Summary of 2021 Regular Session Transportation Legislation
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2021 House Bills
| BILL NAME | TOPIC | STATUS | COMMITTEE | SPONSOR | SUMMARY |
| HB14 | Funding/Finance | 1st Reading in Senate | House Ways and Means Education | Reynolds | Airport authorities, sales and use tax exemption, issuance of certificate of exemptions by Revenue Dept., Secs. 40-9-14.1, 40-9-60 am’d. |
| HB15 | Funding/Finance | Carried Over | Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund | Reynolds | Taxation, to update the disbursement of certain license taxes and registration fees, Sec. 40-12-270 am’d. |
| HB33 | Insurance | 2nd Reading in House | House Insurance | Rich | Insurance Dept., expenses related to examination by Commissioner of Insurance, Vehicle Protection Products Act, fees deposited in Insurance Dept. Fund, expense related to exam by commissioner, Sec. 8-33-14 added. |
| HB77 | Licensing | Enrolled | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Whorton | License plates, impose a one dollar fee on firefighter license plates, distribute fee to Alabama Joint Fire Council and the Alabama Fire College, Secs. 32-6-271, 32-6-280 am’d. |
| HB78 | Licensing | Enrolled | Senate Veterans and Military Affairs | Marques | Motor vehicles, license plate issuance fee, exemption for disabled veterans under certain conditions |
| HB90 | Traffic Safety | 3rd Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Brown (K) | Motor vehicles, distracted driving, use of cell phone while operating a motor vehicle prohibited, exceptions, Secs. 32-5A-353 to 32-5A-358, inclusive, added; Sec. 32-5A-350 repealed; Secs. 32-5A-351, 32-5A-352, am’d and renumbered, 32-10-8 am’d. |
| HB96 | Licensing | Enrolled | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Wood (R) | Motor vehicle dealers and motorcycle dealer, used vehicle license plates, combined total increased, Sec. 40-12-264 am’d. |
| HB99 | Traffic Safety | Enacted | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Gray | Motor vehicles, electric bicycles, operation and regulation provided, Sec. 32-5A-267 added; Secs. 32-1-1.1, 32-12-20, 32-12A-1 am’d. |
| HB104 | Licensing | 1st Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Wood (R) | Motor vehicle dealers and motorcycle dealer, used vehicle license plates, combined total increased, Sec. 40-12-264 am’d. |
| HB118 | Funding/Finance | Enrolled | Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund | Oliver | Volunteer rescue squads, taxation, registration fees and ad valorem taxes for utility trailers, exemptions provided for, Sec. 32-11-2 am’d. |
| HB125 | Traffic Safety | 2nd Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Pringle | Motor vehicles, motorcycle license, requirements, further provided, Secs. 32-5A-240, 32-12-22 am’d. |
| HB127 | State Agency Operations | 2nd Reading in House | House State Government | Pringle | Transportation Commission, established, five members appt from five regions of dept, duties, compensation, appointment of Transportation Department director, department not subject to Budget Management Act, Secs. 23-1-21, 23-1-21.2 am’d. |
| HB129 | Licensing | 1st Reading in House | House Judiciary | Pringle | Drivers license, provide for the elimination of driver license suspensions in certain circumstances, Secs. 28-3A-25, 30-3-170, 30-3-179 am’d; Secs. 13A-12-290, 13A-12-291, 13A-12-292, 13A-12-293, 13A-12-294, 16-28-40, 16-28-41, 16-28-42, 16-28-43, 16-28-44, 16-28-45 repealed. |
| HB158 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Moore (P) | Off-road vehicles, all-terrain vehicles (ATV’s) and recreational off-road vehicles, registration with Ala. State Law Enforcement Agency, width and weight restrictions increased, Sec. 32-12A-1 am’d. |
| HB160 | Traffic Safety | 2nd Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Moore (P) | Driving under the influence, to require the use of ignition interlock devices in certain circumstances, Sec. 32-5A-191 am’d. |
| HB163 | Licensing | 2nd Reading in House | House State Government | Wood (R) | Motor vehicles, certificates of title, certain notarization requirements waived, collection of commissions, further provided, issuance of new certificates of title, further provided, Secs. 32-8-3, 32-8-7, 32-8-35, 32-8-43, 32-20-3, 32-20-5, 32-20-23, 32-20-29 am’d. |
| HB179 | State Agency Operations | Passed by House | House State Government | Clarke | State Port Authority, allow director to appoint up to eleven employees at executive level, terms of certain contracts exempt from state laws limiting confidentiality, technical revision to code, Secs. 33-1-3, 33-1-39 am’d. |
| HB182 | Road Designation | 1st Reading in House | House Transportation, Utilities, and Infrastructure | Morris | Roadways, state Department of Transportation to erect markers on Martin Luther King, Jr. Expressway |
| HB192 | Funding/Finance | Enacted | House Ways and Means Education | Poole | Economic development, job credit and investment credit for approved projects sunset date extended, incentives for attraction of new and expanding business including rural areas, incentives for high-tech companies Growing Alabama Act, Income tax, tax credits for use of state’s port facilities, authorized, Secs. 40-18-370, 40-18-375, 40-18-376.3, 40-18-382, 40-18-383, 40-18-400, 40-18-403 am’d. |
| HB195 | Licensing | Enrolled | Senate Veterans and Military Affairs | Brown (K) | Motor vehicles, distinctive license tags, expand eligibility to include honorably discharged veterans of the Cold War, Secs. 32-6-350, 32-6-350.1 am’d. |
| HB209 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Warren | Roads, highways, and bridges, roadside memorials, placement in right-of-way authorized and regulated |
| HB218 | Traffic Safety | Passed by House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Moore (P) | Motor vehicles, driving offenses, administrative suspension periods revised for certain driving offenses, Secs. 32-5-192, 32-5A-195, 32-5A-304 am’d. |
| HB221 | Licensing | Enrolled | Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development | Ledbetter | Motor vehicles, registration, transporter defined, issuance of temporary license plates and temporary registration certificates further provided, Secs. 32-8-2, 32-6-210, 32-6-212, 32-6-214, 32-6-215, 32-6-216, 32-6-217, 32-6-218, 32-6-219 am’d. |
| HB234 | Contracts | 2nd Reading in House | House State Government | McMillan | Highway, roads, and bridges, contracts or subcontracts for public works, provisions requiring a party to indemnify another party for damages caused by the other party prohibited |
| HB238 | Traffic Safety | Lost in House | House Judiciary | Shaver | Watercraft, operation of, boater safety certification requirements, further provided, Secs. 32-5A-191.3, 33-5-51, 33-5-52, 33-5-72 am’d. |
| HB239 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in Senate | House Judiciary | Shaver | Crimes and offenses, to revise the criminal penalties for violations of fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement, Sec. 13A-10-52 am’d. |
| HB245 | Traffic Safety | Carried Over | Senate Transportation and Energy | Greer | Motor vehicles, rules of the road, construction zone violations, further provided, Sec. 32-5A-176.1 am’d. |
| HB251 | Traffic Safety | Indefinitely Postponed | House Urban and Rural Development | Scott | Wireless telecommunications, installation and deployment of small wireless facilities and associated poles, towers, and base stations on the public rights-of-way, authorized |
| HB269 | Counter-Trafficking | 1st Reading in House | House State Government | Coleman | Human trafficking, National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline notice, criminal penalties for failure to display further provided, Sec. 13A-6-170 am’d. |
| HB280 | Traffic Safety | Enrolled | Senate Governmental Affairs | Faulkner | Motor vehicles, reduced speed school zones, to include schools in a municipality, Secs. 32-5A-181, 32-5A-182, 32-5A-183 am’d. |
| HB286 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Coleman | Traffic stops, racial profiling by law enforcement officers, prohibited, written policies, forms for statistics, and reports to Attorney General required, provision for complaints, reporting and collection of data on injuries to officers, required |
| HB311 | Traffic Safety | Enacted | Senate Local Legislation | Jones (M) | Covington Co., golf carts, operation on public streets, municipality may authorize, const. amend. |
| HB332 | Traffic Safety | Enrolled | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Rowe | Motor vehicles, law enforcement, allow for members of law enforcement to have dark tint on their personal vehicles, Sec. 32-5C-2 am’d. |
| HB340 | Funding/Finance | 1st Reading in Senate | Senate Finance and Taxation Education | Faulkner | Sales and use tax, construction contracts for highways, roads, and bridges, Revenue Dept., issuance of exemption certificates if gov’t entity contracting is tax exempt, Sec. 40-9-14.1 am’d. |
| HB362 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Sorrell | Motor vehicles, traffic citations, prohibit state and local law enforcement agencies from establishing traffic ticket quotas or providing incentives for issuance of traffic tickets |
| HB366 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Sorrell | Motor vehicles, automated traffic enforcement, repeal all local laws authorizing the use of |
| HB368 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Sorrell | Animals, public highways, prohibit transporting animals in a flatbed truck |
| HB390 | Funding/Finance | Enrolled | Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund | Faulkner | ClasTran, Birmingham Regional Paratransit Consortium, exempt from all sales and use taxes |
| HB420 | Licensing | Enrolled | Senate Transportation and Energy | Wilcox | License plates, require approval and oversight of by the Legislative Oversight Committee on License Plates, application fee, and provide for reissuance requirements, Sec. 32-6-64 am’d. |
| HB434 | Local Agency Operations | 1st Reading in House | House Jefferson County Legislation | Moore (M) | Counties having a population of 600,000 or more (Jefferson Co.), public transit authority, board of directors, two regular riders and one elected by labor union added, Sec.11-32-6 am’d. |
| HB445 | Traffic Safety | Passed House | House Judiciary | Treadaway | Crimes and offenses, crimes of riot and inciting to riot, harassment, and assault II, amended, crimes of assault against a first responder, aggravated riot, and unlawful traffic interference, created, mandatory holding period for certain violations, provided, mandatory incarceration period for certain violations, provided, exceptions to sovereign immunity, further provided, restrictions on distribution of revenue to defunding jurisdictions, provided, Secs. 13A-11-3.1, 13A-11-5.1, 13A-11-8.1 added; Secs. 12-25-32, 13A-6-21, 13A-6-132, 13A-11-1, 13A-11-3, 13A-11-4, 13A-11-8, 13A-11-70, 15-13-2, 36-1-12, 36-2-1 am’d. |
| HB460 | Licensing | Enrolled | Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry | Allen | Motor vehicles, commercial vehicles, intrastate transportation of intrastate forest products or agricultural products from harvest to first point of processing, exempt from federal regulations, trucks or truck tractors used by a farmer or to haul forest products, reduced fee for maximum weight class, limit for number of farm trucks deleted, reduce fees for trucks or truck tractors hauling forest products for maximum weight class, exclusion for truck tractors used for hire, deleted, Secs. 32-9A-2, 40-12-248 am’d. |
| HB463 | Funding/Finance | Enrolled | House Transportation, Utilities, and Infrastructure | England | Joint road improvement authorities, provide for method of incorporation, powers, duties, provide for reincorporation of certain existing road improvement commissions |
| HB485 | Traffic Safety | 2nd reading in House | House Judiciary | Scott | Artificial intelligence, limit the use of facial recognition, to ensure artificial intelligence is not the only basis for arrest |
| HB489 | Traffic Safety | 2nd Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Meadows | Motor vehicles, autocycles, requirement further provided, Sec. 32-6A-1 am’d. |
| HB491 | Funding/Finance | Passed by Senate | Senate Local Legislation | Shiver | Monroe Co., sales and use tax, co. commission authorized to levy, Monroe Co. Highway Repair and Maintenance Fund, created |
| HB505 | Traffic Safety | Passed by Senate | Senate Governmental Affairs | Pettus | Motor vehicles, Dept. of Transportation, required to post signs giving notice of restrictions against driving vehicle in leftmost lane, Sec. 32-5A-80 am’d. |
| HB516 | Unmanned Aircraft Systems | 2nd reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Shelnutt | Critical infrastructure, provides further for crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure, including unmanned aircraft systems, provides additional penalties, Sec. 13A-7-4.3 am’d. |
| HB519 | Traffic Safety | 2nd reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Mooney | Driving under the influence, pretrial diversion programs, ignition interlock devices required, provision repealing in July 2023 deleted, Act 2018-517, 2018 Reg. Sess., am’d; Sec. 32-5A-191 am’d. |
| HB535 | Road designation | 1st Reading in House | House Transportation, Utilities, and Infrastructure | Hurst | Cheaha Road in Talladega, Clay, and Cleburne Counties, road to Cheaha State Park, transferred to Transportation Dept. jurisdiction as state highway |
| HB545 | Local Agency Operations | 1st Reading in Senate | Senate Local Legislation | Wingo | Tuscaloosa Co., duties and operation of Tuscaloosa Co. Road Improvement Commission, further provided for, Act No. 56, 1953 Reg. Sess., am’d. |
| HB556 | Funding/Finance | 1st Reading in House | House County & Municipal Government | Sells | Gasoline and motor fuel taxes, levied by muns. and counties, use restricted to road and bridge construction and maintenance, exceptions if pledged for bonds, special projects, or after approval by referendum |
| HB600 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Transportation, Utilities, and Infrastructure | Smith | Motor vehicles, uniform vehicle width restriction, provided, Sec. 32-9-20 am’d. |
| HB611 | Traffic Safety | 2nd Reading in House | House Public Safety and Homeland Security | Brown (K) | Motor vehicles, distracted driving, use of cell phone while operating a motor vehicle prohibited, exceptions, Secs. 32-5A-353 to 32-5A-358, inclusive, added; Sec. 32-5A-350 repealed; Secs. 32-5A-351, 32-5A-352, am’d and renumbered, 32-10-8 am’d |
| HB642 | Traffic Safety | 1st Reading in House | House Transportation, Utilities, and Infrastructure | Bracy | Transportation, rail carriers, Safe Freight Act, minimum crew requirements, provided |