The resolution from the Alabama House of Representatives, dated Tuesday, April 2, 2024, establishes a special order of business for the eighteenth legislative day. This special order takes precedence over the regular order of business or any other pending or unfinished business. The resolution lists a series of bills that are to be addressed as the primary focus for the legislative session. These bills cover a range of topics including public education, ethics laws, veterans affairs, educational benefits, the role of assistant principals, distinctive license plates, voting procedures, tax delinquent properties, compensation for county officers, prisoner feeding funds, building codes, the Alabama Move Over Act, child labor, energy appliance regulations, special disabled veteran license plates, nursing board membership, and insurance licensing.

The bills mentioned include HB280, which mandates fentanyl prevention and drug poisoning awareness education in public K-12 schools for grades 6 through 12, and HB227, which revises ethics laws pertaining to public officials and employees. Other notable bills include HB284, which aligns the Alabama G.I. and Dependents Educational Benefit Act with federal requirements, HB22, which further defines the role of public K-12 assistant principals, and HB314, which introduces a distinctive license plate for fire chaplains. Additional legislation addresses issues such as voting procedures for those who have changed domicile (HB86), the distribution of excess funds from tax delinquent properties (HB270), cost-of-living increases for county officers (HB294), compensation authority for county officers (HB166), increased state payments to counties for feeding prisoners (HB274), the establishment of the Alabama Residential Building Code (HB198), the expansion of the Alabama Move Over Act (HB315), the elimination of the child labor eligibility work form (HB102), restrictions on governmental entities regarding appliance acquisition (SB50), the creation of a special disabled veteran license plate (HB206), revisions to the Board of Nursing membership (HB234), and changes to insurance licensing and surplus line brokers (SB46).