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Jack's bill HB339 for mandatory ethics training will be in house committee meeting tomorrow 20May2015 at 1:30pm. If you can make it to show support, that would be awesome. Please be respectful while present if you can make it.

*Instead of starting a new multiple threads I'll just edited the dates in the title

28May2015- Jack's ethics bill goes to house floor for votes. Big day

https://twitter.com/Ratcliff_24/status/6...9126612992

According to Jack's twitter, the bill unanimously passed in committee.

(05-20-2015 02:31 PM)hooverblazer Wrote:  According to Jack's twitter, the bill unanimously passed in committee.

Good.. That should have been a No Brainer for the committee (and the entire legislature).

Jack says the SACS/Ethics bill will be voted on tomorrow in the House. Also the revisions to the open meetings law is on the calendar for Tuesday.

If this is all that comes out of it, then this is a failure. SACS has already shown they don't care.

(05-28-2015 07:55 AM)mixduptransistor Wrote:  If this is all that comes out of it, then this is a failure. SACS has already shown they don't care.

I sort of agree, but not entirely. If the legislature passes this bill it will at least be a slap in the face to the arrogant Trustees since it implies on in its face that they need training in ethics - and Lord do they ever. Imagine all of these rich and powerful people being forced to take time out their so busy schedules to sit in a class for a day or two while some professor lectures them on what they can and cannot do ethically. I of course would like to at least see Jabo's bill pass and at best see a total separation from this BOT, but a little humiliation for people like Bryant, Espy and St. John apparently will have to do for a while because I don't see the other bills passing this session.

That said, also keep in mind that even the ethics bill is a long way from passing. Not only does the House bill have to be approved by the whole chamber, but it is still stuck in the Senate committee.

It is a positive step if it passes. Not enough, but progress.

The bill has more teeth than it sounds like on the surface. It also requires trustees to fill out the state's economic interest form and disclose business relationships trustees have with each other. Just shining a little more light on them.

Even if the bill passes and is signed into law, I bet it will become effective not sooner than 1 day after Bryant retires from the BOT. One way or the other, he will be exempted from any additional requirements (beyond what the law already requires) in the realm of public disclosure or ethical obligation.

Bryant has already had his last meeting. I guess he is on the BoT until his replacement is seated at the next meeting.

HB339 requiring SACS and ethics training for college & university board members just passed the Alabama House of Representatives 96-1.

How much do you want to bet that 1 no vote was from Tuscaloosa?

Woah. 96-1. Message sent.

(05-28-2015 01:52 PM)UAB UA CPA Wrote:  How much do you want to bet that 1 no vote was from Tuscaloosa?

I was wrong. Randall Shedd from Cullman. I can guess who contributed to his campaign.

Close enough

Same difference.

I don't care for Shedd. We have crossed paths......

Not surprising...the guy was the mayor of fairview for 18 years, and hes married to the town clerk.

From the Cullman Times:

Quote:Randall Shedd, then the youngest person ever to serve as chairman of a county commission in Alabama, organized the county's first industrial development board, which included Bailey, Elliot Free, J.B. Vinson, Jay Mullins, Finis St. John, Pelham Butler, Bob Bryan, Ellis Hodge and Bill Wachter.