Alabama Bills

Ten Commandments, required to be displayed in common area of public K-12 schools and public institutions of higher education

Crimes and offenses, unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility further provided for

State Auditor; powers and duties revised; Division of Investigations created

Relating to Sales and Use Tax; to establish conditions for exemption of county or municipal sales and use tax

Taxation, sales tax exemptions, sales and use tax exemption provided for certain purchases of diapers, baby supplies, baby formula, maternity clothing, and menstrual hygiene products

Pardons and Paroles Board; allow inmates to participate in parole hearing virtually

State employees; salary deductions further provided for

Real estate transactions; required disclosures; description of brokerage services; terms of compensation; required written brokerage agreements under certain circumstances

Motor vehicles, unclaimed, towing, towing company may notify the Revenue Department on the Unclaimed/Abandoned Vehicle Portal immediately after towing

Solid waste collection fees; veterans' benefits sole income households exempted

Public works contracts; advertising requirements, further provided

Relating to taxation; to exempt the Alabama Eye Bank from sales and use taxes

State and local agencies; conditioning the issuance of permit to operate business on having been granted a different permit from another agency prohibited

Sales and use tax, simplified sellers use tax (SSUT), recalculation of distributions based on annexations, deannexations, or incorporations, on fifth year after release of census commencing on January 1, 2026

Public Works Contracts; authorize additional methods for advertising for sealed bids on public works contracts exceeding $100,000; authorize a safe harbor when using multiple methods and one method fails; authorize a safe harbor for the Department of Transportation under certain circumstances

Alabama Clean Indoor Air Act, renamed Vivian Davis Figures Clean Indoor Air Act; vaping included as prohibited smoking in public places

Recognizing the importance of the Snowflake Hydrangea in the history of the City of Hoover and the State of Alabama

Steve Tyson, commended

Ola Mae Lampley, death mourned

Julia Mae Bennett, death mourned

Kourtni Jackson, commended

Judge David Breland, death mourned

Makayla Amador, Skyline High School Varsity Girls Track and Field Team, honored

Xavier Merchant and Pelham High School, recognized

Danne Howard, commended

Pastor Vincent L. Witt, commended

2025 Alabama Law Institute House Interns, commended

Recognizing the 250th anniversaries of the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps and encouraging commemorative activities throughout the state

John Hollis Howell, mourned

Taxation; Alabama State Missionary Baptist Convention, exempt from the payment of state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes

Boards of Registrars; qualifications of registrars revised; salary increased

Leasehold interests added to prohibition against acquisition of ownership interests by certain individuals, governments, political parties in agricultural, forest and other real property; adds companies, individuals on U.S. Treasury sanctions lists to sanctions list prohibition; specifies overall pertinence to property in the state

Town of Newbern in Hale County; corporate limits altered

Alabama Resilience Council

Catfish; transfer out of state of those harvested in public waters prohibited; criminal penalties for violations established

Alabama Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects, definitions, fees, examination requirements, and reciprocity provisions revised; role of the Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) provided

Marriage; valid marriages further provided for, exemption to recording requirement provided

Firearms; criminal penalty established for failure to inform of one's concealed possession under certain circumstances

Relating to taxation; to exempt the Alabama Eye Bank from sales and use taxes

Baldwin County, municipalities authorized to operate an automated photographic speeding enforcement system, jurisdiction of civil fines for violations provided for

State Auditor; powers and duties revised; Division of Investigations created

Public and nonpublic K-12 schools, prohibited from refusing to transfer student records based on unpaid balance owed by student

Retired law enforcement officers, employment of certain retired law enforcement officers further provided for

Motor vehicle registration; authorize a distinctive license plate for military combat action; authorize a criminal penalty for falsely obtaining the license plate

Fishing license, jubilees exempted

Taxation; to exempt the Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo from the payment of sales and use taxes.

Taxation, Kidz Eatz, exempt from sales and use taxes

Pardons and Paroles; hearing procedures, revised

Alabama State House; Legislative Council authorized to contract for demolition of existing building when new state house constructed; disposition of property and materials in building prior to demolition authorized

Virtual currency, declares preemption of virtual currency or cryptocurrency regulation by the Legislature and exempts virtual currency from ad valorem tax

Boards of water and sewer commissions; prohibited from restricting public recreational uses of controlled water bodies

Constitutional Amendment; noncommercial paper raffles and paper bingo for charitable purposes, authorized

Ground ambulance services; prohibit out-of-network providers from balance billing

Service contracts; terms defined; certain disclosures in advertising required; disclosures of limitations of contracts further provided for

Judges, eligibility to be elected or appointed further provided for, constitutional amendment

Conservation, wildlife; Alabama Good Samaritan Wildlife Rehabilitation Act established.

Legislature; codification of 2024 Regular Session Acts and Code Commissioner technical revisions into the Code of Alabama 1975

Elmore County, to allow county commission to levy a tax on vapor products, alternative nicotine products, and tobacco products; and to levy a property assessment.

Alabama Ad Valorem Advisory Committee, membership revised

Criminal corrections, denies eligibility for temporary release programs to certain individuals