Alabama Bills

State Minimum Salary Schedule; adjustment provided for certificated private school teachers at accredited private schools upon transfer to public school employment

Consumable hemp products; exempt pharmacies selling consumable hemp products from licensing and oversight by ABC Board; Pharmacy Board required to enforce consumable hemp safety requirements for pharmacies

Community Health Worker Certification Act; board created; core competency skills framework specified; training programs and certification procedures provided; Medicaid reimbursement approval sought

Covington County; senior property tax exemption, authorized; constitutional amendment

Municipal employees; eligible to receive grant funds paid through municipal treasury in certain circumstances

Crimes and offenses; to further provide for the crime of doxing; to further provide for penalties

250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, honored

City of Tallassee in Elmore and Tallapoosa Counties; board of education compensation

State waters; Alabama Seagrass Restoration Task Force established to remediate seagrass loss within state marine waters

Houston County; related to sale or redemption of lands

Alabama State Port Authority; Code Commissioner authorized to change references to Alabama State Port Authority, State Port Authority, and Alabama State Docks Department to Alabama Port Authority, provisions establishing the Alabama Port Authority repealed

SPECIAL ORDER CALENDAR

Alabama Rural Roadmap initiative, extended

Dale County School System, commended

Founding of AT&T, recognized

Alabama's record-breaking year for economic development, commended

Congress urged to authorize a reliability report on Marine Highway 65

Alicia Cannon, commended

Junior Harold Sorrells, death mourned

Seafood dealer license; license fee for applicants holding other seafood licenses revised; retroactive effect provided

Civil procedure; statute of limitations in civil actions against real estate appraisers established, statute of limitations for complaints to Board of Real Estate Appraisers established

Guardianships and conservatorships; notice requirements further provided for, procedures to remove proceeding to circuit court revised, duties of guardian ad litem of a minor further provided for and training required, court representative required to be appointed for allegedly incapacitated adults in certain circumstances, appointment of temporary or emergency guardian or conservator authorized in certain circumstances

Simplified sellers use tax, distribution of local funds modified

Pharmacy Benefits Manager regulation; to substitute "unaffiliated" pharmacy for "independent" pharmacy

Child custody; modification of order authorized if material change of circumstances and modification is in best interest of the child, factors provided

Tax abatement and tax incentive programs, North American Industry Classification System Code references and definitions updated to latest terms

Campaign contributions; using contributions on certain security expenses to protect candidate, elected official, family members, and staff authorized

National Guard; duties of Legal Service Office positions revised and further provide for

State military; awards criteria revised, new awards established, authority to present prescribed

Alabama Office of Minority Affairs; renamed to the Alabama Office of Civic Engagement

Public K-12 education; to prohibit the three-cueing system of reading instruction

Counties and municipalities; online publication of financial statements, audits, expenditures, and budgets required

Omega Psi Phi Faternity Day, recognized

Clinton Adams, commended

Paul H. Reynolds, commended

Glenn Adrian Griggs, Sr., death mourned

Betty Louise Sigler, death mourned

Kathleen Peevy, celebrated

Roscoe Robinson, death mourned

HR Expressing Support for Expanding and Preserving Housing

Statewide Workforce Transportation Needs Assessment; completion supported

Staff Sergeant Ronald Hurst, recognized

Expressing support for the establishment of a state veterans cemetery in north Alabama/Madison County

Tim Carter, commended

Albertville High School Cheer Team, congratulated

Elaine Sessions, congratulated

Profound Autism Day, recognized

Boaz High School Cheerleading Program, commended

Naming the bridge on United States Highway 45 that spans Bennett Creek in Mobile County the Sidney Alden Hobbs Memorial Bridge

Alpha-Delta Chapter of Sigma Pi Fraternity, commemorated

Ralph D. Patton, recognized

City of Mountain Brook Police Officer Richard Knecht, recognized

March 2026 as Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, recognized

Ronnie Dell Joiner, death mourned

Pray Vestavia, commended

Debtors homestead exemption; in bankruptcy cases; increase homestead exemption for seniors and disabled

Money transmissions, transaction fee imposed for certain outgoing international wire transfers, income tax credit established to offset transaction fees imposed on taxpayer, reporting of certain suspicious cash transactions required, Securities Commission to enforce

Child support; to require an individual convicted of driving under the influence to pay child support for the child of a victim under certain circumstances

Mobile County; certain boards of water and sewer commissioners required to convey conservation easements on certain real property

Class 2 municipalities; sale of alcoholic beverages, restrictions amended