Summary of 2020 Regular Session Transportation Legislation
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2020 Senate Bills
| BILL NAME | STATUS | COMMITTEE | SPONSOR | SUMMARY |
| SB3 | 2nd Reading | Senate Governmental Affairs | Elliott | Limit expenditure of GOMESA funds to the coastal political subdivisions |
| SB4 | 1st Reading | Senate Finance and Taxation Education | Elliott | Establish income tax credit for tolls paid at certain toll roads |
| SB7 | 1st Reading in House | Senate Local Legislation | Whatley | Permits a municipal or circuit court of Lee County to order the use of an ignition interlock device |
| SB11 | 1st Reading | Senate Judiciary | Whatley | Requires each handicap placard to contain the photo of the individual with a disability to whom the placard is issued |
| SB45 | Carried Over | Senate Transportation and Energy | Ward | Makes it the crime of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure when operating an unmanned aircraft system, or drone, to conduct surveillance of, gather evidence or collect information about a critical infrastructure (Substitute offers alternative definition of “person” |
| SB67 | 2nd Reading in House | Senate Governmental Affairs | Holley | Would prohibit any person from leaving a domestic animal unattended in a motor vehicle in a manner that would create an unreasonable risk of injury or harm to the animal. Would provide criminal immunity to a person who rescues an animal from an unattended vehicle. Would provide civil and criminal immunity to a public safety official who rescues an animal from an unattended vehicle. |
| SB71 | 1st Reading in House | Senate Education Policy | Ward | Would provide that the reduced speed school zone is established for every public and private school in Alabama |
| SB75 | 2nd Reading | Senate Judiciary | Ward | Would prohibit the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency from suspending a person’s driver’s license for failure to pay a fine associated with certain traffic offenses if the court determines the driver to be indigent. |
| SB112 | 1st Reading in House | Senate Governmental Affairs | Figures | Would authorize the Commissioner of the Department of Revenue to temporarily waive the requirements associated with the International Fuel Tax Agreement and the International Registration Plan during a declared state of emergency |
| SB113 | 1st Reading in House | Senate Transportation and Energy | Orr | Would require the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to establish a method for a person to designate voluntarily on a driver’s license or non-driver ID that the person has a disability, including a cognitive, mental, neurological, or physical disability |
| SB141 | 1st Reading | Senate Transportation and Energy | Elliott | Would amend the appointment process for the director of ALDOT by creating a State Transportation Commission composed of 5 members with 1 coming from each ADLOT region who are appointed by the Governor. The Commission will appoint the director of ALDOT. |
| SB151 | 1st Reading | Senate Transportation and Energy | Elliott | Would require ALDOT to complete an economic impact study related to new toll roads, bridges or tunnels, prior to the construction and prior to the public hearing. |
| SB152 | 1st Reading | Senate Transportation and Energy | Elliott | Would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama that would require a referendum before a proposed toll may be fixed, charged, or collected for the construction or use of a public road, bridge, or tunnel project on an existing interstate highway. |
| SB185 | Carried Over | Senate Judiciary | Orr | Would provide that a chemical test may be used to determine whether a person was driving under the influence and would provide for additional persons who would be allowed to withdraw blood for a chemical test of a person’s blood |
| SB192 | 1st Reading | Senate Governmental Affairs | Stutts | Would authorize a volunteer firefighter vehicle to be equipped with red flashing lights and would authorize the driver of a volunteer firefighter vehicle to disregard certain traffic laws while responding to an emergency |
| SB216 | 1st Reading | Senate Finance and Taxation Education | Whatley | Would exempt sales and use tax for the purchase of construction materials for the construction of a highway, road, or bridge when the contract is for a governmental entity which is tax exempt |
| SB217 | 1st Reading | Senate Finance and Taxation Education | Whatley | Would require a municipal or county that levies a motor fuel tax to use the proceeds for road and bridge construction and maintenance with certain exceptions |
| SB229 | 1st Reading | Senate Transportation and Energy | Allen | Would further provide for the operation of automated commercial motor vehicles and commercial motor vehicles with teleoperation systems. Would also require routes that a vehicle uses to be approved by ALDOT |
| SB259 | 2nd Reading | Senate Governmental Affairs | Scofield | Would prohibit a public works contract or subcontract for roads and bridges from containing a provision requiring a party to indemnify another entity for damages caused by the conduct of the other party |
| SB262 | 2nd Reading | Senate Transportation and Energy | Allen | Would further provide for violations in construction speed zones to include all moving violations committed in the zone while workers are present |
| SB284 | 1st Reading | Senate Finance and Taxation Education | Orr | Aircrafts. Revenue Dept., required to centrally value and assess certain aircrafts |
| SB287 | Enacted | Senate Local Legislation | Chambliss | Tallapoosa Co., Willow Point Estates, platted subdivisions, local laws authorized to establish road maint. districts, referendums, assessments for road maint, const. amend. |
| SB289 | 1st Reading | Senate Judiciary | Ward | Corrections Dept., inmates being released, application for non-driver identification authorized, Sec. 14-10-1 am’d |
| SB295 | 1st Reading | Senate Finance and Taxation Education | Givhan | 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. |
| SB303 | 1st Reading | Senate Judiciary | Allen | Motor vehicles, school and church buses, special stops required when approaching, criminal penalties for violations, further penalties for causing death or bodily injury, Sec. 32-5A-154 am’d. |
| SB307 | 1st Reading | Senate Governmental Affairs | Allen | Bicycles, to allow a person riding a bicycle to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, Sec. 32-5A-267 added; Sec. 32-5A-260 am’d. |
| SB310 | 1st Reading | Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development | Figures | State Port Authority, allow director to appoint up to eleven employees at executive level, to exempt from disclosure certain terms of certain contracts, Secs. 33-1-3, 33-1-12.1, 33-1-39 am’d. |
| SB315 | 1st Reading | Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund | Orr | Would provide a reduced additional annual license tax and registration fee for electric low speed vehicles |