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During the 2024 Legislative Session, CSC will go to Montgomery several times to visit with our elected officials so they will know we are watching. Join, Renew and Contribute through donation. 

In 2024, the Alabama State Legislature is scheduled to convene on February 6 and adjourn on May 20. 

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2022 Goals for Legislative success!

• Get rid of COMMON CORE(FINCHER)

• HB 9--NO TO CRT(OLIVER)

• HB 31--NO VACCINE MANDATES

• PASSED! HB 6--SHANE STRINGER'S CONSTITUTIONAL CARRY BILL 

• HB1 AND SB10: VCAP--VULNERABLE CHILD PROTECTION ACT--STOP TRANSGENDER DRUGS TO 19 AND UNDER

2021--Again, the House Education Committee has refused to let a bill to get rid of Common Core go to the floor for a vote.  Our Alabama children were 25th in the nation, and steadily improving, BEFORE Common Core. Immediately AFTER Common Core was put in our schools the scores started plummeting. NOW, Alabama children are ranked 52nd in the U.S.  Yes! That means our Alabama children rank below D.C. And Puerto Rico!

• Our only other recourse, in 2022, is to continue to work with the State School Board members.  Governor Ivey has said that if we can get 4 school board members to agree to get rid of Common Core, she will vote with them to get rid of Common Core.  We now have 3 on our team!  There is one on the fence.  Question:  In the face of such overwhelming evidence against Common Core in our children's scores, how can they continue to stick with it?

• Work with Alabama Elected Officials to redesign the Bayway Bridge Project with NO TOLL! STILL IN NEGOTIATIONS.  NOT RESOLVED.

• DEFEATED  2020 Alabama Constitutional Amendment 1--Protected the citzens right to vote for Alabama State School Board Members!  
• Defeated the 2019 Bayway Bridge Project that called for Toll of $6-$12.
• Common Core; Parental Rights (Tied in importance) 
  • NO Student Data Collection - STOPPED K-Retirement Data Collection again in 2017 & 2018.  We are sure they will try again next year!
• Pro Life - A number of states have passed Fetal Heartbeat laws that would prohibit an abortion if a heartbeat can be heard.  Normally at 12 weeks.
• Agenda 21/Agenda 2030-- You may RECALL THAT in 2012 the United Nations Agenda 2012 was declared against the law in Alabama.  The United Nations has refined the wording, made it more dangerous and now  it is called Agenda 2030.  We must fight that battle again.  YOUR property rights and more are at risk.
• Alabama Economic Freedom—Fair Tax-discussed, but didn't go anywhere

Senator Bill Hightower pushed a Joint Resolution through both the House and the Senate to create Patriot’s Day, April 19, in perpetuity. Patriot’s month will be April, in perpetuity. Passed 4/16/13.

Signature Issue List for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018

• MORE CIVICS in Schools -  SB-32 PASSED and signed into law  2018-2019 graduating Seniors must pass the same Civics questions as those on the U.S. Naturalization Test.

• The Repeal of Common Core was once again blocked from the floor by Governor Bentley, Mike Hubbard, and Del Marsh, BUT CSC campaigned successfully for new State School Board Superintendent, Michael Sentance, who is adamently against Common Core in Alabama.  August 11, 2016

• CSC campaigned successfully for Jackie Zeigler, anti-Common Core candidate's election to the Alabama State School Board. When Jackie won the GOP primary with overwhelming numbers, her Democrat opponent, bowed out of the race, saying she was highly qualified.  Jackie ran UNOPPOSED on the Nov. 8th ballot. Nov. 8, 2016 and was sworn in on January 24, 2017. 

• Schools-- SB45 introduced by Marsh passed; cited as the Alabama School Choice and Student Opportunity Act.

• Baldwin Cty infrastructure expansion andproperty taxes to do it. For months CSC and MANY Baldwin County residents fought hard against the 67% ($1BILLION) tax increase.  March 31, the vote was overwhelmingly against the new taxes, BUT that fight is not over. 

• Medicare expansion--again, Bentley said no during campaign, yet now seems to be entertaining going forward-6 Medicare expansion bills were introduced by Bentley's pals---none passed in 2015! 

• Homeschool – keep the state out of homeschool [SB38]Passed 3/19/14

• Informed Voter Act designed to remove voter confusion and uncertainty over the ballot language of any proposed statewide constitutional amendments. [HB9] Passed 4/3/14

• Homestead Exemption Reclaimed (HB19) Ad valorem tax, homestead exemption from local taxes, for all disabled and persons over 65. 
  • Signed by Gov. Bentley 5/20/13 

• Patriot’s Day, April 19, in perpetuity. Patriot’s month will be April, in perpetuity. Passed 4/16/13

• Stop Voter Fraud in AL http://www.stopvoterfraudnow.com/
  • Passed May 24, 2012. Effective in the first statewide primary in 2014, a qualified elector must show valid photo identification at the polling place in order to vote in person.

• No Agenda 21
  • Passed on May 16, 2012
  • Agenda 21 is still happening in cities all over Alabama—this is done through ignorance; be vigilant

• NO Sharia Law in AL Courts
  • Signed by Gov. Bentley on 5/20/12
  • Foreign law, application in violation of rights guaranteed United States and Alabama citizens, prohibited, exceptions, American and Alabama Laws for Alabama Courts

• No Medicaid/Obamacare

  • Passed Nov. 6, 2012 Amendment 6: Constitutional Amendment--to prohibit any person, employer, or health care provider from being compelled to participate in any health care system.

• Immigration Law in AL
  • Signed into law June 9, 2011-AL being sued by DOJ

• Alabama Affirms Sovereignty--Passed on Jan. 19, 2010-“claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States.”

• English as official/only language in AL
  • Passed in 1990— In May 2001, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Pro-English by upholding Alabama's official English law.
• 28^th Amendment—Congress should live by the same rules they make for us
  • No action  
• NO EPA Rules via Edict in AL
  • No action in the Legislature, BUT Alabama’s congressional delegation on 1/13/16 voted unanimously to nullify the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called Waters of the United States Rule, which imposes federal environmental regulations on small bodies of water, even puddles.  

Common Sense Campaign plans to find an advocate(s) within the AL Legislature and/or the US Congress and Senate to fight for the passage of laws to protect the Constitution!