The Alabama House Democratic caucus today announced its agenda for the 2023 session, a platform that includes proposals on taxes, education, healthcare, voting, and criminal justice.

The caucus proposes exempting groceries from the state’s 4 percent sales tax as part of their agenda, which they call the Plan for Prosperity. And the caucus will support a bill to exempt overtime pay from the state income tax.

The Democrats are calling for a repeal of the abortion ban Alabama passed in 2019, a law that took effect when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels of Huntsville said the Democrats will introduce a bill to allow abortions in cases of pregnancies caused by rape and incest, exceptions that the Republican-led Legislature chose not to include in the abortion ban, called the Alabama Human Life Protection Act. Daniels said a bill on those exceptions has been drafted but said it was not yet decided who would be the sponsor.

The Democrats are calling for Medicaid expansion to increase access to health care for low-income working families. They support efforts to keep rural hospitals open. Alabama is one of 11 states that has not expanded its Medicaid program as allowed under the Affordable Care Act, also know as Obamacare.

The legislative session starts Tuesday. The Democratic caucus needs support from Republicans to pass any of their proposals because the GOP holds 77 of the 105 House seats.

The Democrats said they would oppose vouchers that allow parents to use taxpayer money to send their children to private school, proposals that Republicans plan to sponsor this year.

The Democratic caucus will support legislation to allow early voting and to allow all voters to cast absentee ballots, as well as automatic voter registration at age 18.

On criminal justice issues, the Democrats want to reinstate Alabama’s requirement for a permit to carry a handgun concealed or to carry one in a vehicle. The Republican majority in the Legislature spearheaded a repeal of the permit requirement last year. And Democrats want to pass a state law against Glock switches and other trigger activation devices that enable a semiautomatic gun to work more like an automatic gun and fire more shots more quickly. The devices are already illegal under federal law and by state laws in most states.

This story will be updated.

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