Alabama Legislation

State Health Planning and Development Agency; Rural Health Antitrust Immunity Act created, collaboration among rural health care providers authorized; certification and supervision framework established, limited immunity from state and federal antitrust laws provided

Voter Information; limit cost of reproducing voter registration list; crime for misuse of personal voter information; created

Mary Frances Holland, celebrated

State employees, cost-of-living increase for fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026

Jury service; individuals 80 years of age or older exempt from service upon request

Tommy Jacques, commended

Physician Assistants; interstate licensure compact, established

Urging the Governor and relevant state agencies to recognize the value of spent nuclear fuel and take state actions toward its development

Encouraging the State of Alabama to study navigational aids within the waterways of Mobile Bay and surrounding waters

Individual income taxes, to allow an exclusion from gross income for contributions to Trump Accounts and to make permanent the exclusion for amounts paid by an employer on any qualified education loan.

Manufactured Homes; certificate of title for 1999 models and earlier, Alabama Department of Revenue authorized to issue titles upon request

Uniform Assignment for Benefit of Creditors Act; creates a voluntary state law process for distressed organizations to liquidate assets and distribute proceeds to creditors

Individual income taxes; deduction for qualified overtime income established.

Public K-12 education; expedited career and technical teaching certification pathway created for individual holding equivalent issued by another state

Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services recreated as a legislative department, duties revised and clarified, Legislative Committee on the Evaluation of Services created

Public utilities; maximum fees payable to directors of certain public utility corporations increased, terms of certain directors extended

Public high schools, required to designate time and space for military recruiters to administer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery to students on campus on a voluntary basis

Etowah County, privilege and license tax on lodging, time of continuous supply for tax exemption increased

Class 1 municipalities; authorization to establish community land trusts, affordable housing

Education Trust Fund Advancement and Technology Fund, appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

Sales Tax; to exempt Precision Ocular

Department of Commerce; Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute; references to applicable comprehensive statewide economic development strategic plan, revised; exemptions from state procurement law and contract review, provided

Public K-12 education; violence prevention, conflict resolution, and mediation instruction required before graduation from high school beginning in sixth grade, State Board of Education required to adopt standards

Taxation; to exclude credit card transaction fees from sales and use tax calculations

Income tax, to exempt certain income earned by members of the Alabama National Guard

Tax increment districts, Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zone allowed to be located within a tax increment district without regard to size of district and further provides for use of ad valorem tax revenues collected within a district

Public K-12 schools; sex education (sex ed) curriculum further provided for, sexual risk avoidance established as sex ed curriculum, policies of local boards of education related to sex ed further provided for, parent or guardian notice of sex ed curriculum required, Attorney General authorized to enforce

Campaign finance; require preservation of campaign records for specified period of time

Montgomery County; legislative delegation, office and fund established

FY27 2% Teacher Pay Raise and Retiree Longevity Bonus

Etowah County; number of continuous days that lodging must be supplied before lodging tax no longer applies extended

Supplemental appropriations from the Education Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

Military spouses; preference in hiring and promoting in state service further provided for; preference authorized for political subdivisions, private employers

Legislature; codification of 2025 Regular Session acts and Code Commissioner technical revisions into Code of Alabama 1975

Higher education, to require public colleges and universities to submit annual report on the amount of state and federal funds received and expended, and plans for operating if federal or state funding reduced

Homestead Exemptions; removing the annual verification requirement for qualifying permanently and totally disabled veterans

Multi-member boards; Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker, and President Pro Tempore authorized to replace any board member whom the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker, and President Pro Tempore has appointing authority over

Firefighter distinctive license plate; fire chaplains included, penalty for violations provided for

Public health, authorized forms of single-dose epinephrine used by public schools and authorized entities expanded

Recognizing the need for a north-south transportation route in East Alabama

Taxation; Energy use in commercial greenhouses, pivot irrigation systems, and poultry houses, exempt from utility gross receipts and utility service use tax

Alabama Resilience Council established, membership, responsibilities, and duties of council as an advisory group within the executive branch provided; appointment of Chief Resilience Officer; statewide resilience plan required

Appropriations, supplemental appropriations from the Opioid Treatment and Abatement Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

Health care plans; to regulate the use of artificial intelligence in determinations of coverage

State Board of Adjustment, provide death benefit to survivors of volunteer firefighters who die of cancer

Encouraging the Governor to promote the textile recycling industry in Alabama

Talent Readiness and Industry Needs (TRAIN) Act, qualified employees authorized to teach a career and technical education program, tax credits provided to employers that loan qualified employees, workforce teaching certificate established

Etowah County, membership of personnel board

Alabama Charter School Finance Authority, bonding authority established, legislative findings, board membership, powers, contracts, investments

Alabama Board of Funeral Services; board authorized to impose administrative fee on funeral establishments for each funeral arranged; initial application, renewal, branch registration, and transfer fees relating to a certificate of authority increased; certificate holder required to file an annual statement of preneed activities conducted; board authorized to require certificate holder to file multiple preneed activity reports annually; and initial application and renewal fees for registratio...