A lottery and expanded gambling proposal requires two separate pieces of legislation: The constitutional amendment that would be put before voters and the “enabling legislation,” the nuts-and-bolts details.
While gambling legislation is a near perennial feature of a legislative session in Alabama, Albritton said “fear of political blowback” has slowed the discussion this year.
“…This will be a challenging undertaking, but I believe that any measure aimed at protecting the future of our state is one that lawmakers must seriously consider.”
Despite a 2019 law allowing students to leave campus for religious instruction, many Alabama school districts lack policies permitting it. Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover, wants to change that.
Alabama has more than a million eligible residents for Medicaid and more than half of the recipients are children, according to a January report. More than half of all births in Alabama are covered by Medicaid.
GenAI is an advanced subset of AI that can generate content often indistinguishable from human-generated content, and has the ability for advanced and dynamic pattern recognition.
“We will have nurses coming in … and if we don’t develop that pipeline now and streamline how to get them in, then in four years from now, we may be in trouble,” said Peggy Benson, ABN executive director.
Under the bill, mothers would be granted eight weeks after the birth of a child, and fathers, two weeks. Teachers and state employees would receive 100% of their base pay while on leave. The benefit extends to adopting a child under 3.
