SB150 Summary

• Renames the Plumbers Examining Board to the State of Alabama Plumbers and Gas Fitters Examining Board and expands its authority to regulate plumbers, gas fitters, and medical gas piping fitters statewide.

• Requires master and journeyman plumbers to obtain current certification for installing, testing, or maintaining backflow prevention devices, and establishes a $5 reissuance fee for replacement certificates.

• Transfers unencumbered board funds exceeding 25% of the previous fiscal year's budget to the Alabama Home Builders Foundation for classroom training tools at educational facilities offering plumbing and gas fitting curricula.

• Increases the performance bond requirement for principal master plumbers and gas fitters from $2,000 to $15,000 and establishes it as a statewide bond requirement.

• Authorizes the board to levy civil fines up to $2,000 and actual hearing costs against certificate holders for violations, and allows the board to require violators to attend violation-specific training.