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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Background: House Bill 195 would prohibit most sex education curriculum and establish abstinence-only-until-marriage as the only approved curriculum in Alabama’s public schools. This bill...
Background: House Bill 130 seeks to expand a ban passed by the Alabama state legislature in 2022 that prevents classroom instruction on the topics of “sexual orientation or gender identity...
We oppose HB111 and SB92. These bills establish a narrow definition of gender that seeks to erase the lived realities of transgender people and will be used to limit the rights of transgender, intersex, and...
SB13 proposes an amendment to the Alabama Constitution that would protect individuals’ rights to make and carry out their own reproductive decisions.
HB454, misleadingly titled the Equal Protection Act, seeks to codify abortion as murder.
Senate Bill 35 seeks to add an exception to Alabama’s abortion ban. But abortion ban “exceptions” aren’t workable solutions — they require pleading cases to judges, lawyers, and hospital administrators.