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AL SB100

Bill

Status

Passed

6/7/2023

Primary Sponsor

Arthur Orr

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Origin

Senate

Regular Session 2023

AI Summary

SB100 Summary

  • Renames the "Office of the Chief Procurement Officer" to the "Division of Procurement" throughout Alabama's state procurement code.

  • Expands the definition of "professional services" to include management and administration of occupational licensing boards by persons other than state employees.

  • Establishes that physicians retained for state medical services must be selected from a list of qualified physicians maintained by the Alabama Medical Licensure Commission.

  • Makes procurement of supplies, services, and professional services by district attorneys and sheriffs governed solely by Article 3, Chapter 16 rather than the state procurement code.

  • Adds Medicaid Agency exemption allowing selection of health professionals (physicians, pharmacists, dentists, nurses, etc.) for contracts involving only service on agency task forces, boards, or committees without standard procurement requirements.

Legislative Description

Relating to state government; to amend Sections 41-4-114, 41-4-120, 41-4-122 as last amended by Act 2022-357 of the 2022 Regular Session, 41-4-124, 41-4-125, Section 41-4-126 as last amended by Act 2022-357 of the 2022 Regular Session, 41-4-139, 41-4-172, 29-2-41.1 Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide exemptions to the state procurement code; to further provide for the authority to make emergency procurements and the review of those procurements by the Contract Review Legislative Oversight Committee; to provide for the procurement of certain health professionals who provide services to the Medicaid Agency under certain conditions; to further provide for the definition of professional services to include the management and administration of occupational licensing boards; to provide for the procurement of supplies, services, and professional services by district attorneys or sheriffs; to provide for the change of the name of the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer to the Division of Procurement; and to add Section 41-4-125.01 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the procurement of physicians retained to provide medical services to the State of Alabama.

Finance Department; Division of Procurement; procurement of certain professional services, exceptions further provided

Last Action

Enacted

6/7/2023

Committee Referrals

State Government5/4/2023
Finance and Taxation Education3/21/2023

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