Capitol Notes Archive

As planned, the Legislature did not meet in session this week.  After two busy weeks, this week’s hiatus provided an opportunity to reassess COVID protocols and sanitize the State House.  Over the next four weeks, the Legislature will meet for 10 legislative days, followed ...Read More

MONTGOMERY, Ala., February 12, 2021 — The Alabama Legislature met for a second consecutive three-day week, meaning even though the 2021 session began just last week, it is now one-fifth complete. Week 2 saw the quick passage of three major pro-business priorities, the introduction ...Read More

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 1, 2021 — The Alabama Legislature begins its 2021 Regular Session on Feb. 2. Thanks to the Alabama Constitution, everyone has known when this session would begin. But because of the coronavirus pandemic, no one really knows what will happen next. State ...Read More

MONTGOMERY, Ala., May 22, 2020 — The oddest session of the Alabama Legislature in recent memory, if ever, adjourned on Monday. Disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, more than half of the actual working days of the session were conducted in a State House closed ...Read More

Legislative leaders this week provided important updates on the schedule for the remainder of the Alabama Legislature’s 2020 Regular Session. As a reminder, legislators left Montgomery on March 12 for a planned spring break period, with representatives scheduled to return to the State House ...Read More

As predicted in last week’s edition, the association’s top 2020 legislative priority, the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, unanimously passed the House of Representatives on Tuesday morning. The final vote was 99-0. Bill sponsor Rep. Chris Blackshear (R-Phenix City) did a masterful job of explaining ...Read More

During the third week of the 2020 Regular Session, the association’s top legislative priority, the Financial Exploitation Prevention Act, advanced out of the House Financial Services and Senate Banking and Insurance Committees on Wednesday. Legislators on each committee asked productive, incisive questions about the ...Read More