Bill > SB327

This bill, known as the Healing History Act, aims to preserve and acknowledge the diverse history of Alabama. It creates the Tuskegee Airmen Freedom Fund within the State Treasury, to be administered by the Alabama State Council on the Arts for commissioning public art, such as sculptures and monuments, that represent different perspectives of Alabama's history. The bill also authorizes legislative members representing Dallas County to add the name "Foot Soldiers" to the Edmund W. Pettus Bridge in Selma, while preserving the existing "Edmund W. Pettus Bridge" name. Additionally, the bill amends the state's tax code to allocate one percent of the gross amount collected from the tax for the relief of needy Confederate soldiers and sailors to the Tuskegee Airmen Freedom Fund.