Alabama Legislation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Individual income taxes; deduction for qualified overtime income established.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 registration as a preneed sales agent increased

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

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

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

Crimes and offenses; discharging a firearm into an occupied school bus or building, penalty increased

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

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

Sales Tax; to exempt Precision Ocular

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

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

Choctaw County; ad valorem taxes, county commission authorized to increase, proceeds provided for

Data privacy; processing of data regulated, consumer actions related to data authorized

Recommending state government entities to avoid using the term, "West Bank"

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

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

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

Criminal and civil procedure; continuance of case when party, attorney, or witness is on active military duty; bail required to be set in such cases subject to conditions

Etowah County, membership of personnel board

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

Montgomery County; legislative delegation, office and fund established

Public K-12 education; process for the consolidation of city school systems provided

Retirement benefits; participation of qualifying sheriffs in supernumerary program and Employees' Retirement System based on separate years of service authorized

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

Public high schools; students excused from class for scholarship acceptance, college commitment, military enlistment

Tax abatement and tax incentive programs, NAICS Code references and definitions updated to latest terms

Electric Utilities; review by Public Service Commission of certain contracts with large load data centers further provided for

Encouraging the Governor to promote the textile recycling industry in Alabama

School lands; Department of Conservation and Natural Resources required to issue certain deeds upon request;

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

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