The 2023 legislative session began on March 7, 2023 and ended June 6, 2023. Read our summary here. As we work to protect, defend, and expand civil rights and civil liberties for all Alabamians in the hallways, meeting rooms, and chambers of the State House, we need you to stand with us to make our voices heard.
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SB1 1 will make it a felony for absentee ballot applications or ballots to be distributed, ordered, requested, collected, etc. by a person other than the absentee voter.
House Bill 464, if passed, will remove the question in the absentee ballot affidavit that asks a voter to confirm why they are voting absentee.
HB454, misleadingly titled the Equal Protection Act, seeks to codify abortion as murder.
HB354 will expand the ban that was passed in 2022 by the Alabama state legislature.
House Bill 401, if passed, would define drag shows as “sexual conduct”. By doing this, the bill would prevent drag shows from taking place in public or where minors are present.
HB405 proposes a series of definitions that will apply to the Code of Alabama 1975—all of Alabama’s existing legislation. The act, called “What is a Woman”, would define man, woman, boy, girl, father,...