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• Uh I'm president of Alabama ASEAP and as a part of that the last two years I've made it a point to try
• of medicine in Alabama.
• :48.960><c> that</c> of Alabama ASEAP and as a part of that of Alabama ASEAP and as a part of that the
• Um so state of medicine in Alabama.
• On behalf of Alabama physician present.

Bills: SB63 , SB80 , SB63 , SB80

Committee: Senate Healthcare

Keywords: immigration, law enforcement, fingerprints, DNA collection, illegal aliens, Alabama state law, SB80, Buddy Sharpless Education Institute, Alabama Local Government Training Institute, county commissioner training, local government training, ethics training, State Ethics Commission, county commissioners, Association of County Commissions of Alabama, local emergency management director, public officials, municipal officials, Alabama Code Title 11, Alabama Code Title 31

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• This bill actually has reached a compromise with some of the insurance carriers.
• of Alabama.
• </c><00:15:27.519><c> With</c><00:15:27.760><c> that,</c><00:15:27.920><c> I'll</c> in the state of Alabama
• With that, I'll in the state of Alabama.
• of Alabama didn't couldn't the state of Alabama didn't couldn't issue<00:16:41.360><c> him</c><00:16

Bills: SB63 , HB156 , HB289 , SB80 , SB84 , SB63 , HB156 , HB289 , SB80 , SB84

Committee: Senate Healthcare

Keywords: immigration, law enforcement, fingerprints, DNA collection, illegal aliens, Alabama state law, out-of-state warrants, criminal procedure, extradition, Alabama Code, arrest authority, interstate cooperation, Marshall County, TVA, Tennessee Valley Authority, in-lieu-of-taxes, payments distribution, local legislation, school funding, education finance

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• Father, we ask that you would open our hearts as we do the work of the people here for the state of Alabama
• It's a bit of a housekeeping bill.
• I do have a letter of support from the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the Alabama State Chiropractic
• This gives them the option of what I see to offer some of their classes as such and not all of them on
• Part of that was just making sure that every industry is represented and is part of this board.

Bills: HB462 , HB477 , SB210 , HB462 , HB477 , SB210

Committee: House Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Keywords: emergency medical services, military training, licensure, public health, veterans, health benefits, nonprofit organization, agriculture, insurance regulation, taxation, hospital liens, medical billing, government healthcare, insurance claims, patient rights, HB462, chiropractic, chiropractor, State Board of Chiropractic Examiners, professional licensing

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• We do have a couple of members of the committee that are still in.
• Just one of those that got caught up on the last day of school.
• understanding of sexual risk avoidance. understanding of sexual risk avoidance.
• Bill of Rights, and the Alabama Constitution's preamble.
• Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the<00:24:19.120><c> Alabama</c><00:24:19.840><c> Constitution's

Bills: SB209 , SB248 , HB122 , SB99 , SB209 , SB248 , HB122 , SB99

Committee: Senate Education Policy

Keywords: sales tax exemption, Consumer Price Index, local government, clothing, school supplies, emergency preparedness, Alabama Administrative Procedure Act, APA, administrative law, judicial review, agency deference, Chevron deference, de novo review, contested case, state agency, regulatory power, individual liberty, statutory interpretation, rule interpretation, license revocation

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• Which is a good piece of legislation.
• Uh, I think the intent of the legislation is good.
• Uh, my desire today would be to move it out of committee, but probably let it sit the rest of the year
• Because here's sit the rest of the year.
• </c> And I want to see the health department And I want to see the health department do<00:10:09.080>

Bills: HB444 , HB444

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry

Keywords: HB444, vaccines, vaccine exemption, religious exemption, religious liberty, private school, church school, faith-based school, parochial school, school immunization, testing requirement, disease testing, parental rights, school enrollment, attendance requirements, CHOOSE Act, school choice, education funding, tax exemption, corporate income tax

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• I already thought that Miss Alabama was the state ambassador, I'll be honest.
• And I think she's been around trying to meet with as many of you as possible.
• ><00:07:44.880><c> the</c><00:07:45.199><c> state</c> that Miss Alabama was the state that Miss Alabama
• </c> beautiful, talented, smart Miss Alabama beautiful, talented, smart Miss Alabama here<00:08:05.360
• We've had this is Miss Alabama America.

Bills: HB97 , HB407 , HB435 , SB361 , HB97 , HB407 , HB435

Committee: Senate State Governmental Affairs

Keywords: absentee ballot, voting, elections, voter registration, electoral process, defective affidavit, voting rights, local redevelopment, tax payments, transient occupancy, state revenue, authority powers, economic development, tax abatement, incentives, Alabama Jobs Act, Accelerate Alabama, NAICS, North American Industry Classification System, 2022 NAICS codes

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• to qualify for emergency medical services personnel certification from the Alabama Department of Public
• Department of Public Health.
• This bill simply adds the Alabama Department of Public Health through its regional agencies of the Office
• Um, it adds two sections about giving the Alabama Department of Public Health...
• Alabama Department of Public Health the ability to impose a monetary cap on the amount of tuition costs

Bills: HB226 , HB24 , HB309 , HB315 , HB272 , HB24 , HB226 , HB309 , HB315 , HB272

Committee: House Ways and Means Education

Keywords: HB226, homestead exemption, ad valorem tax, property tax, property tax relief, widow, widower, unremarried spouse, surviving spouse, senior exemption, elderly, disabled, permanently and totally disabled, blind taxpayer, deed ownership, principal residence, school tax, county tax, municipal tax, Alabama Department of Revenue

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• Well, because currently under the Department of Public Health rules, it's forbidden unless they have
• But I'm happy to say that I met with the Department of Public Health.
• the Alabama Department of Public Health.
• There is a little bit of a change in the definition of inland port because Bilabacry was left off of
• :09:05.600><c> in</c> bit of a change in the definition of in bit of a change in the definition of in

Bills: HB277 , SB89 , HB135 , HB277 , SB89 , HB135

Committee: House Ports, Waterways & Intermodal Transit

Keywords: HB277, 2A Sales Tax Holiday, firearms tax exemption, ammunition, hunting supplies, sales tax holiday, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Second Amendment, gun tax holiday, gun rights, outdoor gear, hunting equipment, state sales tax, use tax, local option tax exemption, county opt-in, municipal opt-in, Department of Revenue, Alabama

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• Through traveling the state, I've talked to a lot of chicken I've talked to a lot of chicken growers,
• of course, in North Alabama and down here in the Dothan area.
• We're going to force her to come back to Alabama, sit for the Alabama bar, and we're going to keep her
• of roughly 7.2... fiscal note for Alabama of roughly 7.2 million plus, and it'll be a decrease on the
• It would set that up in Alabama.

Bills: SB213 , HB24 , HB163 , HB226 , HB271 , HB288 , HB319 , HB24

Committee: Senate Finance and Taxation Education

Keywords: utility tax, poultry industry, energy consumption, agricultural exemption, tax exemption, HB24, Volunteer Rescue Squad Tuition Reimbursement Program, EMS, emergency medical services, EMSP, paramedic training, EMT training, tuition reimbursement, scholarship, workforce development, volunteer rescue squad, volunteer fire department, ambulance service, nonprofit ambulance, Alabama Department of Public Health

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• ;&gt; cuz you're dealing with a lot of ta a lot<00:05:02.880><c> of</c><00:05:02.960><c> bulldogs.
• </c> lot of bulldogs. lot of bulldogs. uh<00:05:04.560><c> players</c><00:05:04.960><c> and</c><00:05
• Alabama?
• &gt;&gt; You can't just get 20 of them. &gt;&gt; You can't just get 20 of them.
• I will have all of this in here. >> No, honey.

Bills: SB282 , SB282

Committee: House Fiscal Responsibility

Keywords: virtual currency, cryptocurrency, tax exemption, state tax law, digital assets, manufactured homes, certificate of title, Alabama Department of Revenue, law amendment, 1999 models, 1136, house, all

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• Fund to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs in the amount of $30 million and to
• Fund to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs in the amount of $30 million and to
• Fund to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs in the amount of $30 million and to
• Fund to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs in the amount of $30 million and to
• </c><00:24:09.840><c> Department</c><00:24:10.080><c> of</c> fund to the Alabama Department of fund to

Bills: SB146 , SB143 , SB144 , SB145 , HB224 , SB152 , SB153 , SB154 , SB162 , SB226 , SB146 , SB143 , SB144 , SB145 , HB224 , SB152 , SB153 , SB154 , SB162 , SB226

Committee: House Ways and Means General Fund

Keywords: supplemental appropriation, FY2025 budget, general fund, Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy, Unified Judicial System, court automation, advanced technology and data exchange, judiciary funding, transportation debt service, highway bonds, bridge bonds, Alabama Department of Transportation, ALDOT, public highways, federal matching funds, state appropriations, bond principal and interest, special funds, budget amendment, SB143

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• in the state of Alabama.
• What the amendment does is, where it says Alabama Department of Public Safety, it changes to Alabama
• . transfer of $5 million from the 21st Century Fund to the Alabama Department of Commerce to help stand
• Even with the vape directory administered by the Alabama Department of Revenue, there's a great amount
• Department of Revenue on the 20th of each month.

Bills: HB227 , HB255 , HB465 , HB472 , HB482 , HB483 , HB526 , HB529 , HB484

Committee: House Ways and Means General Fund

Keywords: firefighter benefits, occupational disease, line of duty, disability pension, death benefits, retirement benefits, hypertension, heart disease, respiratory disease, cancer presumption, HIV, hepatitis, municipal firefighters, state firefighters, fire districts, workers' compensation, public safety employees, post-retirement benefits, benefit eligibility cutoff, occupational illness

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• Uh, yes, this is the Board of Equalization.
• Basically, a pay increase from $115 to $200, and the Board of Equalization is $200, and the Board of
• Equalization is the group that looks at any kind of appeals that the General Public has for their tax
• That was one of the questions that came up: is this budgeted?
• They have plenty of money in that. Well, it's calendar... Any other questions? Any members?

Bills: HB236 , HB236

Committee: House Baldwin County Legislation

Keywords: HB236, Baldwin County, Board of Equalization, per diem, supplemental compensation, county board, ad valorem tax, property tax appeal, tax assessment, mileage reimbursement, Consumer Price Index, CPI adjustment, local legislation, equalization board, taxpayer protests, property inspection, county revenue, education appropriations, supplemental appropriation, Education Trust Fund

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• insurance or having... ...being on another insurance or having the possibility of being able to be covered
• So we leave a lot of... ...private insurance, so we leave a lot of discretion up to the judge in that
• I'm Robin Heiden, the executive director of Alabama Arise.
• I would simply ask that we make sure that this bill does not cost tens of thousands of Alabama kids to
• And then the last one is line 149 on page six, replacing it with the agency and Department of Revenue

Bills: HB37 , HB187 , HB177 , SB63 , HB82 , SB48 , HB33 , HB37 , HB33

Committee: House Ways and Means General Fund

Keywords: judicial compensation, salary increase, court system, Alabama legislation, judges, HB187, court fees, docket fee, sheriff's fund, sheriff's office, jail operations, law enforcement, county sheriff, court filing fees, Alabama Code 12-19-312, solicitor's fund, clerk's fund, forensic services trust fund, budget flexibility, public safety

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• One makes presence or uses of public document with knowledge of the falsity of the document and with
• I'm just wondering if the seriousness of it meets the criteria of failing.
• I think one of the issues here in the last couple of years has been an increase in number of commercial
• </c> seriousness of it meets the criteria of seriousness of it meets the criteria of failing.<00:05:19.199
• of hazard.

Bills: SB205 , SB242 , SB205 , SB242

Committee: House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

Keywords: appropriation, education funding, priority schools, Alabama education, State Department of Education, codification, state law, legal revisions, Alabama code, legislative updates, underground damage prevention, notification system, construction safety, infrastructure, commercial driver license, English proficiency, work authorization, impoundment, false documentation, 1136

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• If you remember last year, I had a piece of legislation that says that uh Department of Revenue, the
• </c> legislation that says that uh Department legislation that says that uh Department of<00:04:40.560
• All of those are areas that we've worked intentionally and aggressively across the state of Alabama to
• We worked that through Innovate Alabama, through the Department of Workforce.
• </c><00:12:43.279><c> the</c> Alabama parents on both sides of the Alabama parents on both sides of the

Bills: HB69 , HB114 , HB161 , HB69 , HB114 , HB161

Committee: House State Government

Keywords: firearms, possession, Class 1 municipalities, criminal penalties, federal law, stolen firearms, prohibited persons, HB114, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset bill, Board of Dental Examiners of Alabama, dental board, dental licensing, dentist regulation, professional licensing, occupational licensing, healthcare regulation, licensure board, state agency continuation, agency sunset review

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• You made us to allow us to come into this place, the house of the people, to carry out the business of
• </c> place, the house of the people. place, the house of the people.
• c><00:07:20.800><c> out</c><00:07:20.960><c> the</c><00:07:21.120><c> business</c><00:07:21.440><c> of
• </c><00:07:21.599><c> the</c> Lord to carry out the business of the Lord to carry out the business of
• I saw the eyes of everybody in here that, hey, I had to mess with you. Thank you.

Bills: SB233 , SB233

Committee: House Public Safety and Homeland Security

Keywords: ad valorem, taxation, local governance, advisory committee, Alabama Department of Revenue, eluding officers, law enforcement, penalties, public safety, criminal justice, 1136, house, all

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• education to young women in the state of Alabama.
• Um, so this bill was, um, authorized by the Alabama Department of Revenue to issue certificates of title
• The language of the bill was drafted by the Department of Revenue with manufactured housing industry
• Thank you. authorized by the Alabama Department of Revenue to issue certificates of title to current
• The language of the bill was drafted by the Department of Revenue with manufactured housing industry

Bills: SB86 , SB196 , SB228 , SB231 , HB73 , HB407 , HB435 , SB86 , SB196 , SB228 , SB231 , HB73 , HB407 , HB435

Committee: House State Government

Keywords: independent contractors, portable benefits, employee benefits, tax deductions, employment relationship, education, high school, community college, dual enrollment, secondary credit, Move on When Ready, financial services, discrimination, social credit score, religious freedom, transparency, consumer rights, Alabama, wastewater management, public service commission

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• I believe today, and members of the committee, John Bargainer with Manufacturer Alabama.
• The Alabama citizens could go online and take a look at the expenditures of state government.
• A lot of times, the IT department is the part-time clerk.
• I'm Baker Allen, director of governmental affairs for the Alabama League of Municipalities.
• 13.280><c> of</c> for the Alabama League of for the Alabama League of Municipalities.

Bills: SB23 , SB71 , SB105 , SB109 , SB115 , SB131 , SB148 , SB165 , SB23 , SB71 , SB105 , SB109 , SB115 , SB131 , SB148 , SB165

Committee: Senate County and Municipal Government

Keywords: law enforcement, taser, restrained individuals, police procedures, civil rights, income tax, tax exemption, Alabama tax code, Section 40-18-3, civilian employees, Department of Defense, DoD, Armed Forces, military pay, combat zone, deployment, National Guard, Reserve components, emergency response, federal employees

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• </c> Um, first I want to thank the Department Um, first I want to thank the Department of<00:07:50.160
• another violent drug environment, except for this time it was run by the Alabama Department of Corrections
• in the state of Alabama as well.
• Alabama as well. and I just wanted to of Alabama as well. and I just wanted to thank<00:38:23.599><c
• </c> thank him for coming to the state of thank him for coming to the state of Alabama.<00:38:25.839>

Bills: HB426 , SB24 , SB106 , SB254 , HB505 , HB458 , HB535 , HB509 , HB320 , HB518 , HB261 , HB426 , SB24 , SB106 , SB254 , HB505 , HB458 , HB535 , HB509 , HB320 , HB518 , HB261 , SB316 , HB228 , SB318 , SB260 , HB132 , HB347 , HB405 , HB86 , HB263 , HB302 , SB336 , SB316 , HB228 , SB318 , SB260 , HB132 , HB347 , HB405 , HB86 , HB263 , HB302 , SB336

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: Alabama Ad Valorem Advisory Committee, ad valorem taxes, property tax, real property, personal property, tax assessment, tax collection, county tax officials, Department of Revenue, Commissioner of Revenue, taxpayer representation, resident taxpayers, local government, property tax administration, Association of Alabama Tax Administrators, tax policy, advisory committee, public input, governance reform, body-worn camera