HB 177

Department of Workforce; workforce talent recruitment grant program established, eligibility provided for, and fund established

Coosa County; probate judge, sheriff, and revenue commissioner, salary and expense account provided for

Catastrophe savings accounts, required to be held in Alabama banks, credit unions, or veterans financial institutions and approved by the Commissioner of Insurance

Biological and neural data of individuals; certain disclosures, transfers, and use by a health and fitness app prohibited without express consent, Attorney General authorized to enforce, civil penalties provided

Decedents' estates, will contests, removal to circuit court authorized

Abatements; local governments, power to abate revised

Criminal and civil procedure; continuance of case when party, attorney, or witness is on active military duty; bail required to be set in such cases subject to conditions

Voter Information; limit cost of reproducing voter registration list; crime for misuse of personal voter information; created

Bail and surety bonding; requirements for professional surety bondsman and professional bail bondsman further provided for, requirements for apprentice bondsman further provided for, to require circuit clerks to report the authorized professional bail bond companies, appointment of additional members to the Alabama Bail Bonding Board provided for, and late application and license renewal fees provided

Crimes and offenses; arson in the first degree, elements of crime further provided to include arson in connection to a theft; minimum penalties provided

Board of Pardons and Paroles; discretion whether to grant or deny parole, further provided; review of parole violations, procedure further provided to require consideration of totality of circumstances; penalties for certain parole-violations, increased

Crime of sexual torture; criminal elements revised

Relating to persons convicted of a crime

An Act creating a veteran sentencing program; relating to release procedures; amending Rules 35 and 43, Alaska Rules of Criminal Procedure; and providing for an effective date.

Establishes the Office of Missing and Murdered African American Women and Girls and creates the Phoenix Alert System to help identify and locate abducted or missing African women and girls

Appropriations: department of corrections; appropriations for fiscal year 2026-2027; provide for

A bill for an act relating to public safety; prohibiting certain wagers and other activities regarding prediction markets; making certain criminal convictions a disqualification for receiving a lawful gambling license; providing criminal penalties; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, sections 299L.03, subdivision 12; 609.75, subdivision 3; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 609.

Modifications to Elections