Alabama Senate Bills

Law enforcement; vehicular pursuits, creating a standard for pursuit policies

Military; graduate medical field courses added to educational benefits provided to eligible dependents of certain veterans, tuition cost limited

Artificial intelligence; disclosure of artificial intelligence-generated content required, enforcement provided

Certificate of need; to remove requirement for new or expanded health care facilities and services in rural area

Notifying the House of Representatives of the Convening of the Senate

Taxation; Energy use in poultry houses, exempt from utility gross receipts and utility service use tax

Education; broadcast of public K-12 school sporting events further provided for

Criminal and civil procedure; continuance of case when party, attorney, or witness is on active military duty; bail required to be set in such cases subject to conditions

Public K-12 schools; membership in athletic associations with boards of certain composition, that enforce certain rules, prohibited; Legislative Council authorization of entities' rulemaking, permitted

Taxation; state privilege tax on revenues of pari-mutuel wagering activities, levied

Crimes and offenses; rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and sexual torture, penalties further provided for

Imagination Library of Alabama Program, Department of Early Childhood Education to administer through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Department of Archives and History; composition of board and method of filling board vacancies further provided for, retroactive effect

Law enforcement; four-point restraint, use prohibited

Criminal procedure; use of taser, prohibited on restrained individual

Hospitals, additional licensing requirements provided, emergency department physician on site at all times required

Nurses; endorsement by certain certified nurses deemed endorsement by physician for K-12 school athletic participation physicals; schools prohibited from being member of athletic association that refuses to comply

Public K-12 schools, sex education (sex ed) curriculum further provided for, sexual risk avoidance established as sex ed curriculum, policies of local boards of education related to sex ed further provided for, parent or guardian notice of sex ed curriculum required, Attorney General authorized to enforce

Rural health care; Alabama Health Command established to designate an AI-assisted health platform in rural communities

Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017, memorial marker required, penalties revised

Child sexual abuse; statute of limitations extended and further provided for, certain time-barred civil claims revived

Prepare Alabama Investment Program established, tax credits for donations to trade schools and trade programs authorized

Retirement benefits, circuit clerks authorized to participate in supernumerary program and Employees' Retirement System based on separate years of service