SPECIAL ORDER CALENDARS
Friday, Feb. 28, 2025
These bills have been selected by the leadership to be debated first in their Chamber. Debate will begin on these bills when chambers convene Friday.
SENATE SPECIAL ORDER*
SB38 Protecting Alabama’s Children Act of 2025, a bill to create a model program for grades four to 12 with instruction on the effects of social media on the mental health of users and to require social media platforms operating in the state of Alabama to verify the ages of its users, by Brannon Lachowicz, Vestavia Hills High School.
SB68 Don’t Dump In the Rivers, a bill to require Alabama Power Co. to move all coal ash out of dump pits, that are unlined and leaking arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and selenium into Alabama’s waterways, by William Tabb, Mountain Brook High School.
SB44 Mental Health is a Human Right, a bill to encourage the reform of Alabama prisons through the extra focus on the training of correctional officers in mental health, by Anna Kate Bailey, Vestavia Hills High School.
SB29 Cementing Lower Carbon Emissions, a bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the construction industry by encouraging the use of low-carbon concrete technologies, by James Harden, Vestavia Hills High School.
SB22 Geography, Not Destiny Act by Ethan Melenevsky, Vestavia Hills High School.
HOUSE SPECIAL ORDER
HB142 The Vocational Redemption Act, a bill to allow certain inmates to study for and acquire a GED, attend a trade school or attend a community college, by Samuel Paredes, Vestavia Hills High School.
HB8 The People’s Pardon, a bill to create a means for a statewide ballot measure on pardons, by Joseph Dorion, Spain Park High School, Hoover.
HB72 A Bill to Rehabilitate Alabama’s Corrections Department by creating a drug and alcohol abuse rehabilitation system that includes long-term and intermediate programs as an option for sentencing and eventually to become the standard sentence, by William Long, Mountain Brook High School.
HB134 A Tax on Junk Food by Benjamin Sokol, Mountain Brook High School, a bill creating a 6% tax on junk foods (food or drink with 45% or more of the recommended daily calorie intake from added sugars and/or 8% or more in saturated fats in one serving size) while zeroing out the tax on fresh foods.
FIRST YEAR SPECIAL ORDER
FY30 A Bill To Impose A Sugar Tax, calling for the creation of a federal sugar tax on any food and or drink that contains more than 5% of the daily recommended value of added sugar, by Karan Daryanani, The Montgomery Academy.
FY6 A Bill For Nuclear Power that proposes Alabama build four new nuclear power plants and shut down all fossil fuel power plants by Braxton Bender, Bayside Academy, Daphne.
FY34 Required Community Service for Underage Nicotine Use by Elizabeth-Anne Robinson, Mountain Brook High School. A bill requiring that all schools notify the Alabama Department of Public Safety when a student is caught using a nicotine product and/or vape and that the student be given the choice of doing five hours community service in lieu of being referred to juvenile court.
FY33 Quick To See Labels For Unhealthy Foods, a bill to create a col0r-coded system for designating foods by calories and sodium content, by Burke Ramagosa, Bayside Academy, Daphne.
FY41 A Bill to Build Mental Institutions for the State of Alabama by Arabella Rowland, Bayside Academy, Daphne, calls for state-funded facilities equipped to take care of mentally ill patients in Alabama’s eight largest cities – Huntsville, Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile, Tuscaloosa, Hoover, Auburn, and Dothan.
*Removed from debate but maintains Special Order status: SB40 Restore Common Sense for Safety Act (RCSS), a bill to establish a statewide firearm licensing system requiring all firearm owners to obtain a permit, by Attorney General Yash Param, LAMP, Montgomery.