State legislature
Official Alabama bill text, status, plain English summaries, and amendment notes tied back to the Legislature's own records.
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2026
This law allows rural healthcare providers in Alabama to work together on specific tasks if they get approval from state officials, giving them limited protection against antitrust laws.
This law requires the Secretary of State to provide voter lists electronically, limits fees for these lists, protects specific personal information from being shared, and bans selling or using voter data for commercial purposes.
This law allows people who are 80 years old or older to ask the court in writing to be permanently removed from jury duty.
This law gives eligible state workers a 2% pay raise starting in October 2026 and provides a one-time bonus to certain retirees based on their years of service.
This law adopts an agreement that lets licensed physician assistants practice in other participating states and creates a national commission to manage the rules.
This law increases the maximum pay allowed for directors on public utility boards in Alabama towns with fewer than 5,000 people and extends their terms if local government officials have extended terms.
This law removes the requirement for permanently and totally disabled veterans to verify their eligibility every year to keep a property tax break on their home.
This law allows neighboring city school boards to merge into one system, but requires a public vote if at least 25 percent of voters in any affected area file a written protest within 30 days.
This law allows top state leaders to remove members they appointed to certain boards at any time and requires them to appoint a qualified replacement.
This law provides $419,717,091 from the Education Trust Fund to various Alabama agencies and schools for specific projects during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.
This law provides extra money from a special state fund to public colleges, local school boards, charter schools, specialized academies, and the Ed Farm Classroom of Tomorrow teacher training program.
This law provides a 2% pay raise for certain public education employees starting in fiscal year 2026-2027 and gives a one-time bonus to eligible retirees based on their years of service.
This law allows the families and dependents of volunteer firefighters in Alabama to receive death benefits if the firefighter dies from certain types of cancer linked to their work, provided they meet specific service and health requirements.
This law changes how Alabama calculates taxable income by adding new exclusions for employer contributions to Trump Accounts and making permanent the exclusion for employer-paid education loans.
This law adds points to test scores for military spouses applying for state jobs in Alabama and allows local governments and private companies to choose whether to give hiring preferences to veterans and their families.
This law stops sheriffs from using the same work time to get benefits in two retirement programs but allows them to join both if they have separate years of service.
This law allows fire chaplains who are members of the Alabama Fellowship of Fire Chaplains to get special firefighter license plates, limits these plates to personal cars only, and sets a penalty for lying about eligibility.
This law exempts the first $5,000 of taxable income earned by Alabama National Guard members from inactive duty training from state income tax for years between January 1, 2027, and December 31, 2029.
This law sets rules for certain businesses that collect personal information about Alabama residents, giving those residents rights to control how their data is used.
This law stops insurance companies from treating living organ donors unfairly, gives paid time off to public workers who donate organs or bone marrow, and offers tax credits to private employers who provide similar leave.
This law updates Alabama tax incentive rules by replacing old industry codes with the latest versions from 2022 and swapping references to an outdated economic plan for a new one called CatALyst.
This law limits how long data centers can receive tax breaks, requires them to pay certain taxes on construction items after they start operating, and extends the deadline for these incentives.
This law allows Class 1 municipalities in Alabama to create nonprofit community land trusts to provide affordable housing for low- and moderate-income families.
This law designates the current titleholder of Miss Alabama as an honorary 'Official State Ambassador' to promote goodwill and civic engagement during her term.
This law increases the punishment for shooting a gun into an occupied school bus or building to a Class A felony and removes the rule that people under 19 cannot be charged with this crime.
This law provides $43,138,650 from the Opioid Treatment and Abatement Fund to state agencies and universities in Alabama for opioid treatment, prevention, and recovery services.
This law creates tax credits for employers who loan qualified workers to teach career classes or donate money to support those programs, while establishing a new teaching certificate for industry professionals.
This law creates a faster way for teachers from other states to get certified in Alabama if they want to teach career and technical education courses.
This law creates a new tax deduction of up to $1,000 for qualified overtime pay earned in Alabama between 2026 and 2028 and pauses the state sales tax on food from May through June 2026.
This law updates Alabama rules to allow schools and students to use any single-dose epinephrine device approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration.
This law allows businesses in Alabama to round in-person cash payments up or down to the nearest five cents, but it does not change sale prices and excludes government transactions.
This law creates a fund and an office for Montgomery County legislators to support their work.
This law requires courts to pause criminal and civil trials if a key person, such as the defendant, lawyer, victim, prosecutor, or witness, cannot attend because they are on active military duty.
This law raises the income limit for weatherization help, expands funding sources by removing taxpayer contributions and adding legislative discretion, and allows a state department to hire specific nonprofit groups to manage it.
This law allows Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zones for shipbuilding and other industries inside tax increment districts without size limits, and lets public groups use district taxes to pay back costs for land bought before the zone started.
This law changes when a lodging tax stops applying to long-term stays in Etowah County by increasing the required number of continuous days from 30 to 180.
This law changes the rule for when long-term hotel stays in Etowah County do not have to pay a special tax.
This law sets the number of members on the Etowah County personnel board, defines who appoints them and for how long, lists eligibility rules, and establishes their pay.
This law allows the Choctaw County Commission to raise property taxes for up to five years if voters approve it, with money used only for road and bridge improvements.
This law requires public high schools to excuse students from class on specific days when they sign commitment letters for athletic scholarships, college offers, apprenticeships, or military enlistment.
This law allows the board to charge a fee of up to $30 per funeral, increases fees for certificates of authority and sales agents, and requires annual reports on preneed activities.
This act: (1) establishes the Alabama Resilience Council as an appointed advisory group within the executive branch to develop resilience initiatives addressing natural and man-made disaster risks and facilitate collaboration among agencies, the private sector, and communities; (2) establishes the position of Chief Resilience Officer, appointed by the Commissioner of Insurance, to coordinate the council's activities; (3) provides the council's composition and the council's and the Chief Resilience Officer’s duties; (4) requires the Chief Resilience Officer, with oversight from the council, to develop and maintain a comprehensive statewide resilience plan by October 1, 2028, including a statewide comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment, resilience actions, and implementation strategies; (5) establishes the Alabama Resilience Council Fund in the State Treasury to support the council's and the Chief Resilience Officer’s activities; and (6) establishes the Office of Risk and Resilience within the Department of Insurance to promote programs that address risk and resilience issues and promote a healthy insurance market.
This law stops franchisors from forcing franchisees to work on days that conflict with their sincerely held religious beliefs, unless the rule was already in an original contract or agreed upon later.
This law creates a voluntary state process that lets distressed organizations or individuals transfer their assets to a manager who sells them and pays the money to creditors.
This law requires all public high schools in Alabama to set aside one day each fall semester so military recruiters can give the ASVAB test to students on campus.
This law removes state taxes on natural gas and electricity used to power commercial greenhouses, poultry houses, pivot irrigation systems, and aquaculture aeration systems.
This law sets specific dollar amounts that candidates must pay to run for mayor, city council, or municipal board of education in certain Alabama cities and creates a fee waiver process for low-income applicants who provide proof.
This law allows campaign groups in Alabama to destroy their financial records and reports after four years.
This law changes Alabama rules about trusts to limit when creditors can reach trust property, clarify who counts as a creator of the trust regarding withdrawal powers and appointments, and allow trustees to pay settlor income taxes without those payments counting toward creditor claims.
This law exempts the company Precision Ocular from paying Alabama state sales and use taxes between October 1, 2026, and September 30, 2031.
This law adds new rules from the 2025 legislative session into the official Code of Alabama and fixes specific errors in those books.
This law sets new rules for sex education in Alabama public schools by requiring lessons on avoiding sexual activity and giving parents the right to remove their children from these classes.
This law stops sales and use tax from being charged on credit card transaction fees added to purchases made with electronic payment methods.
This law provides over $771 million in extra funding to various state agencies and entities from different funds for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026.
This law sets rules that the Public Service Commission must follow when reviewing electricity contracts between utilities and very large data centers.
This law requires officials to hide financial details in public contract records and stops people from using school contact lists to sell goods or services.
This law allows the Alabama Department of Revenue to issue a certificate of title for manufactured homes from model year 1999 or earlier if the current owner requests it.
This law recreates the Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services as part of the legislature, sets up a new committee to oversee it, and requires state agencies to submit evaluation plans for new or expanded programs.
This law allows the Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute to buy goods, services, and training without following standard state bidding rules when working with companies that have economic development agreements.
This law requires the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to issue a deed for specific school indemnity lands in Walker and Fayette counties to the Franklin County Board of Education upon request.