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The following is a summary of coastal, fisheries, marine and natural resources related legislation enacted by the Alabama legislature during the 1998 session.
 

1998 Alabama Laws 383. (SB 14) Approved: April 27, 1998. Effective: July 1, 1998.

Amends Alabama Code § 9-2-14 to require that each congressional district be represented by members on the Advisory Board of Conservation and Natural Resources. Each congressional district shall be limited to not more than two members and those districts currently not represented shall have transitional members appointed until permanent members may be appointed.
 

1998 Alabama Laws 518. (HB 242) Approved: May 5, 1998. Effective: October 1, 1998.

Authorizes an appropriation of $62,761 from the State General Fund to provide for development, utilization, and maintenance of the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint inland waterway and river system.
 

1998 Alabama Laws 615. (HB 629) Approved: May 6, 1998. Effective: August 1, 1998.

Amends Alabama Code § 9-11-433 to allow License Agents authorized by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to issue migratory waterfowl stamps, where only the judge of probate and issuing officers could issue these stamps previously. The stamp allows licensed hunters to take migratory waterfowl in the State of Alabama. Each stamp is provided to a hunting license applicant for a fee of five dollars.
 

1998 Alabama Laws 663. (HB 148) Approved: May 6, 1998. Effective: August 1, 1998.

Authorizes state governmental units to enter into contracts that will provide guaranteed energy cost savings. The government shall provide public notice of the award of such contracts, and the contracts must provide energy cost saving results that exceed the cost of those measures within a ten year period.
 

1998 Alabama Laws 668. (HB 465) Approved: May 6, 1998. Effective: May 6, 1998.

Enacts the Kyoto Protocol Response Act to prohibit the Director of the Alabama Department of Environmental Management from proposing or promulgating any new regulations pertaining to the reduction in greenhouse gas emissions prior to the ratification of the Kyoto Climate Change Protocol by the United States Senate and enactment of implementing legislation by the United States Congress. The Kyoto Protocol is an agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Global Climate Change that would require the United States to reduce emission of greenhouse gases without requiring relative compliance in developing countries.
 
 

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