Danny Garrett

Higher education, College and Higher Education Excellence and Results (CHEER) Act established, bonus funding for eligible institutions authorized based on achievement of performance goals and objectives

Education; CHOOSE Act's athletic-eligibility nondiscrimination provision, enforcement mechanism established; private right of action established

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.

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

Appropriations from Education Trust Fund for the support, maintenance, and development of public education for fiscal year ending September 30, 2027

Education Opportunities Reserve Fund transfers for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

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

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

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

University of Alabama; School of Social Work of Alabama repealed

Class 8 municipalities; to authorize certain municipalities to opt out of county personnel board

University of Alabama; Physicians Advisory Board of the University of Alabama School of Medicine repealed

Sales and use tax on food, state rate reduced, counties and municipalities authorized to reduce

State song; "Stars Fell on Alabama" designated

Bonding authorities; authorize Legislature to participate on bonding authorities; constitutional amendment

Alabama Renewing Alabama's Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act created, additional funding for public schools authorized based on the individual needs of students

Alabama Renewing Alabama's Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act created, additional funding for public schools authorized based on the individual needs of students

School buses, law requiring the transportation of community college and trade school students on, repealed

Income tax, exemption for taxable retirement income increased

Sales tax on food, limit on local rate reduction and growth requirement removed