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

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

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

Tommy Jacques, commended

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

Physician Assistants; interstate licensure compact, established

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

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

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

Alabama Uniform Trust Code; amended to conform with Alabama Qualified Dispositions in Trust Act, limit property subject to creditors' claims

Municipal elections; runoff elections, procedures revised

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

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

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.

Elections; municipal elections, to set qualification fee amounts, to require indigent candidates to submit documentation for fee exemption

Etowah County, membership of personnel board

Living organ donors; to prohibit discrimination in obtaining insurance coverage, provide paid medical leave for public employees who donate organs and a tax credit to private sector employers that provide similar paid leave to their employees

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

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

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

Open Records; use of public records relating to schools for certain solicitation purposes prohibited; redaction of certain information relating to financial transactions required

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

Encouraging the Governor to promote the textile recycling industry in Alabama

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

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

FY27 2% Teacher Pay Raise and Retiree Longevity Bonus

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

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

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

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

Weatherization assistance; authorize ADECA to contract with certain nonprofit corporations to administer program; source of funds to Neighbors Helping Neighbors Fund expanded; household income threshold to qualify for assistance revised

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

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

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

State government; Miss Alabama designated as an Official State Ambassador

Supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

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

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

Individual income taxes; deduction for qualified overtime income established.

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

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

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

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

Tax abatements for data processing centers, exemption period limited, collection of certain taxes on purchases required, sunset date extended

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

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

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