HR67 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR

Summary

HR67 creates a special order calendar that makes a set of specific bills the immediate priority for the seventh day of the legislative session.

What This Bill Does

If enacted, the resolution places the listed bills ahead of regular business for that day, allowing quicker discussion and potential votes. It includes bills on topics like scholarships for dependents of long-term law enforcement officers, electronic monitoring of delinquent youth, veterans resources, firearms provisions, state employee deductions, small estates, legal process enhancements for ALEA, seagrass restoration, school safety rules, traffic fines, and utilities regulation.

Who It Affects

• Dependents of long-term law enforcement officers and their families (via HB188 scholarship program and related provisions for veterans resources)
• Public at large, including students, drivers, and utility customers (via provisions on youth monitoring, school safety, fines/fees, and utilities regulation)

Key Provisions

• Establishes a special order calendar for the seventh legislative day and makes those items take precedence over regular business.
• HB188 w/sub Scholarship program: creates a scholarship for dependents of long-term law enforcement officers.
• HB199 Youthful offenders: authorizes electronic monitoring of delinquent children and revises circumstances under which status offenders may be detained.
• SB70 w/sub Alabama Veterans Resource Center: creates a center and board to assist veterans and families in transitioning to civilian life; outlines duties and powers of the board.
• HB216 w/sub Firearms: defines firearm hold agreements and provides civil immunity related to them.
• HB141 State employees: provides for additional salary deductions.
• HB164 Small Estates: increases the amount available for summary distribution and authorizes probate court to manage the process.
• HB137 ALEA: authorizes wiretapping interpreters and extends related provisions indefinitely.
• HB92 w/sub State waters: establishes the Alabama Seagrass Restoration Task Force to address seagrass loss.
• HB9 w/sub Three cueing system: prohibits the use of a three cueing system in public K-12 education.
• HB134 Motor vehicles: addresses disbursement of fines and fees from certain violations (e.g., driving without a valid license plate, special access parking violations, disability parking violations).
• HB140 Public utilities: allows private sewer or wastewater systems to come under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission.

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