HJR45 Alabama 2014 Session

Updated Feb 27, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Dickie Drake
Republican
Co-Sponsors: John W. Rogers Barry Moore Mary Moore Duwayne Bridges Joe Faust Alan Baker Wayne Johnson Randy Wood Allen Treadaway
Session: Regular Session 2014
Title: Task force, Medal of Honor Recipients', created
Summary: HJR45 creates the Alabama Medal of Honor Recipients' Task Force to study and propose ways to honor Alabama Medal of Honor recipients, including a memorial park, school lesson plans, and a maintenance budget.
What This Bill Does
It establishes the Alabama Medal of Honor Recipients' Task Force and states its purpose to suggest ways to honor and preserve recipients' sacrifices, such as a public memorial park, lesson plans for schools, and a maintenance budget administered by the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs. The task force must report its recommendations to the Governor and Legislature by the fifth legislative day of the 2015 Regular Session and then it is dissolved.

Who It Affects
Alabama Medal of Honor Recipients and their families, and the public, who could be honored or educated through a memorial park and educational materials.
State agencies, lawmakers, and veterans organizations that would form, fund, and administer the task force and related projects (e.g., Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Education, National Guard, ADCNR, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Senate, and House).

Key Provisions
Creates the Alabama Medal of Honor Recipients' Task Force.
Task force will consider and propose: a public memorial park honoring Alabama Medal of Honor Recipients, model lesson plans for Alabama schools, and an estimated budget for costs, administered by the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs as a short-term project for maintenance of the hall of honor memorial park.
Task force composition includes representatives from ADCNR, Alabama National Guard, Department of Education, Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Alabama, one Senator, and one Member of the House; the VA representative serves as chair.
The task force shall report its suggestions to the Governor and Legislature by the fifth legislative day of the 2015 Regular Session, after which the task force is dissolved.
Legislative members may receive regular compensation, per diem, and travel expenses for meetings, subject to specified limitations regarding session timing and other payments.
Total expenditures of the task force shall not exceed $5,000 $1,000.

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Subjects: Resolutions, Legislative