HB177 Alabama 2023 Session

Updated Apr 17, 2023

House Bill

In Committee

Current Status

Regular Session 2023

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jim Carns Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2023
Title: Relating to municipal water works boards; to amend Section 11-50-300, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Sections 11-50-300.1, 11-50-300.2, 11-50-300.3, 11-50-300.4, 11-50-300.5, 11-50-300.6, 11-50-300.7, and 11-50-300.8 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the composition, manner of appointment, and length of terms of members of certain municipal water works boards; to provide qualifications for and place limits on the employment of directors; to provide for conversion of these boards to regional boards; to further provide for these boards to amend their articles of incorporation; to subject these boards to the ethics laws of Alabama and require training on the matter; to require these boards to produce certain financial records; and to repeal Sections 11-50-301, 11-50-302, 11-50-303, and 11-50-304, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to certain municipal water works boards.
Description: Existing law specifies the composition, manner of appointment, and length of terms of members of municipal water works boards that, on January 1, 2015, or thereafter serves customers or has assets in four or more counties other than the county where the authorizing municipality is located.
This bill would further provide for the composition, manner of appointment, and length of terms of the members of these municipal water works boards.
This bill would provide certain qualifications for board members as well as place limits on the employment of a director by the board after his or her term.
This bill would provide for the conversion of these municipal water works boards into regional boards.
Existing law also provides a procedure for and circumstances under which these water works boards may amend their articles of incorporation.
This bill would further provide for the amending of these boards' articles of incorporation.
This bill would place these boards under the ethics laws of Alabama and provide for yearly training on the subject.
HB177 INTRODUCED This bill also would require these boards to prepare certain financial records to be made available to the public.
Subjects: Water Works Board, certain boards reorganized and further provided for