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AL SB23
Bill
Status
1/14/2014
Primary Sponsor
Robert Ward
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AI Summary
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Amends Section 23-1-26, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the Director of Transportation to appoint additional assistant counsel subject to state Merit System law.
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Removes the limitation of "not more than five assistant counsel" previously in the statute, changing "to may appoint not more than five" to simply "may appoint."
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Requires the Director to consider racial, gender, geographic, urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state when appointing assistant counsel.
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Confirms that chief counsel and assistant counsel shall be commissioned as assistant attorneys general and constitute the legal division of the State Department of Transportation.
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Becomes effective immediately upon passage and approval by the Governor, or otherwise 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
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
1/14/2014