the authority or disclosure of reports that would release certain customer-specific information; and to provide for certain exceptions from those exemptions

This bill would also make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style

Relating to the Alabama State Port Authority; to amend Sections 33-1-3 and 33-1-39, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for an increase in the number of executive level employees which the director is entitled to appoint; to provide that the commercial terms of certain contracts entered into by the Port Authority are exempt from certain state laws limiting confidentiality, with exceptions; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.