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Votes at a glance: Alabama Senate passes bills, confirms trustees and adopts resolutions
Summary
The Alabama Senate adopted multiple bills, confirmed several appointments to boards and adopted resolutions during the floor session. Key votes and tallies are listed below.
The Alabama Senate completed a session during which it passed a set of bills, confirmed a slate of appointees to boards and adopted resolutions. Most final passages and confirmations were unanimous or near-unanimous on recorded votes.
Votes at a glance (selected items from the floor session):
- Confirmations to University of Alabama Board of Trustees and other boards: several nominees were confirmed by recorded roll calls. Notable recorded tallies included Myla E. Calhoun (28 ayes, 0 nays); Barbara Humphrey (29 ayes, 0 nays); Grayson Hall (29 ayes, 0 nays); Angus R. Cooper III (29 ayes, 0 nays); plus additional confirmations to the Agriculture Exhibition Center Corporation (Brad Fuller, Joe Lambrecht, Thomas Ellis, Barrett Vaughn, John Starnes, Jimmy Parnell, Ralph Williams) generally recorded as 29 ayes, 0 nays.
- Local and municipal bills: - House Bill 76 (Fayette County) — final passage, 29 ayes, 0 nays. - Senate Bill 139 (Scottsboro, Jackson County) — final passage, 29 ayes, 0 nays. - Senate Bill 162 (Marshall County) — final passage, 30 ayes, 0 nays. - Senate Bill 25 (Coleman County community development district) — final passage, 30 ayes, 0 nays.
- Other bills enacted or advanced on the floor: - Senate Bill 80 (alleged renaming of Alabama Local Government Training Institute) — passed, 31 ayes, 0 nays. - Senate Bill 115 (crimes and offenses: clarifying impersonation of police) — passed, 31 ayes, 0 nays. - Senate Bill 102 (Medicaid presumptive eligibility; as amended to match House language) — passed as amended, 31 ayes, 0 nays. - Senate Bill 54 (crimes and offenses; critical-infrastructure provisions) — passed as amended, 31 ayes, 0 nays (detailed in separate article). - Senate Bill 40 (firearms measure, described on the floor as the Hunter-Houston bill for voluntary firearm surrender) — passed, 31 ayes, 0 nays.
- Resolutions and ceremonial business: several resolutions were adopted by unanimous consent, including commemorations and recognitions (e.g., Senate Joint Resolution 26 commending Larry Blakeney, Senate resolutions honoring Lane’s Barbecue and others). The Senate adopted a special order calendar by recorded vote (30 ayes, 0 nays) before considering bills listed above.
The Senate adjourned at the end of the session and scheduled the next meeting as announced by the president pro tempore. Items carried over from this floor (e.g., Senate Bill 5 and others referenced during debate) were noted as carried over for further work.
Official tallies and final enrolled texts will be available in the Senate’s journal and on the legislative website.
