Alabama Legislature

Alabama lawmakers voted to include themselves in legislation that would allow judges, law enforcement and prosecutors to shield personal information from being released on public records, such as a home address, phone number or driver's license number.

Alabama lawmakers approved an expansion of a scholarship program aimed at helping low- and moderate-income students attend private schools.

The Alabama Senate voted thirty one to zero to cut the State’s sales tax on groceries from 4% down to 2%. The measure now goes to Governor Kay Ivey after the Alabama House agreed to a change by the Senate.

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed legislation that will ban transgender women from playing on female sports teams in college, becoming the latest state to place restrictions on transgender athletes.

Alabama senators advanced an expansion of a state program that provides scholarships funded by state tax credits for students to attend private K-12 schools. Senators voted 26-7 for the legislation that, would raise the household income cap and make other changes to increase the number of students eligible for the program.

Alabama lawmakers are advancing a bill that would make it a crime to help a non-family member request, fill out or return an absentee ballot. The Senate Governmental Affairs committee on Tuesday voted 5-2 — in a vote that fell along party lines — to advance the House-passed bill to the full Alabama Senate.

Montgomery’s LGBTQ+ community will march today to protest a bill making its way through the state’s House of Representatives.House Bill 401 was introduced on April 27th. The Alabama House of Representatives has yet to decide on the legislation.

Governor Kay Ivey will be in Tuscaloosa today to deliver the keynote address for the West Alabama Chamber of Commerce. The speech is considered the highlight of the annual event called the Chamber in Session.

A few hundred Alabama prisoners serving life sentences for crimes such as robbery under Alabama's stringent habitual offender law would see their punishments reviewed under legislation being considered.

Alabama lawmakers advanced a voucher proposal that would give parents up to $6,900 per child each year to pay for private school or home-schooling expenses.