February 19, is our ARSEA/APEAL Legislative Day

Members are welcome in our office throughout the day, and we will be meeting with legislators at the Alabama State House between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. 

Following our time at the State House, we will be holding a reception for legislators and members from 5:00 until 7:00 p.m. at the Alabama Department of Archives and History.  We have already had several legislators respond that they plan to attend this event.

I encourage all of you to attend and ask that you bring a friend or former coworker with you if possible.  If our association becomes more engaged throughout the legislative process, achieving our goals of resuming benefit increases and maintaining our insurance costs will be much less difficult.

We must continue to relay the message of how important our issues are to us.  If we want our voice to be heard, we all must be willing to put in the work.  Please help us!

Finally, our bill, House Bill 158, will be in committee TOMORROW as well.  The House Fiscal Responsibility Committee meeting will be held at 4:00 p.m. in Room 418 of the Alabama State House.  I would love for us to have a strong presence in that committee meeting to show our support for the bill and Representative Clouse. 

Throughout the session, we will keep you informed on these and other issues affecting public retirees through this WEEKLY UPDATE, and through our LEGISLATIVE ALERT, which we issue whenever we need you to immediately contract your legislators through phone calls, emails, texts, and other methods. We will also announce Zoom meetings weekly to give our members the opportunity to hear directly from us and ask questions.  If you are not receiving communications from ARSEA/APEAL, you may not be a member.  Call our office to check your membership status today!