Code of Alabama - Title 29: Legislature - Chapter 2 - Permanent Legislative Committees
- Article 1 Permanent Joint Transportation Committee.
- Section 29-2-1 Legislative findings and intent
The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: improving the efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance of all branches of government can only be achieved with...
- Section 29-2-2 Creation; composition; appointment
(a) There is created a continuing permanent joint transportation committee of the Legislature to be known as the Joint Transportation Committee. The committee shall consist...
- Section 29-2-3 Meetings; chair and vice-chair; quorum; replacement members; clerical assistance
The Joint Transportation Committee shall meet the fourth Wednesday of January, April, July, and October at 1:30 p.m. at the Alabama State House. At the...
- Section 29-2-4 Reporting requirements; powers and duties
(a) On or before January 31 of each year, any county or city required to report local motor fuel excise tax rate information to the...
- Section 29-2-5 Compensation of committee members
Each member of the Joint Transportation Committee shall be entitled to his or her regular legislative compensation and his or her per diem and travel...
- Section 29-2-6 Duties of transportation department
(a) The transportation department shall cooperate with the Joint Transportation Committee and shall prepare or cause to be prepared and furnished to the Joint Transportation...
- Section 29-2-7 Repealed effective October 1, 1997
Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 97–658, p. 1249, §4, effective October 1, 1997.
- Section 29-2-8 Reference of transportation legislation by committee
All bills originating in either house pertaining to transportation under the jurisdiction of the transportation department, its budget, and all other matters of highway planning,...
- Article 2 Committee for Evaluation, etc., of Prison System.
- Article 3 Contract Review Oversight Committee.
- Section 29-2-40 Creation; membership
(a) There is created the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee. The committee shall be composed of the Chairs of the Senate Finance and Taxation...
- Section 29-2-41 Expenses for members; assistance of Department of Examiners of Public Accounts; responsibilities, powers, etc.; examination of proposed contract or letter of intent; effect of failure to review; witnesses and evidence; organization; meetings
Each member of the committee shall be entitled to regular legislative compensation, per diem, and travel expenses for each day he or she attends a...
- Section 29-2-41.1 Emergency provisions
In case of an emergency adversely affecting public health, safety, security, or the economic welfare of the state, so declared in writing to the Governor...
- Section 29-2-41.2 Personal and professional service agreements
(a) For the purposes of this article the term personal and professional services specifically includes independent contractor agreements as well as individual employment agreements. (b)...
- Section 29-2-41.3 Personal and professional service agreements - Exclusions
The following personal and/or professional services contracts shall be excluded from the terms of this article: (1) Contracts for insurance; (2) Contracts let by competitive...
- Section 29-2-41.4 Personal property and nonprofessional services
The amendments to Sections 41-4-110, 41-4-113, 41-16-20, 41-16-21.1, 41-16-24, and 41-16-27 made by Act 2009-763 shall not affect the review of any contract by the...
- Article 4 Committee on Reapportionment.
- Section 29-2-50 Legislative findings and intent
The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (1) There exists a continuing need for comprehensive study, research and planning by the Legislature in the area...
- Section 29-2-51 Creation; members; chairman; expanded membership in certain quadrenniums
(a) There is hereby created a permanent legislative committee to be known as the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment, hereinafter referred to as the "committee."...
- Section 29-2-52 Duties; employment of consultants, etc.; expenses; contracts; meetings
(a) The committee shall make a continuous study of the reapportionment problems in Alabama seeking solutions thereto, and shall seek expertise, when deemed necessary, from...
- Section 29-2-53 Staff, equipment and facilities
Repealed by Acts 1997, No. 97-658, p. 1249, §4, effective October 1, 1997.
- Article 5 Municipal Government Committee.
- Article 6 Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Finances and Budget.
- Section 29-2-80 Creation; duties and responsibilities; clerical and expert assistance; cooperation required of agencies, boards, bureaus, etc
There is hereby created a Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Finances and Budgets. The committee shall meet during the interim periods between the regular sessions...
- Section 29-2-81 Composition of committee; co-chairs; vice co-chairs; sub-committees; compensation of members of sub-committees
The committee shall be composed of the Lieutenant Governor, the members of the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation and such other members of the...
- Section 29-2-82 Compensation, expenses, etc., of committee members
The committee members shall be entitled to, and shall receive, the same daily legislative compensation, expense allowances, per diem and other compensation which they receive...
- Section 29-2-83 Report of findings and recommendations to Legislature
The committee shall report its findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than the seventh legislative day of each regular session.
- Article 7 Permanent Joint Legislative Oversight Committee of Children in State Care.
- Section 29-2-100 Definitions
The following words shall have the following meanings: (1) CHILDREN IN STATE CARE. A child who is described by any of the following circumstances: a....
- Section 29-2-101 Oversight Committee - Created; members; meetings
There is created a Permanent Joint Legislative Oversight Committee of Children in State Care. The committee shall consist of three members of the House of...
- Section 29-2-102 Oversight Committee - Assistance; compensation; expenses
The Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk of the House of Representatives, the Legislative Reference Service, the Legislative Fiscal Office, the Examiners of Public Accounts...
- Section 29-2-103 Oversight committee - Duties
It shall be the duty of the committee to study and review the criteria for placing and keeping children in state care, to review the...
- Section 29-2-104 Report to Legislature
The committee shall report any findings and recommendations to the Legislature no later than the seventh legislative day of each regular session.
- Section 29-2-105 Coordination council - Composition; meetings; duties
(a) The committee shall convene a council composed of the chair of the committee or his or her designee and the commissioner or the commissioner's...
- Section 29-2-106 State Case Registry of Children in State Care
(a) The Department of Human Resources, the Department of Mental Health, and the Department of Youth Services shall create a joint project team to develop...
- Section 29-2-107 Disclosure of information; violation
(a) All records, reports, permanency plans, reviews, and reports of children in state care or any material prepared in connection with the planning, placement, or...
- Article 8 Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Community Services Grants.
- Article 9
- Section 29-2-150 Legislative intent
The Legislature intends that this article shall serve as the method of compensating certain innocent persons who have been wrongfully incarcerated by the State of
- Section 29-2-151 Committee created
There is hereby created the Committee on Compensation for Wrongful Incarceration. The Committee on Compensation for Wrongful Incarceration may hereinafter be referred to as the...
- Section 29-2-152 Composition; meetings; duties of Division of Risk Management
(a) The committee shall consist of the following nine voting members: (1) The Chair of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee. (2) The...
- Section 29-2-153 Compensation; expenses
(a) Members of the committee shall serve without compensation. (b) Members of the committee are entitled to reimbursement for expenses while on official business of...
- Section 29-2-154 Rules and regulations
From time to time the committee shall establish rules and regulations for the administration of its duties and responsibilities as well as those of the...
- Section 29-2-155 Civil liability
No civil action may be brought against the committee or any of its members, for providing any reports, records, opinions, or any actions or recommendations...
- Section 29-2-156 Eligibility for compensation
In order to be eligible to receive compensation for wrongful incarceration a person must: (1) Have been convicted by the state of one or more...
- Section 29-2-157 Evidence of innocence
For purposes of determination of eligibility for compensation for wrongful incarceration, innocence shall be evidenced by at least one of the following: (1) The conviction...
- Section 29-2-158 Application and notice
(a) Any individual who meets the eligibility criteria established in this article and desires compensation shall submit such application to the Division of Risk Management...
- Section 29-2-159 Base and discretionary amounts of compensation; hearing; certification and payment
(a) If an applicant's eligibility is verified by the Division of Risk Management, the committee shall certify to the applicant an amount equal to fifty...
- Section 29-2-161 Eligibility exceptions
(a) A person serving a term of imprisonment for a crime other than a crime for which the person was wrongfully incarcerated shall not be...
- Section 29-2-160 Methods of payment; eligibility of estate to receive compensation
(a) The committee in its discretion may direct that payment of compensation claims be in a lump sum or in such installments as it deems...
- Section 29-2-162 Application based on exoneration or dismissal of accusatory instrument
Any person applying for compensation under this article based on exoneration that was granted before May 21, 2001, or the dismissal of an accusatory instrument...
- Section 29-2-163 Verification of information by Division of Risk Management
The Division of Risk Management shall be responsible for verifying all information submitted by an applicant meeting the criteria established in Section 29-2-156 and verifying...
- Section 29-2-164 Cooperation by state agencies and departments
Agencies of state government shall cooperate with the committee and the staff of the Division of Risk Management as necessary for the committee and the...
- Section 29-2-165 Appropriation of funds
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this article, payment and receipt of any base or supplemental compensation as provided by subsections (a), (b), (c), or (d)...
- Article 10 Joint Legislative Committee on Civic Education.
- Article 11 Legislative Building Authority.
- Article 12 Legislative Youth Advisory Council and Commission.
- Article 13 Alabama Commission to Reduce Poverty.
- Article 14 Permanent Joint Legislative Committee on Energy Policy.
Last modified: May 3, 2021