Robert Bentley
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Status: Out of Office
Party: Republican
Location: Tuscaloosa, AL - Tuscaloosa County
Education Information
Known educational history for Robert Bentley from Tuscaloosa, AL.
- MD, Medical College of Alabama, 1968
- BS, Biology/Chemistry, University of Alabama, 1964
Political Information
Known political history for Robert Bentley from Tuscaloosa, AL.
- Governor, State of Alabama, 2010-2017
- Representative, Alabama State House of Representatives, District 63, 2002-2010
- Delegate, Republican National Convention, 2008
- Member, Platform Committee, Republican National Convention, 2008
Professions Information
Known professional history for Robert Bentley from Tuscaloosa, AL.
- Founding Partner/President, Alabama Dermatological Associates, 1974-present
- Resident, Dermatology, University of Alabama, 1974
- Captain, United States Air Force, Vietnam, 1969-1971
Congressional Information
Known congressional history for Robert Bentley from Tuscaloosa, AL.
- Chair, Interstates Mining Compact Commission, present
- Chair, Alabama Gulf Coast Recovery Council, present
- Co-Chair, Governor's Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse, National Governor's Association, present
- Vice Chair, Economic Development and Commerce Commission, National Governor's Association, present
- Former Chair, Southern States Energy Board
- Former Chair, Appalachian Regional Commission
- Former Chair, Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission
- Member, State Advisory Board, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Organizations Information
Known organizational history for Robert Bentley from Tuscaloosa, AL.
- President, Alabama Dermatology Society, 1982, 1987
- Alabama Representative, American Medical Association, National Advisory Board
- Board Member, Judson College
- Chair, Board of Deacons, First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa
- Co-Founder/Board Member, Alabama Medical Education Consortium
- Life Member, Vietnam Veterans of America
- Member, West Alabama Chamber of Commerce
- Member, Academy of Dermatology
- Member, Tuscaloosa County Medical Society
- Member, Alabama Wildlife Federation
- Member, Advisory Board, Youth for Christ, First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa
- Member, American Legion
- Member, Family Counseling Advisory Board, First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa
- Member, Alabama State Medical Association
- Sunday School Teacher, First Baptist Church Tuscaloosa
Sponsored Bills
View legislative bills that Robert Bentley has sponsored.
- HB181
- Income tax, employer's deduction for health insurance premiums, compensation paid to qualifying employees for calculation of employer's deduction further provided for, Sec. 40-18-15.3 am'd.
- HB260
- Income tax, employment, employers hiring persons receiving unemployment compensation or whose benefits have expired, tax deduction authorized, duties to Revenue Department, Reemployment Act
- HB263
- Driving or operating a vehicle as defined (including vessels) under the influence of alcohol or drugs, criminal negligent homicide or assault in the first degree amended to include, Secs. 13A-6-4, 13A-6-20 am'd.
- HB264
- Alabama Residential Energy Code Board changed to Alabama Energy and Residential Codes Board, Model Energy Code replaced with Alabama Energy and Residential Codes, adoption of modern building and energy codes in compliance with federal law to be implemented by counties and municipalities, board members increased, certain farm structures excluded, sprinkler systems provided for, Secs. 41-23-80, 41-23-81, 41-23-82, 41-23-83, 41-23-84, 41-23-85 am'd.
- HB269
- Eagles' Wings, Inc., exempt from state, county, and municipal sales and use tax
- HB271
- Talladega College, appropriation
- HB272
- Tuskegee University, appropriation
- HB273
- Lyman Ward Military Academy, appropriation
- HB274
- Education budget, appropriations for the support, maintenance, and development of public education
- HB275
- Teachers' Retirement System, pension accumulation fund, accrued liability contribution rate authorized to be computed by Board of Control over a 30-year period, Sec. 16-25-21 am'd.
- HB276
- Education Appropriations Act for fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, debt service on certain bonds, funding from Capital Improvement Trust Fund reduced, funding from Education Trust Fund increased, supplemental appropriation for debt service on certain Public School and College Authority bond swaps, appropriation to state agencies for fiscal year ending September 30, 2009, reappropriated, certain food stamp funds not to revert from Human Resources Department, use for child care, Act 2009-339, 2009 Reg. Sess. am'd.
- HB277
- Children First Trust Fund, receipts allocated for State Board of Education transferred to General Fund during fiscal year ending 2011
- HB282
- Alabama Teacher Recruitment Incentive Program (ATRIP), Commission on Higher Education to provide for leave from program for humanitarian religious trip, retroactive effect
- HB283
- Library boards, county and municipal boards, additional members, terms, Sec. 11-90-2 am'd.
- HB39
- Abortion, consent, information required prior to procedure, Sec. 26-23A-4 am'd.
- HB398
- Nursing scholarships, qualifications altered, funding increased, appropriation, Graduate Degree Scholarship for Nurses, Secs. 34-21-60, 34-21-61, 34-21-62, 34-21-63 am'd.
- HB399
- Class III residential property, ad valorem tax, annual increase prohibited if same owner for previous valuation under certain conditions, const. amend.
- HB40
- Abortion prohibited except to preserve the life of a pregnant woman, or when rape or incest occurrs, penalties, const. amend.
- HB400
- Veterans, education benefits, qualifications altered, Sec. 31-6-11 am'd.
- HB41
- Health Care Rights of Conscience Act, health care providers, institutions, and payers right to decline to perform services that violate their consciences, injunctive relief
- HB411
- Motor vehicles, driving without license or insurance or proof of legal entry into the United States, motor vehicle may be impounded, Secs. 32-6-18, 32-7A-4 am'd.
- HB412
- Aliens, illegal, forfeiture of property acquired while illegal alien, procedures, exceptions
- HB413
- Ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine, State Board of Health required to classify as controlled substances, exemptions, removed from list of precursor chemicals maintained by State Board of Pharmacy, Secs. 20-2-20, 20-2-181 am'd.
- HB42
- Health care, persons, employers, or health care providers, mandatory participation in any health care system prohibited, const. amend.
- HB421
- Municipalities, municipal courts, court costs for jails, distrib. for municipal jails, Sec. 11-47-7.1 am'd.
- HB457
- Boxing Commission, name changed to Athletic Commission, mixed martial arts, authorized and regulated, definitions, commission authorized to employ executive director, penalties, Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts Act, Act 2009-622, 2009 Reg. Sess. am'd.; Secs. 41-9-1020, 41-9-1021, 41-9-1023, 41-9-1024, 41-9-1028, 41-9-1029, 41-9-1030, 41-9-1032, 41-9-1033, 41-9-1034, 41-9-1035, 41-9-1036, 41-9-1037, 41-9-1038, 41-9-1039, 41-9-1040 am'd.
- HB491
- Mental Health Department, certain institutions, leasing, transferring, or management by nongovernmental entities, approval by Legislature required, Sec. 22-50-9 am'd.
- HB506
- Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, Inc., exempt from state, county, and municipal sales and use tax
- HB528
- Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, over-the-counter products, sales further regulated, on-line electronic verification system operated by Criminal Justice Information Center, penalties, Drug Abuse Task Force, established, members, Sec. 20-2-190 am'd.; Act 2009-283, 2009 Reg. Sess. am'd.
- HB559
- Businesses or public employers, reguired to verify legal status of new employees through federal E-verify program, penalties
- HB589
- Lamar Co., court costs, drug enforcement fee, Legislature authorized to provide by local law, distrib. to clerk of the court and drug enforcement fund, const. amend.
- HB607
- Veterans' Affairs, State Department of, income tax refund check-off for voluntary contribution to, duties to Revenue Department
- HB68
- Income tax, employers creating jobs for unemployed persons, tax deduction authorized, Revenue Department to implement, Reemployment Act of 2010
- HB775
- Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Trust Fund, investments required to produce equal return over 20 years, new enrollees prohibited, certain borrowing authorized, const. amend.
- HB813
- Health care, persons, employers, or health care providers, mandatory participation in any health care system prohibited, const. amend.
- HB820
- Federal cap and trade regulations, goods produced and distributed only in Alabama (intrastate), exempt from cap and trade regulations
- HJR10
- University of Alabama football team, commended
- HJR11
- University of Alabama football team, commended
- HJR12
- Freedom of Choice Act, federal law relating to abortions, opposition expressed regarding
- HJR140
- Teachers and educational support personnel, commended
- HJR172
- Boy Scouts of America, 100th Anniversary, recognized
- HJR173
- Brewton, commended
- HJR174
- Flomaton Public Library, commended
- HJR175
- Bias, Ethel Mae Jones, death mourned
- HJR212
- Crabtree, Charles, death mourned
- HJR213
- Swinford, Belle Love, commended
- HJR217
- Mercedes-Benz, commended
- HJR218
- U. S. Congress urged to approve H.R. 4396, the Save Our Energy Jobs Act, which will remove greenhouse gases from definition of pollutant and prohibit Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases
- HJR237
- Benjamin, Regina M., commended
- HJR242
- Hines, Elise Harris, death mourned
- HJR261
- President Barack Obama urged to reverse his decision not to fully fund the Constellation project
- HJR281
- Jones, Paul R., death mourned
- HJR300
- Wilson, U. S. Congressman Charlie, death mourned
- HJR306
- University of West Alabama, 175th Anniversary, recognized
- HJR311
- Shelly, Gaylan and Angie, commended
- HJR312
- Hicks, Luther, commended
- HJR326
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., historic marker dedication ceremony honoring Rosa L. Parks, recognized
- HJR327
- Russell-McCloud, Patricia, commended
- HJR335
- Tuscaloosa Co., county commission, Tuscaloosa city council, and Northport city council urged to do feasibility study to pursue the purchase of Black Warrior River toll bridge
- HJR342
- Harper, Roman, commended (2010-20524)
- HJR343
- Menton, Senator Bill, death mourned
- HJR345
- Levey, Joyce, commended
- HJR347
- University of Alabama Crimsonettes, Fayette County members, commended
- HJR397
- Forte', Amelia, death mourned
- HJR398
- Johnson, Adriel, death mourned
- HJR407
- Beck, Representative Warren, death mourned (2010-20526)
- HJR424
- Charles A. Brown Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HJR450
- Russell-McCloud, Patricia, commended
- HJR451
- Carpenter, Mable Elliott, death mourned
- HJR453
- Nabors, Senator Ollie Wilson, death mourned
- HJR46
- Fite, Representative Leamon Millard, Jr., death mourned
- HJR47
- Butler, Talmadge, commended
- HJR481
- Greene County High School basketball team, commended
- HJR484
- Farrington, Allison, commended
- HJR487
- Fairfield High School girls basketball team, commended
- HJR49
- Ingram, Mark, Jr., commended
- HJR50
- Lieutenant Governor's Commission on Public-Private Partnership Projects, extended
- HJR510
- Searcy, Steve, commended
- HJR546
- Cottrell, Danny, commended
- HJR55
- Hanson, Johnnie, commended
- HJR557
- Davis, Johnny, death mourned
- HJR558
- Huntsville, efforts to become test market for Google's new ultrafast broadband network, Google Fiber, commended
- HJR559
- Hazel Green High School varsity cheerleaders, commended
- HJR56
- Boyett, Carl, death mourned
- HJR560
- Lee High School of Huntsville basketball team, commended
- HJR561
- Goertz, Edith P., commended
- HJR562
- Black, Allison, commended
- HJR568
- McCullough, B. J., commended
- HJR574
- Pena-Esclusa, Alejandro, commended
- HJR576
- Sledge, Percy, commended
- HJR598
- Bracken, Peggy Gill, death mourned
- HJR599
- Saloom, Salem and Dianne, commended
- HJR600
- Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, recognized
- HJR605
- Novacki, Aline Regina, commended
- HJR606
- A. H. Parker High School, 110th Anniversary, recognized
- HJR607
- Brock, Carrie Lee Adams, death mourned
- HJR608
- Tuskegee University basketball team, commended
- HJR609
- Ryan, Jennie Bell, death mourned
- HJR640
- Pike, Nellie, commended
- HJR642
- Talladega College womens basketball team, commended
- HJR646
- Hudson, Margene, commended
- HJR647
- Talladega, 175th Anniversary, recognized
- HJR648
- Sumter County High School girls basketball team, commended
- HJR649
- Warrior Academy basketball team, commended
- HJR652
- Wright, Lorenzo, commended
- HJR7
- Howard, Robert Lewis, death mourned
- HJR708
- Callahan, H. L. (Sonny), commended
- HJR710
- Nix, David, commended
- HJR711
- First Baptist Church Leeds, commended
- HJR713
- Fairfield High Preparatory School, Jobs for Alabama's Graduates (JAG) program, commended
- HJR715
- Bonner, Vanessa Brown, commended
- HJR760
- Roberts, John, commended
- HJR775
- Phillips, Sidney C., Jr., commended
- HJR776
- Sledge, Eugene B., commended posthumously
- HJR839
- Brinker, Richard W., commended
- HJR887
- Ratliff, Jordan, commended
- HJR889
- Zorn, Mary Jane Jeffcoat, death mourned
- HJR893
- Forest Hills Middle School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HJR894
- C. J. Donald Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HJR895
- Robinson Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HJR9
- Cooley, Billy Joe, death mourned
- HJR90
- Concerns of Police Survivors (COPS), Fly the Blue Campaign, recognized
- HJR91
- Rilling, Corey, commended
- HJR92
- Riggs, Jamie, commended
- HJR93
- National Endowment for the Arts and Institute of Museum and Library Services, The Big Read, recognized
- HJR931
- Gray, John Franklin, death mourned
- HJR936
- Branyon, Hugh, commended
- HJR937
- Royal, Jim, commended
- HJR938
- Butler, Talmadge, commended
- HJR94
- Sealy, Charlie Oliver, Sr., death mourned
- HJR948
- Feld, Montgomery, commended
- HJR949
- Gould, Joseph, commended
- HJR95
- Shaw, Elijah, III, death mourned
- HJR957
- Morris, Shep and Rite; Morris and Morris Farms, commended
- HJR958
- Glen Oaks Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HJR963
- Vietnam Veterans, commended, welcome home celebration in 2011 encouraged
- HJR964
- Jones, Freddie H. E., II, commended
- HR1000
- Hilliard, Representative Earl, Jr., commended
- HR1005
- Grantland, Representative Ronald, commended
- HR1007
- Beasley, Representative William M. (Billy), commended
- HR1008
- Ward, Representative Cam, commended
- HR1009
- Allen, Representative Gerald H., commended
- HR1010
- Baker, Representative Locy L., commended
- HR1011
- Hammett, Representative Seth, commended
- HR1016
- McDaniel, Representative W. F. (Frank), commended
- HR102
- Duffy, Rickey A., commended
- HR103
- Bush, Mr. and Mrs. Robert M., commended
- HR1032
- Pitts, Harvey Curtis, Jr., death mourned
- HR1038
- Leonard, John, commended
- HR1039
- Hanna, Annie Lou Christine, commended
- HR104
- Shaw, Elijah, III, death mourned
- HR105
- Riggs, Jamie, commended
- HR1056
- Bartlett, Thomas Gordon, death mourned
- HR106
- Rilling, Corey, commended
- HR1061
- Mount Pleasant CME Church, Homecoming and Founder's Day Program, recognized
- HR1065
- Higginbotham, G. J., commended
- HR138
- Moore, Charlotte Davis, death mourned
- HR158
- National Endowment for the Arts, The Big Read: Alabama Reads initiative, recognized
- HR161
- Kilgore, Mike, commended
- HR166
- Boy Scouts of America, 100th Anniversary, recognized
- HR167
- Bias, Ethel Mae Jones, death mourned
- HR192
- Hawkins, Felicia Renee, death mourned
- HR219
- Crabtree, Charles, death mourned
- HR220
- Swinford, Belle Love, commended
- HR238
- Benjamin, Regina M., commended
- HR243
- Hines, Elise Harris, death mourned
- HR260
- President Barack Obama urged to reverse his decision not to fully fund the Constellation project
- HR280
- Jones, Paul R., death mourned
- HR303
- Wilson, U. S. Congressman Charlie, death mourned
- HR304
- Soares, Alessandro, commended
- HR305
- Novacki, Eumar Roberto, commended
- HR307
- University of West Alabama, 175th Anniversary, recognized
- HR310
- Shelly, Gaylan and Angie, commended
- HR313
- Hicks, Luther, commended
- HR318
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., historic marker dedication ceremony honoring Rosa L. Parks, recognized
- HR351
- Army National Guard, 2101st Transportation Company, commended
- HR352
- University of Alabama Crimsonettes, Fayette County members, commended
- HR353
- Levey, Joyce, commended
- HR356
- Menton, Senator Bill, death mourned
- HR364
- Moore, Nathaniel Grayson, commended
- HR365
- Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Anniston Alumnae Chapter, Founders Day observation, recognized
- HR395
- Johnson, Adriel, death mourned
- HR396
- Forte', Amelia, death mourned
- HR402
- Vaughn Family, commended
- HR403
- Houston, Coffee, Henry, Dale, Geneva, Pike, and Barbour Cos., students, commended
- HR409
- Charles A. Brown Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR410
- Minor Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR411
- Bush Middle School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR412
- Councill Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR413
- Councill Elementary School, Kindergarten Honor Roll students, commended
- HR418
- Louis, Joe, commended posthumously
- HR420
- Novacki, Eumar Roberto, commended (2010-20506)
- HR422
- Beck, Representative Warren, death mourned
- HR423
- Maggi, Blairo Borges, commended
- HR434
- Taylor, Clinton Williams, death mourned
- HR444
- Russell-McCloud, Patricia, commended
- HR445
- Carpenter, Mable Elliott, death mourned
- HR446
- Pickens Academy girls basketball team, commended
- HR448
- Nabors, Senator Ollie Wilson, death mourned
- HR48
- Ingram, Mark, Jr., commended
- HR480
- Smith, Margaret Charles, commended posthumously
- HR482
- Greene County High School basketball team, commended
- HR495
- Fairfield High School girls basketball team, commended
- HR512
- Searcy, Steve, commended
- HR544
- Southeastern Livestock Exposition Rodeo, commended
- HR545
- Cottrell, Danny, commended
- HR550
- Davis, Johnny, death mourned
- HR551
- Huntsville, efforts to become test market for Google's new ultrafast broadband network, Google Fiber, commended
- HR552
- Lee High School of Huntsville basketball team, commended
- HR555
- Hazel Green High School varsity cheerleaders, commended
- HR571
- McCullough, B. J., commended
- HR575
- Pena-Esclusa, Alejandro, commended
- HR58
- Boyett, Carl, death mourned
- HR582
- Robinson, Kerry, commended
- HR583
- Novacki, Aline Regina, commended
- HR584
- Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, recognized
- HR587
- Bracken, Peggy Gill, death mourned
- HR588
- McCorvey, Charlie, Jr., death mourned
- HR589
- A. H. Parker High School, 110th Anniversary, recognized
- HR59
- Hanson, Johnnie, commended
- HR590
- Saloom, Salem and Dianne, commended
- HR591
- Sledge, Percy, commended
- HR592
- Brock, Carrie Lee Adams, death mourned
- HR593
- Tuskegee University basketball team, commended
- HR594
- Kimbrell, Harry Erskin, death mourned
- HR595
- Espey, Melford Edward, Jr., death mourned
- HR6
- Howard, Robert Lewis, death mourned
- HR60
- Super 11, high school football players, commended
- HR622
- Hudson, Margene, commended
- HR630
- Pike, Nellie, commended
- HR631
- Talladega College womens basketball team, commended
- HR637
- Talladega, 175th Anniversary, recognized
- HR638
- Sumter County High School girls basketball team, commended
- HR639
- Warrior Academy basketball team, commended
- HR656
- Wright, Lorenzo, commended
- HR682
- Fairfield High Preparatory School, Jobs for Alabama's Graduates (JAG) program, commended
- HR687
- First Baptist Church Leeds, commended
- HR688
- Maggi, Blairo Borges, commended (2010-20776)
- HR689
- Novacki, Eumar Roberto, commended
- HR690
- Novacki, Aline Regina, commended
- HR691
- Corbin, Virginia Kay Wiginton, commended
- HR692
- Pate, Jack, commended
- HR693
- Nix, David, commended
- HR694
- DuPont, Margaret McLeod, death mourned
- HR695
- AOD Federal Credit Union, commended
- HR696
- Ayers, H. Brandt, commended
- HR697
- Talladega College basketball team, commended
- HR698
- Bonner, Vanessa Brown, commended
- HR702
- Callahan, H. L. (Sonny), commended
- HR757
- Roberts, John, commended
- HR779
- Phillips, Sidney C., Jr., commended
- HR780
- Sledge, Eugene B., commended posthumously
- HR787
- Welborn, Jimmy Holland, Sr., death mourned
- HR8
- Cooley, Billy Joe, death mourned
- HR836
- Birmingham Volleyball Club 13-1 Team, commended
- HR844
- Knight, Jimmy, commended
- HR845
- Jackson, Willie, commended
- HR846
- Marshall, Fred, commended
- HR847
- Williams, Annie, commended
- HR848
- Cooley, Dorothy, commended
- HR849
- Smith, Chester, death mourned
- HR850
- Second Saint Siloam Missionary Baptist Church in Brewton, 100th Anniversary, recognized
- HR851
- Freedom Riders Park, recognized
- HR852
- Coosa Valley Resource Conservation Development Council, commended
- HR897
- Cusseta Baptist Church, commended
- HR905
- Zorn, Mary Jane Jeffcoat, death mourned
- HR913
- Robinson Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR914
- C. J. Donald Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR915
- Forest Hills Middle School in Birmingham, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR924
- Gray, John Franklin, death mourned
- HR933
- Butler, Talmadge, commended
- HR934
- Royal, Jim, commended
- HR935
- Branyon, Hugh, commended
- HR951
- Gould, Joseph, commended
- HR960
- Glen Oaks Elementary School, Honor Roll students, commended
- HR961
- Morris, Shep and Rite, commended
- HR969
- Jones, Freddie H.E., II, commended
- HR985
- Bryan, Anna Laura, commended
- HR986
- Higgins, Susannah, commended
- HR987
- Bagwell, Haley, commended
- HR988
- Ratliff, Jordan, commended
- HR989
- Leonardi, Erica, commended
- HR993
- Williams Temple Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, commended
- HR996
- Porter, Courtney, commended
- HR997
- Muncher, Meghan, commended
- HR999
- Irons, Representative Tammy, commended
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