SB220 Alabama 2012 Session

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Bill Summary

Sponsors

Gerald O. Dial

Session

Regular Session 2012

Title

Class action lawsuits filed in Alabama, plan for undistributed funds to be distributed to Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Department if class members cannot be located, or if distribution to class is not economically feasible, or if class members do not make a claim to the class funds (2012-20467)

Description

This bill would provide that all settlements or orders entering judgment in a class action lawsuit filed in Alabama and governed by Alabama law that results in the creation of a common fund for the benefit of a class shall establish a plan for determining the distribution of the residual remaining funds and the timing of such distribution to the Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention

Relating to the distribution of excess funds created pursuant to a class action lawsuit filed in Alabama; to provide that all settlements or orders entering judgment in a class action lawsuit filed in Alabama and governed by Alabama law that result in the creation of a common fund for the benefit of a class shall establish a plan for determining the distribution of the residual remaining funds and the timing of such distribution to the Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention.

Subjects

Civil Procedure

Bill Actions

Action Date	Chamber	Action
April 19, 2012		Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means General Fund
April 10, 2012		Engrossed
April 10, 2012		Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 534
April 10, 2012		Dial motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 533
April 10, 2012		Judiciary first Substitute Offered
April 10, 2012		Third Reading Passed
March 15, 2012		Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and
February 7, 2012		Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary