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AL Code § 29-2A-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 2A - Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services.|Section 29-2A-3 - Employees and Staff; Administration; Director; Transfer of Property to Commission.

Section 29-2A-3Employees and staff; administration; director; transfer of property to commission. (a) On October 1, 2019, the employees and staff of the Alabama Support Team for Evidence-based Practices of the Legislative Services Agency, Fiscal Division, responsible for implementing the evidence-based budgeting process adopted pursuant to Act 2018-578, 2018 Regular Session, shall become the employees and staff of the commission and an employee of that team, as selected by the commission, shall become the initial director of the commission. (b) The affairs of the commission shall be administered by the director, who shall serve at the pleasure of the commission and whose actions shall be supervised and controlled by the commission. The director shall receive compensation and benefits in an amount established by the commission, payable in the same manner as is provided for other state employees. (c) A vacancy in the office of director arising from any cause shall be filled by the commission. The commission may appoint a highly qualified person as its director to a non-merit, conditional appointment. The director, with the consent and approval of the commission, shall select and supervise professional and clerical staff upon a full-time or part-time basis as necessary to assist the commission and the director in performing the duties assigned by this chapter. The director, without regard to the state Merit System Act, may hire employees as necessary to effectuate the purposes of this chapter. The number of employees, their compensation, and other expenditures of the commission shall be within the limits and in compliance with the appropriation made therefor by the Legislature and within budgets that shall be approved from time to time by the commission. (d) On or before September 30, 2021, as directed by the commission, all papers, books, materials, furnishings, funds, personnel, and property of the Alabama Support Team for Evidence-based Practices of the Legislative Services Agency, Fiscal Division, shall be transferred to the commission. Upon transfer, the commission shall establish office space outside of the State Capitol and the Alabama State House. (Act 2019-517, §3.)
AL Code § 29-2A-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 2A - Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services.|Section 29-2A-4 - Funding; Fees for Services.

Section 29-2A-4Funding; fees for services. (a) The commission shall be funded from the annual appropriation to the Legislative Services Agency for program evaluation until otherwise funded from state appropriations. (b) The commission may receive state appropriations and apply for and receive grant funds from other sources including, but not limited to, foundations, government entities, federal grants, and businesses. No public monies shall be expended by the director for any purpose unless the monies have been appropriated by the Legislature to the entity from which the funds are received or to the commission. Any monies appropriated shall be budgeted and allotted pursuant to the Budget Management Act in accordance with Article 4 of Chapter 4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts provided by the Legislature in the general appropriations act or other appropriation acts. (c) Upon agreement, the Director of the Legislative Services Agency and the Director of the Department of Finance may provide services, facilities, and personnel to the commission for technical, clerical, or administrative assistance. A reasonable fee may be charged for the assistance. (Act 2019-517, §4.)
AL Code § 29-2A-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 2A - Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services.|Section 29-2A-5 - Material to Be Provided to Commission; Grant Funds.

Section 29-2A-5Material to be provided to commission; grant funds. (a) Any department, agency, institution, and establishment of the executive branch of government and regulatory agency or regulatory commission of the state, excluding entities that do not receive a direct appropriation from the state General Fund or the Education Trust Fund, shall furnish to the commission any available material, subject to the restrictions and limitations of federal law or regulations limiting the sharing of personally identifying information, which the commission determines to be necessary in the performance of the duties and functions of the commission. (b) Any collection of data by a department, agency, institution, establishment, or regulatory agency or regulatory commission of the state, excluding entities that do not receive a direct appropriation from the state General Fund or the Education Trust Fund, shall be furnished to the commission, if available, upon request by the director or an employee of the commission. (c) The commission may take application for and award grant funds to any department, agency, establishment, or regulatory agency or regulatory commission to further the purposes, policies, recommendations, and objectives of the commission subject to the availability of funding. (Act 2019-517, §5.)
AL Code § 29-3-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-1 - Short Title.

Section 29-3-1Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Emergency Interim Succession Act." (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §1.)
AL Code § 29-3-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-2 - Declaration of Policy.

Section 29-3-2Declaration of policy. The Legislature declares: (1) That recent technological developments make possible an enemy attack of unprecedented destructiveness, which may result in the death or inability to act of a large proportion of the membership of the Legislature; (2) That to conform in time of attack to existing legal requirements pertaining to the Legislature would be impracticable, would admit of undue delay and would jeopardize continuity of operation of a legally constituted Legislature; and (3) That it is therefore necessary to adopt special provisions as set out in this chapter for the effective operation of the Legislature. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §2.)
AL Code § 29-3-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-3 - Definitions.

Section 29-3-3Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section: (1) ATTACK. Any action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this state whether through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological or biological means or other weapons or methods. (2) UNAVAILABLE. Absent from the place of session (other than on official business of the Legislature) or unable, for physical, mental or legal reasons, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a legislator, whether or not such absence or inability would give rise to a vacancy under existing constitutional or statutory provisions. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §3.)
AL Code § 29-3-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-4 - Designation of Successors to Legislators.

Section 29-3-4Designation of successors to legislators. Each legislator shall designate emergency interim successors to his powers and duties and specify their order of succession. Each legislator shall review and, as necessary, promptly revise the designations of emergency interim successors to his powers and duties to insure that at all times there are at least three such qualified emergency interim successors. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §4.)
AL Code § 29-3-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-5 - Status, Qualifications and Term of Successors.

Section 29-3-5Status, qualifications and term of successors. An emergency interim successor is one who is designated for possible temporary succession to the powers and duties, but not the office, of a legislator. No person shall be designated or serve as an emergency interim successor unless he may, under the Constitution and statutes, hold the office of the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed, but no constitutional or statutory provision prohibiting a legislator from holding another office or prohibiting the holder of another office from being a legislator shall be applicable to an emergency interim successor. An emergency interim successor shall serve at the pleasure of the legislator designating him or of any subsequent incumbent of the legislative office. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §5.)
AL Code § 29-3-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-6 - When Designations, Removals and Changes of Successors Effective; Recordation Thereof in Public Journal.

Section 29-3-6When designations, removals and changes of successors effective; recordation thereof in public journal. Each designation of an emergency interim successor shall become effective when the legislator making the designation files with the Secretary of State the successor's name, address and rank in order of succession. The removal of an emergency interim successor or change in order of succession shall become effective when the legislator so acting files this information with the Secretary of State. All such data shall be open to public inspection. The Secretary of State shall inform the Governor, the Emergency Management Agency, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives and all emergency interim successors of all such designations, removals and changes in order of succession. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall enter all information regarding emergency interim successors for the Senate or the House in its public journal at the beginning of each legislative session and shall enter all changes in membership or order of succession as soon as possible after their occurrence. Each interim successor shall be appointed for at least one year. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §6.)
AL Code § 29-3-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-7 - Oath of Successors.

Section 29-3-7Oath of successors. Promptly after designation, each emergency interim successor shall take the oath required for the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed. No other oath shall be required. The oath shall be administered by any person authorized by law to administer the oath to duly elected legislators. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §7.)
AL Code § 29-3-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-8 - Duty of Successors to Keep Themselves Informed.

Section 29-3-8Duty of successors to keep themselves informed. Each emergency interim successor shall keep himself generally informed as to the duties, procedures, practices and current business of the Legislature, and each legislator shall assist his emergency interim successors to keep themselves so informed. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §8.)
AL Code § 29-3-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-9 - Governor May Change Place of Legislative Session.

Section 29-3-9Governor may change place of legislative session. Whenever, in the event of an attack or upon finding that an attack may be imminent, the Governor deems the place of session of the Legislature then prescribed to be unsafe, he may change it to any place within or without the state which he deems safer and convenient. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §9.)
AL Code § 29-3-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-10 - Convening of Legislature in Event of Attack.

Section 29-3-10Convening of Legislature in event of attack. In the event of an attack, the Governor shall call the Legislature into session as soon as practicable and, in any case, within 90 days following the inception of the attack. If the Governor fails to issue such call, the Legislature shall, on the ninetieth day from the date of inception of the attack, automatically convene at the place where the Governor then has his office. Each legislator and each emergency interim successor, unless he is certain that the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed or any emergency interim successor higher in order of succession will not be unavailable, shall proceed to the place of session as expeditiously as practicable at such session or at any session in operation at the inception of the attack, and at any subsequent sessions, limitations on the length of session and on the subjects which may be acted upon shall be suspended. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §10.)
AL Code § 29-3-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-11 - Assumption of Powers and Duties of Legislator by Successor.

Section 29-3-11Assumption of powers and duties of legislator by successor. If, in the event of an attack, a legislator is unavailable, his emergency interim successor highest in order of succession who is not unavailable shall, except for the power and duty to appoint emergency interim successors, exercise the powers and assume the duties of such legislator. An emergency interim successor shall exercise these powers and assume these duties until the incumbent legislator, an emergency interim successor higher in order of succession, or a legislator appointed or elected and legally qualified can act. Each house of the Legislature shall, in accordance with its own rules, determine who is entitled under the provisions of this chapter to exercise the powers and assume the duties of its members. All constitutional and statutory provisions pertaining to ouster of a legislator shall be applicable to an emergency interim successor who is exercising the powers and assuming the duties of a legislator. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §11.)
AL Code § 29-3-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-12 - Privileges, Immunities and Compensation of Emergency Interim Successors.

Section 29-3-12Privileges, immunities and compensation of emergency interim successors. When an emergency interim successor exercises the powers and assumes the duties of a legislator, he shall be accorded the privileges and immunities, compensation, allowances and other perquisites of office to which a legislator is entitled. In the event of an attack, each emergency interim successor, whether or not called upon to exercise the powers and assume the duties of a legislator, shall be accorded the privileges and immunities of a legislator while traveling to and from a place of session and shall be compensated for his travel in the same manner and amount as a legislator. This section shall not in any way affect the privileges, immunities, compensation, allowances or other perquisites of office of an incumbent legislator. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §12.)
AL Code § 29-3-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-13 - Quorum and Vote Requirements.

Section 29-3-13Quorum and vote requirements. In the event of an attack: (1) Quorum requirements for the Legislature shall be suspended; and (2) Where the affirmative vote of a specified proportion of members for approval of a bill, resolution or other action would otherwise be required, the same proportion of those voting thereon shall be sufficient. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §13.)
AL Code § 29-3-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-14 - Expiration of Chapter; Extension or Restoration of Provisions Thereof.

Section 29-3-14Expiration of chapter; extension or restoration of provisions thereof. The authority of emergency interim successors to succeed to the powers and duties of legislators and the operation of the provisions of this chapter relating to quorum, the number of affirmative votes required for legislative action and limitations on the length of sessions and the subjects which may be acted upon shall expire two years following the inception of an attack, but nothing herein shall prevent the resumption before such time of the filling of legislative vacancies and the calling of elections for the Legislature in accordance with applicable constitutional and statutory provisions. The Governor, acting by proclamation, or the Legislature, acting by concurrent resolution, may from time to time extend or restore such authority or the operation of any of such provisions upon a finding that events render the extension or restoration necessary, but no extension or restoration shall be for a period of more than one year. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §14.)
AL Code § 29-3-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-15 - Enabling Authority for Emergency Interim Successors to Local Offices.

Section 29-3-15Enabling authority for emergency interim successors to local offices. With respect to local offices for which the governing bodies of cities, towns, villages, townships and counties may enact resolutions or ordinances relative to the manner in which vacancies will be filled or temporary appointments to office made, such governing bodies are hereby authorized to enact resolutions or ordinances providing for emergency interim successors to offices of the aforementioned governmental units. Such resolutions and ordinances shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §15.)
AL Code § 29-3-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 3 - Emergency Interim Succession.|Section 29-3-16 - Emergency Interim Successors for Officers of Political Subdivisions.

Section 29-3-16Emergency interim successors for officers of political subdivisions. The provisions of this section shall be applicable to officers of political subdivisions, including, but not limited to, cities, towns, villages, townships and counties, as well as school, fire, power and drainage districts not included in Section 29-3-15. Such officers, subject to such regulations as the executive head of the political subdivision may issue, shall, upon approval of this chapter, designate by title (if feasible) or by named person, emergency interim successors and specify their order of succession. Such executive head shall review and revise, as necessary, designations made pursuant to this chapter to insure their current status. Such executive head shall designate a sufficient number of persons so that there will be three deputies or emergency interim successors or any combination thereof at any time. In the event that any officer of any political subdivision or his deputy provided for pursuant to law is unavailable, the powers of the office shall be exercised and duties shall be discharged by his designated emergency interim successors in the order specified. The emergency interim successors shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the office to which designated until such time as a vacancy which may exist shall be filled in accordance with the Constitution or statutes or until the officer or his deputy or a preceding emergency interim successor again becomes available to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of his office. (Acts 1961, No. 875, p. 1371, §16.)
AL Code § 29-5-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-1 - Established; Director Head of Office.

Section 29-5-1Established; director head of office. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-2 - Joint Fiscal Committee of Legislature.

Section 29-5-2Joint fiscal committee of Legislature. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §2; Act 2015-408, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-3 - Appointment, Salary, and Removal of Director; Participation by Director in State Employees' Retirement System.

Section 29-5-3Appointment, salary, and removal of director; participation by director in State Employees' Retirement System. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §3; Act 2015-408, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-4 - Personnel.

Section 29-5-4Personnel. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §4; Act 2015-408, §1.)
AL Code § 29-5-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-5 - Director Authorized to Obtain Information From State Departments, Agencies, etc.; Cooperation and Assistance by State Departments, Agencies, Etc.

Section 29-5-5Director authorized to obtain information from state departments, agencies, etc.; cooperation and assistance by state departments, agencies, etc. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §5.)
AL Code § 29-5-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-6 - Assistance by Legislative Reference Service and Department of Examiners of Public Accounts.

Section 29-5-6Assistance by Legislative Reference Service and Department of Examiners of Public Accounts. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §6.)
AL Code § 29-5-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-7 - Duties and Functions Generally.

Section 29-5-7Duties and functions generally. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §7.)
AL Code § 29-5-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-8 - Assistance to Other Committees of House or Senate and Joint Committees of Legislature.

Section 29-5-8Assistance to other committees of House or Senate and joint committees of Legislature. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §8.)
AL Code § 29-5-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-9 - Assistance to Members of House and Senate.

Section 29-5-9Assistance to members of House and Senate. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §9.)
AL Code § 29-5-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-10 - Computer Capability; Evaluation of Budgetary Matters.

Section 29-5-10Computer capability; evaluation of budgetary matters. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 108, p. 333, §10.)
AL Code § 29-5-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 5 - Legislative Fiscal Office.|Section 29-5-12 - Estimate of Amount of Money Involved Under Provisions of Certain Bills.

Section 29-5-12Estimate of amount of money involved under provisions of certain bills. Repealed by Act 2017-214, §6, effective October 1, 2017. (Acts 1982, No. 82-102, p. 131; Acts 1983, No. 83-382, p. 556.)