Friday evening, the Alabama Legislature ended what many veteran lawmakers and observers described as the most grueling regular session in memory. In the final day alone, 100 bills traveled through the hopper of one of the two legislative chambers. Included…
On the final day of the 2019 regular session, legislation died that originally intended to increase fines by almost 5,000% and assess them daily for not displaying a human trafficking hotline poster. The Senate carried over and never debated HB264…
Senate legislation intended to protect franchisees from unjust termination and non-renewal died in the Alabama House. Although the House Commerce and Small Business Committee conducted a public hearing on SB129, the legislation was never put to a committee vote. The…
Alabama’s delivery license law has been updated. Act No. 2019-283 by Rep. Paul Lee, R-Dothan, clarifies that a municipality can only require businesses to purchase one delivery license, not a separate license for each delivery vehicle. Gov. Kay Ivey signed…
The Alabama House and Senate each cleared two calendars Thursday as lawmakers prepare for what could be the final week of the 2019 regular session. The House is expected to vote on the state’s education budget Tuesday, and the general…
Starting Feb. 7, 2020, 18-year-olds in Alabama could train for a career as a tractor-trailer driver, under one of the state’s newest laws. Act No. 2019 – 249 by Rep. Dexter Grimsley, D-Newville, and Sen. Donnie Chesteen, R-Geneva, allows those…
A nine-member task force charged with studying the impact of allowing wine to be shipped directly to Alabama consumers had its first meeting July 30th. Although by law, the panel is report its findings to the Legislature by Dec. 1,…
On Aug. 1, the state of Alabama will begin oversight and regulation of retailers who sell vape and other alternate nicotine products. In late May, Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law Act No. 2019 – 233 by Reps. Shane Stringer,…
As it did last week, controversial legislation took up most of the air time in the Alabama Legislature this week. The state’s budgets are expected to see some action next week. The Senate budget-writing committee Wednesday rewrote the state’s general…
In the Alabama Legislature’s 2019 regular session, bills aimed at reducing overcrowding in Alabama prisons would have increased Alabama’s felony shoplifting threshold by 300% or 400%. Rep. Jim Hill, R-Moody, a former circuit judge in St. Clair County, introduced HB612,…