Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SR19 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 03/23/2023

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By Senator Waggoner
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First Read: 23-Mar-23
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SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR
Thursday, March 23, 2023
SR _____ SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the following
bills in the order named shall be the special, paramount
and continuing order of business taking precedence over
all other matters until disposed of for the fourth
legislative day only:
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Senators Gudger, Roberts, Waggoner, Barfoot, Elliott,
Williams, Chambliss, Kelley, Hovey, Sessions, Stutts,
Bell, Albritton, Shelnutt, Melson, Livingston, Scofield,
Reed, Weaver, Givhan, Allen, Butler, Jones, Orr,
Chesteen, Price and Carnley: 
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SB113 
Relating to health care facilities; to add Section
22-21-437 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require health
care facilities to adopt certain visitation policies; to
provide that patients have a right to certain
visitation; to allow patients to designate an essential
caregiver and to guarantee that caregiver certain
visitation rights; to prohibit a health care facility
from adopting a visitation policy that is more stringent
than certain employee policies; to prohibit a health
care facility from requiring visitors to show proof of
vaccination or from prohibiting consensual physical
contact between visitors and patients; to provide for
the circumstances in which patients may not be denied
visitors who are not essential caregivers; to require
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health care facilities to provide visitation policies to
the Department of Public Health; to require the
Department of Public Health to develop a mechanism for
complaints; to provide certain immunity from liability
in certain circumstances; to exempt certain psychiatric
care facilities from the provisions of this bill; and to
repeal Sections 22-21-430 through 22-21-436, Code of
Alabama 1975, relating to hospital visitation during a
public health emergency.
Senator Weaver: 
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SB1 
Relating to correctional incentive time; to amend
Section 14-9-41, as last amended by Act 2022-322, 2022
Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to reduce the
amount of correctional incentive time a prisoner
receives; to require a prisoner to remain in a certain
classification for a longer period of time before moving
up to a higher classification; to provide for additional
circumstances in which a prisoner may be required to
forfeit his or her correctional incentive time; and to
require the Department of Corrections to provide annual
reports to the Legislature, the Governor, and the
Attorney General regarding correctional incentive time. 
Senators Elliott, Carnley, Hovey, Sessions, Stutts,
Melson, Scofield, Allen, Butler, Jones, Chesteen, Price,
Williams, Gudger, Waggoner and Barfoot: 
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SB104 
Relating to civil liability; to amend Section 6-5-71,
Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the right
of action for injuries resulting from the illegal
furnishing of alcoholic beverages, by basing liability
for a person who illegally furnishes alcoholic beverages
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to an individual who injures a third party on what the
furnisher knew or should have known under the
circumstances; to specify when the right of action is
not available; and to provide legislative intent.
Senator Waggoner: 
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SB32 
Relating to motor vehicle registration and distinctive
motor vehicle license plates; to authorize the issuance
of a distinctive motor vehicle license plate to benefit
brain cancer research.
Senators Singleton and Smitherman: 
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SB44 
Relating to court costs; to amend Section 22-52-14, Code
of Alabama 1975; to further provide for an appointed
attorney's compensation in a commitment proceeding.
Senator Orr: 
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SB52 
Relating to the Alabama Safe at Schools Act; to add
Section 16-30A-3.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975 and to
amend Sections 16-30A-5 and 16-30A-7, Code of Alabama
1975; to include adrenal insufficiency as a condition
for which the State Board of Education is required to
develop guidelines to train school employees under the
act; to authorize certain school employees to administer
injectable medications to students with an adrenal
insufficiency; and to require local boards of education
to ensure that students with an adrenal insufficiency
have their medical needs met and are not excluded from
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certain activities.
Senator Melson: 
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SB27 
Relating to agriculture authorities; to amend Section
11-20-71, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the board
of directors of an authority to appoint former members
of the board as directors emeritus to serve as goodwill
ambassadors of the board.
Senator Chambliss: 
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SB14 
Relating to marital and domestic relations; to amend
Section 30-5-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide
for exemption from court costs and fees for certain
actions related to protection orders.
Senators Orr, Coleman-Madison, Scofield, Hatcher, Jones,
Albritton, Melson, Waggoner, Allen, Barfoot, Butler,
Elliott, Weaver, Sessions, Williams, Chesteen, Figures,
Kelley and Singleton: 
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SB56 
Relating to public K-12 schools; to add Section 16-39-13
to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require local boards of
education to install, maintain, and operate video
cameras in certain self-contained classrooms providing
special education services; and to provide protections
for the use of video recordings.
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