HB62 • 2026

Local boards of education, salary payment schedule for employees

Education Labor

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor: Tillman
Last action: 2026-01-13
Official status: Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The effective date of the bill is July 1, 2026, but this does not affect when local school boards must start paying employees semi-monthly (August 1, 2027).

Local School Boards: Employee Pay Schedule

This bill requires local school boards to pay their employees twice a month, with adjustments for holidays and weekends.

What This Bill Does

Requires local school boards to start paying employees semi-monthly starting August 1, 2027.
Specifies that if a payday falls on a weekend or holiday (except in October), it should be moved to the last workday before the weekend or holiday.
Allows local school boards to opt out of this pay schedule by writing and filing a resolution with the State Superintendent of Education within 60 days.
Requires certain state officials to create rules for implementing this new pay plan.

Who It Names or Affects

Local school board employees
Local school boards

Terms To Know

Semi-monthly: Twice a month, usually on the first and sixteenth day of each month.
Payday in arrears: The payment is made after the work has been done, not before.

Limits and Unknowns

It's unclear how many local school boards will opt out of this new pay schedule.
This bill does not specify what happens if a payday falls on a holiday in October.

Bill History

2026-01-13 House
Pending Committee Action in House of Origin
2026-01-13 House
Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education

Official Summary Text

Local boards of education, salary payment schedule for employees

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text

HB62 INTRODUCED
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HB62
SL1IT58-1
By Representative Tillman
RFD: Ways and Means Education
First Read: 13-Jan-26
PFD: 13-Nov-25
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SL1IT58-1 11/05/2025 JF (F)JF 2025-3201
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PFD: 13-Nov-25
SYNOPSIS:
This bill would implement a semi-monthly pay
plan for employees of local boards of education.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to local boards of education; to provide for
semi-monthly salary payments of local board of education
employees; and to provide for local boards of education to opt
out of semi-monthly salary payments.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) Beginning August 1, 2027, each local
board of education shall pay the employees of the board
semi-monthly one payday in arrears. Except as otherwise
provided in this section, salary payments based on the
semi-monthly plan shall be made on the first and sixteenth day
of each month.
(b) If the first or sixteenth day of any month, other
than the first day of October, falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or
holiday, then the salary payment shall be made on the last
workday immediately prior to the Saturday, Sunday, or holiday.
If the first day of October falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or
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If the first day of October falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or
holiday, then the salary payment shall be made on the next
succeeding workday.
(c) A local board of education may opt out of the
provisions of this section by written board resolution. The
board must file this resolution with the State Superintendent
of Education within 60 days of passage of the resolution.
(d) The Comptroller, the State Superintendent of
Education, and the State Board of Education shall adopt
policies to implement the provisions of this section.
(e) It is the intent of the Legislature that the
implementation of a semi-monthly pay plan shall not reduce any
employee's annual rate of compensation.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on July 1,
2026.
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