Leaders hopeful new State House will be ready by January 2027

Secretary of the Senate Pat Harris told Capitol Journal’s Todd Stacy the new State House – home of the Alabama Legislature – will likely be completed in time for the start of the 2027 legislative session. “We would like to be ready at the beginning of the next quadrennium and move in January of 2027,” Harris told Stacy. “We would like to be through (with construction) in 2026 so that we would have that summer to coordinate the move in and maybe even take down this building and some of the other aspects that we would do while everyone is out of town and move in to the building in January of 202