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Legislative Update

The Legislative Update is a weekly e-newsletter from the Alabama State Bar providing status reports and summaries of legislative activity that may be of interest to our members. We send it every Friday during the Legislative Session. For questions or comments, contact Alabama State Bar Legislative Counsel Suzanne Huffaker at suzanne.huffaker@alabar.org. If you don’t receive the email, make sure your email preferences on your Member Dashboard are set to receive “non-official” emails.

2026 Legislative Update: April 10, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY The Alabama Legislature closed out the 2026 Legislative Session this week. It was a 3-day week, with full calendars on all three days and lengthy debates. All 30 […]

2026 Legislative Update: March 20, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY The tenth week of the 2026 Alabama Legislative session is now finished. The legislature is taking next week off for spring break and will return on March 31. […]

2026 Legislative Update: March 13, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY The ninth week of the Alabama Legislature’s 2026 session was an industrious one. There were three session days this week, bringing the total of days completed to 22 of the allotted […]

2026 Legislative Update: March 6, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY This week, the Alabama Legislature completed its eighth week. It was a two-day session week. Nineteen of the constitutionally allotted 30 days are now complete. A total of […]

2026 Legislative Update: February 27, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY This week, the Alabama Legislature completed its seventh week. It was a three-day session week, with committee meetings and session on Wednesday. Seventeen of the allotted 30 days […]

2026 Legislative Update: February 20, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY This week, the Alabama Legislature completed its sixth week. It was a two-day session week, with Wednesday full of committees. Fourteen of the allotted 30 days are now […]

2026 Legislative Update: February 13, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY This week, the Alabama Legislature completed its fifth week. There were two session days on Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesday serving as the traditional committee day. Twelve session […]

2026 Legislative Update: February 6, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY This week, the Alabama Legislature completed its fourth week. It was a typical week, with two session days on Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesday full of committees. Ten […]

2026 Legislative Update: January 30, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY This week, the Alabama Legislature settled into the third week of the legislative session. It was a two-day session week on Tuesday and Thursday, with Wednesday full of […]

2026 Legislative Update: January 23, 2026

LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY The Alabama Legislature began its second week with packed committee meeting agendas and three session days. At the end of this week, six session days of the allotted 30 […]

Legislative Update

The Legislative Update is a weekly e-newsletter from the Alabama State Bar providing status reports and summaries of legislative activity that may be of interest to our members. We send it every Friday during the Legislative Session. For questions or comments, contact Alabama State Bar Legislative Counsel Suzanne Huffaker at suzanne.huffaker@alabar.org. If you don’t receive the email, make sure your email preferences on your Member Dashboard are set to receive “non-official” emails.

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Court Cost Study

The Alabama State Bar requested that the Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama (PARCA) review our current court cost structure within the State of Alabama with an emphasis on its relationship to court funding by the Alabama Legislature.

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