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The Alabama Legislature convened for Day 26, out of 30, of its annual Regular Session on Tuesday, April 29 and convened in Session Thursday for Day 27. Thirty-one committee meetings were held during the week. The Legislature will next convene for Day 28 on Tuesday, May 6 with the House convening at 1 p.m. and the Senate convening at 2 p.m. The Legislature plans to meet on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, then <\/span>reconvene for the 30th<\/span>\u00a0<\/sup><\/span>and final day on Wednesday, May 14.<\/span><\/p>\n 967 bills have been introduced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB297 by Rep. Fidler: To require money transmission businesses to report and maintain records relating to additional activity involving cash transactions beyond what is <\/span>required by federal regulation, and would provide civil and criminal\u00a0<\/span>penalties for violations (as substituted).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB298 by Rep. Colvin: To restrict certain English language learner students from being included in the average daily membership of public schools for purposes of <\/span>classifying a school for athletic competition (as substituted and\u00a0<\/span>amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB414 by Rep. Lamb: To increase the total annual expenditures of a municipality that determine if the municipality must undergo an annual or biennial audit, <\/span>or submit an annual report to the Department of Examiners of Public\u00a0<\/span>Accounts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB449 by Rep. Robbins: To prohibit certain intentional collection, use, retention, or disclosure of a person\u2019s DNA sample or genetic information without that person\u2019s <\/span>express consent, to provide for penalties, and to provide for exceptions\u00a0<\/span>(as substituted).\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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\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 <\/span>increment districts created by the municipality.\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.\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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SB140 by Sen. Waggoner: To require the Alabama Department of Public Health to notify youth athletic associations of noncompliance with the Coach Safely Act, to levy <\/span>a fine if noncompliance is not remedied, and prohibit a youth athletic\u00a0<\/span>association that is noncompliant for 4 consecutive years from\u00a0<\/span>administering or conducting youth athletic activities on state property (as\u00a0<\/span>substituted and amended).\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 <\/span>jurisdiction of the Alabama Tax Tribunal to include appeals of business\u00a0<\/span>license tax determinations made by counties or municipalities.\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 <\/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 SB194 by Sen. Melson: To authorize an agriculture authority to terminate or move easements on authority owned property using the power of eminent domain in the <\/span>same manner as the state (as amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SB256 by Sen. Sessions: To authorize a Class 2 municipality to enter property on which it holds a tax lien certificate to make repairs, to clarify that the Class 2 <\/span>municipality holds a lien for the cost of its repair that is not extinguished\u00a0<\/span>by a tax lien certificate, and to provide for the sale by the tax collecting\u00a0<\/span>official of a tax lien certificate that remains unsold for a period of time\u00a0<\/span>for the price to certain entities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.\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.\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 <\/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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SB322 by Sen. Waggoner: To authorize the annexation of a certain type of community development district by a wet municipality in the county where the district is situated, <\/span>and to further provide for the establishment of a certain type of\u00a0<\/span>community development district.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SB330 by Sen. Roberts: To further provide for the composition, manner of appointment, and length of terms of members of certain municipal water works boards, to <\/span>provide qualifications for and place limits on the employment of board\u00a0<\/span>members, to provide for conversion of these boards to regional boards,\u00a0<\/span>to further provide for these boards to amend their articles of\u00a0<\/span>incorporation, to subject these boards to the ethics laws of Alabama and\u00a0<\/span>require training on the subject, to provide duties and unlawful actions of\u00a0<\/span>these boards, to require a consulting engineer be retained by a board,\u00a0<\/span>and to require these boards to produce certain financial and statistical\u00a0<\/span>records.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB185 by Rep. Reynolds: $67,906,065 Supplemental from the General Fund (as substituted and amended; House concurred).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB186 by Rep. Reynolds: $3.7 Billion General Fund Budget (as substituted and amended; House concurred).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB199 by Rep. Hendrix: To authorize the Board of Pardons and Paroles or other state agency to provide electronic monitoring to children released from custody in <\/span>certain circumstances (as amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB315 by Rep. Lovvorn: To require the Department of Revenue to adjust the dollar value of \u201ccovered items\u201d that are exempt from sales tax during certain weekends <\/span>based on changes in the Consumer Price Index, and to increase the\u00a0<\/span>number of days prior to which a local government must pass a resolution\u00a0<\/span>or ordinance to adopt such exemptions for local sales tax.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\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 (as\u00a0<\/span>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>amended).\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>amended).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SB265 by Sen Elliott: To authorize peer-to-peer car sharing programs, which are business platforms that connect vehicle owners with drivers, to enable the sharing <\/span>of vehicles for financial consideration in this state, and to provide\u00a0<\/span>requirements for the operation of a peer-to-peer car sharing program,\u00a0<\/span>including insurance requirements, notification requirements, tax\u00a0<\/span>requirements, record-keeping and reporting requirements, liability\u00a0<\/span>requirements, consumer protection disclosure requirements, and safety\u00a0<\/span>recall requirements. (as substituted).\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 <\/span>that must be disclosed (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 (House Education Policy <\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SB85 by Sen. Orr: To specify that a parent or guardian\u2019s written declaration is sufficient documentation to his or her child from a vaccine requirement for <\/span>religious reasons, and to provide that if a public institution of higher\u00a0<\/span>education requires students to be vaccinated, a student may exempt\u00a0<\/span>because he or she objects for religious reasons (House Health\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\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 <\/span>of State may use to identify voters whose addresses may have changed,\u00a0<\/span>and to require the Secretary of State to conduct a voter registration list\u00a0<\/span>maintenance program through the Alabama Voter Integrity Database\u00a0<\/span>(substituted in House Constitution, Campaigns and Elections\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\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 (House Constitution, Campaigns and <\/span>Elections Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n SB177 by Sen. Bell: To rename the Alabama Film Office as the Alabama Entertainment Office, to include music albums as a qualified production, increase the <\/span>maximum expenditure threshold eligible for a rebate, establish a\u00a0<\/span>minimum spend threshold for musical albums to qualify, and increase\u00a0<\/span>the annual cap for incentives (amended in House Ways and Means\u00a0<\/span>General Fund 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 (House Transportation, Utilities\u00a0<\/span>and Infrastructure 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 (substituted in House Economic Development and Tourism\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB7 by Rep. Yarbrough: To allow state and local law enforcement agencies to enter into memorandums of understanding and agreements with federal agencies <\/span>to enforce federal immigration laws (amended in Senate Judiciary\u00a0<\/span>Committee).\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 <\/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 (amended\u00a0<\/span>in Senate County and Municipal Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\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\u00a0<\/span>(Senate County and Municipal Government Committee).\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 (Senate County and Municipal Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB176 by Rep. Shirey: To exempt the gross proceeds from the sale of optical aids, including eyeglasses and contact lenses, from sales and use tax (Senate Finance <\/span>and Taxation Education Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB161 by Rep. Lipscomb: To require the Division of Construction Management to periodically update the state building code in accordance with the most recent model <\/span>building code published, to expand the state building code to include all\u00a0<\/span>nonresidential buildings, to provide that the expanded applicability of the\u00a0<\/span>building code to such nonresidential buildings would not supersede any\u00a0<\/span>rules, regulations, or building codes of a Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3\u00a0<\/span>municipality unless the municipality gave its consent, to allow the\u00a0<\/span>governing body of a county or municipality to adopt a local amendment\u00a0<\/span>or modification to the state building code to authorize increased\u00a0<\/span>protections within the applicable county or municipality, and to allow a\u00a0<\/span>local governing body to request the Division of Construction\u00a0<\/span>Management to amend or modify the state building code to be less\u00a0<\/span>stringent and would authorize the amendment, if adopted, to be applied\u00a0<\/span>statewide or only locally (substituted in Senate County and Municipal\u00a0<\/span>Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB165 by Rep. Rehm: To add Juneteenth as a state holiday (Senate County and Municipal Government Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB166 by Rep. Hulsey: To prohibit the use, operation, and possession of wireless communication devices on certain public school properties, to require <\/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 (Senate Education Policy Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n HB202 by Rep. Reynolds: To establish immunity for law enforcement officers from civil liability and from criminal prosecution, and to provide exceptions (amended in <\/span>Senate Judiciary Committee).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nNOTABLE HOUSE FLOOR ACTION THIS WEEK\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n
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