The Governor’s Office says families have submitted applications that represent more than 36,000 students who are seeking school vouchers.
The Alabama Senate has voted unanimously in support of a bill to require minimum reimbursement rates to community pharmacists, which supporters say is critical to protecting independent pharmacies in the state.
Members of Alabama Arise Action are calling on the Legislature to eliminate the sales tax on groceries.
Advocates gathered at the Alabama State House urging lawmakers to reconsider their long-held reluctance to expand Medicaid, saying the decision is hurting both working families and health care providers.
The Alabama Senate has approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that can make semi-automatic weapons fire like machine guns.
The bill would have penalized a parent with up to a year of jail if they failed store a gun using a trigger lock, lock box or gun safe before their minor child brought it to school.
A bipartisan group of mayors, lawmakers and law enforcement officers in Alabama have endorsed a public safety package that would ban the devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.
Alabama lawmakers have given final approval to legislation that would write definitions of male and female into state law that excludes transgender people from being recognized under their gender identity.
Alabama lawmakers are seeking the ability to borrow an additional $500 million for prison construction after the price of the state’s new mega-prison rose to over $1 billion.
Alabama’s congressional district map is the subject of a federal trial to decide if the state will keep the new court-created district that led to the election of a second Black representative.
