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Votes at a glance: key House votes from special-order calendar
Summary
The Alabama House voted on a slate of bills in a special-order calendar. This roundup lists each bill, a one-line summary of its purpose, and the recorded floor vote where available.
The House considered and recorded final actions on multiple bills during the special-order calendar. The following is a concise roundup of bills that advanced or were decided with limited floor debate.
- HB 158 (Representative Klaus) ' Retirement systems: requires identification of COLA funding in the budget when a cost-of-living adjustment is provided. Committee report adopted; final passage recorded at 97 yays, 2 nays (HB 158 passes).
- SB 36 (Senator Kitchens) ' Public contracts: modernizes disclosure forms, permits electronic signatures and shortens protest timelines. Floor: unanimous committee report and final passage recorded as 103 ayes, 0 nays (SB 36 passes).
- HB 66 (Representative Gidley) ' Elder abuse: bars individuals convicted of elder abuse or exploitation from inheriting from the victim. Final passage recorded 103 ayes, 0 nays (HB 66 passes).
- HB 214 (Representative Gidley, substitute) ' School psychologist interstate licensure compact: allows Alabama to join an interstate compact to ease licensure portability for school psychologists. Substitute adopted and final passage recorded 102 yays, 0 nays (HB 214 passes).
- SB 59 (Senator Chastain) ' Education / military families: permits use of military medical records in lieu of a "blue card" for student enrollment when military families transfer. Final passage recorded 100 yays, 0 nays (SB 59 passes).
- HB 157 (Representative Lee) ' County officials: preserves cost-of-living step increases for certain county officials so the increases continue when a new official takes office. Final passage recorded 97 yays, 0 nays, 5 abstentions (HB 157 passes).
- HB 222 (Representative Hill) ' Pardon and Paroles / GPS sharing: allows the Board of Pardons and Paroles to share electronic-monitoring GPS and biometric data with state and local law enforcement; amendment expanded sharing and added biometric data reference. Final passage recorded 102 yays, 0 nays (HB 222 passes).
- HB 17 (Representative Bolton) ' "Squat truck" regulation: updates equipment rules for modified truck fronts and removes driver's-license points in the substitute; final passage recorded 94 yays, 3 nays (HB 17 passes as substituted).
- SB 4 (Senator Elliott) ' School resource officers at private schools: permits municipalities or sheriff's offices to contract with private schools for school resource officers provided public-school SROs remain covered. Final passage recorded 102 yays, 0 nays (SB 4 passes).
- HB 44 (Representative Hill) ' Teacher retirement: permits certain day-program employees in Saint Clair County to opt into the teacher retirement system; final passage recorded 88 yays, 0 nays, 14 abstentions (HB 44 passes).
Several other bills on the special-order calendar were discussed at length (for example HB 280 and HB 18) and are covered in separate articles. Clerk and sponsors provided recorded tallies on the floor for each item listed above; where precise roll-call printouts were given, those are reflected here.
Provenance: each bill entry below references the first and last floor transcript segments where the bill was introduced and where the House recorded its outcome.
