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Final Alabama 2025 Legislative Report

Lawmakers passed measures on voter integrity, hemp regulation, and energy infrastructure, while other notable bills on education and healthcare failed.

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The Alabama Legislature convened for Day 30 of its annual Regular Session on Wednesday, May 14 and adjourned Sine Die shortly before midnight. Absent a Special Session, the Legislature will next convene for the 2026 Regular Session on Tuesday, January 13, 2026. 

The Governor has 10 days from adjournment to sign the bills passed in the last 5 days of the Session or they receive pocket vetoes. 

968 bills were introduced during the Session. 

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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

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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. 

HB152, 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. 

HB386, Rep. Garrett: To reduce the state sales and use tax rate on food to 2% 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. 

SB63, 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. 

SB158, Sen. Barfoot: To provide that a foreign national driver license may not be used as photo identification for voting purposes. 

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HB315, Rep. Lovvorn: To require the Department of Revenue to adjust the dollar value of “covered items” that are exempt from sales tax during certain weekends based on changes in the Consumer Price Index, and to increase the number of days prior to which a local government must pass a resolution or ordinance to adopt such exemptions for local sales tax. 

HB407, 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. 

HB196, Rep. Wilcox: To further provide for the management of county juvenile detention facilities. 

HB366, Rep. Rehm: To authorize emergency medical services personnel to transport a police dog that is injured in the line of duty to a 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.

HB281, 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. 

HB379, Rep. Garrett: To exclude certain nonresident, remote workers from state income tax in certain circumstances. 

HB158, 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. 

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HB90, 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. 

HB506, 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. 

HB543, Rep. Brown: To increase the market value threshold amount for which tangible personal property is exempt from the state ad valorem tax.

SB256, Sen. Sessions: To authorize a Class 2 municipality to enter property on which it holds a tax lien certificate to make repairs, to clarify that the Class 2 municipality holds a lien for the cost of its repair that is not extinguished by a tax lien certificate, and to provide for the sale by the tax collecting official of a tax lien certificate that remains unsold for a period of time for the price to certain entities. 

SB279, Sen. Givhan: To authorize the Legislative Council to contract for the demolition of the building designated as the current Alabama State House, upon completion of the new Alabama State House, to provide for the disposition of certain property and materials affixed to the building, and to provide for the sale of items in the chambers that will not be relocated to the new Alabama State House. 

SB236, 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. 

HB94, 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. 

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HB333, 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. 

HB529, 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. 

HB320, Rep. Pringle: To provide certain additional methods of publication that would serve as a safe harbor for the award of a contract for public works in the event a publication by newspaper fails to be completed, and to establish the Study Commission on Public Notice of Title 39 Advertisements to study and make recommendations regarding the establishment of a centralized website for notice of advertisements for certain public bids. 

HB353, Rep. Hill: To remove restrictions on district attorney salary increases, and to provide for the compensation of newly appointed district attorneys. 

HB445, 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. 

HB166, 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. 

SB241, Sen. Bell: To provide for the establishment, development, management, and maintenance of the Alabama Criminal Enterprise Database. 

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SB304, Sen. Orr: To establish the Alabama Energy Infrastructure Bank as a division within the State Industrial Development Authority for the purpose of selecting and assisting in the financing of qualified energy infrastructure projects necessary to meet the energy demands of economic development and industrial recruitment projects throughout the State of Alabama. 

SB271, 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. 

HB52, 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. 

HB8, 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. 

SB312, Sen. Smitherman: To create a new alcoholic beverage license category that would allow businesses that sell and dispense alcoholic beverages at special events under an existing special event license to obtain an event storage license, and to create a new alcoholic beverage license category for businesses to sell and dispense alcoholic beverages at a special event held on state, county, or municipal owned property, such as concert venues, exhibition halls, historic properties, and parks. 

SB186, Sen. Chambliss: To require manufacturers of certain Internet-enabled devices, including smartphones and tablets, to require the devices to contain a filter that is enabled during the activation of the device if the user is a minor, and only allow a user with a password to deactivate or reactivate the filter, to subject a manufacturer of a device in violation of this act to civil liability and provide for penalties. 

SB174, Sen. Chambliss: To require counties and municipalities to provide certain annual reports on business license taxes and business privilege taxes, and to expand the jurisdiction of the Alabama Tax Tribunal to include appeals of business license tax determinations made by counties or municipalities. 

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SB196, 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. 

SB316, 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. 

SB177, 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. 

HB199, Rep. Hendrix: To authorize the Board of Pardons and Paroles or other state agency to provide electronic monitoring to children released from custody in certain circumstances. 

HB202, Rep. Reynolds: To establish immunity for law enforcement officers from civil liability and from criminal prosecution, to provide exceptions, and to provide procedures for asserting such immunities. 

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 

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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 BILLS THAT FAILED TO RECEIVE FINAL PASSAGE 

HB2 by Rep. Brown: To require written consent of a parent or legal guardian for any minor to receive a vaccination, with exceptions. 

HB7 by Rep. Yarbrough: To allow state and local law enforcement agencies to enter into memorandums of understanding and agreements with federal agencies to enforce federal immigration laws. 

HB17 by Rep. Bolton: To create the Alabama Squat Truck Law; to prohibit the alteration of a motor vehicle in such a manner that the height of the front fender is raised four or more inches greater that the height of the accompanying rear fender. 

HB30 by Rep. Wood: To require the judge of probate of each county to conduct a post-election audit after every county and statewide general election to determine the accuracy of the originally reported results of the election. 

HB67 by Rep. Stadthagan: To prohibit public K-12 schools and public libraries from knowingly presenting or sponsoring drag performances in the presence of a minor without the consent of the minor’s parent or legal guardian, and to prohibit certain state entities from allowing minors to share certain facilities with members of the opposite sex during overnight programs operated or sponsored by the state entity, unless the other individuals are family members of the minor and the minor’s parent consents. 

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HB92 by Rep. Brown: To create the Alabama Seagrass Restoration Task Force and to provide for its membership and duties. 

HB161 by Rep. Lipscomb: To require the Division of Construction Management to periodically update the state building code in accordance with the most recent model building code published, to expand the state building code to include all nonresidential buildings, to provide that the expanded applicability of the building code to such nonresidential buildings would not supersede any rules, regulations, or building codes of a Class 1, Class 2, or Class 3 municipality unless the municipality gave its consent, to allow the governing body of a county or municipality to adopt a local amendment or modification to the state building code to authorize increased protections within the applicable county or municipality, and to allow a local governing body to request the Division of Construction Management to amend or modify the state building code to be less stringent and would authorize the amendment, if adopted, to be applied statewide or only locally. 

HB176 by Rep. Shirey: To exempt the gross proceeds from the sale of optical aids, including eyeglasses and contact lenses, from sales and use tax. 

HB187 by Rep. Hill: To allow funds allocated to the Sheriff’s Office for exclusive use of the jail to be expended to support the functions the office of the Sheriff. 

HB188 by Rep. Treadaway: To establish a program to grant tuition money to dependents of law enforcement officers for use in participating public or private institutions of higher education in the State. 

HB244 by Rep. Butler: To prohibit classroom instruction in public school preK-12 related to gender identity or sexual orientation, prohibit education employees from displaying certain flags and insignia in public preK-12 schools, and to prohibit education employees from referring to a student by pronouns inconsistent with the student’s biological sex. 

HB247 by Rep. Standridge: To rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” and to require all state and local entities and all employees of those entities to observe and implement the name change, where practicable. 

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HB280 by Rep. Almond: To authorize a county or public institution of higher education to commence an action to abate or enjoin a public nuisance, and to authorize a county, municipality, or public institution of higher education to seek reimbursement for expenses incurred related to an improperly permitted event. 

HB302 by Rep. Robbins: To require labor brokers who recruit a certain number of foreign workers for employment in the State to register with the Department of Workforce, and to require labor brokers and nonprofit organizations to inform the Department if they directly sponsor a foreign worker or identify individuals or organizations they may be using to act as sponsors. 

HB319 by Rep. Collins: To create the Imagination Library of Alabama Program to provide free age-appropriate books to children through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. 

HB323 by Rep. Givens: To exempt all electric utility commodities and equipment from the requirement of obtaining a permit for movement on the state’s highway system. 

HB324 by Rep. Sells: To provide that a sheriff’s term of office begins at noon on the first day of the term. 

HB360 by Rep. Robertson: To rename “drug courts” to “accountability courts” and to expand the scope of accountability courts to include offenders with mental illness and offenders who are veterans. 

HB363 by Rep. Lomax: To prohibit foreign nationals from contributing to campaigns, ballot measures, political parties, or political action committees and prohibit political parties, political action committees, principal campaign committees, and others from soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals, and to impose penalties for violations. 

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HB380 by Rep. Rigsby: To create the crime of human cloning and provide criminal penalties. 

HB388 by Rep. Garrett: To phase in an increase in the income tax exemption amount for taxable retirement income of individuals who are 65 years of age or older from $6,000 to $12,000 over a 3 year period. 

HB389 by Rep. Garrett: To increase the optional standard income tax deduction and expand the adjusted gross income range allowable for the maximum optional standard income tax deduction, and to expand the adjusted gross income range allowable for the maximum income tax dependent exemption. 

HB440 by Rep. Brown: To further provide for the collection of fire service fees in Mobile County to maintain firefighting districts in by providing a definition for “residence.” 

HB449 by Rep. Robbins: To prohibit certain intentional collection, use, retention, or disclosure of a person’s DNA sample or genetic information without that person’s express consent, to provide for penalties, and to provide for exceptions. 

HB521 by Rep. Lipscomb: To define a new category of ready to drink mixed liquor beverages containing no more than seven percent alcohol by volume, called “mixed spirit beverages,” to institute a licensing structure in Alabama for mixed spirit beverages, which would require all mixed spirit beverages, other than those sold in Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board stores, to be distributed through licensed wholesalers to licensed retailers for on-premises and off-premises consumption, and to provide for the levy of a privilege or excise tax on mixed spirit beverages. 

HB567 by Rep. Wilcox: To increase the percent of total value of equalized taxable property, within a Class 2 (Mobile) municipality, that may be included in tax increment districts created by the municipality. 

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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. 

SB13 by Sen. Allen: A proposed Constitutional Amendment to require local boards of education to adopt policies requiring each K-12 public school to broadcast or sanction the performance of the first stanza of The Star Spangled Banner at least once per week during school hours. 

SB22 by Sen. Coleman: To provide that any incentives awarded to an incentivized company may be recaptured by the state if the company engaged in human trafficking violations or violated the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 

SB32 by Sen. Smitherman: To create the definition of machine gun, and to provide for mandatory enhanced sentences for a person who causes the death of another by means of a machine gun or causes an injury by means of a machine gun. 

SB34 by Sen. Smitherman: To require instruction in violence prevention, conflict resolution, and mediation before graduation from high school. 

SB55 by Sen. Elliott: To invalidate the use of certain classes of driver licenses, and to prevent certain individuals from qualifying for certain driver license exemptions. 

SB85 by Sen. Orr: To specify that a parent or guardian’s written declaration is sufficient documentation to his or her child from a vaccine requirement for religious reasons, and to provide that if a public institution of higher education requires students to be vaccinated, a student may exempt because he or she objects for religious reasons. 

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SB117 by Sen. Barfoot: To authorize certain municipalities to enter into memorandums of understanding with sheriffs regarding traffic enforcement. 

SB265 by Sen Elliott: To authorize peer-to-peer car sharing programs, which are business platforms that connect vehicle owners with drivers, to enable the sharing of vehicles for financial consideration in this state, and to provide requirements for the operation of a peer-to-peer car sharing program, including insurance requirements, notification requirements, tax requirements, record keeping and reporting requirements, liability requirements, consumer protection disclosure requirements, and safety recall requirements. 

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