The Alabama Legislature convened for Day 28, out of 30, of its annual Regular Session on Tuesday, May 6 and convened in Session Wednesday for Day 29. Eight committee meetings were held during the week. The Legislature will next convene for the 30th and final day on Wednesday, May 14 with the House and the Senate convening at 1 p.m.
968 bills have been introduced.
NOTABLE BILLS ENACTED
SB79, Sen. Weaver: To define man, woman, boy, girl, father, mother, male, female and sex for purposes of state law, to provide policy of the differences between sexes, to provide that state and local public entities may establish separate single-sex spaces or environments in certain circumstances, and to require the state or political subdivisions that collect vital statistics related to sex as male or female for certain purposes to identify each individual as either male or female at birth.
SB70, Sen. Jones: To create the Alabama Veterans Resource Center, provide for a board of directors to manage the center as a comprehensive, coordinated system of support for veterans and their families.
SB36, Sen. Kitchens: To provide further for who is subject to state competitive bid laws, to provide further for electronic bid submissions, to provide further for the procedures for protesting certain competitive bid contracts, and to revise requirements for disclosure statement forms.
SB67, Sen. Jones: To authorize the Governor to appoint the Commissioner of the Department of Veterans Affairs to serve at the pleasure of the Governor, and to revise membership and powers of the board.
SB4, Sen. Elliott: To authorize certain public entities to contract with a nonpublic K-12 school to provide school resource officers in certain circumstances, and to require public entities to charge the nonpublic school for the full cost of employing any school resource officer.
SB64, Sen. Livingston: To require persons engaging in the business of cutting or uprooting aquatic plants in public waters to use certain methods to remove this plant matter.
SB116, Sen. Barfoot: To prohibit persons from possessing a part or combination of parts designed or intended to convert a pistol into a machine gun.
SB115, Sen. Chambliss: To include additional activity that would constitute the crime of impersonating a peace officer.
SB54, Sen. Roberts: To further provide for the term “critical infrastructure facility” to include communications service infrastructure and facilities, and further provide for the crimes of unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility and criminal tampering in the first and second degrees.
SB78, Sen. Weaver: To prohibit the possession, use, or sale of butyl nitrite or any mixtures containing butyl nitrite, commonly known as “whippets,” except under certain circumstances, and to prohibit the possession, use, or sale of nitrous oxide, commonly known as “laughing gas,” and amyl nitrite, commonly known as “poppers” or “snappers,” except under certain circumstances.
HB93, Rep. Brown: To exempt all property used by the Alabama State Port Authority from the state personal property inventory and audit requirements.
HB159, Rep. Lovvorn: To rename the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission as the U. S. Space and Rocket Center Commission, to provide that the Governor serve as an ex officio nonvoting member of the commission, to authorize interested public and private partners to provide facilities for U. S. Space and Rocket Center exhibits, and to specify that the commission operates outside of the State Treasury.
SB199, Sen. Figures: To provide for paid parental leave for eligible employees following the birth, stillbirth, or miscarriage of a child or the placement of a child for adoption.
HB243, Rep. Whitt: To unabate a portion of state noneducational ad valorem taxes and state abated construction related transaction taxes pursuant to abatements granted on or after June 1, 2026, and require the local tax collecting official and the Department of Revenue to collect the unabated portion and deposit the revenue into the Alabama Development Fund.
HB101, Rep. Shirey: To authorize the Sheriff of Mobile County to establish procedures for using a credit or debit card to make purchases.
HB104, Rep. Drummond: To provide that a Class 2 municipality (Mobile) may declare certain abandoned or discarded debris a nuisance and require its abatement or removal at the expense of the owner of the property.
SB40, Sen. Kelley: To provide for the recognition of firearm hold agreements between a federal firearm licensee or a municipal or county law enforcement officer and in individual firearm owner where the licensee or law enforcement officer agrees to hold a lawfully possessed firearm for a specified period of time.
SB60, Sen. Albritton: To allow the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority to increase the amount of bonds issued to implement the existing prison modernization plan from $785,000,000 to a total of $1,285,000,000.
SB130, Sen. Melson: To provide that refined gold and silver bullion, specie, or certain coins may be recognized as legal tender.
SB252, Sen. Beasley: To further provide for the regulation of pharmacy benefits managers by the Commissioner of Insurance, to provide a civil action to person injured by pharmacy benefit managers, to provide a minimum reimbursement amount for independent pharmacies, and to regulate rebates from drug manufacturers to pharmacy benefits managers.
SB91, Sen. Kelley: To require a person seeking to construct a tall structure within a minimum distance of a military installation to receive approval from the local government before construction may begin, and authorize a local government to seek enjoinment of the construction of a tall structure if prior approval was not granted.
SB83, Sen. Orr: To require public entities to install and maintain powered, height-adjustable, adult-size changing tables accessible to both males and females in newly constructed or renovated public buildings, to provide for grant award payments to public entities with preexisting public restrooms subject to appropriation, and to encourage the installation and maintenance of adult-size changing tables in private sector facilities across the state.
SB224, Sen. Sessions: To further provide for the electronic monitoring of certain individuals in Mobile County.
SB200, Sen. Jones: To rename “drug courts” to “accountability courts” and to expand the scope of whom accountability courts would serve to include offenders with mental illness and offenders who are veterans.
SB221, Sen. Williams: To further provide for the compensation of the Mobile County Judge of Probate.
SB46, Sen. Sessions: To authorize the governing body of a Class 2 municipality (Mobile) to establish a delegation agreement with the Alabama Department of Environmental Management to enforce the Alabama Scrap Tire Environmental Quality Act.
SB102, Sen. Coleman-Madison: To extend the existing pregnant women benefit under the state Medicaid plan for up to 60 days to women who have not been formally approved for Medicaid coverage but who submit proof of pregnancy and household income information to a qualified provider of ambulatory prenatal care.
SB118, Sen. Barfoot: A proposed Constitutional Amendment to provide for additional offenses that would allow a judge to deny bail under certain circumstances.
HB253, Rep. Colvin: To exempt the gross receipts from the sale of certain aircraft and aircraft parts from state sales and use tax, to provide conditions regarding the application of rental or lease taxes to the rental or lease transactions of commercial aircraft, to authorize county or municipal governing bodies to adopt a local sales and use tax exemption by resolution or ordinance, and to provide for effective dates from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2030.
SB305, Sen. Orr: To create the Renewing Alabama’s Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act to establish a process to provide additional funding for public K-12 schools for the purpose of addressing the educational needs of the student population and improving educational outcomes.
SB110, Sen. Williams: To add certain trucks to those that are excepted from certain weight limits, to further provide for an operator of a vehicle to verify the accuracy of portable scales, and to remove the authority of certain individuals to require vehicle operators to drive to stationary weigh scales to enforce those weight limits.
SB119, Sen. Barfoot: To further provide for the list of persons prohibited from possessing a firearm, to prohibit firearm possession by a person charged with certain felony offenses when the person has been released pending or during trial, and to increase the penalty for the offense of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, building or other designated space.
HB191, Rep. Baker: To establish conditions for exemption of county or municipal sales and use tax.
HB258, Rep. Carns: To change the primary election in off-presidential years to second Tuesday in May preceding Memorial Day.
HB354, Rep. Hill: A proposed Constitutional Amendment to provide that the compensation received by a district attorney may not be diminished during his or her term of office.
HB437, Rep. Faulkner: To establish a shark alert system for Baldwin and Mobile Counties, to provide for the development, implementation and operation of the alert system by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources with assistance from other agencies of the state and political subdivisions.
SB322, Sen. Waggoner: To authorize the annexation of a certain type of community development district by a wet municipality in the county where the district is situated, and to further provide for the establishment of a certain type of community development district.
HB477, Rep. Faulkner: To authorize a nonprofit agricultural organization to offer health benefits to its members and their families, to specify that the nonprofit agricultural organization would not be engaged in the business of health insurance, and would specify health care benefits that must by offered, to require a nonprofit agricultural organization to create a complaint system for members receiving health benefits, and to impose a tax measured by premiums received by a nonprofit agricultural organization.
SB330, Sen. Roberts: To further provide for the composition, manner of appointment, and length of terms of members of certain municipal water works boards, to provide qualifications for and place limits on the employment of board members, to provide for conversion of these boards to regional boards, to further provide for these boards to amend their articles of incorporation, to subject these boards to the ethics laws of Alabama and require training on the subject, to provide duties and unlawful actions of these boards, to require a consulting engineer be retained by a board, and to require these boards to produce certain financial and statistical records.
SB140, Sen. Waggoner: To require the Alabama Department of Public Health to notify youth athletic associations of noncompliance with the Coach Safely Act, to levy a fine if noncompliance is not remedied, and prohibit a youth athletic association that is noncompliant for 4 consecutive years from administering or conducting youth athletic activities on state property.
SB194, Sen. Melson: To authorize an agriculture authority to terminate or move easements on authority owned property using the power of eminent domain in the same manner as the state.
HB165, Rep. Rehm: To add Juneteenth as a state holiday.
BUDGETS
HB186, Rep. Reynolds: $3.7 Billion General Fund Budget Enacted; Act No. 2025-251
SB112, Sen. Orr: $9.9 Billion Education Trust Fund Budget Enacted; Act No. 2025-270
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
HB185, Rep. Reynolds: Supplemental from the General Fund ($67,906,065), Enacted; Act No. 2025-254
SB113, Sen. Orr Supplemental from the Education Trust Fund ($524,276,588), Enacted; Act No. 2025-268
NOTABLE FLOOR ACTION THIS WEEK
HOUSE FLOOR
SB5 by Sen. Elliott: To further provide for the number and composition of the Board of Trustees of the Department of Archives and History and to further provide for the manner in which the members are appointed (as amended; Senate non-concurred; conference committee appointed).
SB43 by Sen. Melson: To bar enforcement of contractual provisions between health insurers and health care providers and pharmacists which forbid or penalize disclosure of information to patients about the cost and availability or treatment or drugs (as substituted).
SB53 by Sen. Kitchens: To require an administrator of a state, county, or municipal jail, or his or her designee, to attempt to determine whether an individual arrested and detained in the jail is an illegal alien, and to establish the crimes of concealing an illegal alien and human smuggling (as substituted).
SB63 by Sen. Bell: To require law enforcement agencies to collect fingerprints and DNA from any illegal alien in the agency’s custody and submit the fingerprints and DNA for testing or cataloging.
SB76 by Sen. Weaver: To provide an exemption from jury service for nursing mothers (as substituted).
SB108 by Sen. Weaver: To establish the crime of receiving stolen mail theft, and to provide criminal penalties for violations (as substituted).
SB142 by Sen. Kitchens: To remove the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) as a voter registration database that the board of registrars or the Secretary of State may use to identify voters whose addresses may have changed, and to require the Secretary of State to conduct a voter registration list maintenance program through the Alabama Voter Integrity Database (as substituted).
SB158 by Sen. Barfoot: To provide that foreign national driver license may not be used as photo identification for voting purposes.
SB171 by Sen. Chambliss: To prohibit an individual from operating a motor vehicle on land submerged below navigable waters (as substituted and amended).
SB177 by Sen. Bell: To rename the Alabama Film Office as the Alabama Entertainment Office, to include music albums as a qualified production, increase the maximum expenditure threshold eligible for a rebate, establish a minimum spend threshold for musical albums to qualify, and increase the annual cap for incentives.
SB196 by Sen. Orr: To establish a program allowing eligible 11th and 12th grade students to take all courses at an eligible public institution of higher education and receive high school credit for the coursework, to create the Move on When Ready Fund, and to authorize payment from the fund to a public institution of higher education for courses taken pursuant to the program.
SB236 by Sen. Barfoot: To require each executive committee delegated by a regional mental health authority board to include at least one active sheriff and one active judge of probate, prohibit a board of directors from creating additional qualifications for directors through the corporation’s constitution and bylaws, and to provide for a quorum.
SB241 by Sen. Bell: To provide for the establishment, development, management, and maintenance of the Alabama Criminal Enterprise Database.
SB271 by Sen. Allen: To prohibit municipalities from imposing certain fees or charges on natural or manufactured gas utilities in connection with the granting of consent to use public streets and places.
SB316 by Sen. Singleton: To require the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board to issue an educational tourism distillery license, to regulate retail sales of alcoholic beverages by the licensee, to levy a tax on liquor manufactured by the licensee, and to provide for storage of liquor manufactured by the licensee.
SENATE FLOOR
HB1 by Rep. Brown: To assess a fee on certain seafood dealer licensees to be deposited into the Imported Seafood Safety Fund; to create the Imported Seafood Safety Fund to be used by the Alabama Department of Public Health to inspect imported seafood products for substances that are harmful to humans.
HB8 by Rep. Drummond: To further provide restrictions on the sale of tobacco and other related products, to prohibit the distribution of tobacco, tobacco products, electronic nicotine delivery systems, e-liquids, and alternative nicotine products through a vending machine, to require a license for the retail sale of certain tobacco, synthetic tobacco, electronic nicotine delivery systems, e-liquids, and alternative nicotine products and provide for license fees, to provide restrictions on the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems and e-liquids, to further provide for the authorized penalties for certain violations, to provide for the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems and to require vaping products to be manufactured in the United States, and to require the State Board of Education to establish a model vaping awareness, education, and prevention program and require each local board of education to adopt a policy based on the model policy.
HB52 by Rep. Garrett: To make technical changes to the funding provisions of the CHOOSE Act credits and increase the amount of funding, and to extend the sunset date for the existing income tax deduction for contributions to an Alabama Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) savings account to December 31, 2030.
HB90 by Rep. Clarke: To further provide for a municipal housing authority’s power to manage housing projects and community facilities, participate in lawful forms of business organizations, make loans, create subsidiaries or other lawful business organizations, and enter into contracts, to ratify the creation of any wholly-owned subsidiary of a municipal housing authority, to further provide for a municipal housing authority’s power to evaluate and award contracts, and to exempt public housing authorities from all taxes.
HB91 by Rep. Clarke: To provide further powers to a county housing authority to manage housing projects and community facilities, including powers to participate in lawful forms of business organizations, make loans, create subsidiaries or other lawful business organizations, and enter into contracts.
HB94 by Rep. Givan: To provide that knowingly advertising, either online or in print, access to the sexual or labor servitude of another is human trafficking in the second degree.
HB152 by Rep. Rafferty: To provide for a state sales and use tax exemption for purchases of certain baby supplies, baby formula, maternity clothing, and menstrual hygiene products, and to allow local governments to adopt exemptions.
HB158 by Rep. Clouse: To provide for an annualized benefit increase procedure for the funding of future benefit increases to state and education retirees of the Employees’ Retirement System and the Teachers’ Retirement System in a manner that does not increase the unfunded liability of either system.
HB166 by Rep. Hulsey: To prohibit the use, operation, and possession of wireless communication devices on certain public school properties, to require local boards of education to adopt an Internet safety policy, and to require students to complete a social media safety course prior to entering the eighth grade.
HB196 by Rep. Wilcox: To further provide for the management of county juvenile detention facilities.
HB281 by Rep. Almond: To further provide for the procedures for an aggrieved party to file an appeal of the final decision of a municipal zoning board of adjustment in the circuit court, and to provide for the decision of the board to remain in effect during the appeal unless the circuit court grants a stay.
HB333 by Rep. Faulkner: To allow two or more municipalities to establish a regional law enforcement training facility authority to maintain and operate a regional law enforcement training facility, and to provide for the composition, terms, and powers of the board of directors of the regional law enforcement training facility authority.
HB353 by Rep. Hill: To remove restrictions on district attorney salary increases, and to provide for the compensation of newly appointed district attorneys.
HB357 by Rep. Hollis: To define “cigarette,” “heated tobacco products,” and “cigarettes intended to be heated,” and to levy a tax on heated tobacco products.
HB366 by Rep. Rehm: To authorize emergency medical services personnel to transport a police dog that is injured in the line of duty to veterinary clinic or hospital, and authorize emergency medical services personnel to provide emergency medical care to a police dog that is injured in the line of duty while at the scene of the injury or during transport.
HB379 by Rep. Garrett: To exclude certain nonresident, remote workers from state income tax in certain circumstances.
HB386 by Rep. Garrett: To reduce the state sales and use tax rate on food to 2 percent on September 1, 2025, and to revise the provisions authorizing a county or municipal governing body to reduce their sales and use tax on food to eliminate the restriction on the amount of the rate cut and remove the growth requirement.
HB407 by Rep. Ingram: To authorize local redevelopment authorities to require payment in lieu of taxes for transient occupancy tax, and to require these authorities to report certain payments in lieu of taxes to the Department of Revenue.
HB445 by Rep. Whitt: To impose testing and labeling requirements on all consumable hemp products sold in this state, to authorize the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to license retailers of these products, to establish restrictions on retail establishments, to prohibit the sale of consumable hemp products to minors, to prohibit the sale of smokable hemp products, to prohibit online sales and direct delivery of consumable hemp products, to impose an excise tax on consumable hemp products and provide for the distribution of tax proceeds, and to authorize the board to seize unlawful consumable hemp products.
HB506 by Rep. Lovvorn: To provide that if an off-road vehicle is publicly owned by a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency, fire department, volunteer fire department, or rescue squad and meets certain requirements, the vehicle may be designated as an authorized emergency vehicle and may be operated on public streets and highways to perform emergency services.
HB509 by Rep. Sorrells: To prohibit state agencies from killing, testing, and prohibiting the transfer of cervids due to disease, subject to exceptions.
HB529 by Rep. Faulkner: To levy a tax on consumable vapor products and provide for the reporting, collection and distribution of the proceeds, and to provide for the permitting of retailers of these products.
HB543 by Rep. Brown: To increase the market value threshold amount for which tangible personal property is exempt from the state ad valorem tax.
