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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.

2024 Legislative Session Week Five

Legislative Summary The Alabama Legislature met for three extraordinarily busy days this week, working into the night with packed agendas and lengthy debates. In addition to the session calendars and […]

2024 Legislative Session Week Four

Legislative Summary Spirited and intense debate dominated the week in the Alabama Legislature. Lawmakers met for three session days and had the busiest committee day yet on Wednesday, with packed […]

2024 Legislative Session Week Three

Legislative Summary As the Alabama Legislature settled into its third week, there was a full day of committee meetings on Wednesday, followed by session, resulting in another three-day week. Lots of […]

2024 Legislative Session Week Two

Legislative Summary The second week of the 2024 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature was a three-day work week. In addition to Tuesday and Thursday’s session days, lawmakers went into […]

2024 Legislative Session Week One

Legislative Summary On Tuesday, Feb. 6, the Alabama Legislature commenced the 2024 Regular Legislative Session. As the second year of the quadrennium begins, the legislators appear energized and ready to […]

2023 Legislative Session: Week of June 6

Legislative Summary The 2023 Regular Session of the Alabama Legislature has ended. Legislators met on Tuesday for their final day. It was mainly perfunctory and non-controversial, with only one calendar […]

2023 Legislative Session: May 31 – June 1

Legislative Summary This week, lawmakers entered into the final stretch of the 2023 legislative session. After a two-day week, there is now only one final legislative day remaining to tie […]

2023 Legislative Session: May 23-26

Legislative Summary It was a marathon week at the Alabama State House. Three session days turned into four before lawmakers finally adjourned around 2:00 a.m. this morning. Committee meetings and conference […]

2023 Legislative Session: May 16-18

Legislative Summary After a busy three-day week, the Alabama Legislature has completed 23 of its 30 legislative days. Committee meetings were spread over all three days, with much debate happening […]

2023 Legislative Session: May 9-11

Legislative Summary The Alabama Legislature has now completed 20 of the 30 allotted session days. It was a two-day session week, and Wednesday was full of committee meetings. As of […]

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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