Alabama House Bills

Taxation; establishes Alabama Broadband Investment Maximization Act; exempts purchase of broadband equipment and supplies from sales and use tax

Post-partum depression; to provide for education and assessment

Crimes and offenses; conviction of illegal alien; sentence enhanced

Public nuisance, actions to abate or enjoin public nuisances further provided for

Alabama Department of Environmental Management; water well drillers, licenses and licensees, fees therefore, revised and further provides for; continuing education required

School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact

Court fees; use of funds allocated to sheriff's office expended

Public utilities; private sewer or wastewater systems, authorized to come under the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission

July 26, 2025, Officiate Alabama Day, recognized

State waters; Alabama Seagrass Restoration Task Force established to address seagrass loss

Vaccines; private schools and church schools required to accept religious exemptions to vaccine requirements, penalties provided

Education Transparency Board; established, duties provided, impact study required following certain budget reductions at the U.S. Department of Education, State Board of Education authorized to adopt rules

Biological and neural data; certain disclosures, transfers, and use by a covered entity prohibited unless consumer provides express consent, Attorney General authorized to enforce, civil penalties provided

Sales and use taxes; rate on food eliminated effective September 1, 2025

Declaring unwavering support for Ukraine on the occasion of the third anniversary of its invasion by the Russian Federation

Baldwin County, further provides for the distribution of the proceeds of the special privilege license tax

Baldwin County, further provides for the distribution of the proceeds of the special privilege license tax

Financial Institutions and Insurers; using social credit score to discriminate prohibited; violations of insurers an unfair trade practice; fines, penalties and remedies authorized

Law enforcement, Police Abuse Registry and Law Enforcement Injury Fund created, penalties provided for and civil actions authorized

Relating to firearms; enforcement of red flag laws in this state prohibited; cause of action for enforcing red flag laws established

Relating to self-defense, to amend Section 13A-3-23, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide a person's use of physical force in defending himself, herself, or another person is presumed reasonable; to further provide for the immunity received by a person whose use of physical force on another person is justified self-defense; to shift the burden of proving a person's use of physical force is not justified to the state; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style

Beer wholesalers; prohibit from providing draft line cleaning services to beer retailers

Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, makeup artist license and lash/brow artist permit qualifications provided, exemptions

Dental insurance; set medical loss ratio for insurers

Dental insurance; allow available unused benefits to roll over year-to-year

Medicaid; providing presumptive eligibility to pregnant women

State Board of Pharmacy and Employers, prohibited from disciplining pharmacists who recommend off-label medical treatments

Crimes and offenses; rape 1st and sodomy 1st; penalties further provided for

Jefferson County, levy of additional residential building permit fee in county and municipalities for Central Alabama Homebuilding Academy authorized

Real Estate Commission; to authorize disciplinary actions against a licensee for not making certain required disclosures and failing to give proper notice of an equitable interest assignment

Montgomery County, Montgomery City Council authorized to join state retirement system, constitutional amendment

Department of Insurance, internal Code of Alabama 1975 citations corrected

Department of Insurance, surplus line brokers providing insurance not readily available by licensed agents in this state

Vaccines, parental consent for minor to receive vaccine, required

Motor vehicles; prohibitions on the alteration of the height of the fender of a vehicle, provided

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

Criminal procedure, out-of-state warrants further provided for

Distinctive License Plate; Fire Chaplains

Relating to Catastrophe Savings Accounts; expands allowable expenses

Recycling; Department of Environmental Management required to issue credits; Department of Revenue required to accept credits in lieu of fees; civil penalties established

State Board of Adjustment, provide death benefit to survivors of volunteer firefighters who die of cancer.

Unemployment compensation, unemployed individual required to contact an increased number of prospective employers for each week of unemployment claimed; further providing for the meaning of failure to seek or accept suitable work

Marshall County; Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in-lieu-of-tax payments distribution

County Board of Equalization; to increase the per diem for board members.

Medical transport services; allow non-emergency transport of patients on stretchers

Elmore County, to levy an excise tax on vapor products, alternative nicotine products, and tobacco products; and to levy a property assessment.

Elmore County; relating to court costs and booking fees

Vaccines; state entities and county health departments prohibited from advertising, exceptions provided, Attorney General required to investigate violations, penalties provided

Simplified sellers use tax, marketplace facilitator further defined to exclude local delivery services

Juvenile courts; original jurisdiction revised to apply to children under the age of majority, children under the age of majority prohibited from detainment in adult facilities, exceptions provided

Motor vehicles, disabled veteran's license plate, further provided

Retirement, deferred retirement option plan (DROP), options for Tier I and Tier II Teacher Retirement System members to participate, reopened

Religious instruction, elective credit for release time further provided for

Department of Human Resources (DHR); child abuse and neglect; uniform procedure to notify parents or legal guardians of DHR investigation into abuse of own child, created; right to review certain records, provided; DHR authorized to adopt rules

Taxation; certain aircraft and aircraft parts are exempt from sales, use, lease and ad valorem taxes

Alabama Board of Registered Interior Designers, prohibitions on size and type of building they may work on removed, right to discipline non-registered individuals restored, exemptions provided

Class 1 municipalities; vacant property registration authorized

Employees, annual leave to attend school related activities authorized

Relating to income tax; to provide a credit for donation of certain food items

Consumer protection; filter requirements on Internet enabled devices, penalties for violation