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AL Code § 29-4-41 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 4 - Subordinate Officers and Employees.|Article 4 - Joint Operations.|Section 29-4-41 - Additional Employees.

Section 29-4-41Additional employees. Repealed by Act 2015-408 effective June 10, 2015. (Acts 1997, No. 97-658, p. 1249, §3.)
AL Code § 29-4-42 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 4 - Subordinate Officers and Employees.|Article 4 - Joint Operations.|Section 29-4-42 - Majority Vote Required.

Section 29-4-42Majority vote required. Actions under this article requiring the approval of the Senate Legislative Council and the House Legislative Council may be taken only if approved by a majority vote of both respective councils. (Acts 1997, No. 97-658, p. 1249, §3; Act 2015-408, §1.)
AL Code § 29-4-50 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 4 - Subordinate Officers and Employees.|Article 5 - Lieutenant Governor.|Section 29-4-50 - Office of Lieutenant Governor; Compensation; Business Travel.

Section 29-4-50Office of Lieutenant Governor; compensation; business travel. The Office of the Lieutenant Governor shall be separate and distinct from the Legislature, any state agency, entity, or official. The Lieutenant Governor may appoint, without regard to the State Merit System law, such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the duties and functions of the office. The compensation of personnel so employed shall be fixed by the Lieutenant Governor in accordance with that of comparable positions established under the State Merit System pay plan. The Lieutenant Governor may prescribe the duties and responsibilities of the personnel of the office. All personnel appointed pursuant to this section shall serve at the pleasure of the Lieutenant Governor making the appointment. Compensation of personnel employed pursuant to this section shall be payable as the salaries of other state employees are paid. The compensation of those personnel shall be paid from funds appropriated to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. The compensation, expense allowances, or other emoluments due those personnel shall be certified by the Lieutenant Governor to the Comptroller who shall issue a warrant therefor from funds appropriated to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. Business travel by the Lieutenant Governor and by the personnel of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor shall be approved by the Lieutenant Governor and shall be paid from funds appropriated to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. The Lieutenant Governor shall have authority to purchase, lease, or contract for equipment, supplies, and services for use by the Office of the Lieutenant Governor and pay for the equipment, supplies, and services from funds appropriated to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. For purposes of purchasing, leasing, or contracting for equipment, supplies, or services, the Office of Lieutenant Governor shall be deemed a part of the Legislative Department. (Acts 1997, No. 97-658, p. 1249, §3.)
AL Code § 29-4-60 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 4 - Subordinate Officers and Employees.|Article 6 - Speaker of the House of Representatives.|Section 29-4-60 - Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives; Compensation; Business Travel.

Section 29-4-60Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives; compensation; business travel. The Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be separate and distinct from the Legislature, any state agency, entity, or official. The Speaker of the House of Representatives may appoint, without regard to the State Merit System law, such personnel as may be necessary to carry out the duties and functions of the office. The compensation of personnel so employed shall be fixed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives in accordance with that of comparable positions established under the State Merit System pay plan. The Speaker of the House of Representatives may prescribe the duties and responsibilities of the personnel of the office. All personnel appointed pursuant to this section shall serve at the pleasure of the Speaker of the House of Representatives making the appointment. Compensation of personnel employed pursuant to this section shall be payable as the salaries of other state employees are paid. The compensation of those personnel shall be paid from funds appropriated to the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The compensation, expense allowances, or other emoluments due those personnel shall be certified by the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Comptroller who shall issue a warrant therefor from funds appropriated to the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Business travel by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and by the personnel of the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall be approved by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and shall be paid from funds appropriated to the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall have authority to purchase, lease, or contract for equipment, supplies, and services for use by the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and pay for the equipment, supplies, and services from funds appropriated to the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives. (Acts 1997, No. 97-658, p. 1249, §3.)
AL Code § 29-4-61 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 4 - Subordinate Officers and Employees.|Article 6 - Speaker of the House of Representatives.|Section 29-4-61 - Designation of Persons to Serve on Certain Multi-Member Bodies in Place of Speaker of the House.

Section 29-4-61Designation of persons to serve on certain multi-member bodies in place of Speaker of the House. (a) Whenever any act of the Legislature provides that the Speaker of the House of Representatives is designated a member of a multi-member body, the Speaker may designate a person to serve in his or her place as follows: (1) If the body is composed exclusively of members of the Legislature or members of the Legislature and the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives may designate a member of the House of Representatives to serve in place of the Speaker. (2) If the body is not composed exclusively of members of the Legislature or members of the Legislature and the Lieutenant Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives may designate any person to serve in place of the Speaker. (b) Designees shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority. (c) This section applies to multi-member bodies in existence or subsequently created. (Act 2015-528, 1st Sp. Sess., §1.)
AL Code § 29-4-70 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 4 - Subordinate Officers and Employees.|Article 7 - Senate President Pro Tempore.|Section 29-4-70 - President Pro Tempore of the Senate.

Section 29-4-70President Pro Tempore of the Senate.  (a) If the senator who is serving as the President Pro Tempore of the Senate on the date of the general election at which members of the Senate are elected to four-year terms is reelected to the Senate, the senator shall continue to serve as President Pro Tempore of the Senate until a successor President Pro Tempore is selected pursuant to Section 48.01 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. (b) If the senator serving as the President Pro Tempore of the Senate ceases service as a Senator for any reason prior to election of a President Pro Tempore pursuant to Section 48.01 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, then, with the approval of the Senate Legislative Council, the Secretary of the Senate shall perform the functions of the President Pro Tempore with respect to the expenditure of funds appropriated to the office of the President Pro Tempore until a successor President Pro Tempore is elected pursuant to Section 48.01 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. (Act 2015-408, §3.)
AL Code § 29-5A-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 1 - Legislative Services Agency|Section 29-5A-1 - Creation; Director; Functions; Transfer of Funds, Property, Etc.

Section 29-5A-1Creation; director; functions; transfer of funds, property, etc. (a) There is hereby created the Legislative Services Agency which shall be under the supervision, direction, and control of the Director of Legislative Services. The director shall be appointed by the Legislative Council and shall receive the compensation and benefits established by the council, payable as the compensation of other state employees. (b) The director shall serve as Code Commissioner for the Code of Alabama. As Code Commissioner, the director, when approved and directed by the Legislative Council, shall enter into a printing contract on behalf of the State of Alabama to publish the official code of the statutes of Alabama. If the director is not a licensed attorney, the Deputy Director of Legislative Services, Legal, shall serve as Code Commissioner. (c) The agency succeeds to and is vested with all of the functions of the Legislative Reference Service, the Legislative Fiscal Office, and the Alabama Law Institute. A reference in any law to the Legislative Reference Service, Legislative Fiscal Office, or the Alabama Law Institute shall be deemed a reference to the agency. (d) On October 1, 2017, all papers, books, materials, furnishings, funds, personnel, and property of the Legislative Reference Service, Legislative Fiscal Office, and the Alabama Law Institute shall be transferred to the agency. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 1 - Legislative Services Agency|Section 29-5A-2 - Agency Divisions.

Section 29-5A-2Agency divisions. The agency shall consist of three divisions as follows: (1) The Legal Division, which shall be headed by the Deputy Director of Legislative Services, Legal. The deputy director, legal, shall be a licensed attorney appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the director and shall receive the compensation determined by the director. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Legal Division succeeds to and is vested with all the powers of, and the duties previously performed by, the Legislative Reference Service. The Director of Legislative Services shall have all powers necessary to perform the functions of the Legal Division. The director may delegate all or a portion of the power to the deputy director, legal. (2) The Fiscal Division, which shall be headed by a Deputy Director of Legislative Services, Fiscal. The deputy director, fiscal, shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the director and shall receive the compensation determined by the director. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Fiscal Division succeeds to and is vested with all the powers of, and the duties previously performed by, the Legislative Fiscal Office. The Director of Legislative Services shall have all powers necessary to perform the functions of the Fiscal Division. The director may delegate all or a portion of the power to the deputy director, fiscal. (3) The Law Revision Division, which shall be headed by the Deputy Director of Legislative Services, Law Revision. The deputy director, law revision, shall be a licensed attorney who, after consultation with the Alabama Law Institute Council, shall be appointed by and shall serve at the pleasure of the director and shall receive the compensation determined by the director. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the Law Revision Division succeeds to and is vested with all the powers of, and the duties previously performed by, the Alabama Law Institute. The Director of Legislative Services shall have all powers necessary to perform the functions of the Law Revision Division. The director may delegate all or a portion of the power to the deputy director, law revision. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 1 - Legislative Services Agency|Section 29-5A-3 - Employees; Compensation.

Section 29-5A-3Employees; compensation. (a) The Director of Legislative Services, without regard to the State Merit System Law, may hire staff members and clerical help to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. (b) The compensation due to the officers and employees employed under this section shall be certified by the director to the Comptroller, who shall issue his or her warrant therefor. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-20 - Supervision, Direction, and Control.

Section 29-5A-20Supervision, direction, and control. The Legal Division shall be under the supervision, direction, and control of the Director of Legislative Services. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-21 - Duties; Requests for Assistance; Reports of State Agencies and Departments.

Section 29-5A-21Duties; requests for assistance; reports of state agencies and departments. (a) The Legal Division shall have all of the following duties: (1) To respond to questions concerning the organization and administration of state government or the operation of constitutional or statutory law. (2) To render assistance in the drafting of bills and amendments to bills. (3) To make studies and reports on problems of state and local government in Alabama, either upon request or on its own initiative. (4) To conduct a continuous analysis of the scope, effect, and methods of federal, state, and local government operations in Alabama and make those recommendations to the Legislative Council as appropriate. (5) To prepare, under the direction of the Code Commissioner, a compilation or code of the statutes of Alabama. (6) To determine, subject to the approval of the Code Commissioner, the content of the code and any supplements thereto and to prepare an annual codification bill to adopt changes to the code enacted at prior sessions of the Legislature. (b) Requests for assistance under subdivisions (1) and (3) of subsection (a) shall be prepared only for a member of the Legislature or the Lieutenant Governor, or a person authorized by a member of the Legislature or by the Lieutenant Governor. Requests for assistance under subdivision (2) of subsection (a) shall be prepared only for a member of the Legislature, the Lieutenant Governor, or the Governor, or a person authorized by a member of the Legislature, by the Lieutenant Governor, or by the Governor. The Legal Division may respond to other requests for assistance, including, but not limited to, requests from other state governments, as the Director of Legislative Services determines to be in the best interests of the state. (c) In order that the purposes of this article shall be best served, each department and agency of the State of Alabama government shall furnish to the Legal Division copies of all monthly, quarterly, annual, biennial, quadrennial, and other regular reports which it is required by law to prepare for other agents or officials of the state government and copies of all printed publications that it issues. Each department or agency of the State of Alabama government shall comply with requests for supplementary reports made by the Legal Division and approved by the Legislative Council. Each department and agency of the State of Alabama government shall make its internal records available to the Legal Division upon request. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-23 - Applicable Dates in Preprinted Forms.

Section 29-5A-23Applicable dates in preprinted forms. (a) Whenever any provision of this code contains a preprinted form that contains language which indicates the year of application or execution as "19__," the language shall be deemed to mean either a year beginning with the numbers 19 or 2 as the case may be. (b) The Legal Division, when and as deemed appropriate, shall implement editorial changes to such language to conform the preprinted form to the applicable date. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-24 - Preparation of Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama.

Section 29-5A-24Preparation of official recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama. (a) The Code Commissioner, with the assistance of the Legal Division, shall prepare an official recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. This official recompilation may not make any substantive change to any existing operative constitutional provision. (b) The official recompilation shall include all of the following: (1) The removal of all expressly repealed sections or amendments, or portions thereof. (2) The insertion of expressly identified amendatory language contained in a particular constitutional amendment into the identified location and the deletion of the language being amended and replaced and the retention of the original article and section number or amendment number. (3) The relocation of various constitutional amendments applicable to the entire state in the appropriate article of the constitution based upon a logical sequence and the particular subject or topic. (4) The grouping of various constitutional amendments applicable to the entire state in the same location in the document based upon a logical sequence and the particular subject or topic. (5) The grouping of local constitutional amendments in the same location in the document based upon a particular subject or topic or by county. (6) The elimination of constitutional provisions or amendments, including portions of such provisions or amendments, that have lapsed or have been invalidated, directly or indirectly, by decision of a court of last resort. (7) The inclusion, after the text of a relocated provision, of the official constitutional amendment number assigned to that provision at the time of ratification. (8) Other editorial changes necessary to accurately reflect the current status of the constitution in a logical manner. (c) The Code Commissioner, upon completion, shall instruct the official Code Publisher to publish the official recompilation. (d) The recompiled constitution published under this section shall be known as and cited as the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. (e) In the event of a conflict between the official recompilation published under this section and the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or any amendments to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, or the amendments thereto, or both, shall prevail over the official recompilation. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-25 - References to Individuals With Disabilities.

Section 29-5A-25References to individuals with disabilities. (a) The Legislature recognizes that language used in reference to individuals with disabilities shapes and reflects society's attitudes towards people with disabilities. Many of the terms currently used diminish the humanity and natural condition of having a disability. Certain terms are demeaning and create an invisible barrier to inclusion as equal community members. The Legislature finds it necessary to clarify preferred language for new and revised laws by requiring the use of terminology that puts the person before the disability. (b) The Legal Division is directed to avoid all references to: Disabled, developmentally disabled, mentally disabled, mentally ill, mentally retarded, handicapped, cripple, crippled, deaf-mute, deaf-dumb, dumb, and mute in any new statute or resolution and to change such references when appropriate in any existing statute or resolution as sections and provisions including these references are otherwise amended by law. (c) The Legal Division is directed to replace terms referenced in subsection (b) in the Code of Alabama 1975, when such replacement is appropriate with the following revised terminology: Individuals with disabilities, individuals with developmental disabilities, and individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. (d)(1) No statute or resolution is invalid because the statute or resolution is not in compliance with this section. (2) No statute or resolution is invalid because of a change in terminology implemented by the Legal Division under this section. (e) Changes in terminology shall not be made by the Legal Division if such change may legally impair the statute or its implementation or interpretation. (f)(1) All action of an administrative agency creating new rules or amending existing rules shall be formulated in accordance with this section. (2) No agency rule is invalid because the rule is not in compliance with this section. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-26 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-26 - References to Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

Section 29-5A-26References to department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. The Legal Division shall change all references to the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation in Title 22, and elsewhere as found in this code, to the Department of Mental Health. Code changes shall be made at a time determined appropriate by the division. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-27 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-27 - References to Administrative Law Division of the Department of Revenue.

Section 29-5A-27References to Administrative Law Division of the Department of Revenue. The Legal Division shall review Titles 11 and 40 and shall substitute "Alabama Tax Tribunal" for any reference to the Administrative Law Division of the Department of Revenue and shall make any other similar amendments consistent herewith. (Act 2017-214, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5A-27.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-27.1 - (Effective for Tax Returns Due on or After January 1, 2018) References to Taxpayer Advocate.

Section 29-5A-27.1(Effective for tax returns due on or after January 1, 2018) References to taxpayer Advocate. The Code Commissioner, pursuant to Section 29-7-8, shall change all references to the Taxpayer Advocate in Title 40, Chapter 2A, to Taxpayer Assistance Officer or Taxpayer Assistance Officers. (Act 2017-363, §9.)
AL Code § 29-5A-28 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5A - Legislative Services Agency|Article 2 - Legal Division|Section 29-5A-28 - Code Changes to Conform to Chapter 29 of Title 41.

Section 29-5A-28Code changes to conform to Chapter 29 of Title 41. The Legal Division shall conform references in the Code of Alabama 1975, to the offices, departments, divisions, and other entities included in Chapter 29 of Title 41 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to reflect the changes made by that chapter. Code changes, including amending and renumbering existing code sections to be part of Chapter 29 to make conforming changes required to conform to the substantive changes made in Act 2015-450, shall be made at a time determined to be appropriate by the division. (Act 2017-214, §1.)