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Name Session Start date End date Last election Alabama Constitution of 1819: 1819 October 1819 [1]: December 1819 November 9, 1880 [2]: 1881 November 15, 1898 [3]: February 23, 1899 [3]
The Alabama State Senate is composed of 35 state senators, in keeping with Article IV, Section 50, of the Alabama Constitution, which limits the Alabama House of Representatives to 105 members, and the senate to 35; together with Article IX, Sections 197 and 198, which requires that membership in the state senate consist of not less than one-fourth, nor more than one-third, of the total ...
The Alabama Legislature was founded in 1818 as a territorial legislature for the Alabama Territory.Following the federal Alabama Enabling Act of 1819 and the successful passage of the first Alabama Constitution in the same year, the Alabama General Assembly became a fully fledged state legislature upon the territory's admission as a state.
The governor of Alabama has power to veto laws passed by the state legislature (see below). However, in contrast to the practice in most states (and the federal government) that requires the legislature to garner a two-thirds majority to override an executive veto, the Alabama constitution requires only a majority within both legislative houses ...
The Alabama Department of Archives and History is the official repository of archival records for the U.S. state of Alabama.Under the direction of Thomas M. Owen its founder, the agency received state funding by an act of the Alabama Legislature on February 27, 1901.
In 2005, Allen proposed Alabama House Bill 30 (HB30), which would have banned public school libraries from purchasing books by gay authors or with gay characters. [2] The bill did not become law. Allen defeated incumbent Phil Poole, a Democrat, in the 2010 elections to the Alabama Senate. [3] In 2011, Allen proposed a bill to ban Sharia law.
Stewart was elected as a democrat to the Alabama Senate in the 23rd district on November 8, 2022. He received 53.4% of the vote against Republican Michael Nimmer's 44.6%. A difference of 8.8%, or about 4,000 votes. He was sworn in that night at midnight. [5] [6] Previously, in the democratic primary, Stewart defeated Hank Sanders. [2] [7]
The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act of 2017 (Ala. Code § 41-9-230 through 237, AL Act 2017–354, Senate Bill 60) is an act of law in the U.S. state of Alabama which requires local governments to obtain state permission before moving or renaming historically significant buildings and monuments that date back 40 years or longer.