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Votes at a glance: key actions the Alabama Senate took on multiple bills
Summary
A compact roundup of committee reports, committee-adopted items, and bills the Senate passed or carried over during the session, including votes and short descriptions.
The Alabama Senate advanced and acted on a number of bills and committee reports during the session. Below are the principal outcomes recorded on the floor (committee reports and bills with recorded outcomes or committee dispositions are listed):
Votes and dispositions
- Committee reports (county and municipal government): SB 5 (favorable report with substitute, committee vote 6–1–2), SB 142 (favorable 8–0), SB 158 (favorable 8–0), SB 171 (favorable 8–0). (Committee report read on the floor.)
- Senate Bill 64 (Livingston/Kitchens) — state waters / aquatic weeds: committee amendment adopted; final passage recorded 31 ayes, 0 nays. Sponsor said the bill requires harvesters to remove cut aquatic weeds from Guntersville impoundment.
- Senate Bill 95 (Chastain) — Alabama Municipal Electric Authority: committee amendment adopted; final passage recorded 32 ayes, 0 nays. Bill aligns board compensation with prior gas district increases.
- Senate Bill 104 (Stewart et al.) — Alabama Job Creation and Military Stability Commission composition: committee amendment adopted; final passage recorded 32 ayes, 0 nays. Amendment adds legislative chairs for military affairs to the commission.
- Senate Bill 60 (Albritton) — Alabama Corrections Institutions Finance Authority: BR adopted; final passage recorded 32 ayes, 0 nays. Sponsor discussed borrowing capacity (sponsor cited a figure of about $500,000,000 on the floor) and said the authority provides capacity to finance construction and renovations for prison projects.
- Senate Bill 42 (Melson) — property / abandoned roads: amendments adopted; final passage recorded 32 ayes, 0 nays. The bill creates a clear procedure for returning abandoned public right-of-way to adjacent landowners, with provisions where multiple owners share the corridor.
- House messages: multiple appointments sent to confirmation committees (e.g., Agricultural Exhibition Center Corporation Board, Firefighters Personnel Standards and Education Commission, workforce board); the Senate referred confirmations to the committee on confirmations.
- House bill referrals: the House sent several bills to Senate committees (examples: HB 191 — sales/use tax to county & municipal government; HB 168 — local emergency management orgs to veterans & military affairs; HB 52 — income taxes to finance & taxation general fund). The clerk announced multiple house messages and committee referrals.
Actions to note
- A number of bills were carried over or placed on special order (the Special Order Calendar was adopted 30 ayes, 0 nays). SB 67 (veterans) was carried to the call of the chair earlier in the day and later taken up and amended.
- The Senate concurred with a House amendment to Senate Bill 70 (Alabama Veterans Resource Center Act) by recorded vote 29 ayes, 0 nays.
This roundup covers actions recorded during the transcripted session. For full bill texts, amendments, committee reports, and sponsor statements, consult the Senate Journal or the Legislative Information System.
