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AL SB99
Bill
AI Summary
- Amends Section 23-1-26, Code of Alabama 1975 to allow the Director of Transportation to appoint additional assistant counsel as necessary for legal business of the department.
- Changes language from "shall be authorized" to "may appoint" and removes the limitation of "not more than five" assistant counsel positions.
- Chief counsel and assistant counsel positions must be commissioned as assistant attorneys general and take the oath required by the Attorney General.
- Requires the Director to consider racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state when appointing assistant counsel.
- Becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor or upon becoming law.
Legislative Description
Transportation Department, director authorized to appoint assistant counsel subject to State Merit System, Sec. 23-1-26 am'd.
Transportation Department
Last Action
Indefinitely Postponed
5/7/2013
Committee Referrals
Governmental Affairs2/5/2013
Full Bill Text
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