Jeff McLaughlin

McLaughlin was the sole author of HJR247, adopted as Act 2009-163, which formally requested that the Tennessee Valley Authority continue aquatic weed management on Lake Guntersville.

April 2, 2009Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB426, enacted as Act 2007-464, the Alabama Uniform Environmental Covenants Act, which created enforceable environmental covenants in real property.

June 14, 2007Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB11 of the 2005 First Special Session, enacted as Act 2005-302, which established financial assurance requirements for the closure and post-closure care of municipal solid waste landfills.

August 1, 2005Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB709, enacted as Act 2005-176, which prohibited the transfer of water out of the Tennessee River basin in Marshall County except under specified conditions.

May 17, 2005Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin moved that the House read his Marshall County water-transfer bill HB596 a third time notwithstanding the Governor's veto, and the House adopted the override motion 54-15.

May 17, 2004Supports Environment and Public Health

Source: alison.legislature.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

During his Alabama House service, McLaughlin did not accept campaign contributions and funded his campaigns with personal money.

October 6, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

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McLaughlin introduced legislation in each legislative session to ban PAC-to-PAC transfers used to obscure money movement from donors to candidates; the bill passed the House each year but failed in the Senate.

October 6, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

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As sponsor, McLaughlin won House passage of his bill banning PAC-to-PAC transfers of campaign donations by a vote of 101-0; he argued the transfers let candidates hide the original source of contributions, and the measure again died in the Alabama Senate. He filed the same ban in nine consecutive sessions from 2002 through 2010 and it cleared the House in eight of them without ever becoming law.

January 19, 2010Supports Anti-Corruption

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McLaughlin was the sole author of HB413, enacted as Act 2006-427, which made the killing of a firefighter in the line of duty as a consequence of arson a capital-eligible form of murder.

April 17, 2006Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB288, enacted as Act 2006-628, which set requirements for transfers of structured settlement payment rights under the workers' compensation system.

April 27, 2006Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB287, enacted as Act 2006-316, which regulated the landlord-tenant relationship under residential rental agreements in Alabama.

April 6, 2006Supports Corporate Accountability

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB367, enacted as Act 2010-701, which gave priority as authorizing agent over the remains of a deceased service member to the person named on the Department of Defense record of emergency data.

April 29, 2010

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB56, enacted as Act 2010-688, which provided an additional circuit judgeship for Marshall County in the Twenty-Seventh Judicial Circuit, conditioned on funding.

April 29, 2010

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin voted for HB290, the General Fund budget appropriating the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative and judicial departments, which passed the House 104-0 and became Act 2010-553.

April 6, 2010

Source: alison.legislature.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin voted for HB274, the education budget appropriating funds for the support, maintenance and development of public education, which passed the House 104-0 and became Act 2010-610.

March 30, 2010

Source: alison.legislature.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

Wrote a 2010 Alabama law for Lawrence County that changed the payments the Tennessee Valley Authority makes in place of taxes and redirected part of the county's liquor tax money. It became law without the governor's signature on March 4, 2010 (House Bill 44, Act 2010-135).

March 4, 2010

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin moved that the House read his HB44 a third time notwithstanding the Governor's veto, and the House adopted the override motion 56-21.

March 2, 2010

Source: alison.legislature.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB793, enacted as Act 2009-599, which authorized a motor vehicle tag fee in Arab, Boaz and Guntersville for cities in Marshall and Etowah counties having a city board of education.

May 20, 2009

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

Sponsored a law letting Marshall County charge and collect a solicitor's fee in court cases; the governor signed it in May 2009 (House Bill 770, Act 2009-369).

May 5, 2009

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB637, enacted as Act 2008-505, which increased court costs in all Marshall County circuit and district court cases.

May 29, 2008

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB721, enacted as Act 2008-421, which made venue for civil and criminal cases countywide in the Marshall County circuit, district, juvenile and family courts.

May 16, 2008

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB904, enacted as Act 2007-341, which authorized the Marshall County sheriff to operate a jail store and inmate telephone system and directed how the proceeds were distributed.

June 7, 2007

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin was the sole author of HB669, enacted as Act 2003-226, which established a civil service system for Marshall County employees and exempted the county engineer and assistant county engineer.

June 17, 2003

Source: arc-sos.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin voted for HB11 of the 2003 First Special Session, the sales and use tax measure on certain installation and repair services and on motor vehicle leases that passed the House 53-37 and became Act 2003-118.

May 28, 2003

Source: alison.legislature.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin voted against HB22 of the 2003 First Special Session, the proposed intangible property tax on stocks, bonds and notes, which passed the House 56-41 after the House rejected his amendment to the bill 40-45.

May 27, 2003

Source: alison.legislature.state.al.us · researched July 31, 2026

McLaughlin served as a Democratic member of the Alabama House of Representatives from District 27 from January 2001 through January 2011.

January 1, 2001

Source: en.wikipedia.org · researched July 4, 2026