Governor Ivey emphasizes the legislative victories and urges the Space Command HQ to move to Huntsville

The governor of Alabama, Kay Ivey, spoke on Monday in front of the Huntsville Madison County Chamber of Commerce and emphasized the success of the legislative meeting of the state, which will end until May 8.

Ivey opened her speech in the Saturn ballroom of the Braun Center by discussing the speech of US President Donald Trump at an opening event at the University of Alabama last Thursday, May 1st.

“If the seated US President participates at final festivals, these graduates and their families will never forget,” she said.

Ivey announced that she should discuss with Trump to move the Colorado Springs' headquarters from Colorado Springs to Huntsville before the president entered the stage for his speech.

“Before the speech, I had the opportunity to have a little time with the president and assured him that Huntsville, Ala, is the lawful home for the US Space Command headquarters,” said Ivey.

Space Command has been selected from Colorado since its foundation in 2019.

The Air Force announced Huntsville as a preferred location for a permanent headquarters in January 2021 in the last days of Trump's first term. However, the Biden administration decided to keep the department of the department in Colorado in 2023.

Ivey converted to legislative updates and informed the crowd that in the morning she signed the invoices of the state's budget and educational funds, including the SB305 or the Hitungs Act.

“These historical investments in the core functions of the government and the training of our students are possible through our success story about conservative budgeting and strong leadership,” she said, the sponsor of the budget and educational chairman of the Raise Act and the education budget, Senator Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, together with General Fund Chairman, State Rep. Rex Reynolds, R-Huntsville.

“The training of our students remains my top priority,” said Ivey. “The budgets that we have officially made this morning will continue to invest in programs such as literacy and figures.

Ivey also emphasized the budget financing of the selection law and the Alabama School of Cyber ​​Technology and Engineering, a residential charter school in Huntsville.

She said one of her priorities for the rest of the legislative meeting was the adoption of HB166 or the liberation of our classrooms of unnecessary screens for security.

The FOCUS Act would prohibit public K-12 students to use mobile phones during the school day, and the students obliged to receive lessons for the “risks and advantages” of social media before eighth grade and to request local school authorities to take over an internet security policy for district ownership devices.

“The Focus Act should be a widespread, widely supported cross -party measure,” said Ivey. “If your legislators return to Montgomery tomorrow, I hope that we will receive a floor vote and bring this draft law to my desk so that I can sign it into the law.”

Ivey emphasized how important the legislative templates for public security are for their latest legislative priorities and on SB116 a law in March showed the Glock “Switch” control devices that enable hand weapons to have fully fired automatically.

It also highlighted SB115 or the Officer Imitation Act, which expands the definition of the identity of a legal officer in order to involve an individual acceptance of a job as an officer if it is not justified on the basis of state law, or on the basis of a revoked or suspended certification from the standards and training commission of the Alabama Peace Officer. An officer is a class C crime, which is punished at up to 10 years in prison.

“While we still have work ahead of us in these three remaining days, we can certainly be proud of what we have already achieved in this session,” said Ivey. “We protect Alabama values, we support our veterans, we finally offer long overdue paid parental leave for our state workers and teachers.”

The governor reported that Alabama's office has recorded 55 billion US dollars in investments, which led to the creation of around 93,000 jobs.

“Alabama experiences from here in Huntsville to the Gulf of America, and they all play a big role in our success,” said Ivey.

Ivey said the department for workforce in Alabama ensures that potential investors in the state have access to a strong workforce.

“The department will plan and implement critical elements of Alabama's development efforts in Alabama to answer number one for the future of Alabama's future,” said Ivey.

She thanked Greg Reed, who has been the secretary of the newly founded department since the Ministry of Labor was replaced by Alabama at the beginning of this year.