{"id":185799,"date":"2025-04-15T08:52:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/alabama-2025-legislative-report-week-eight\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T08:52:56","slug":"alabama-2025-legislative-report-week-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=185799","title":{"rendered":"Alabama 2025 Legislative Report: Week Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Alabama Legislature convened for Day 19 of its annual Regular Session on Tuesday, April 8 and convened in Session Wednesday and Thursday for Days 20 and 21. Thirty-four committee meeting were held during the week. The Legislature will next convene for Day 22 on Tuesday, April 15 with the House convening at 1 p.m. and the Senate convening at 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

891 bills have been introduced to date.<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTABLE BILLS ENACTED\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

SB79, Sen. Weaver: To define man, woman, boy, girl, father, mother, male, female and sex for purposes of state law, to provide policy <\/span>of the differences between sexes, to provide that state and\u00a0<\/span>local public entities may establish separate single-sex\u00a0<\/span>spaces or environments in certain circumstances, and to\u00a0<\/span>require the state or political subdivisions that collect vital\u00a0<\/span>statistics related to sex as male or female for certain\u00a0<\/span>purposes to identify each individual as either male or\u00a0<\/span>female at birth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB70, Sen. Jones: To create the Alabama Veterans Resource Center, provide for a board of directors to manage the center as a\u00a0<\/span>comprehensive, coordinated system of support for\u00a0<\/span>veterans and their families.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB36, Sen. Kitchens: To provide further for who is subject to state competitive bid laws, to provide further for electronic bid submissions,\u00a0<\/span>to provide further for the procedures for protesting certain\u00a0<\/span>competitive bid contracts, and to revise requirements for\u00a0<\/span>disclosure statement forms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB67, Sen. Jones: To authorize the Governor to appoint the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Affairs to serve at the\u00a0<\/span>pleasure of the Governor, and to revise membership and\u00a0<\/span>powers of the board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB4, Sen. Elliott: To authorize certain public entities to contract with a nonpublic K-12 school to provide school resource officers <\/span>in certain circumstances, and to require public entities to\u00a0<\/span>charge the nonpublic school for the full cost of employing\u00a0<\/span>any school resource officer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SB64, Sen. Livingston: To require persons engaging in the business of cutting or uprooting aquatic plants in public waters to use certain\u00a0<\/span>methods to remove this plant matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB116, Sen. Barfoot: To prohibit persons from possessing a part or combination of parts designed or intended to convert a pistol into a <\/span>machine gun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB115, Sen. Chambliss: To include additional activity that would constitute the crime of impersonating a peace officer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB54, Sen. Roberts: To further provide for the term \u201ccritical infrastructure facility\u201d to include communications service infrastructure\u00a0<\/span>and facilities, and further provide for the crimes of\u00a0<\/span>unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility and\u00a0<\/span>criminal tampering in the first and second degrees.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB78, Sen. Weaver: To prohibit the possession, use, or sale of butyl nitrite or any mixtures containing butyl nitrite, commonly known as <\/span>\u201cwhippets,\u201d except under certain circumstances, and to\u00a0<\/span>prohibit the possession, use, or sale of nitrous oxide,\u00a0<\/span>commonly known as \u201claughing gas,\u201d and amyl nitrite,\u00a0<\/span>commonly known as \u201cpoppers\u201d or \u201csnappers,\u201d except under\u00a0<\/span>certain circumstances.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB93, Rep. Brown: To exempt all property used by the Alabama State Port Authority from the state personal property inventory and\u00a0<\/span>audit requirements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB159, Rep. Lovvorn: To rename the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission as the U. S. Space and Rocket Center\u00a0<\/span>Commission, to provide that the Governor serve as an ex\u00a0<\/span>officio nonvoting member of the commission, to authorize\u00a0<\/span>interested public and private partners to provide facilities\u00a0<\/span>for U. S. Space and Rocket Center exhibits, and to specify\u00a0<\/span>that the commission operates outside of the State\u00a0<\/span>Treasury.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SB199, Sen. Figures: To provide for paid parental leave for eligible employees following the birth, stillbirth, or miscarriage of a child or\u00a0<\/span>the placement of a child for adoption.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB243, Rep. Whitt: To unabate a portion of state noneducational ad valorem taxes and state abated construction related transaction <\/span>taxes pursuant to abatements granted on or after June 1,\u00a0<\/span>2026, and require the local tax collecting official and the\u00a0<\/span>Department of Revenue to collect the unabated portion\u00a0<\/span>and deposit the revenue into the Alabama Development\u00a0<\/span>Fund.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB101, Rep. Shirey: To authorize the Sheriff of Mobile County to establish procedures for using a credit or debit card to make\u00a0<\/span>purchases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB104, Rep. Drummond: To provide that a Class 2 municipality (Mobile) may declare certain abandoned or discarded debris a nuisance\u00a0<\/span>and require its abatement or removal at the expense of\u00a0<\/span>the owner of the property.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB40, Sen. Kelley: To provide for the recognition of firearm hold agreements between a federal firearm licensee or a municipal or <\/span>county law enforcement officer and in individual firearm\u00a0<\/span>owner where the licensee or law enforcement officer\u00a0<\/span>agrees to hold a lawfully possessed firearm for a specified\u00a0<\/span>period of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB60, Sen. Albritton: To allow the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority to increase the amount of bonds issued to <\/span>implement the existing prison modernization plan from\u00a0<\/span>$785,000,000 to a total of $1,285,000,000.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB130, Sen. Melson: To provide that refined gold and silver bullion, specie, or certain coins may be recognized as legal tender. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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NOTABLE HOUSE FLOOR ACTION\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

HB90 by Rep. Clarke: To further provide for a municipal housing authority\u2019s power to manage housing projects and community facilities, participate in lawful forms of <\/span>business organizations, make loans, create subsidiaries or other lawful\u00a0<\/span>business organizations, and enter into contracts, to ratify the creation of\u00a0<\/span>any wholly-owned subsidiary of a municipal housing authority, to further\u00a0<\/span>provide for a municipal housing authority\u2019s power to evaluate and award\u00a0<\/span>contracts, and to exempt public housing authorities from all taxes (as\u00a0<\/span>substituted and amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB91 by Rep. Clarke: To provide further powers to a county housing authority to manage housing projects and community facilities, including powers to <\/span>participate in lawful forms of business organizations, make loans, create\u00a0<\/span>subsidiaries or other lawful business organizations, and enter into\u00a0<\/span>contracts (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB323 by Rep. Givens: To exempt all electric utility commodities and equipment from the requirement of obtaining a permit for movement on the state\u2019s highway <\/span>system.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB357 by Rep. Hollis: To define \u201ccigarette\u201d and \u201cheated tobacco product,\u201d and to levy a tax on heated tobacco products (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB380 by Rep. Rigsby: To create the crime of human cloning and provide criminal penalties (as substituted and amended.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB403 by Rep. Bedsole: To provide for the establishment, development, management, and maintenance of the Alabama Criminal Enterprise Database (as <\/span>substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB407 by Rep. Ingram: To authorize local redevelopment authorities to require payment in lieu of taxes for transient occupancy tax, and to require these authorities to\u00a0<\/span>report certain payments in lieu of taxes to the Department of Revenue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB440 by Rep. Brown: To further provide for the collection of fire service fees in Mobile County to maintain firefighting districts in by providing a definition for <\/span>\u201cresidence.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB445 by Rep. Whitt: To regulate the manufacture, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of consumable hemp products, to authorize the Alabama Beverage Control <\/span>(ABC) Board to license manufacturers, wholesales, and retailers of these\u00a0<\/span>products, to impose restrictions on retail establishments, and to prohibit\u00a0<\/span>the sales to minors (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB477 by Rep. Faulkner: To authorize a nonprofit agricultural organization to offer health benefits to its members and their families, to specify that the nonprofit agricultural <\/span>organization would not be engaged in the business of health insurance,\u00a0<\/span>and would specify health care benefits that must by offered, to require\u00a0<\/span>a nonprofit agricultural organization to create a complaint system for\u00a0<\/span>members receiving health benefits, and to impose a tax measured by\u00a0<\/span>premiums received by a nonprofit agricultural organization (as\u00a0<\/span>substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB481 by Rep. Shaw: To exempt the purchase and installation of certain material and equipment by local boards of education and certain public procurement\u00a0<\/span>units from certain procedures for entering into contracts for public works.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB529 by Rep. Faulkner: To levy a tax on consumable vapor products and provide for the reporting, collection and distribution of the proceeds, and to provide for <\/span>the permitting of retailers of these products (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB46 by Sen. Sessions: To authorize the governing body of a Class 2 municipality (Mobile) to establish a delegation agreement with the Alabama Department of <\/span>Environmental Management to enforce the Alabama Scrap Tire\u00a0<\/span>Environmental Quality Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB83 by Sen. Orr: To require public entities to install and maintain powered, height-adjustable, adult-size changing tables accessible to both males\u00a0<\/span>and females in newly constructed or renovated public buildings, to\u00a0<\/span>provide for grant award payments to public entities with preexisting\u00a0<\/span>public restrooms subject to appropriation, and to encourage the\u00a0<\/span>installation and maintenance of adult-size changing tables in private\u00a0<\/span>sector facilities across the state.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SB91 by Sen. Kelley: To require a person seeking to construct a tall structure within a minimum distance of a military installation to receive approval from the <\/span>local government before construction may begin, and authorize a local\u00a0<\/span>government to seek enjoinment of the construction of a tall structure if\u00a0<\/span>prior approval was not granted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB102 by Sen. Coleman-Madison: To extend the existing pregnant women benefit under the state Medicaid plan for up to 60 days to women who have not been formally approved <\/span>for Medicaid coverage but who submit proof of pregnancy and\u00a0<\/span>household income information to a qualified provider of ambulatory\u00a0<\/span>prenatal care.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB200 by Sen. Jones: To rename \u201cdrug courts\u201d to \u201caccountability courts\u201d and to expand the scope of whom accountability courts would serve to include offenders\u00a0<\/span>with mental illness and offenders who are veterans (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB221 by Sen. Williams: To further provide for the compensation of the Mobile County Judge of Probate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB224 by Sen. Sessions: To further provide for the electronic monitoring of certain individuals in Mobile County.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB252 by Sen. Beasley: To further provide for the regulation of pharmacy benefits managers by the Commissioner of Insurance, to provide a civil action to person <\/span>injured by pharmacy benefit managers, to provide a minimum\u00a0<\/span>reimbursement amount for independent pharmacies, and to regulate\u00a0<\/span>rebates from drug manufacturers to pharmacy benefits managers (as\u00a0<\/span>substituted and amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTABLE SENATE FLOOR ACTION<\/span><\/h2>\n

Confirmations \u2013 The Senate confirmed several appointments to the University of South Alabama Board of Trustees: James Yance, Meredith Hamilton, Robert <\/span>Jenkins, III, Michael Windom, Bill Lewis, Chandra Brown Stewart and\u00a0<\/span>Katherine Alexis Atkins. Confirmed to the Alabama Community College\u00a0<\/span>Board of Trustees were Llevelyn Rhone, Goodrich \u201cDus\u201d Rogers, Valerie\u00a0<\/span>Gray, and J.E.B. Shill.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB191 by Rep. Baker: To establish conditions for exemption of county or municipal sales and use tax (as amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB34 by Sen. Smitherman: To require instruction in violence prevention, conflict resolution, and mediation before graduation from high school (as amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB43 by Sen. Melson: To bar enforcement of contractual provisions between health insurers and health care providers and pharmacists which forbid or penalize\u00a0<\/span>disclosure of information to patients about the cost and availability or\u00a0<\/span>treatment or drugs (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB92 by Sen. Chesteen: To prohibit the use, operation, and possession of wireless communication devices on certain public school properties, to require\u00a0<\/span>local boards of education to adopt an Internet safety policy, and to\u00a0<\/span>require students to complete a social media safety course prior to\u00a0<\/span>entering the eighth grade (as substituted and amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB112 by Sen. Orr: $9.9 Billion Education Trust Fund Budget (as substituted and amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB113 by Sen. Orr: Supplemental Appropriations from the Education Trust Fund totaling $524,276,588 (as substituted and amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB119 by Sen. Barfoot: To further provide for the list of persons prohibited from possessing a firearm, to prohibit firearm possession by a person charged with certain <\/span>felony offenses when the person has been released pending or during\u00a0<\/span>trial, and to increase the penalty for the offense of discharging a firearm\u00a0<\/span>into an occupied dwelling, building or other designated space (as\u00a0<\/span>amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SB174 by Sen. Chambliss: To require counties and municipalities to provide certain annual reports on business license taxes and business privilege taxes, and to expand the\u00a0<\/span>jurisdiction of the Alabama Tax Tribunal to include appeals of business\u00a0<\/span>license tax determinations made by counties or municipalities (as\u00a0<\/span>amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB196 by Sen. Orr: To establish a program allowing eligible 11th and 12th grade students to take all courses at an eligible two-year public institution of higher <\/span>education and receive high school credit for the coursework (Senate\u00a0<\/span>Finance and Taxation Education Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB305 by Sen. Orr: To create the Renewing Alabama\u2019s Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act to establish a process to provide additional funding for public\u00a0<\/span>K-12 schools for the purpose of addressing the educational needs of the\u00a0<\/span>student population and improving educational outcomes (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTABLE COMMITTEE ACTION THIS WEEK\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

HOUSE COMMITTEES\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

HB8 by Rep. Drummond: To revise the definition of \u201celectronic nicotine delivery system\u201d to include battery powered devices that deliver substances other than tobacco <\/span>through the inhalation of vapor; to prohibit the distribution of tobacco,\u00a0<\/span>tobacco products, electronic nicotine delivery systems, e-liquids, and\u00a0<\/span>alternative nicotine products through a vending machine; to require an\u00a0<\/span>annual permit fee for the distribution of those products (amended in\u00a0<\/span>House Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB69 by Rep. Givan: To provide prohibitions on the unlawful possession of a firearm or the unlawful transfer of a firearm in a Class 1 municipality (Birmingham) <\/span>(House Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB178 by Rep. Gidley: To require each local board of education and public institution of higher education to display, in an entry way or other common area of a school, <\/span>the Ten Commandments along with a statement of context and excerpts\u00a0<\/span>from certain foundational documents from our Nation\u2019s history, subject\u00a0<\/span>to the availability of donated funds or displays (substituted in House\u00a0<\/span>Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB244 by Rep. Butler: To prohibit classroom instruction in public school preK-12 related to gender identity or sexual orientation, prohibit education employees from\u00a0<\/span>displaying certain flags and insignia in public preK-12 schools, and to\u00a0<\/span>prohibit education employees from referring to a student by pronouns\u00a0<\/span>inconsistent with the student\u2019s biological sex (amended in House\u00a0<\/span>Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB297 by Rep. Fidler: To require money transmission businesses to collect on outgoing international electronic wire transfer a fee equal to 4 percent of the total\u00a0<\/span>amount of the wire transfer, to provide that the fees collected be\u00a0<\/span>transmitted to the Alabama Securities Commission, to establish the Wire\u00a0<\/span>Transfer Fee Fund within the Alabama Securities Commission, and to\u00a0<\/span>provide for the allocation of the funds (Public Hearing but no vote in\u00a0<\/span>House Financial Services Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB437 by Rep. Faulkner: To establish a shark alert system for Baldwin and Mobile counties, to provide for the development, implementation and operation of the alert\u00a0<\/span>system by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources with\u00a0<\/span>assistance from other agencies of the state and political subdivisions\u00a0<\/span>(amended in House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB473 by Rep. Stringer: To prohibit boards of water and sewer commissioners from restricting public recreation uses of owned or controlled water bodies (amended in <\/span>House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB501 by Rep. Pringle: To authorize the Legislative Council to contract for the demolition of the building designated as the current Alabama State House, upon <\/span>completion of the new Alabama State House, to provide for the\u00a0<\/span>disposition of certain property and materials affixed to the building, and\u00a0<\/span>to provide for the sale of items in the chambers that will not be relocated\u00a0<\/span>to the new Alabama State House (House State Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB53 by Sen. Kitchens: To require an administrator of a state, county, or municipal jail, or his or her designee, to attempt to determine whether an individual arrested <\/span>and detained in the jail is an illegal alien, and to establish the crimes of\u00a0<\/span>concealing an illegal alien and human smuggling (Public Hearing but no\u00a0<\/span>vote in House Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB110 by Sen. Williams: To add certain trucks to those that are excepted from certain weight limits, to further provide for an operator of a vehicle to verify the <\/span>accuracy of portable scales, and to remove the authority of certain\u00a0<\/span>individuals to require vehicle operators to drive to stationary weigh scales\u00a0<\/span>to enforce those weight limits (House Transportation, Utilities and\u00a0<\/span>Infrastructure Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SENATE COMMITTEES\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

HB1 by Rep. Brown: To assess a fee on certain seafood dealer licensees to be deposited into the Imported Seafood Safety Fund; to create the Imported Seafood <\/span>Safety Fund to be used by the Alabama Department of Public Health to\u00a0<\/span>inspect imported seafood products for substances that are harmful to\u00a0<\/span>humans (amended in Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic\u00a0<\/span>Development Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB209 by Rep. DuBose: To provide an exemption from jury service for nursing mothers (Senate Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB253 by Rep. Colvin: To exempt the gross receipts from the sale of certain aircraft and aircraft parts from state sales and use tax, to provide conditions regarding the <\/span>application of rental or lease taxes to the rental or lease transactions of\u00a0<\/span>commercial aircraft, to authorize county or municipal governing bodies\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>to adopt a local sales and use tax exemption by resolution or ordinance,\u00a0<\/span>and to provide for effective dates from September 1, 2025 to August 31,\u00a0<\/span>2030 (Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB258 by Rep. Carns: To change the primary election in off-presidential years to the second Tuesday in May (amended in Senate County and Municipal Government <\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB302 by Rep. Robbins: To require labor brokers who recruit a certain number of foreign workers for employment in the State to register with the Department of\u00a0<\/span>Workforce, and to require labor brokers and nonprofit organizations to\u00a0<\/span>inform the Department if they directly sponsor a foreign worker or identify\u00a0<\/span>individuals or organizations they may be using to act as sponsors\u00a0<\/span>(amended in Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB324 by Rep. Sells: To provide that a sheriff\u2019s term of office begins at noon on the first day of the term (Senate County and Municipal Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB333 by Rep. Faulkner: To allow two or more municipalities to establish a regional law enforcement training facility authority to maintain and operate a regional\u00a0<\/span>law enforcement training facility, and to provide for the composition,\u00a0<\/span>terms, and powers of the board of directors of the regional law\u00a0<\/span>enforcement training facility authority (Senate County and Municipal\u00a0<\/span>Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB360 by Rep. Robertson: To rename \u201cdrug courts\u201d to \u201caccountability courts\u201d and to expand the scope of accountability courts to include offenders with mental illness\u00a0<\/span>and offenders who are veterans (Senate Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB366 by Rep. Rehm: To authorize emergency medical services personnel to transport a police dog that is injured in the line of duty to veterinary clinic or hospital, and <\/span>authorize emergency medical services personnel to provide emergency\u00a0<\/span>medical care to a police dog that is injured in the line of duty while at\u00a0<\/span>the scene of the injury or during transport (Senate Agriculture,\u00a0<\/span>Conservation and Forestry Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB166 by Sen. Kelley: To require each local board of education and public institution of higher education to display, in an entry way or other common area of a school,\u00a0<\/span>the Ten Commandments along with a statement of context and excerpts\u00a0<\/span>from certain foundational documents from our Nation\u2019s history, subject\u00a0<\/span>to the availability of donated funds or displays (substituted in Senate\u00a0<\/span>Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB237 by Sen. Melson: To regulate the manufacture, wholesale distribution, and retail sale of consumable hemp products, to authorize the Alabama Beverage Control\u00a0<\/span>(ABC) Board to license manufacturers, wholesales, and retailers of these\u00a0<\/span>products, to impose restrictions on retail establishments, and to prohibit\u00a0<\/span>the sales to minors (Senate Healthcare Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB270 by Sen. Weaver: To provide that any county sales and use tax authorized by local law, where any portion of the proceeds is distributed to a county board of <\/span>education for capital projects, that portion of the tax to be distributed to\u00a0<\/span>the county board of education for capital projects may only be levied in\u00a0<\/span>areas served by the county board of education (Senate County and\u00a0<\/span>Municipal Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB272 by Sen. Williams: To prohibit boards of water and sewer commissioners from restricting public recreation uses of owned or controlled water bodies (Senate <\/span>Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB277 by Sen. Shelnutt: To require sex education and human reproductive process curriculum and programs to teach sexual risk avoidance and encourage abstinence\u00a0<\/span>from all sexual activity, to prohibit the promotion of abortions or any\u00a0<\/span>sexual activity, and to prohibit demonstrations of contraceptives (Public\u00a0<\/span>Hearing and favorable report in Senate Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB278 by Sen. Shelnutt: To further provide for the provision on elective credit for students of public K-12 schools who attend religious instruction during the school\u00a0<\/span>day (Public Hearing but no vote in Senate Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SB279 by Sen. Givhan: To authorize the Legislative Council to contract for the demolition of the building designated as the current Alabama State House, upon <\/span>completion of the new Alabama State House, to provide for the\u00a0<\/span>disposition of certain property and materials affixed to the building, and\u00a0<\/span>to provide for the sale of items in the chambers that will not be relocated\u00a0<\/span>to the new Alabama State House (Senate State Governmental Affairs\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB291 by Sen. Givhan: To allow a political party and local or other affiliated party organizations to transfer funds among themselves (Senate State Governmental Affairs\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB296 by Sen. Kelley: To provide for the operation of off-road vehicles on certain public roads, and to provide for the registration and licensure of off-road vehicles\u00a0<\/span>(Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB302 by Sen. Shelnutt: To authorize individuals of a certain age who carry certain health insurance to operate or ride on a motorcycle with protective headgear <\/span>(Senate Banking and Insurance Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB316 by Sen. Singleton: To require the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board to issue an educational tourism distillery license, to regulate retail sales of alcoholic <\/span>beverages by the licensee, to levy a tax on liquor manufactured by the\u00a0<\/span>licensee, and to provide for storage of liquor manufactured by the\u00a0<\/span>licensee (Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTABLE INTRODUCTIONS IN <\/span>HOUSE\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

HB533 by Rep. Garrett: To create the Renewing Alabama\u2019s Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act to establish a process to provide additional funding for public <\/span>K-12 schools for the purpose of addressing the educational needs of the\u00a0<\/span>student population and improving educational outcomes (House Ways\u00a0<\/span>and Means Education Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB535 by Rep. Tillman: To allow unemployment benefits when an employer locks out employees during a labor dispute (House Commerce and Small Business <\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB536 by Rep. Tillman: To require the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) to establish a program to educate law enforcement officers about post <\/span>traumatic stress syndrome, and to provide cooperation between ALEA\u00a0<\/span>and local law enforcement agencies (House Ways and Means General\u00a0<\/span>Fund Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB538 by Rep. Hall: To alter the official coast of arms of the State of Alabama (House State Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB543 by Rep. Brown: To increase the market value threshold amount for which tangible personal property is exempt from the state ad valorem tax (House Ways <\/span>and Means General Fund Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB555 by Rep. Hall: To create the Single Parent Support Tax Credit to provide a state income tax credit to certain single parents (House Ways and Means Education <\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB558 by Rep. Garrett: To create the Renewing Alabama\u2019s Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act to establish a process to provide additional funding for public\u00a0<\/span>K-12 schools for the purpose of addressing the educational needs of the\u00a0<\/span>student population and improving educational outcomes (House Ways\u00a0<\/span>and Means Education Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB560 by Rep. Givens: To require local boards of education to adopt policies prohibiting the acquisition of library materials that are harmful to minors, to require\u00a0<\/span>local boards of education to approve library materials before they may\u00a0<\/span>be placed in school library catalogs, to require local boards of education\u00a0<\/span>to establish a local advisory council and consider the recommendations\u00a0<\/span>of the advisory council, to provide a mechanism to submit a written\u00a0<\/span>challenge for school library materials, to provide for the rights of parents\u00a0<\/span>relating to their child\u2019s access to library materials, and to authorize the\u00a0<\/span>State Board of Education to adopt rules (House Education Policy\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB561 by Rep. Lands: A proposed Constitutional Amendment to provide that the people may propose the enactment of general laws and constitutional amendments\u00a0<\/span>by an initiative measure subject to the same limitations imposed on the\u00a0<\/span>Legislature and that the Legislature may offer an alternate proposal\u00a0<\/span>(House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB565 by Rep. Lawrence: To require municipalities to provide a copy of the new boundaries of its municipal voting districts to the Permanent Legislative Committee on\u00a0<\/span>Reapportionment following an adjustment of the boundaries (House\u00a0<\/span>County and Municipal Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB566 by Rep. Easterbrook: To prohibit certain municipalities and all counties from requiring construction plans for new single family residencies under three floors in\u00a0<\/span>height to be approved by a registered architect or licensed professional\u00a0<\/span>engineer (House Commerce and Small Business Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HJR227 by Rep. Pringle: To commend Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson for his faithful and unwavering service to the citizens of Mobile (House Rules Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

NOTABLE INTRODUCTIONS IN SENATE\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

SB300 by Sen. Sessions: To increase the market value threshold amount for which tangible personal property is exempt from the state ad valorem tax (Senate\u00a0<\/span>Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB304 by Sen. Orr: To establish the Alabama Energy Infrastructure Bank as a division within the State Industrial Development Authority for the purpose of selecting <\/span>and assisting in the financing of qualified energy infrastructure projects\u00a0<\/span>necessary to meet the energy demands of economic development and\u00a0<\/span>industrial recruitment projects throughout the State of Alabama (Senate\u00a0<\/span>Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB306 by Sen. Kitchens: To require the online publication of certain county and municipal discretionary account funds and expenditures (Senate County and <\/span>Municipal Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB307 by Sen. Kelley: To require the online publication of all county and municipal financial statements, audits, monthly expenditures, and budgets (Senate Fiscal\u00a0<\/span>Responsibility and Economic Development Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SB312 by Sen. Smitherman: To require the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board to issue a license to dispense alcoholic beverages on an occasional basis on property <\/span>controlled by the state or a political subdivision, and to require the ABC\u00a0<\/span>Board to issue a license to store alcoholic beverages in a facility for\u00a0<\/span>transfer to locations also licensed by the board for special events (Senate\u00a0<\/span>Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB318 by Sen. Singleton: To require certain disclosure when advertising service contracts, and to further provide for the limitations, exceptions, and exclusions of contracts\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>that must be disclosed (Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic\u00a0<\/span>Development Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB323 by Sen. Sessions: To prohibit state agencies from killing, testing, and prohibiting the transfer of cervids due to disease, subject to exceptions, and to provide <\/span>that cervids possessed by a licensee are the personal property of that\u00a0<\/span>licensee (Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

BUDGETS\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

HB186, Rep. Reynolds: $3.7 Billion General Fund Budget Passed House; pending in Senate Finance and <\/span>Taxation General Fund\u00a0<\/span>Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

SB112, Sen. Orr: $9.9 Billion Education Trust Fund Budget Passed Senate; Pending in House Ways and Means <\/span>Education Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

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