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AL HB177
Bill
Status
3/21/2023
Primary Sponsor
Jim Carns
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AI Summary
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Converts municipal water works boards serving four or more counties into regional boards with seven-member boards of directors appointed by the Governor (three members) and sponsoring mayor (four members).
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Requires board members to be county residents with business experience, and mandates specific expertise including at least one engineer and one financial expert from each appointing authority; prohibits those with recent business relationships with the board from serving.
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Limits directors to two full terms plus one additional partial term and prohibits former directors from being employed by the board or its contractors for 24 months after leaving office.
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Requires regional boards to prepare and publicly post financial statements, operating plans, and capital plans reviewed by independent consulting engineers, and mandates annual 10-hour ethics training for all directors.
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Places regional boards under Alabama's ethics laws and requires employment of a chief executive officer with operational authority, while repealing prior statutes governing these water works boards.
Legislative Description
Relating to municipal water works boards; to amend Section 11-50-300, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Sections 11-50-300.1, 11-50-300.2, 11-50-300.3, 11-50-300.4, 11-50-300.5, 11-50-300.6, 11-50-300.7, and 11-50-300.8 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the composition, manner of appointment, and length of terms of members of certain municipal water works boards; to provide qualifications for and place limits on the employment of directors; to provide for conversion of these boards to regional boards; to further provide for these boards to amend their articles of incorporation; to subject these boards to the ethics laws of Alabama and require training on the matter; to require these boards to produce certain financial records; and to repeal Sections 11-50-301, 11-50-302, 11-50-303, and 11-50-304, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to certain municipal water works boards.
Water Works Board, certain boards reorganized and further provided for
Last Action
Indefinitely Postpone
5/31/2023