Alabama Senate Bills

Office of Occupational and Professional Licensing established within Alabama Department of Workforce, powers and duties of Secretary of Workforce and executive director specified, Sunset Committee to consider transfer to office in recommendation for modification

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

Encouraging the National Congress of American Indians to embrace Alabama's state-recognized tribes

Crimes and offenses; sex offenses involving a child; crime of transmitting obscene material to a child by computer, further provided for

SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR

Encouraging the Alabama Medicaid Agency to evaluate the overall costs of GLP-1 medications and report its findings

Unauthorized entry of a critical infrastructure facility; reservoirs removed from list of facilities

Artificial Intelligence; state agencies required to perform quarterly AI-assisted review of rules

Criminal defendants with mental illness; right of appeal for commitment and conditional release order provided, jurisdiction to hear appeals provided

Employee drug testing; employee notice requirements revised

Incarceration; to require the Alabama Department of Public Health to adopt and enforce sanitation standards for food services in corrections facilities, county, and municipal jails

Taxation; Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama, Incorporated, exempt from sales and use taxes

Lamar County; senior property tax exemption authorized; constitutional amendment

Covington County; underground carbon dioxide prohibited; constitutional amendment

Public Service Commission, revise membership to correspond to Congressional districts

SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR

Psychoactive cannabinoids; psychoactive derivatives of hemp added as Schedule I drug; possession and use of psychoactive cannabinoids prohibited and criminal penalties provided; consumable hemp product laws repealed

Taxation; Life on Wheels, exempt from state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes

Administrative rules; adopting environmental protection criteria stricter than federal requirements prohibited

Civil procedure, provisions of agreements that prohibit disclosure of certain acts of sexual abuse rendered unenforceable

SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR

Crimes and offenses; manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and other motor vehicle crimes amended, restitution amended

Retired state employees; work as law enforcement officer or assistant district attorney authorized

Taxation, Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc., exempt from sales and use tax

Libraries; further provides for the appointment of local library boards

Alabama Math and Science Teacher Education Program (AMSTEP), renamed the Loan Assistance in Support of Educators in Alabama (LASEA) Program; providing loan assistance in acute educator shortage programs as determined by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services

Prisons; Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, Prison Oversight Coordinator position established; investigation of correctional facilities, required; Corrections Oversight Board, established

City of Montgomery; municipal occupational tax, city council authorized to impose

Alabama Commission on Higher Education, ReEngage Alabama Grant Program, minimum age of adult learner decreased, eligibility requirements revised

Employees' Retirement System and Teachers' Retirement System; retirees and beneficiaries, two percent cost-of-living benefit increase effective October 1, 2026