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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 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 ...
Both chambers of the Alabama Legislature passed Republican-proposed bills intended to protect in vitro fertilization Thursday after the state Supreme Court ruled that embryos are considered children.
Alabama lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state's November ballot, mirroring accommodations made four years ago for then-President Donald Trump.
The Alabama Legislature is the legislative branch of the government of the U.S. state of Alabama.It is a bicameral body composed of the House of Representatives and Senate.It is one of the few state legislatures in which members of both chambers serve four-year terms and in which all are elected in the same cycle.
The bill that passed both chambers of Alabama's legislature on Thursday would not necessarily mean IVF providers could revert to business as usual, according to its sponsor, Republican state ...
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.