A divided House Judiciary Committee approved a bill that could subject parents who do not safely secure firearms to criminal penalties. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the state’s firearm mortality was 26.4 per 100,000 people in 2021, trailing only Mississippi, Louisiana and New Mexico. Under
The 2024 regular session of the Alabama Legislature is starting to wind down, but there’s still a lot happening. The House passed a bill expanding a 2022 bill that restricts teachers in public schools from teaching about sexuality and gender identity. The House also passed a bill aimed at curtailing
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Last week, on a 70-30 vote, the Alabama House passed legislation to prohibit businesses from receiving economic development incentives if union elections are not held through a secret ballot. The bill was amended on the floor to make it effective immediately upon being signed into law, rather than it going
Libraries and librarians could soon be held accountable under Alabama’s obscenity law if the bill just passed by the House (72-28 with 11 abstentions) is passed by the Senate and sent to Governor Ivey. The law prohibits providing “harmful” materials to minors, and the bill removes the law’s current exemption
Similar to the changes possibly coming to the state’s obscenity law, a 2022 law that bans teachers from teaching about sexual orientation and gender identity will be expanded if the bill passed by the House last week becomes law. The current ban applies from kindergarten through 5th grade; the new
Commerce Secretary Ellen McNair announced that Phoenix, Arizona-based OMCO Solar, one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of steel structures for solar panels, plans to invest more than $10 million in its second production facility in Alabama, creating 70 full-time jobs in Limestone County. Founded in 1955, OMCO is the largest
Raytheon officially launched a $115-million expansion of its Redstone Raytheon Missile Integration Facility, which will increase the factory’s space for integrating and delivering on critical defense programs by more than 50%. The 26,000-square-foot expansion project will also bring an estimated 185 new jobs to the Huntsville site, growing the employee
There was some strong consensus on several bills last week, including the Education Trust Fund budget, which passed the House on an almost-unanimous vote. A bill easing regulations on religious exemptions for vaccines passed the Senate on a 24-5 vote. And a bill package aiming to increase workforce participation in the state passed
