HR158 Alabama 2014 Session

Summary

Session

Regular Session 2014

Title

House of Representatives, Special Order Calendar

Summary

HR158 designates a special order calendar for the 14th legislative day, placing a list of bills on the top agenda.

What This Bill Does

This resolution immediately sets the listed bills as the special and paramount order of business for the 14th day, taking precedence over regular and unfinished business. It does not itself change law, but it prioritizes these bills for debate and potential passage. The bills named would, if enacted, make various changes to ethics definitions, background checks, health department advisory roles, funding administration, airbag fraud penalties, school safety programs, municipal contracts, pipeline safety penalties, telemedicine in optometry, emergency management rules, traffic citations, school attendance accounting for online students, fine arts governance, solid waste permit processes, restrictive covenants in contracts, and hearing instrument dealer rules.

Who It Affects

• Group 1: Members of the Alabama House (and their staff) who will debate and vote on these bills on the 14th day due to their status as the special order of business.
• Group 2: State agencies and stakeholders linked to the listed bills (such as ethics and law enforcement entities, the Health Department, Department of Education, Public Service Commission, Board of Optometry, and local boards of education) who would be impacted by the policy changes if those bills are enacted.

Key Provisions

• HB369 would amend ethics law by redefining 'confidential information' in Sec. 36-25-1.
• HB284 would require polygraph exam applicants to provide state and national criminal history background checks and two sets of fingerprints (Sec. 34-25-22).
• HB291 would establish a Health Department Palliative Care and Quality of Life State Advisory Council appointed by the State Health Officer to advise the department.
• HB290 would modify funding for child passenger restraints: 20% of funds distributed to the Alabama Head Injury Foundation would be earmarked to cover administrative costs and transferred to the Public Health Department (Sec. 32-5-222).
• HB370 would create the crime of airbag fraud and set penalties, with enhanced penalties for injuries; repeals Sec. 13A-11-271 and amends Sec. 13A-11-270.
• HB156 would require an Anaphylaxis preparedness program, with the State Department of Education to develop and each local board of education to implement by the 2015-2016 school year for use of premeasured autoinjectable epinephrine on public school campuses.
• HB46 would clarify municipal subdivision regulation so that nothing shall impair or limit a lawful contract for the purchase or sale of a lot in a proposed subdivision (Sec. 11-52-33).
• HB301 would increase penalties for safety violations related to pipelines for gas and hazardous liquids (Secs. 37-4-87, 37-4-96).
• HB334 would authorize telemedicine-based optometry and modify related sections (Secs. 34-22-80 to 34-22-87; repeal 34-22-88).
• HB347 would change Emergency Management Act rules so that a state of emergency declared for less than the whole state must designate affected counties (Sec. 31-9-8).
• HB368 would let law enforcement issue traffic citations at crash scenes under certain conditions and add fines (Sec. 32-5-171).
• HB191 would modify school attendance rules so that a student who leaves public school to attend an accredited online school is not counted as a dropout for graduation-rate purposes (Sec. 16-28-3).
• HB260 would allow the School of Fine Arts executive committee to transact business in lieu of a quorum (Sec. 16-26B-6).
• HB241 would clarify contracts by clarifying the use of restrictive covenants and repeal Sec. 8-1-1.
• HB154 would revise the Board of Hearing Instrument Dealers by updating definitions, removing certain fees, and allowing the board to set fees by rule (Secs. 34-14-1 to 34-14-9, 34-14-11, 34-14-30, 34-14-32, 34-14-33).

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 24, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.

Subjects

Resolution, Legislative