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Alabama · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 29: Unemployment compensation, unemployed individual required to contact an increased number of prospective employers for each week of unemployment claimed; further providing for the meaning of failure to seek or accept suitable work

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 29 is a bill introduced in the Alabama House on August 19, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Unemployment compensation, unemployed individual required to contact an increased number of prospective employers for each week of unemployment claimed; further providing for the meaning of failure to seek or accept suitable work. Primary sponsor: Ed Oliver (Republican). Most recent recorded action (March 4, 2025): Reported Out of Committee Second House.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Labor & Employment

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Ed OliverPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse81

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Reported Out of Committee Second House
  2. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
  3. Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal Government
  4. Pending Committee Action in Second House (County and Municipal Government)
  5. Third Reading in House of Origin
  6. Lawrence 1st Amendment Offered
  7. Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 53
  8. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 54
  9. Engrossed
  10. Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
  11. Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
  12. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (State Government)

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source