Gov. Kay Ivey has signed more than 100 bills into law this year, including several she urged lawmakers to pass during her State of the State back in February.

New laws ban Glock switches, create paid parental leave for teachers and state employees, give the governor control of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, and define gender as fixed at birth.

Other bills that Ivey and the Republican majority said were priorities still have time to reach the governor’s desk during the final days of the session.

Those bills would restrict the use of cell phones in classrooms, give police officers more immunity from civil and criminal liability, and require public schools to display the Ten Commandments, among others.

Lawmakers return to Montgomery on Tuesday and have seven meeting days left in the session, which House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter said will probably end on May 8 or May 13.

Overall, Ivey has signed 110 bills. Almost half of the new laws, 52, are local bills that affect only one county.

Here are some of the statewide bills Ivey had signed into law.

Glock switches: SB116 by Sen. Will Barfoot, R-Montgomery, bans devices that make semiautomatic pistols operate like machine guns, firing a burst of rounds with one pull of the trigger. The new law has quickly resulted in arrests.

Federal law already prohibited the conversion devices. But Alabama police said a state law was needed for the switches, which can make a gun fire up to 20 rounds a second, according to an ATF agent. Rep. Phillip Ensler, D-Montgomery, sponsored the bill in the House.

Paid parental leave: SB199 by Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, D-Mobile, and Rep. Ginny Shaver, R-Leesburg, gives Alabama women who are teachers, education employees, and state workers up to eight weeks of paid parental leave after a birth, stillbirth or miscarriage of a child. Male employees will receive two weeks of leave under the same circumstances. The bill provides leave for eligible employees who adopt a child who is three years old or younger.

What is a woman: SB79 by Sen. April Weaver, R-Brierfield, and Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover, defines a female as someone whose reproductive system produces ova and a male as someone whose reproductive system produces sperm.

The new law says state and local government agencies can establish separate single-sex spaces or environments for males and females when biology, privacy, safety, or fairness are implicated.

Transgender men and women and other opponents of the legislation attended public hearings and said the bill puts transgender people at risk of targeted harassment and threats.

Help for independent pharmacies: SB252 by Sen. Billy Beasley, D-Clayton, and Rep. Phillip Rigsby, R-Huntsville, places new requirements on pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, which are companies that manage prescription benefits between insurance companies and employers.

The new law prohibits PBMs from paying pharmacists less than Medicaid does and from charging miscellaneous fees.

Pharmacists said PBMs have been paying them below cost on some drugs, forcing pharmacies out of business across the state.

Changing control of Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs: SB67 by Sen. Andrew Jones, R-Centre, and Rep. Ed Oliver, R-Dadeville, moved control of the ADVA from a board made up of representatives of veterans organizations to the governor.

Under the new law, the governor will appoint the commissioner of the ADVA. The board’s role will be reduced to advisory.

Ivey supported the bill, which came after a public dispute last year between the governor and former ADVA Commissioner Kent Davis.

Prison construction: SB60 by Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Atmore, increases the maximum amount of bonds the state can issue for prison construction by $500 million.

The state plans to borrow money through the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority to help build a 4,000-bed men’s prison in Escambia County.

Albritton, chairman of the Senate General Fund committee, said the timing and amount of the bond issue has not been decided.

The Escambia County prison will be the second of two prisons approved by lawmakers in 2021.

The Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority issued about $500 million in bonds to help build the Kay Ivey Correctional Complex, a 4,000-bed specialty care men’s prison in Elmore County.

That prison will cost slightly more than $1 billion.

Firearm hold agreements: SB40 by Sen. Keith Kelley, R-Anniston, is intended to provide a way for people who think they may be at risk of suicide to voluntarily surrender their guns to a licensed firearm dealer for an agreed period of time.

The bill provides civil immunity for the firearms dealer for what happens after returning the gun to the owner.

Laughing gas: SB78 by Sen. April Weaver, R-Brierfield, restricts the sales and use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, and butyl nitrate, products that police say are sold in some vape stores and gas stations and are misused as dangerous inhalants.

Shelby County Coroner Lina Evans said there were five adult deaths in the county last year where it was clear that the person who died was inhaling nitrous oxide at or near the time of death.

The gas canisters are marketed as food preparation propellants, to make whipped cream, for example, but some buyers use them as an inhalant to experience a dangerous and addictive high, police who spoke in favor of the bill said.

Adult changing tables: SB83 by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, will require new public buildings or those that are totally renovated to have a powered, height-adjustable, adult-size changing table in at least or more restrooms.

The requirement goes into effect Jan. 1, 2028, and carries some exceptions, such as if the governing authority says the requirement is not feasible.