Senate committee moves several bills forward, hears internet contribution and audit proposals, carries over SB6

The Alabama Senate committee handled multiple bills in a single session and carried over one item to a future meeting.

Early in the meeting the committee heard a presentation from a Senate appointee to the Uniform Law Commission on a ULC model bill addressing presidential electors. The presenter described two features: a mechanism to replace an elector who cannot serve and a provision that helps ensure electors vote in line with their pledge to prevent "faithless electors." After brief discussion, the committee moved the ULC bill and reported it favorably out of committee.

Senator Orr described a bill to tighten verification for internet-only campaign contributions by requiring a billing address and the card security code; the proposal was advanced for committee report to help curb bot-driven small donations and the use of gift cards to cloak donors.

Senator Jones presented SB164, which would relax a three-year auditor-rotation requirement that currently affects a small number of class 4 municipalities; the committee moved that bill as well. The committee also handled House bills HB22 and HB89 (the latter addressing candidate filing fees) and reported them favorably with minimal discussion.

At the end of the session the sponsor of Senate Bill 6 asked that the item be carried over to a later meeting; the chair granted the request and the bill was carried over, concluding the committee's business for the day.

Votes and procedural outcomes recorded in the transcript are committee-level reports; full roll-call tallies for each item are not specified in the transcript for every motion.