Government including Transparency and Accountability

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LWVAL has taken a position on these bills:

HB4 - Public officers and employees, salaries, salary increase of certain officers may not exceed the pay plan of Merit System, Sec. 36-6-6 am'd..

HB148 - State agencies, contracts, subject to review by the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee, prohibited from contracting with a person otherwise required to register as a lobbyist as an advisor to the state agency

HB188 - Secretary of State, authorized to distribute volumes of legislative acts and resolutions in electronic format, provide notice to all recipients, Secs. 36-14-1, 36-14-11, 36-14-12, 36-14-13, am'd.

SB230 - Ethics, thing of value definition revised, lobbyists required to report the gifts to the Ethics Commission, penalties, etc
[NOTE: SB230 is on the Senate Judiciary committee agenda on Wed. Apr. 10, 8:30 a.m., Rm 325.]

SB237 -  the Alabama Open Records Act; to provide a process for access to public records; to provide procedures for making and responding to requests for access; to establish fees; to create the Office of the Public Access Counselor in the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts; to provide for his or her appointment, powers, and duties; to establish an appeals process and provide administrative and judicial remedies; to provide civil penalties for noncompliance; and to repeal Section 36-12-40, Code of Alabama 197

LWVAL is monitoring this bill:

HB259 - Candidates may file statement of economic interest up  to 5 days after qualifying to run Section 36-25-15, am’d

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