HR256 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR

Summary

HR256 sets a special order calendar for April 17, 2025, placing a group of bills on a priority track for that day.

What This Bill Does

This resolution immediately designates the listed bills as the top priority for that legislative day, ahead of regular business. It does not itself change laws, but moves these bills forward for debate and possible passage that day. The topics covered include education-related changes, immigration procedures, religious displays, gender identity rules, holidays, and real estate regulation.

Who It Affects

• Students and families in K-12 and public colleges, along with teachers, staff, and public institutions, would be affected by education-related bills (campus chaplains, Ten Commandments displays, drag performance restrictions, gender identity discussions restrictions, Juneteenth holiday designation, and parental rights provisions).
• Real estate professionals (brokers, licensees, instructors) and consumers involved in real estate transactions would be affected by bills governing disclosures, brokerage services, agreements, licensing education, and disciplinary rules.

Key Provisions

• HB437 with substitutes would establish a shark alert system and require implementation by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, with state and local assistance required.
• HB247 with substitutes would rename a Gulf of Mexico item and require observation and implementation by state and local entities and employees where practicable.
• HB179 would authorize public K-12 schools to hire or accept campus chaplains as volunteers, with local boards voting on whether to allow them and with specified limitations.
• HB7 with substitutes would provide procedures for arrest, detention, and transportation of illegal aliens and establish reporting requirements.
• HB178 with substitutes would require Ten Commandments to be displayed in a common area of public K-12 schools and public institutions of higher education.
• HB67 would restrict drag performances in certain circumstances in public K-12 schools and libraries, and limit minor facility sharing with the opposite sex during overnight programs by state entities.
• HB244 with substitutes would prohibit discussions of gender identity in preK-12 education, bar employees from displaying flags or insignia related to sexual orientation or gender identity, and restrict pronoun usage inconsistent with a student's biological sex.
• HB165 would add Juneteenth as a state holiday.
• HB14 with substitutes would authorize the Attorney General or Governor to appoint an interim police chief under certain conditions.
• HB382 with substitutes would require disclosure forms in real estate transactions, describe brokerage services, state terms of compensation, require written brokerage agreements in certain circumstances, and set penalties and duties for brokers and licensees, including scope of team operations.
• HB225 would establish and regulate Alabama Real Estate Commission prelicense and continuing education schools and instructors, set licensing and approval processes, and revise disciplinary authority and related fees.

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