Relating to environmental protection; to amend Sections 22-30E-2, 22-30E-3, 22-30E-4, 22-30E-5, 22-30E-9, and 35-19-4, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide potentially responsible parties with limitations of liability with respect to a brownfield site; to create the Brownfield Remediation Reserve Fund; to add Sections 22-30E-14, 22-30E-15, and 22-30E-16 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the creation of brownfield redevelopment districts; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style
Summary
Brownfields, to further provide for the voluntary cleanup program
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Apr 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
House Passage
May 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Apr 25, 2023
Signed Jun 1, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 24, 2023 · House May 9, 2023
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
May 24, 2023
D
Democratic8
100% Yea
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
6
Committee
5
May 24, 2023
Upper · Passed
Read a Third Time and Pass
upper
May 17, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in Second House
upper
May 17, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Favorably (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
upper
May 11, 2023
Committee
Referred to Committee (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
upper
May 9, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended
lower
May 3, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
lower
May 3, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported Favorably (Economic Development and Tourism)
lower
Apr 25, 2023
Introduced
Introduced and Referred (Economic Development and Tourism)
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Chip Brown
RRepublican
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