May 15, 2023 Group Watch: News & Views from the State House
Now in the second half of the 2023 regular session, the Alabama Legislature is still hard at work, and a bill passed by the House last week moves the body closer to getting a new State House for its future work. The House passed a bill already passed by the Senate the week prior, which allocates property and creates the authority to contract with RSA or another entity to build and maintain the facility.
School sports scored some news last week. A bill to change certain eligibility rules for high school athletes has been put on hold; after a public hearing on the matter, the Senate Education Policy Committee chairannounced it would not get a committee vote. And Governor Ivey joined the country’s other Republican governors signing a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Education requesting a reversal on recent changes to Title IX rules.
Read more on all this and other trending #alpolitics topics below.
The House and Senate will reconvene on
Tuesday, May 16 at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. respectively.
