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AL HB351
Bill
Status
3/10/2020
Primary Sponsor
Danny Garrett
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AI Summary
HB351 Summary
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Updates definitions and references to the Secretary of Labor (rather than Director) throughout the Alabama Surface Mining Act of 1969, changing the Department of Industrial Relations to Department of Labor.
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Specifies that departmental mining and reclamation employees, rather than registered foresters, shall perform certain mining reclamation inspections.
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Increases the percentage of federal appropriated funds retained in the Special Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund from 10 percent to 30 percent of annual U.S. Department of Interior grants.
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Conforms unemployment compensation benefit year language for benefit years beginning on or after July 2, 2006, establishing weekly benefit calculations based on one twenty-sixth of average wages from the two highest-wage quarters.
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Adds new sections establishing that procedures in Articles 3 and 7 of Chapter 4, Title 25 relating to contribution rate determinations and appeals are exclusive; effective July 1, 2020.
Legislative Description
Labor Dept., definitions and references to Secretary of Labor updated in AL Surface Mining Act of 1969, departmental employee in lieu of registered forester to perform inspections, amount of fed funds retained in Special Abandoned Mine Reclamation Trust Fund increased, unemployment compensation language conformed and exclusivity of certain procedures specified, Secs. 25-4-59, 25-4-153 added; Secs. 9-16-2, 9-16-8, 9-16-135, 25-4-72 am'd.
Labor Department
Last Action
Pending third reading on day 17 Favorable from Finance and Taxation Education with 1 amendment
5/5/2020