Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB146

Filed/Read First Time

Introduced

2/11/25

Refer

2/11/25

Caption

FY25 General Fund Supplemental Appropriation Bill to the Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy

Summary

SB146 is a fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations bill. It provides additional funding to three state entities and funds: $100,000 to the Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy, $12,789,146 from the Court Automation Fund to the Unified Judicial System, and $7,656,820 from the Advanced Technology and Data Exchange Fund to the Unified Judicial System. The bill also amends the FY2025 General Fund Appropriations Act to increase the amount available for Alabama Department of Transportation debt service related to public highways and bridges. The transportation provision raises the appropriation for principal and interest on certain highway and bridge bonds from $113,253,921 to $126,253,921. It preserves existing language allowing transfers among transportation subdivisions to maximize federal matching funds, keeps certain matching-fund appropriations from reverting at year-end, and continues the appropriation of federal funds to the Department of Transportation for their intended purposes. The act is effective immediately upon passage and gubernatorial approval.

Impact

SB146 would modify Alabama’s FY2025 appropriations by adding supplemental funding from designated state funds and by amending the General Fund Appropriations Act to increase debt-service funding for transportation bonds. It affects the Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy, the Unified Judicial System, and the Alabama Department of Transportation, and it changes the amount available for highway and bridge bond obligations while leaving the broader structure of transportation funding authority intact.

Sentiment

The bill appears to be routine appropriations legislation with no recorded committee debate or votes in the provided materials. The available context suggests a neutral or procedural posture, focused on funding adjustments rather than policy controversy. Its status as pending committee action indicates it had not yet advanced far enough in the process to generate a documented public vote or substantive recorded opposition.

Contention

No specific points of contention are documented in the provided transcripts or vote history. Potential areas of interest, based on the bill text, could include the size of the supplemental transfers, the use of special funds for judicial system operations, and the increase in transportation debt-service appropriations. However, no member or stakeholder objections are identified in the available record.

Companion Bills

AL HB185

Same As Supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025

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