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Votes at a glance: key House actions, Feb. 11 session
Summary
The Alabama House took up several bills Feb. 11, passing measures on municipal utilities, ports, vaccines, child welfare and sentencing. This roundup lists each bill introduced or passed on the floor with outcomes and key details.
The House considered a number of bills on Feb. 11. Below are short summaries of the items the chamber debated and recorded on the floor, with outcomes taken from the official recorded roll calls announced during the session.
HB160 (Lee) — Alabama Municipal Electric Authority: Sponsor explained the bill would allow board member pay of up to $1,750 per meeting subject to clarifying language in a substitute. The House adopted a committee substitute and passed the bill as amended. Outcome: passed as amended. (Transcript record: “HB160 has passed as amended.”)
HB93 (Brown) — Alabama State Port Authority: The bill would allow the Port Authority to adopt reporting thresholds and procedures in coordination with the Examiner of Public Accounts, aligning its asset-accounting rules with universities and hospitals to avoid burdensome $500 inventory reporting. Final passage recorded: 102 ayes, 1 nay.
HB2 (Brown) — Vaccines and parental consent: The bill clarifies parental consent for vaccinations for minors living under a parent’s roof; sponsor described the measure as parental-rights legislation (not a prohibition on vaccination). Final passage as amended recorded: 92 ayes, 5 nays.
HB54 (Simpson) — Juvenile-court ex parte determinations for child safety: The bill would allow juvenile courts to enter temporary ex parte orders to determine child safety in family-law or divorce proceedings where immediate safety questions arise. Final passage recorded: 103 ayes, 0 nays.
HB43 (Hill) — Sentencing split authority: The bill permits judicial discretion to impose a 30-year sentence split to serve 10 years in the penitentiary with the remainder on probation (committee substitute clarified the 10 years must be penitentiary time, not county jail). Final passage recorded: 55 ayes, 44 nays.
Other actions: committee reports were received and floor procedure votes (dispensing with reading of the journal, leaves of absence, and routine BRR/substitute adoptions) were taken during the session.
Each bill above will proceed to the Senate for further consideration where applicable.
