This amendment creates a new rule allowing the Department of Commerce and the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute to skip standard competitive bidding when buying goods or services for companies they have signed economic development deals with.
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SB325
SB325: New Rules for the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute
Last scannedAug 24, 2026, 9:06 AM
In one sentence
This law allows the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute to buy goods, services, and training without following standard state bidding rules when working with companies that have economic development agreements.
What it does
- Allows the institute to sign new contracts for training, goods, and resources needed for its work.
- Exempts the institute from review by the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee.
- Removes the requirement to use the Division of Procurement when buying items for companies with economic development agreements signed by AIDT or the Department of Commerce.
- Requires the institute director to tell the Governor if new buildings are planned, ensuring they match the Strategic Workforce Plan.
- Mandates that the institute send annual written reports about these special purchases to the Chief Procurement Officer.
Who it affects
- The Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute (AIDT)
- The Department of Commerce
- Companies with economic development project agreements signed by AIDT or the Department of Commerce
Limits and unknowns
- The Chief Procurement Officer can decide in writing if a specific purchase qualifies for the exemption.
- This law does not change rules for other agencies like public hospitals or transportation departments unless stated otherwise.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Procurement law
- Rules that usually require government agencies to get multiple bids before buying goods or services.
- Economic development project agreement
- A formal deal between the state and a company aimed at growing business in Alabama.
- Strategic Workforce Plan
- A statewide plan that guides how training programs help workers gain needed skills, which building projects must match.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
This act amends Sections 41-29-282 and 41-4-126, Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) authorize the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute to enter into new agreements for goods, services, and resources to further its purpose and exempt the institute from review by the Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee; and (2) exempt from procurement through the Division of Procurement resources for a company with which the institute or Department of Commerce has entered into an economic development project agreement, subject to reporting requirements to the Chief Procurement Officer.
Official activity
Bill history
- EnactedSenate
- Signature RequestedHouse
- Delivered to GovernorSenate
- EnrolledSenate
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1312 (Yeas 94, Nays 5)House
- Ready to EnrollSenate
- Third Reading in Second HouseHouse
- Read for the Second Time and placed on the CalendarHouse
- Reported Out of Committee Second HouseHouse
- Re-referred to Committee in Second HouseHouse
- Pending Committee Action in Second HouseHouse
- Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on State GovernmentHouse
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 916 (Yeas 30, Nays 0)Senate
- Singleton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 915 (Yeas 30, Nays 0)Senate
- Third Reading in House of Origin (Yeas 30, Nays 0)Senate
- EngrossedSenate
- Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development 1st Amendment OfferedSenate
- Read for the Second Time and placed on the CalendarSenate
- Reported Out of Committee House of OriginSenate
- Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development 1st AmendmentSenate
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