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Grocery tax, protecting voting rights among Arise priorities for 2024 session
The Alabama Legislature began its second regular session of the current quadrennium on Feb. 6. Lawmakers already have voted on numerous hot-button issues early in this session, and Alabama Arise anticipates that trend may continue. The upcoming presidential election, Alabama’s early primary date and other political factors may color what legislative leaders prioritize this year. [...]
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Arise legislative update: March 4, 2024
Arise's Akiesha Anderson gives a rundown on a plethora of bills we are monitoring on voting rights, education funding and other issues as we begin the fifth week of the Alabama Legislature's 2024 regular session. As a reminder, you can always visit alarise.org and click on "Take Action" to see a list of our action [...]
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Arise legislative update: Feb. 26, 2024
Arise's Akiesha Anderson breaks down a flurry of legislation that kept us busy last week. She discusses bills filed in response to the Alabama Supreme Court's decision on in vitro fertilization (IVF), updates us on anti-DEI legislation and examines the CHOOSE Act, a bill that would redirect public school funding to private schools and homeschooling. [...]
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Arise legislative update: Feb. 20, 2024
Arise's Akiesha Anderson provides updates on all the bills that moved last week and previews what's to come this week in the Alabama Legislature. Topics include a harmful bill that would create barriers to absentee voting, efforts to preserve child labor protections, the future of the state sales tax on groceries and the CHOOSE Act, [...]
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Arise legislative update: Feb. 12, 2024
Arise's Akiesha Anderson catches everyone up on a busier-than-normal first week of the Alabama legislative session and previews an additional busy week ahead. Anderson discusses what's been happening with a harmful bill that would create more barriers to absentee voting and provides an update on the future of the state sales tax on groceries. Full [...]
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Vote ‘No’ on SB 1 – narrowing voting rights in Alabama
Alabama’s absentee voting application process is already safe and secure. We don’t need to add confusing and frightening requirements to an already secure process. This bill would make it a crime for any person knowingly to provide or receive funding or a gift for distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, prefilling, completing, obtaining or delivering another person’s [...]
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Arise legislative update: Update on Alabama’s new congressional map
Arise's Mike Nicholson gives an update on the new congressional map that the U.S. District Court approved as a remedy in Alabama's redistricting case last week. That order came after federal judges ruled that both the state's original map and the revised one that the Legislature passed during a special session in July likely did [...]
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Alabama Arise unveils 2024 roadmap for change in Alabama
Expanding Medicaid and ending the state sales tax on groceries will remain top goals on Alabama Arise’s 2024 legislative agenda. The group also will pursue a multifaceted approach to improving maternal and infant health in Alabama. More than 500 members voted to determine Arise’s legislative priorities in recent days after the organization’s annual meeting Saturday. [...]
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Arise legislative update: Update on Alabama redistricting case
The Alabama redistricting lawsuit continued this week as a federal court struck down the state's congressional map once again. The Legislature approved the map in July after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the state's original map likely violated the Voting Rights Act. But federal judges this week said the new map still failed to [...]
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Arise legislative update: Recap of Alabama redistricting hearing
The ongoing lawsuit over Alabama's congressional map returned to federal court this week. Arise's Mike Nicholson attended the U.S. District Court's redistricting hearing in Birmingham on Aug. 14. In this video update, Mike provides background on the case, which returned to district court after the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Allen v. Milligan. He also [...]