HB537 Summary

• Increases the Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute Board of Directors from three to six voting members.

• Adds the President Pro Tempore of the Senate as an appointing authority with power to appoint two board members.

• Restructures appointment process so six organizations nominate members: Construction Users Roundtable, Alabama State Construction Building Trades, Alabama Associated General Contractors, Alabama Road Builders Association, Alabama Associated Builders and Contractors, and Subcontractors Association of Alabama.

• Requires board membership and employees to reflect racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state, with annual reporting to the Legislature.

• Changes removal procedures to require unanimous vote of five other directors (instead of two) for absence-related removal.