HR171 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR

Summary

HR171 creates a special order calendar that places a set of specified bills and topics as the immediate, top-priority items for the seventeenth legislative day.

What This Bill Does

It establishes the special and paramount order of business for the indicated day, taking precedence over regular or unfinished business. It lists a sequence of bills and topics to be considered first, including firearms, Medicaid, education loan programs, license plates, STEM council creation, public utilities oversight, electronic penalties notices, seafood fees, and related measures. These items would be addressed before any other pending or new business for that day.

Who It Affects

• Alabama residents and stakeholders who would be affected by the policies in the prioritized bills (e.g., firearm policy, health care coverage for children, education loan programs, STEM workforce initiatives, utilities regulation, and seafood industry funding).
• State lawmakers and government agencies responsible for implementing or acting on these prioritized bills during the special order day.

Key Provisions

• Adopts a special and paramount order of business for the seventeenth legislative day, taking precedence over regular or unfinished business.
• Immediately upon adoption, activates a pre-set list of bills and topics to be treated as the special order, in the order shown, including SB40, HB177, HB272, HB376, HB365, SB137, HB310, HB1, SB60, HB353, HB354, HB288, HB271, HB332, HB324, SB86, SB104, SB130, HB366, SB96, and additional items listed in the document.
• Directs that these items be addressed before any other regular or pending business for that day.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.