AlabamaPublic utility boards may pay specified fees and extend terms
The enrolled text sets fee limits for some utility board members and extends certain board terms in municipalities with fewer than 5,000 people.
What it does
In municipalities with fewer than 5,000 people, utility corporations may pay chairs up to $1,200 per meeting and other directors up to $600, subject to yearly caps.
In qualifying municipalities under 5,000 people, a utility board member's term is extended one year if it would end before the mayor's and governing body's extended terms.
Argument forSpecified fee limits could give eligible utility boards more flexibility to compensate directors for attending meetings, subject to annual caps.
Argument againstAllowing fees up to the stated limits could increase payments made by eligible municipalities or utility corporations.
More detail
A utility corporation may pay its board chair and other directors fees up to specified limits. This applies to corporations serving one or more water, gas, or electric systems in municipalities with fewer than 5,000 people. The chair's fee may not exceed $1,200 per meeting or $7,200 per year. Each other director's fee may not exceed $600 per meeting or $7,200 per year. A director may not be paid for services involving a sanitary sewer system. The act says it becomes effective immediately.
A qualifying board member's term is extended by one year. This applies to a municipality with fewer than 5,000 people that authorized a utility corporation and whose mayor and governing-body members received legislative term extensions. The board member's term must expire before the extended terms of the mayor and municipal governing-body members expire. The act says it becomes effective immediately, and the one-year extension applies when the stated expiration condition is met.
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- Introduced
- Passed House
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2026
- Apr 17EnactedBecame Law
- Apr 9Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1320Passed Senate
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1320. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 9Ready to Enroll
- Apr 9Ready to Enroll
- Apr 9EnrolledTo Governor
- Apr 9Signature Requested
- Apr 9Signature Requested
- Apr 9Signature Requested
- Apr 9Delivered to GovernorMinor
- Mar 10Reported Out of Committee Second House
- Mar 10Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)Minor
- Feb 26Third Reading in House of Origin
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 638. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Third Reading in House of Origin. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 637. Result: pass.Lower
- Feb 26County and Municipal Government Engrossed Substitute Offered (County and Municipal Government)Minor
- Feb 26Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 637Major
- Feb 26Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 638Passed House
- Feb 26Engrossed
- Feb 26Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal GovernmentMinor
- Feb 26Pending Committee Action in Second House (County and Municipal Government)
- Jan 21Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (County and Municipal Government)
- Jan 21Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)Minor
- Jan 13Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on County and Municipal GovernmentMinor
- Jan 13Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (County and Municipal Government)
- Jan 9FiledIntroduced
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