Alabama House Bills

Civil practice; affirmative defenses; limitation of liability for damages sustained for obstructing traffic for the obstruction of vehicle traffic, established

Bail Bonds; Bail Reform Act of 1993 and Bail Bond Regulatory Act amended; certain undeposited fees forgiven; penalties for crime of bail jumping increased; to provide further for conditional forfeitures, out-of-state bondsmen and sureties, limitations on property owners as sureties; to provide further for the definition of an employee of a professional bail bond company or professional surety company, for the licensing and duties of apprentices; to increase the membership of the Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board; provide for a late fee for renewals; and to require applicants for licensing to be residents of this state for at least one year

Legislative Services Agency; complete a Rural Impact Report on legislation if requested

Pardons and Parole Board, to create the Criminal Justice Policy Development Council, membership, duties, require the board to use parole release guidelines, parole proceedings revised, provide for appellate review

Traffic offenses, drawing of blood in relation to certain traffic offenses further provided for

Alabama Drycleaning Response Trust Fund Board, requirement that the Alabama Department of Environmental Management prevent involvement of other units of government in contamination problems deleted; required minimum balance in Alabama Drycleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund reduced from one million to two hundred fifty thousand dollars

Occupational and professional licensing boards; prohibited from purchasing or acquiring real property under the power of eminent domain

Medical examiners, criminal penalties established for medical examiner retaining deceased person's organs in certain circumstances

Military medical records as evidence of immunization for school admittance

Judicial compensation; uniform pay plan for justices & judges revised

Counties and municipalities; recording and publishing of meetings of local governing bodies, required

Taxation; Greater Peace Community Corporation, exempt from sales and use tax

Provisional release from educational intervention

Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, exemption for the licensing and regulation of makeup applicators provided

Law enforcement officers, giving false name or address, date of birth included, refusal to respond if part of a lawful stop, criminal penalties

Health care policies; eliminate cost-sharing for prostate screening coverage of high risk men

Military installations; local government, approval to construct nearby tall structures required, authorized to seek enjoinment of violative construction

National Guard; legal services office and legal assistance program created

State employees; paid parental leave authorized, parameters for eligibility established

Alabama Improvement Districts; to streamline enforcement and collection of assessments; authorize revenue commissioner to collect reasonable compensation; provide additional rights and protections; eliminate certain remedies for failure to pay an assessment

Crimes and offenses; resisting arrest; temporary holding period, provided

Crimes and offenses; critical infrastructure facilities, further provided; crimes of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility and criminal tampering, further provided

Municipal police departments; report number of law enforcement officers employed by department to Alabama Justice Information Commission, ALEA, and Attorney General

Competitive bidding; contract protest procedures revised; requirements for submitting disclosure statements revised

Government administration, state and local agencies prohibited from contracting with media monitoring organizations and certain contractors and companies

Composition of Alabama Job Creation and Military Stability Commission

Taxation; Goodwill Industries of Southern Rivers, exempt from sales and use tax

Class IV municipalities, accounting requirements further provided for

Dogs and Cats; abandoning dogs or cats prohibited; criminal penalty for violating provided

Public schools, colleges, and universities; immunity provided to students and teachers who decline to use certain pronouns or names

Public K-12 education; Pledge of Allegiance and prayer required each day, constitutional amendment

Firefighters; to limit the post-retirement qualifying period for benefits for certain occupational diseases

Crimes and offenses; obstructing governmental operations, further provided

Taxation, Lt General Victor "Brute" Krulak Detachment of Marine Corps League, exempt from sales and use tax

State waters; persons commercially cutting aquatic plants required to remove cut plants, criminal penalties established

Taxation; High Socks for Hope, exempt from sales and use tax

Solid waste collection fees; veterans' benefits sole income households exempted

Motor vehicles, child passenger restraint systems, use further provided

Medicaid; Requiring Employer-provided insurance as primary payor of eligible child's health care

Alabama Veterans Resource Center, center and board created to assist veterans and families transition to civilian life; duties and powers of board provided

Courts; Uniform Traffic Ticket and Complaint; disposition by law enforcement officer further provided

Dogs; required methods of confinement provided; persons and activities exempted; criminal penalty for violation established

Class 2 municipalities, scrap tires, enforcement of Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act, jurisdiction of municipality court, criminal penalties

Labor and employment, independent contractors, establishment of portable benefit accounts.

Law enforcement, authorizes Attorney General or Governor to appoint interim police chief subject to certain conditions

Incarceration, supervised pre-incarceration probation for certain pregnant women provided for, self-surrender 12 weeks after birth required, criminal penalties for failure to surrender provided

Mobile County Sheriff's Department, honored

Lott Middle School 7th Grade, celebrated

Pike Liberal Arts School Cheerleading Teams, commended

Robert Shwartzman Day, proclaimed

Keisha Kashae Chandler, death mourned

Leslie Pollard, commended

Charles Owen Burden, Sr., death mourned

Lillie Viola Carstarphan Williams, death mourned

77th Independence Day of the State of Israel, commemorated

Alabama State University GEAR UP Students, commended

Alexis Herman, death mourned

Illegal immigration; procedures for arrest, detention, transportation of illegal aliens provided for; reporting requirements established

Madison County, boundary lines and corporate limits of the City of New Hope further provided for

Madison County, compensation of the sheriff further provided for