State Sen. Gerald Allen (R-Tuscaloosa) is once again planning to charge $5,000 a day to stop cities from removing Confederate monuments.

The bill has come up multiple times after Montgomery decided to defy current law and apply the current $25,000 violation to rename Jeff Davis Avenue to Fred D. Gray Avenue.

Jefferson Davis was the first and only president of the Confederacy. Gray is a prominent civil rights attorney.

During the last Congress, Mr. Allen slipped the bill's language into a bill exempting Saturn 1B rockets from current law, proving one of the bill's first major unintended consequences, causing some colleagues to confuse him. This angered the public.

In addition to revising the $25,000 flat fee to a $5,000 daily fee, the bill would also change the names of new structures and parks after monuments are removed and honored as historical figures. The law requires cities to change their policies.

A version of the bill was previously introduced by former state Rep. Mike Holmes, R-Wetumpka, and APR previously reported that members of the Southern Cultural Center, a hate group named SPLC, helped draft the bill. reported praising him on Facebook.

“For the past eight months, the Southern Cultural Center has been working as part of a task force to rewrite the disastrous and disappointing 2017 Monuments Act, which was requested by Congressman Mike Holmes of the 31st District. ” the post reads. “The rewrite is complete and Congressman Mike Holmes introduced it into the 2021 Congress.”

Holmes and the Southern Cultural Center denied that the group wrote the bill for APR.

The Southern Cultural Center has become active again in recent years, hosting two “national” Neo-Confederate rallies and bringing far-right speakers to Wetumpka.