April 17, 2023 Group Watch: Day-by-Day, Play-by-Play

On Tuesday (8th day of regular session): 

• The Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee approved several bills including bills to further provide for the authority to make emergency procurements and the review of those procurements by the Contract Review Legislative Oversight Committee and for the compensation of retired law enforcement officers providing services as school resources officers for local boards of education.
• The Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee approved a number of House-passed sunset bills including bills relating to the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors and the State Board of Registration of Architects.
• The House passed bills including bills to prohibit certain motor vehicle speed contests and motor vehicle sideshows and to further provide for the threshold dollar amount for which competitive bidding is required. They also passed several bills of local application only and a Senate-passed bill limiting the consideration of incentive time for correctional inmates under certain circumstances.
• The Senate passed several bills including bills to grant authority for greater control of price gouging during emergency situations and to provide alternative methods for the posting of certain public notices required by law.

On Wednesday (9th day of regular session):

• The House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee approved a bill to allow a detention facility to adopt a policy to further define what items constitute “contraband” for purposes of banning certain items from detention facilities.
• The House Children and Senior Advocacy Committee approved a bill to create the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act and require the State Department of Education to adopt certain guidelines to drive the training and information sharing to appropriate persons.
• The House Health Committee approved bills to prohibit the sale, distribution, marketing, or possession of psychoactive cannabinoids found in hemp for certain age groups and to allow a parent to opt his or her child out of policies requiring a face covering at certain locations in public K-12 schools.
• The House Ways and Means Education Committee approved several bills relating to economic development including bills to increase the annualized cap on outstanding Alabama Jobs Act incentives; to authorize the State Industrial Development Authority to make site assessment grants and site development grants to certain companies; and to require the Department of Commerce to publish certain information regarding economic development incentives awarded under the Alabama Jobs Act.
• The House Education Policy Committee approved a Senate-passed bill to expand the Alabama Safe Schools Act to include the training of certain school personnel to administer medication to students with an adrenal insufficiency no later than the beginning of the 2024-25 school year.
• The Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee approved bills to expand eligibility for educational benefits to spouses of those who were killed while on active duty in the military; and to revise the circumstances under which the Alabama Medicaid Agency may revise the ceiling for the Medicaid reimbursement rate to nursing facilities during a given fiscal year.

On Thursday (10^th day of of regular session):

• The House passed bills to extend the Alabama Jobs Act; authorized the State Industrial Development Authority to make site assessment grants and site development grants to certain companies; to require the Department of Commerce to publish certain information regarding economic development incentives awarded under the Alabama Jobs Acts; and to provide for a name change for the Alabama Innovation Corporation and further provide for support authorizations.
• The Senate passed several bills, including bills to expand the membership of the Alabama Job Creation and Military Stability Commission; to extend professional license reciprocity to spouses of the United States Department of Defense civil servants; and to create the Alabama Minor Adoption Code and the Alabama Adult Adoption Code and to further provide for jurisdictional and procedural requirements to streamline the processes.

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