SB139 Summary

• Continues the Alabama Sickle Cell Oversight and Regulatory Commission until October 1, 2011, under Alabama's Sunset Law provisions.

• Requires all commission appointees to be citizens of Alabama and subject to Senate confirmation, serving four-year terms.

• Mandates commission membership reflect racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state, with annual reports to the Legislature on diversity compliance.

• Establishes commission composition of 11 members: two appointed by the Governor, one each from University of South Alabama, University of Alabama-Birmingham, and Children's Hospital of Birmingham, plus seven members from chapters of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America-Alabama Chapter.

• Provides members receive no salaries but may be reimbursed for actual expenses, with members electing a chair and vice chair within 30 days of confirmation.