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HB360 • 2026

2nd Amendment Sales Tax Holiday created; to exempt certain items from sales tax during the last weekend of August

2nd Amendment Sales Tax Holiday created; to exempt certain items from sales tax during the last weekend of August

Education Firearms Taxes
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Sells
Last action
2026-04-07
Official status
Read Second Time in Second House
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official bill text does not include exemptions for hunting supplies, only ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories.

Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday

This bill creates a sales tax holiday for certain items related to firearms and hunting during the last weekend of August each year.

What This Bill Does

  • Creates a Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday that happens every year on the last weekend in August.
  • Exempts ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories from state sales and use taxes during this holiday period.
  • Allows counties and municipalities to opt into the tax exemption for these items during the same time frame.
  • Requires the Alabama Department of Revenue to create rules that explain which items qualify for the tax break.

Who It Names or Affects

  • People who buy ammunition, firearms, or firearm accessories during the last weekend in August.
  • Counties and municipalities that choose to participate by exempting these items from local taxes.

Terms To Know

Ammunition
Items like bullets, cartridge cases, primers, and propellant powder used with firearms.
Firearms
Weapons such as shotguns, rifles, pistols, revolvers, or other handguns.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if counties and municipalities do not opt in to the tax holiday.
  • It is unclear how this will affect local budgets that rely on sales taxes from these items.

Amendments

These notes stay tied to the official amendment files and metadata from the legislature.

3P2SGZV-1

Finance and Taxation Education

Finance and Taxation Education 1st Amendment

Plain English: 3P2SGZV-1 : 2/27/2026 : MRF 1ST FINANCE AND TAXATION EDUCATION AMENDMENT TO HB360 OFFERED BY SENATOR ORR Page 1 Replace line 37 on page 2 with the following: (c) For the period commencing on August 1 2026, and ending on September 1, 2028, the gross proceeds from the purchases of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

  • 3P2SGZV-1 : 2/27/2026 : MRF 1ST FINANCE AND TAXATION EDUCATION AMENDMENT TO HB360 OFFERED BY SENATOR ORR Page 1 Replace line 37 on page 2 with the following: (c) For the period commencing on August 1 2026, and ending on September 1, 2028, the gross proceeds from the purchases of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  • This amendment summary is using official source text because generated interpretation was skipped for this run.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-07 Senate

    Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

  2. 2026-04-07 Senate

    Reported Out of Committee Second House

  3. 2026-04-07 Senate

    Finance and Taxation Education 1st Amendment

  4. 2026-02-24 House

    Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 525 (Yeas 73, Nays 29)

  5. 2026-02-24 House

    Lee motion to Previous Question adopted - Adopted Roll Call 524 (Yeas 72, Nays 29)

  6. 2026-02-24 House

    Third Reading in House of Origin (Yeas 74, Nays 27)

  7. 2026-02-24 Senate

    Pending Committee Action in Second House

  8. 2026-02-24 Senate

    Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education

  9. 2026-02-24 House

    Pringle and Ingram intended to vote "Yea"

  10. 2026-02-24 House

    Lipscomb and Paschal intended to vote "Yea"

  11. 2026-02-12 House

    Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

  12. 2026-02-11 House

    Reported Out of Committee House of Origin

  13. 2026-01-29 House

    Pending Committee Action in House of Origin

  14. 2026-01-29 House

    Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education

Official Summary Text

2nd Amendment Sales Tax Holiday created; to exempt certain items from sales tax during the last weekend of August

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text
HB360 INTRODUCED
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HB360
HGHXR63-1
By Representatives Sells, Ingram, Shaw, Lipscomb, Oliver,
Hurst, Sorrells, Marques, Brown, Smith, Rehm, Whorton,
Wadsworth, Bolton, Brinyark, Myrex, Moore (P), Faulkner, Crow,
Pettus, Kirkland, Underwood, Wilcox, Bedsole, Harrison,
Butler, Robertson, Hammett, Allbright, Yarbrough, Colvin,
Rigsby, DuBose, Shaver, Kiel, Givan, Pringle, Hulsey, Robbins,
Lomax, Lee, Clouse, Crawford, Whitt, Paramore, Carns, Mooney,
Easterbrook, Fincher, Stubbs, Starnes, Travis, Lamb, Shirey,
Givens, Holk-Jones, Lovvorn, Stringer
RFD: Ways and Means Education
First Read: 29-Jan-26
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HGHXR63-1 09/19/2025 MF (F)MF 2025-2803
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First Read: 29-Jan-26
SYNOPSIS:
This bill would create the Second Amendment
Sales Tax Holiday to occur annually the last weekend in
August, during which the gross proceeds from the sale
of ammunition, firearms, and firearm accessories are
exempt from state sales and use tax.
This bill would also allow municipalities and
counties to opt in to the sales tax holiday.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to taxation; to create the Second Amendment
Sales Tax Holiday; to exempt the gross proceeds from the sale
of certain items from state sales and use tax during the sales
tax holiday; and to provide local opt in provisions for the
sales tax holiday.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) The sales tax holiday created by this
act shall be known as the Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday.
(b) For the purposes of this act, the following terms
have the following meanings:
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have the following meanings:
(1) AMMUNITION. Cartridge cases, primers, bullets, or
propellant powder designed for use in any firearm.
(2) FIREARMS. A shotgun, rifle, pistol, revolver, or
other handgun.
(3) HUNTING SUPPLIES. Tangible personal property used
for hunting, limited to archery equipment, firearm and archery
cases, firearm and archery accessories, hearing protection,
holsters, belts, slings, and suppressors.
(c) The gross proceeds from the purchases of
ammunition, firearms, and hunting supplies are exempt from the
state sales and use tax during the period beginning on 12:01
a.m. on the last Friday in August of each year and ending at
12:00 midnight on the following Sunday.
(d) The Commissioner of the Alabama Department of
Revenue shall adopt rules to implement and administer this
act, including, but not limited to, a list of items that
qualify for the exemption pursuant to this act.
(e) A county or municipality may exempt the purchase of
ammunition, firearms, and hunting supplies from county or
municipal sales and use taxes, respectively, as provided by
Section 40-23-4.01, Code of Alabama 1975; provided, however,
that:
(1) the exemption shall follow the same terms,
conditions, and definitions as otherwise provided in this act,
including the holiday period provided in subsection (c); and
(2) notwithstanding Section 40-23-4.01(a)(2)a. and b.,
Code of Alabama 1975, the resolution or ordinance providing
for the exemption shall be adopted by June 1 of a given year
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for the exemption shall be adopted by June 1 of a given year
and provide for the duration of the exemption, which must be
in calendar year increments or in perpetuity.
Section 2. This act shall become effective immediately.
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