{"id":198451,"date":"2025-04-22T10:13:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/alabama-2025-legislative-report-week-nine\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T10:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:13:39","slug":"alabama-2025-legislative-report-week-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=198451","title":{"rendered":"Alabama 2025 Legislative Report: Week Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Alabama Legislature convened for Day 22, out of 30, of its annual Regular Session on Tuesday, April 15 and convened in Session Thursday for Day 23. Twenty-six committee meeting were held during the week. The Legislature will next convene for Day 24 on Tuesday, April 22 with the House convening at 1 p.m. and the Senate convening at 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

934 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 <\/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, <\/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 <\/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 <\/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 <\/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\u00a0<\/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 <\/span>audit requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n

HB159, Rep. Lovvorn: To rename the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission as the U. S. Space and Rocket Center <\/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 <\/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\u00a0<\/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 <\/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 <\/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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HB7 by Rep. Yarbrough: To allow state and local law enforcement agencies to enter into memorandums of understanding and agreements with federal agencies\u00a0<\/span>to enforce federal immigration laws (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 (as substituted\u00a0<\/span>and amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB67 by Rep. Stadthagan: To prohibit public K-12 schools and public libraries from knowingly presenting or sponsoring drag performances in the presence of a minor\u00a0<\/span>without the consent of the minor\u2019s parent or legal guardian, and to\u00a0<\/span>prohibit certain state entities from allowing minors to share certain\u00a0<\/span>facilities with members of the opposite sex during overnight programs\u00a0<\/span>operated or sponsored by the state entity, unless the other individuals are\u00a0<\/span>family members of the minor and the minor\u2019s parent consents.\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,\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 (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB179 by Rep. Gidley: To allow a public K-12 school or public charter school to accept a campus chaplain who meets certain requirements as a volunteer, to\u00a0<\/span>prohibit certain individuals from volunteering as a campus chaplain, and\u00a0<\/span>to allow each local board of education and the governing body of each\u00a0<\/span>public charter school to vote on whether to allow the volunteer services\u00a0<\/span>of a campus chaplain.\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 (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB247 by Rep. Standridge: To rename the Gulf of Mexico as the \u201cGulf of America,\u201d and to require all state and local entities and all employees of those entities to observe\u00a0<\/span>and implement the name change, where practicable (as substituted).\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 <\/span>system by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources with\u00a0<\/span>assistance from other agencies of the state and political subdivisions (as\u00a0<\/span>substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB480 by Rep. Treadaway: To provide that foreign national driver licenses may not be used as photo identification for voting purposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB506 by Rep. Lovvorn: To provide that if an off-road vehicle is publicly owned by a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency, fire department, volunteer\u00a0<\/span>fire department, or rescue squad and meets certain requirements, the\u00a0<\/span>vehicle may be designated as an authorized emergency vehicle and may\u00a0<\/span>be operated on public streets and highways to perform emergency\u00a0<\/span>services (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB509 by Rep. Sorrells: To prohibit state agencies from killing, testing, and prohibiting the transfer of cervids due to disease, subject to exceptions (as amended on\u00a0<\/span>House floor).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SENATE FLOOR ACTION<\/span><\/h3>\n

SB5 by Sen. Elliott: To further provide for the number and composition of the Board of Trustees of the Department of Archives and History and to further provide\u00a0<\/span>for the manner in which the members are appointed (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB13 by Sen. Allen: A proposed Constitutional Amendment to require local boards of education to adopt policies requiring each K-12 public school to <\/span>broadcast or sanction the performance of the first stanza of The Star\u00a0<\/span>Spangled Banner at least once per week during school hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB142 by Sen. Kitchens: To remove the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) as a voter registration database that the board of registrars or the Secretary\u00a0<\/span>of State may use to identify voters whose addresses may have changed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB158 by Sen. Barfoot: To provide that foreign national driver license may not be used as photo identification for voting purposes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SB171 by Sen. Chambliss: To prohibit an individual from operating a motor vehicle on land submerged below navigable waters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB186 by Sen. Chambliss: To require manufacturers of certain Internet-enabled devices, including smartphones and tablets, to require the devices to contain a filter that is\u00a0<\/span>enabled during the activation of the device if the user is a minor, and\u00a0<\/span>only allow a user with a password to deactivate or reactivate the filter,\u00a0<\/span>to subject a manufacturer of a device in violation of this act to civil\u00a0<\/span>liability and provide for penalties (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB187 by Sen. Chambliss: To require app store providers to verify the age of users, to affiliate minor accounts with parent accounts and obtain consent from the holder of the\u00a0<\/span>parent account, to notify users when an app makes a significant change,\u00a0<\/span>to require app store providers to give developers real-time access to the\u00a0<\/span>age category and consent status for minor accounts, to require app store\u00a0<\/span>providers to protect personal age verification data, and to prevent app\u00a0<\/span>store providers and developers from enforcing contracts against minors,\u00a0<\/span>misrepresenting information in disclosures, and sharing personal age\u00a0<\/span>verification data (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB312 by Sen. Smitherman: To create a new alcoholic beverage license category that would allow businesses that sell and dispense alcoholic beverages at special events\u00a0<\/span>under an existing special event license to obtain an event storage\u00a0<\/span>license, and to create a new alcoholic beverage license category for\u00a0<\/span>businesses to sell and dispense alcoholic beverages at a special event\u00a0<\/span>held on state, county, or municipal owned property, such as concert\u00a0<\/span>venues, exhibition halls, historic properties, and parks (as substituted).\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 (as amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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

HB231 by Rep. Ingram: A proposed Constitutional Amendment to require local boards of education to adopt policies requiring each public K-12 school to recite\u00a0<\/span>The Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, to require the local board of\u00a0<\/span>education to conduct a vote whether to adopt a policy allowing\u00a0<\/span>employees and students to voluntarily participate in a daily prayer and\u00a0<\/span>reading of the Bible or other religious text, would provide for the\u00a0<\/span>submission of a consent form to participate, prohibit the prayer and\u00a0<\/span>reading from being conducted in the presence of any individual who has\u00a0<\/span>not consented to participate, to require the State Superintendent to\u00a0<\/span>withhold 25 percent of state funding allocated to certain offending local boards\u00a0<\/span>of education, and to authorize the Legislature to further reduce funding\u00a0<\/span>upon continued violations (substituted in House State Government\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB246 by Rep. Stadthagen: To prohibit employees of public schools and public institutions of higher education from using names or pronouns inconsistent with a student\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>legal name or biological sex without written permission from the student\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>parent or guardian, to protect employees from adverse employment\u00a0<\/span>action for declining to use a name other than a legal name or a\u00a0<\/span>pronoun other than a pronoun corresponding to the student\u2019s biological\u00a0<\/span>sex or for declining to identify his or her own pronouns, and to protect\u00a0<\/span>students from disciplinary action for declining to use a name other than\u00a0<\/span>a legal name or a pronoun other than a pronoun corresponding to the\u00a0<\/span>student\u2019s biological sex or for declining to identify his or her own\u00a0<\/span>pronouns.(substituted in House Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB379 by Rep. Garrett: To exclude certain nonresident, remote workers from state income tax in certain circumstances (amended in House Ways and Means Education\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB412 by Rep. Stringer: To further provide for the crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility, and to further provide for the crime of criminal\u00a0<\/span>tampering in the first degree (amended in House Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB483 by Rep. Shaw: To exempt virtual currency from ad valorem taxation (House Ways and Means General Fund Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB521 by Rep. Lipscomb: To define a new category of ready to drink mixed liquor beverages containing no more than seven percent alcohol by volume, called \u201cmixed <\/span>spirit beverages, to institute a licensing structure in Alabama for mixed\u00a0<\/span>spirit beverages, which would require all mixed spirit beverages, other\u00a0<\/span>than those sold in Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board stores, to\u00a0<\/span>be distributed through licensed wholesalers to licensed retailers for\u00a0<\/span>on-premises and off-premises consumption, and to provide for the levy\u00a0<\/span>of a privilege or excise tax on mixed spirit beverages (substituted and\u00a0<\/span>amended in House Economic Development and Tourism 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

SB22 by Sen. Coleman: To provide that any incentives awarded to an incentivized company may be recaptured by the state if the company engaged in human trafficking <\/span>violations or violated the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (House Ways\u00a0<\/span>and Means Education 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\u00a0<\/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 (amended in House\u00a0<\/span>Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 (House Education Policy Committee).\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 (House\u00a0<\/span>Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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 (House\u00a0<\/span>Judiciary Committee).\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 public institution of higher education <\/span>and receive high school credit for the coursework, to create the Move on\u00a0<\/span>When Ready Fund, and to authorize payment from the fund to a public\u00a0<\/span>institution of higher education for courses taken pursuant to the program <\/span>(substituted in House Education Policy Committee and re-referred to\u00a0<\/span>House Ways and Means Education Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

HB320 by Rep. Pringle: To provide certain additional methods of publication that would serve as a safe harbor for the award of a contract for public works in the event <\/span>a publication by newspaper fails to be completed, and to establish the\u00a0<\/span>Study Commission on Public Notice of Title 39 Advertisements to study\u00a0<\/span>and make recommendations regarding the establishment of a\u00a0<\/span>centralized website for notice of advertisements for certain public bids\u00a0<\/span>(substituted in Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\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 (amended in Senate Transportation and Energy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB380 by Rep. Rigsby: To create the crime of human cloning and provide criminal penalties (Carried Over in Senate Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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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 <\/span>report certain payments in lieu of taxes to the Department of Revenue\u00a0<\/span>(Senate County and Municipal Government Committee).\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 (Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic\u00a0<\/span>Development Committee).\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 (Public\u00a0<\/span>Hearing but no vote in Senate Banking and Insurance Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB268 by Sen. England: To define a new category of ready to drink mixed liquor beverages containing no more than seven percent alcohol by volume, called \u201cmixed <\/span>spirit beverages, to institute a licensing structure in Alabama for mixed\u00a0<\/span>spirit beverages, which would require all mixed spirit beverages, other\u00a0<\/span>than those sold in Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board stores, to\u00a0<\/span>be distributed through licensed wholesalers to licensed retailers for\u00a0<\/span>on-premises and off-premises consumption, and to provide for the levy\u00a0<\/span>of a privilege or excise tax on mixed spirit beverages (substituted and\u00a0<\/span>amended in Senate Tourism Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB271 by Sen. Allen: To prohibit municipalities from imposing certain fees or charges on natural or manufactured gas utilities in connection with the granting of <\/span>consent to use public streets and places (Senate Transportation and\u00a0<\/span>Energy 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 <\/span>day (Senate Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SB282 by Sen. Barfoot: To exempt virtual currency from ad valorem taxes (Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee).<\/span><\/p>\n

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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

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

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

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

HB567 by Rep. Wilcox: To increase the percent of total value of equalized taxable property, within a Class 2 (Mobile) municipality, that may be included in tax\u00a0<\/span>increment districts created by the municipality (House Mobile County\u00a0<\/span>Legislation).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB578 by Rep. Wood: To prohibit the Alabama Department of Environmental Management from processing certain permits for quarries unless approved by a local <\/span>government, to provide procedure for quarry approval by a local\u00a0<\/span>government, including required information to considered and a public\u00a0<\/span>hearing, and to establish a residential advisory board for monitoring\u00a0<\/span>approved quarries (House State Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB582 by Rep. Butler: To prohibit the use of the concepts of social-emotional learing for the training of teachers or the training, instruction, or education of students,\u00a0<\/span>and to require parental consent for a student to participate in certain\u00a0<\/span>surveys and evaluations (House Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB588 by Rep Lawrence: To establish state privilege tax and a local privilege tax on the net gambling revenues from pari-mutuel wagering on historical horse racing <\/span>(House Economic Development and Tourism Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

HB596 by Rep. Sells: To prohibit persons from transporting out of this state a live catfish harvested in public waters (House State Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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HB597 by Rep. Clouse: To provide for alternate delivery methods for public works projects, to further provide for who can file a protest, and to clarify how these <\/span>provisions will be construed by the court (House Transportation, Utilities\u00a0<\/span>and Infrastructure Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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

SB332 by Sen. Givhan: To provide for alternate delivery methods for public works projects, to further provide for who can file a protest, and to clarify how these <\/span>provisions will be construed by the court (Senate Fiscal Responsibility and\u00a0<\/span>Economic Development 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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