2023 Alabama House Bills
A list of all 2023 Alabama House Bills. Click any bill to read the full text and get the current status.
Bill | Title | Sponsor | Last Action | Signed |
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HB343 | Relating to sales tax; to amend Section 40-23-4, as amended by Acts 2022-291, 2022-293, and 2022-373, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the sales tax exemption for certain aircraft parts, components, and systems; to remove the provisions regarding military and transport aircraft; and to remove the provision that aircraft must be registered in another state. | Prince Chestnut | 04/18/2023 | |
HB342 | Relating to alternative teacher preparation programs and teacher certification; to amend Section 2 of Act 2022-239, 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 16-23-3.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide additional requirements for programs. | Parker Moore | 04/18/2023 | |
HB341 | Relating to Morgan County; to amend Section 45-52-233.02, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the maintenance of abandoned and stolen personal property by the sheriff; to add Sections 45-52-233.04 through 45-52-233.09, inclusive, to the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the sheriff to sell certain abandoned, stolen, and unclaimed property at public auction; to provide for the auction and for the disposition of proceeds; to authorize the sheriff to sell or destroy certain, stolen, or unclaimed firearms; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Parker Moore | 04/18/2023 | |
HB340 | To authorize the Sheriff of Morgan County to establish procedures to make limited purchases using a credit card or debit card provided the proper procedures are followed. | Parker Moore | 04/18/2023 | |
HB339 | Relating to elections; to revise the date of the 2024 second or runoff primary election, and to provide that this is a onetime occurrence. | Chris Pringle | 04/18/2023 | |
HB338 | Relating to public contracts; to provide circumstances under which a conflict of interest exists in the procurement of a public contract; to provide criminal penalties for a violation; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Craig Lipscomb | 04/18/2023 | |
HB337 | Relating to the Department of Finance; to amend Sections 41-4-3 and 41-4-50, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for the charging of a reasonable fee for services provided by the Department and to allow the State Comptroller to pay a vendor which is entitled to payment for services or goods rendered to the State. | Kyle South | 04/18/2023 | |
HB336 | Relating to commissions; to amend Sections 9-14C-2 and 9-14C-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the Red Mountain Greenway and Recreational Area Commission to be renamed the Jefferson County Greenways Commission. | Rolanda Hollis | 04/18/2023 | |
HB335 | Relating to Mobile County; to amend Sections 45-49-181, 45-49-181.02, 45-49-181.03, 45-49-181.04, and 45-49-181.08, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for acceptance by the county of certain unimproved roads from private landowners; and to regulate the construction of certain other unimproved roads. | Chip Brown | 04/18/2023 | |
HB334 | To create the Students with Unique Needs (SUN) Education Scholarship Account Act and Program; to allow parents to use funds in an education scholarship account to provide an individualized education program for their children. | Danny Garrett | 04/18/2023 | |
HB333 | To establish the Alabama Modified School Calendar Grant Program; to allow local boards of education to adopt a modified school calendar and to offset the associated costs with grants awarded through the program; to require the State Department of Education to administer the program; to create the Alabama Modified School Calendar Grant Fund and the Alabama Modified School Calendar Administration Fund within the State Treasury; to require the State Board of Education to adopt rules for implementing the program; to provide application and eligibility criteria for local boards of education to participate; and to provide for annual reporting on the use of funds by the State Board of Education. | Danny Garrett | 04/18/2023 | |
HB332 | Relating to Talladega County; to abolish the office of constable. | Barbara Bigsby Boyd | 04/18/2023 | |
HB331 | Relating to employment, to amend Section 25-1-30, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit an employer from requesting the wage history of a prospective employee except under certain circumstances. | Adline Clarke | 04/18/2023 | |
HB330 | Relating to sales tax exemptions; to amend Section 40-23-4, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Acts 2022-199, 2022-291, 2022-293, and 2022-373, 2022 Regular Session, to exempt from sales tax the gross proceeds from the sale of materials to be used as fencing in agriculture livestock applications. | Danny Crawford | 04/18/2023 | |
HB329 | Relating to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; to amend Sections 28-1-5, as amended by Act 2022-383, 2022 Regular Session, and 28-10-6 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize an employee of a restaurant or hotel that is a restaurant or special retail licensee of the board to serve alcoholic beverages under the same specified conditions as an employee of a restaurant licensee; and to further provide for the forms and records of responsible vendor training. | Frances Holk-Jones | 04/18/2023 | |
HB328 | Relating to civil procedure; to amend Sections 6-6-544 and 6-6-570, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for the recording of certain judgments concerning real property. | Ben Robbins | 04/18/2023 | |
HB327 | Relating to Pike County; to establish an additional voting center in the county. | Artis McCampbell | 04/18/2023 | |
HB326 | Relating to Marengo County; to abolish the office of constable. | Artis McCampbell | 04/18/2023 | |
HB325 | Relating to state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes; to exempt food pantries in Cullman County from all state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes for certain purchases. | Corey Harbison | 04/13/2023 | |
HB324 | Relating to vaccinations; to prohibit an employer, a place of public accommodation, and an occupational licensing board from discriminating based on immunization status. | Phillip Pettus | 04/13/2023 | |
HB323 | Relating to first responders; to require certain benefits be made available to first responders suffering from work-related post-traumatic stress disorder; to make a certain leave benefit available to employed first responders; to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Labor to regulate a fund established by the Alabama League of Municipalities to provide the benefits payable to first responders; to exempt benefit payments from the fund from state income tax; and to have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Phillip Pettus | 04/13/2023 | |
HB322 | Relating to Montgomery County; to further provide for the salary of the members of the Montgomery County Commission. | TaShina Morris | 04/13/2023 | |
HB321 | Relating to state government; to require a state agency, department, or other governmental body, or a county or municipality, to consult the federal Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List before purchasing or acquiring an unmanned aircraft system; and to prohibit a governmental body, county, or municipality from purchasing or acquiring an unmanned aircraft system in certain circumstances. | James Lomax | 04/13/2023 | |
HB320 | Relating to sheriffs; to amend Act 2022-133, 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 41-23-9, Code of Alabama 1975, to change the name of the Local Government Pistol Permit Revenue Loss Fund; to increase the money appropriated to the fund; to increase the life span of the fund; to further provide for expenditures from the fund; to further provide for the deposit and allocation of grant reimbursement monies; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update existing code language to current style. | Russell Bedsole | 04/19/2023 | |
HB319 | Relating to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; to amend Sections 28-11-2, 28-11-3, 28-11-5, 28-11-6.1, 28-11-7, 28-11-9, 28-11-10, 28-11-12, 28-11-13, 28-11-14, 28-11-16, 28-11-17.1, and 28-11-18, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the definition of "electronic nicotine delivery system" to include delivery of substances other than tobacco; to further provide for the sale of tobacco and other related products to minors; to further provide for the distribution of tobacco products through a vending machine; to provide fees for the retail sale of certain tobacco products; to increase penalties for certain violations; to establish the Tobacco Licensing and Compliance Fund in the State Treasury and provide for its administration; to further provide for the membership of the advisory board to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; to further provide for the requirement of tobacco retailers to post signage warning of the dangers of tobacco product use; to require the board to adopt rules; to repeal Sections 28-11-15 and 28-11-19, Code of Alabama 1975, and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Barbara Drummond | 04/13/2023 | |
HB318 | Relating to municipalities; to add a new Article 3, commencing with Section 11-54B-80 to Title 11, Chapter 54B, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that Class 3 municipalities may establish self-help business improvement districts. | Andy Whitt | 04/13/2023 | |
HB317 | Relating to county and municipal law enforcement officers; to amend Section 36-27-58.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to require a county or municipality using the services of a county or municipal law enforcement officer or firefighter to purchase a certain amount of service credit in the retirement system on behalf of the county or municipal law enforcement officer or firefighter under certain circumstances; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Phillip Pettus | 04/19/2023 | |
HB316 | Relating to elections; to authorize a judge of probate to appoint one high school student to work as a precinct election official at each polling place in the county on election day; to provide qualifications for a student to serve as a precinct election official and allow the student to count any absence from school resulting from his or her service as a precinct election official as an excused absence. | John W. Rogers | 04/13/2023 | |
HB315 | Relating to the Department of Veterans Affairs; to amend Section 31-6-5, as last amended by Act 2022-91, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975; to expand eligibility for educational benefits to spouses of those who were killed while on active state duty status or whose death results proximately and within three years of an injury sustained while on state active duty status. | Jerry Starnes | 04/13/2023 | |
HB314 | Relating to pharmacists and the dispensing of emergency refills of medication; to amend Section 34-33-75 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to increase the supply of medication that may be dispensed in a one-time emergency refill to include the smallest dispensable package size of a medication; and to further provide for the notice to the prescriber after dispensing. | Phillip Rigsby | 04/19/2023 | |
HB313 | Relating to Montgomery County; to amend Section 45-51-231 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to an expense allowance and salary of the sheriff, to restate the current salary of the sheriff and to delete an expired expense allowance; and to provide a new expense allowance for the sheriff and for the salary of the sheriff if the sheriff has served two or more full consecutive terms as sheriff. | Reed Ingram | 04/13/2023 | |
HB312 | Relating to Talladega County; to create and provide for the distribution of an additional motor vehicle registration fee of two dollars; and to create the Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund for the deposit of the proceeds from the fee. | Randy Wood | 04/13/2023 | |
HB311 | Relating to solid waste, to amend Section 22-27-48, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2022-338, 2022 Regular Session, to further provide for the circumstances under which the approval of a local government is needed by a solid waste management facility. | Alan Baker | 04/19/2023 | |
HB310 | Relating to building codes; to create the Healthier Homes Construction Practices Act; to authorize counties and municipalities to adopt procedures for the installation and activation of temporary-permanent electricity or temporary-permanent gas under certain conditions; and to provide certain requirements for the activation. | Brett Easterbrook | 04/19/2023 | |
HB309 | Relating to the Department of Public Safety of the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency; to provide for salary increases for certain law enforcement officers employed by the agency. | Phillip Pettus | 04/13/2023 | |
HB308 | Relating to the Retirement Systems of Alabama; to amend Section 16-25-14, as last amended by Act 2022-184 and Act 2022-222 of the 2022 Regular Session, and Section 36-27-16, as last amended by Act 2022-184 and Act 2022-351 of the 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to require an individual retired under the Teachers' Retirement System, Employees' Retirement System, or Judicial Retirement Fund to draw his or her retirement benefits for 12 consecutive months before returning to compensated work for a participating employer; to limit the person's compensation from the employer to 75 percent of the person's annual retirement benefit for each calendar year; and to repeal Sections 16-25-26, 29-4-6, and 36-27-8.2, Code of Alabama 1975, authorizing certain retired public employees to return to work for participating employers. | Chris Sells | 04/13/2023 | |
HB307 | Relating to Randolph County; to amend Sections 2 and 5 of Act 2021-307 of the 2021 Regular Session, relating to the coroner; to provide for the salary of the coroner effective at the beginning of the current term in order to implement Act 2021-301 as intended; and to provide that this act is retroactive and curative to January 16, 2023. | Bob Fincher | 04/13/2023 | |
HB306 | Relating to the practice of dentistry; to amend Sections 34-9-1, 34-9-3, 34-9-6, 34-9-13, 34-9-15.1, and 34-9-18, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Sections 34-9-6.2 and 34-9-19.2 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the use of teledentistry orthodontia services in the state by licensed dentists; to provide certain requirements for advertisements featuring teledentistry; and to require the Board of Dental Examiners of Alabama to adopt rules relating to teledentistry. | Paul W. Lee | 04/19/2023 | |
HB305 | Relating to Pickens County; to provide for a new court cost to pay for service of process by the sheriff of documents filed in the district and circuit courts in Pickens County; and to deposit the proceeds into the Pickens County Sheriff's Law Enforcement Fund. | Ronald Bolton | 04/13/2023 | |
HB304 | Relating to alcoholic beverage sales; to amend Act 2022-432, 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 28-3A-17.2, Code of Alabama 1975; to further provide for alcoholic beverage sales by food and beverage trucks within established entertainment districts by extending the license to municipalities in all classes. | Neil Rafferty | 04/13/2023 | |
HB303 | To reopen the Teachers' Retirement System to permit purchase of credit in the system for prior service rendered to the St. Clair County DAY Program, Inc. | Jim Hill | 04/13/2023 | |
HB302 | Relating to the Alabama Board of Electrical Contractors; to amend Sections 34-36-3, 34-36-4, 34-36-6, 34-36-7, 34-36-8, 34-36-9, 34-36-13, and 34-36-16, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide further for definitions, to delete references to master electrician; to provide further for the election of board officers; to provide further for the duties of the board, including the subpoena of witnesses, the investigation of complaints, and providing for reciprocity; to provide an individual previously issued a provisional license three years to take the licensure examination, and require the board to waive the examination fee for one sitting; to lessen the time frame for restoring an expired license from five years to two years; to provide further for exemptions; to remove the authority of a county or municipality to require an additional electrical contracting proficiency examination before issuing a local license to work within the county or municipality; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Mack N. Butler | 04/13/2023 | |
HB301 | Relating to firearms; to amend Section 13A-11-84, Code of Alabama 1975; to establish a list of criminal offenses deemed felonies dangerous to human life; to provide enhanced criminal penalties for the possession, brandishing, or discharge of a firearm during the commission of a felony dangerous to human life; to provide prohibitions on the possession of a firearm by certain individuals released on bond or personal recognizance for certain underlying criminal offenses; to prohibit the possession of a firearm by certain individuals convicted of a felony dangerous to human life under certain conditions; to provide criminal penalties for a violation; to make; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Reed Ingram | 04/19/2023 | |
HB300 | Relating to Chambers County; to further provide for the expense allowance and salary of the Revenue Commissioner of Chambers County. | Debbie Wood | 04/12/2023 | |
HB299 | Relating to highways; to amend Section 23-1-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the relocation of utilities; and to further provide for the reimbursement process for various expenses associated with the relocation. | Van Smith | 04/12/2023 | |
HB298 | Relating to consumer protection; to require certain manufacturers of Internet-enabled devices to activate existing filters to restrict access to certain material; to provide for a cause of action; to provide civil penalties. | Chris Sells | 04/12/2023 | |
HB297 | Relating to consumption of fishes; to require the State Health Officer to issue advisories concerning fish consumption and to establish a panel to advise on and discuss this issue; to require the Department of Environmental Management to test fishes for pollutants and post signage at water bodies notifying of an active fish consumption advisory; to require the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to notify fish license purchasers of all active advisories; and to require holders of National Pollution Discharge Elimination System permits to post signage identifying outfalls. | Craig Lipscomb | 04/19/2023 | |
HB296 | Relating to the United States Armed Forces; to include the United States Space Force in all collective references to the United States Armed Forces. | Parker Moore | 04/19/2023 | |
HB295 | Relating to education; to establish the Parental Rights in Children's Education (PRICE) Act relating to K-12 education; to secure the fundamental constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children; to create the PRICE Program; to establish a three-year phase-in period; to provide definitions; to establish the roles and responsibilities of the Parent Advisory Board, the Commissioner of Revenue, and the Department of Revenue; to create a process for granting education savings accounts; to establish funding mechanisms for the costs of education savings accounts and the administration of the program; to specify qualified expenses; to create requirements for education service providers; to establish an auditing, denial, and appeal mechanism for expenses, parents, participating students, and education service providers; to provide safeguards against any additional state control over or interference with nonpublic schools, their students, and their families; and to provide for legal remedies. | Tracy Estes | 04/11/2023 | |
HB294 | Relating to Lamar County, to revise the compensation of the county coroner. | Tracy Estes | 04/11/2023 | |
HB293 | Relating to port credits; to amend Section 40-18-403, Code of Alabama 1975, to expand tax incentives for businesses and enterprises who increase their cargo volume through Alabama public ports. | Chip Brown | 04/19/2023 | |
HB292 | Relating to exemptions from ad valorem taxation; to amend Section 40-9-1, as last amended by Act 2022-199 of the 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975; to exempt certain aircraft from ad valorem taxation. | Chris Sells | 04/11/2023 | |
HB291 | Relating to use of industrial access roads and bridges; to amend Section 23-6-9, Code of Alabama 1975, to exclude certain industrial access roads constructed by certain public corporations from the public highway and street system of the state; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Shane Stringer | 04/19/2023 | |
HB290 | Relating to the practice of pharmacy; to authorize a licensed pharmacist to prescribe certain vaccines; and to require pharmacists who administer vaccines to individuals under 19 years of age to also recommend annual well-child visits to a pediatrician. | Phillip Rigsby | 04/11/2023 | |
HB289 | Relating to law enforcement agency recordings; to provide for circumstances and procedures to disclose or release recordings made by body-worn cameras or dashboard cameras used by law enforcement agencies; and to provide who may request disclosure or release and the procedure for requesting disclosure or release of recordings. | Juandalynn Givan | 04/11/2023 | |
HB288 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to create the Retail Theft Crime Prevention Act; to provide for the crime of retail theft in various degrees; to provide for the crime of organized retail theft; to provide criminal penalties for a violation; | Allen Treadaway | 04/11/2023 | |
HB287 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to create the crime of doxing; to establish penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Shane Stringer | 04/11/2023 | |
HB286 | Relating to public records; to add Section 41-13-7.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit the disclosure of personal identifying information of law enforcement officers and employees upon request of the officer or employee. | Shane Stringer | 04/19/2023 | |
HB285 | Relating to the practice of dentistry and dental hygiene; to amend Sections 34-9-1, 34-9-10, 34-9-11, 34-9-15, 34-9-26, 34-9-27, 34-9-43, 34-9-60, 34-9-63, and 34-9-86, Code of Alabama 1975; and qualifications for licensure and administration of controlled substances by dentists and dental hygienists. | Craig Lipscomb | 04/11/2023 | |
HB284 | Relating to surplus state property; to authorize the State Forester to sell surplus personal property owned by the Alabama Forestry Commission. | Joe Lovvorn | 04/11/2023 | |
HB283 | Relating to state income tax credits for rural physicians; to designate Sections 40-18-130, 40-18-131, and 40-18-132, Code of Alabama 1975, as Division 1 of Article 4A of Chapter 18 of Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975; to terminate the income tax credit authorized for a rural physician under the existing Article 4A of Chapter 18, Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975, effective December 31, 2023; to provide that any physician who claimed the credit or claims the credit under the existing Article 4A for the tax year ending on December 31, 2023, would be authorized to continue to claim the credit under the prior law until the credit period authorized under the prior law for that physician expires; to add Division 2 to Article 4A of Chapter 18, Title 40, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for a rural physician income tax credit; to provide definitions; to modify the requirement for residence and practice in a rural community; to remove the requirement for hospital privileges in a rural community; and to require the State Board of Medical Examiners to certify physicians who qualify for the income tax credit. | Ed Oliver | 04/11/2023 | |
HB282 | Relating to Jefferson County; to amend Section 45-37-232.40, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to a confidential secretary for the Sheriff of Jefferson County; to authorize the sheriff to employ a confidential secretary for the Bessemer Division. | John W. Rogers | 04/11/2023 | |
HB281 | Relating to detention facilities; to amend Section 14-6-22, Code of Alabama 1975, to require a defendant convicted of a misdemeanor to pay housing and maintenance associated with his or her incarceration in a county or city jail; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Tracy Estes | 04/11/2023 | |
HB280 | Relating to the Military Family Jobs Opportunity Act; to amend Section 31-1-6, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2022-92, 2022 Regular Session, to extand professional license reciprocity to spouses of United States Department of Defense civil servants; and to make nonsubstantive conforming changes to the law. | Phillip Rigsby | 04/19/2023 | |
HB279 | Relating to Medicaid; to amend Section 40-26B-26, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the circumstances under which the Alabama Medicaid Agency may revise the ceiling for the Medicaid reimbursement rate to nursing facilities during a given fiscal year; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Kyle South | 04/19/2023 | |
HB278 | To adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to certain volumes of the code and 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B; and to adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to local law volumes; to make corrections in certain volumes of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes; to specify that this adoption and incorporation constitute a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, and that this act is a law that adopts a code; to declare that the Code Publisher has certified that it has discharged its duties regarding the replacement volumes; to expressly provide that this act does not affect any 2023 session statutes; and to specify the duties of the Secretary of State regarding the custody of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes. | Chris Pringle | 04/11/2023 | |
HB277 | Proposing to amend Section 76 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, and add a new section to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, to authorize the Legislature to call itself into a special session and provide for the process for convening a special session. | Ronald Bolton | 04/11/2023 | |
HB276 | Relating to sheriffs; to provide for the acting sheriff when the office of sheriff of a county is vacant or when certain other circumstances exist in the county; and to repeal Section 11-5-5 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the county coroner serving as sheriff when the office of sheriff is vacant or when certain other circumstances exist in the county. | Ronald Bolton | 04/19/2023 | |
HB275 | Relating to the City of Northport in Tuscaloosa County; to provide for a warrant recall fee to allow a municipal judge or municipal magistrate for the City of Northport to recall, under certain conditions, a failure to appear warrant. | Ronald Bolton | 04/18/2023 | |
HB274 | Relating to county and local government; to provide prohibitions on the adoption or enforcement of certain building codes requiring the installation of certain latent, non-operable features in a residential structure. | Reed Ingram | 04/12/2023 | |
HB273 | Relating to income taxes; to amend Section 40-18-15.3, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the qualifications for employees and employers to receive the income tax deduction for health insurance premiums paid. | Jamie Kiel | 04/19/2023 | |
HB272 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section 13A-10-52, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the criminal penalties for violations of fleeing or attempting to elude law enforcement; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Ginny Shaver | 04/12/2023 | |
HB271 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Sections 12-25-34.2, 13A-5-3, 13A-5-6, 13A-5-9, 13A-5-11, 13A-5-13, 13A-6-184, 13A-8-4, 13A-8-5, 13A-8-8, 13A-8-9, 13A-8-10.2, 13A-8-10.3, 13A-8-10.6, 13A-8-18, 13A-8-19, 13A-9-3, 13A-9-4, 13A-9-7, 13A-9-14, 13A-12-212, 13A-12-213, 13A-12-214, 13A-12-291, 15-12-21, 15-13-209, 15-18-8, 15-22-54, 8-7A-20, 12-25-33, 26-23F-6, and 28-1-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to eliminate the Class D felony offense; reclassify certain felony offenses; to require the Alabama Sentencing Commission to immediately modify its standards, worksheets, and instructions; repeal Sections 13A-8-4.1, 13A-8-8.1, 13A-8-10.25, 13A-8-18.1, 13A-9-3.1, and 13A-9-6.1; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Chris Sells | 04/06/2023 | |
HB270 | Relating to environmental protection; to restrict the location or expansion of junkyards under certain circumstances. | Shane Stringer | 04/12/2023 | |
HB269 | Relating to K-12 public education; to amend Section 16-1-14, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide legislative findings; to provide a uniform system of procedural due process protections for students facing suspension or expulsion for violating the student code of conduct or state law; and to require the State Board of Education to adopt rules to implement this act. | Terri Collins | 04/06/2023 | |
HB268 | Relating to Lee County; to amend Section 45-41-242.06, Code of Alabama 1975, to change the name of the Auburn-Opelika Convention and Visitors Bureau to Auburn-Opelike Tourism; and to further provide for the membership and operation of Auburn-Opelika Tourism. | Joe Lovvorn | 04/13/2023 | |
HB267 | Relating to the Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entity Code; to add Chapter 3A to Title 10A, Code of Alabama 1975, by revising the Alabama Nonprofit Corporation Law to reflect the national standards set by the Model Nonprofit Corporation Act of 2021 and the Delaware General Corporation Law; and to make conforming changes throughout the Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entity Code in order to effectuate the changes to the Alabama Nonprofit Corporation Law and conform with the other entities governed by the Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entity Code by amending Sections 10A-1-1.03, 10A-1-1.08, 10A-1-3.32, 10A-1-8.01, 10A-1-8.02, 10A-1-9.01, 10A-2A-1.40, 10A-2A-1.43, 10A-2A-1.51, 10A-2A-2.02, 10A-2A-2.06, 10A-2A-7.04, 10A-2A-7.20, 10A-2A-7.32, 10A-2A-8.10, 10A-2A-8.21, 10A-2A-8.22, 10A-2A-8.24, 10A-2A-10.06, 10A-2A-10.07, 10A-2A-10.08, 10A-2A-11.02, 10A-2A-11.06, 10A-2A-12.02, and 10A-2A-14.13, Code of Alabama 1975; adding Sections 10A-2A-10.00 and 10A-2A-10.10 to the Code of Alabama 1975; and amending Sections 10A-5A-2.03, 10A-5A-10.07, 10A-8A-9.08, 10A-9A-2.02, and 10A-9A-10.08, Code of Alabama 1975. | Tim Wadsworth | 04/06/2023 | |
HB266 | Act 2022-427, 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Sections 43-8-213 and 43-8-215, Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows: | Cynthia Lee Almond | 04/19/2023 | |
HB265 | Relating to state holidays; to amend Section 1-3-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to add Juneteenth as a state holiday; and to delete duplicative language and make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Jeremy Gray | 04/06/2023 | |
HB264 | Relating to driver license suspensions; to provide for the suspension of an individual's driver license or driving privilege in certain circumstances. | Tim Wadsworth | 04/06/2023 | |
HB263 | Relating to crimes; to amend Sections 13A-10-30, 13A-10-36, 13A-10-37, and 13A-10-38, Code of Alabama 1975, to allow a detention facility to adopt a policy to further define what items constitute "contraband" for purposes of banning certain items from detention facilities; to further define the crimes of promoting contraband in the first, second, and third degree to apply to juveniles under certain circumstances; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Tim Wadsworth | 04/12/2023 | |
HB261 | Relating to two-year and four-year public institutions of higher education; to amend Section 16-1-52, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit a biological male from participating on an athletic team or sport designated for females; to prohibit a biological female from participating on an athletic team or sport designated for males; to prohibit adverse action against a public K-12 school or public two-year or four-year institution of higher education for complying with this act; to prohibit adverse action or retaliation against a student who reports a violation of this act; and to provide a remedy for any student who suffers harm as a result of a violation of this act. | Danny Garrett | 04/19/2023 | |
HB260 | Relating to the Alabama Electronic Security Board of Licensure; to amend Sections 34-1A-1, 34-1A-3, 34-1A-5, and 34-1A-7, Code of Alabama 1975, to create and provide for the qualifications of a qualifying agent license; to authorize the board to levy and collect administrative fines; to revise the process for pursuing disciplinary actions and cease and desist orders; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022 | Chris Sells | 04/12/2023 | |
HB259 | Relating to tax abatements; to specify that the method of determining fair market value of real or personal property by a tax abatement recipient appealing an ad valorem tax assessment in circuit court shall be the same method used by the county granting the tax abatement; and to exclude consideration of obsolescence in determining fair market valuation of real or personal property for the duration of an abatement. | Margie Wilcox | 04/12/2023 | |
HB258 | Relating to state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes; to amend Section 40-23-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to exempt High Socks for Hope, Inc., from payment of state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes. | Kyle South | 04/04/2023 | |
HB257 | Relating to economic development; to add Article 2D, commencing with Section 41-10-47.01, to Chapter 10 of Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; to authorize the State Industrial Development Authority to make site assessment grants and site development grants to certain companies; to provide for the criteria that must be met for grant approval; to provide for changes to criteria based on economic conditions; to limit the funding that may be received by any site under the grant program; to create the Alabama Site Development Fund and provide for its management; to amend Section 41-10-27.2, Code of Alabama 1975, providing for an annual appropriation to the State Industrial Development Authority, to authorize the appropriation to be expended on the grant program created herein; and to exempt the State Industrial Development Authority and certain economic development organizations from certain state laws. | Danny Garrett | 04/19/2023 | |
HB256 | Relating to labor and employement; to exclude consideration of a motor carrier's use of safety improvements, technologies, practices, and driver coaching in determining a motor carrier driver's classification as an independent contractor or an employee under state law. | Rhett Marques | 04/12/2023 | |
HB255 | Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, to add Section 284.02, to require local constitutional amendments to be advertised prior to introduction. | Steve Clouse | 04/04/2023 | |
HB254 | Relating to municipalities and counties; to require the proceeds from motor fuel taxes levied by municipalities and counties to be used for road and bridge construction and maintenance with certain exceptions. | Steve Clouse | 04/19/2023 | |
HB248 | Relating to natural resources; to prohibit a person from introducing or placing fish into the waters of the state without a permit issued by the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; to provide exceptions; to require the commissioner to issue a permit for the introduction of black bass into the Coosa River in certain circumstances; to provide for penalties; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Craig Lipscomb | 04/12/2023 | |
HB247 | Relating to economic development; to amend Sections 41-10-802 and 41-10-822, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for a name change for the Alabama Innovation Corporation and revise the residency requirements for certain grant recipients; to amend Section 41-10-805, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Board of Directors of the Alabama Innovation Corporation, to make conforming changes to accurately cite the Code of Alabama 1975; and to add a new Article 22, commencing with Section 41-10-840, to Chapter 10 of Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975, to reestablish the technology accelerator tax credit program and the underrepresented company tax credit program as the Innovating Alabama tax credit program; and to exempt working groups, task forces, and subcommittees of the Alabama Innovation Corporation from the Alabama Open Meetings Act. | Anthony Daniels | 04/19/2023 | |
HB246 | Relating to the licensed practice of cosmetology; to provide and adopt the Cosmetology Licensure Compact to allow licensed cosmetologists to practice pursuant to a multistate license among compact states in a limited manner; to provide eligibility requirements for licensed cosmetologists to practice cosmetology pursuant to the compact; to provide for a coordinated licensure information system, joint investigations, and disciplinary actions; to establish the Cosmetology Licensure Compact Commission; to provide for the membership, powers, duties, and rulemaking functions of the commission; and to provide for oversight of the compact, enforcement of the compact, default procedures, dispute resolution, withdrawal of compact states, and amendments to the compact. | Kenneth Paschal | 04/12/2023 | |
HB245 | Relating to Blount County; to provide for a new court cost to fund payments to employees of the sheriff's office who perform hazardous duties; and conditioning operation on voter approval at a referendum. | David Standridge | 04/13/2023 | |
HB244 | Relating to guardians ad litem; to amend Section 15-12-21, Code of Alabama 1975; to increase the compensation for an attorney appointed to serve as a guardian ad litem in certain juvenile cases. | Danny Crawford | 04/12/2023 | |
HB243 | Relating to the Board of Medical Examiners; to amend Sections 34-24-50.1 and 34-24-70, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for qualifications for licensure as a physician; and to add Section 34-24-75.2 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the board to issue permits for certain medical school graduates to practice medicine in a limited capacity for a limited time as bridge year graduate physicians. | Paul W. Lee | 04/12/2023 | |
HB242 | Relating to livestock; to amend Section 3-5-2, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that no municipal governing body may adopt or continue in effect any ordinance, rule, resolution, or directive that prohibits a person from permitting their livestock or animals to run at large on the premises of another or public land which does not require the same mens rea as state law; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Danny Crawford | 04/18/2023 | |
HB241 | Relating to the Alabama Jobs Act and the Growing Alabama Act; to amend Sections 40-18-370, 40-18-372, 40-18-374, 40-18-375, 40-18-376, 40-18-376.1, 40-18-376.2, 40-18-376.3, 40-18-376.4, 40-18-377, 40-18-378, 40-18-382, 40-18-383, 40-18-417.1, 40-18-417.2, 40-18-417.3, 40-18-417.4, 40-18-417.7, and 40-9B-4.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to extend the Alabama Jobs Act sunset date to July 31, 2028; to increase the annualized cap on outstanding Alabama Jobs Act incentives by twenty-five million dollars each year for five years up to four hundred seventy-five million dollars; to increase the investment tax credit transfer time to provide that the first five years of the investment credit may be transferred by the incentivized company and applied by another person or company under the Alabama Jobs Act; to extend the Growing Alabama Act sunset date to July 31, 2028, to increase the annual cap on funding approved pursuant to the Growing Alabama Act to thirty-five million dollars; to remove certain programs from the Growing Alabama Act for the transfer to Innovate Alabama. | Danny Garrett | 04/19/2023 | |
HB240 | Relating to economic development; to add Section 40-18-379.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to require the Department of Commerce to publish certain information regarding economic development incentives awarded under the Alabama Jobs Act. | Cynthia Lee Almond | 04/19/2023 | |
HB239 | This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to Baldwin County, to define the White House Fork Landmark District within the county and to prohibit the annexation by local law of any property within the district into any municipality except under certain conditions. | Shane Stringer | 04/04/2023 | |
HB238 | Relating to motor vehicle registration and distinctive motor vehicle license plates; to authorize the issuance of a distinctive motor vehicle license plate to benefit brain cancer research. | Wes Kitchens | 04/12/2023 | |
HB237 | Relating to Calhoun County, to create and provide for the distribution of an additional motor vehicle registration fee of two dollars; and to create a new fund for the proceeds of the fee. | Randy Wood | 04/04/2023 | |
HB236 | Relating to Calhoun County; to authorize the sheriff and commissioner of licenses to obtain and use a credit card for official uses. | Randy Wood | 04/19/2023 | |
HB235 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section 13A-10-11, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the definition of "peace officer" regarding the crime of impersonating a peace officer; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Randy Wood | 04/12/2023 | |
HB234 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section 13A-11-62, as last amended by Act 2022-133 and Act 2022-438, 2022 Regular Session, and 13A-11-63, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit the possession and use of a trigger activator and provide criminal penalties for a violation; to amend Section 5 of Act 2022-133, 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 13A-11-97, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the duties of a law enforcement officer during an investigatory stop involving a firearm; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Randy Wood | 04/12/2023 | |
HB233 | Relating to the City of Tuscaloosa; to authorize the City of Tuscaloosa to join the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama for its police and firefighter employees and transfer assets and liabilities of the existing Tuscaloosa Police and Firefighters Retirement Plan to the Employees' Retirement System of Alabama as set forth in Chapter 27 of Title 36, Code of Alabama 1975. | Cynthia Lee Almond | 04/13/2023 | |
HB232 | Relating to the City of Tuscaloosa; to amend Section 8 of Act 2011-660, 2011 Regular Session (Acts 2011, p. 1751) to further provide that crime prevention programs and the Behavioral Health Unit of the Tuscaloosa Police Department shall share in the disbursement of application fees from the pretrial diversion program. | Cynthia Lee Almond | 04/13/2023 | |
HB231 | Relating to the City of Calera; to authorize the City Council of the City of Calera to establish and regulate the operation of entertainment districts as designated by the Calera City Code; and to authorize the city council to provide penalties for violations. | Corley Ellis | 04/19/2023 | |
HB230 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to add Section 13A-6-30 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to create the crime of chemical endangerment of a first responder and establish penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Matt Simpson | 04/12/2023 | |
HB229 | Relating to sentencing; to amend Section 13A-5-9, Code of Alabama 1975; to further provide for sentencing under the habitual felony offender law; to add Section 13A-5-14 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that an individual sentenced pursuant to the habitual felony offender law may be resentenced in certain circumstances. | Chris England | 04/04/2023 | |
HB228 | Relating to pardons and paroles; to amend Sections 15-22-26, 15-22-28, 15-22-37, and 15-22-43, Code of Alabama 1975, to require the Board of Pardons and Paroles to give weighted consideration to an inmate's age when determining whether to grant parole, to require the board to hold a rehearing once parole is denied for certain inmates, to provide for appellate relief for a prisoner with a serious chronic health condition who was denied parole in certain circumstances; to require the board to hold a medical parole hearing within a specified period of time of an inmate becoming eligible for medical parole; provide for appellate relief for an inmate who was denied medical parole; to amend Section 14-14-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that an inmate released on medical furlough may reside in any state; to add Section 15-22-25.5 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that an inmate may attend his or her parole hearing virtually; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Chris England | 04/19/2023 | |
HB227 | Relating to medical cannabis; to amend Sections 20-2A-3, 20-2A-8, 20-2A-21, 20-2A-32, 20-2A-36, and 20-2A-64, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the conditions that are considered a qualifying medical condition; to further restrict individuals from having an economic interest in a licensee and to establish a time period for the prohibition; to further provide for the definition of a registered certifying physician and provide that a registered certifying physician may only certify a patient for medical cannabis use if he or she is board certified in the field of specialty required to diagnose a qualifying medical condition as provided by law; to prohibit a non-registered certifying physician from having a financial arrangement with a registered certifying physician for patient referrals; to provide that an individual cannot qualify as a registered caregiver if he or she is also a qualified registered patient; to further provide for location restrictions and dispensing protocols for a dispensary; to make it a crime for an individual to sell a medical cannabis card; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Frances Holk-Jones | 04/04/2023 | |
HB226 | This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to Baldwin County, to define the Stapleton Landmark District within the county and to prohibit the annexation by local law of any property within the district into any municipality except under certain conditions. | Frances Holk-Jones | 04/04/2023 | |
HB225 | This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to Baldwin County, to define the Bon Secour Landmark District within the county and to prohibit the annexation by local law of any property within the district into any municipality except under certain conditions. | Frances Holk-Jones | 04/04/2023 | |
HB224 | Relating to Cullman County; to provide for the creation, funding, and operation of the Cullman County Legislative Delegation Fund; to provide for the distribution of the net proceeds of the state beer tax payable to Cullman County and the additional three percent of TVA in-lieu-of taxes payments received by Cullman County; to abolish the Cullman County Community Development Commission; and to repeal Section 45-22-90, Code of Alabama 1975. | Randall Shedd | 04/11/2023 | |
HB223 | Relating to Autauga County; to further provide for the regulation of the sale of alcoholic beverages in the unincorporated areas of the county; to authorize the Autauga County Commission to issue a separate county business license for any person or business required to have a retail license from the Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) Board for the sale of alcoholic beverages in the unincorporated areas of the county; and to provide for a fee for the license and for the enforcement of this requirement. | Jerry Starnes | 04/18/2023 | |
HB222 | Relating to Pickens County; to further provide for the expense allowance and salary of the Revenue Commissioner of Pickens County. | Ronald Bolton | 04/19/2023 | |
HB221 | Relating to Cherokee County; to amend Section 45-10-201, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the transfer of the duties of the license commissioner to the revenue commissioner; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Ginny Shaver | 04/13/2023 | |
HB220 | To amend Section 17-3-8, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2022-112 of the 2022 Regular Session, relating to meeting days of boards of registrars; to increase the number of working days that the Shelby County Board of Registrars may meet each week. | Corley Ellis | 03/23/2023 | |
HB219 | Relating to cannabis; to prohibit the sale, distribution, marketing, or possession of psychoactive cannabinoids found in hemp for certain age groups; to levy a five percent tax on the gross proceeds of products containing psychoactive cannabinoids sold at retail; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Russell Bedsole | 04/12/2023 | |
HB218 | Relating to public K-12 education and the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to amend Sections 16-6D-3, 16-6D-4, 16-6D-6, 16-6D-8, and 16-6D-9, as amended by Act 2022-390, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975; to change the designation of a failing school to a fully supported school and the designation of a nonfailing school to a non-fully supported school; and to require the State Board of Education to reflect those changes in terminology when amending or adopting rules relating to the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013. | Artis McCampbell | 03/23/2023 | |
HB217 | Relating to gross income; to amend Section 40-18-14, Code of Alabama 1975; to exclude hours worked above 40 in any given week from gross income. | Anthony Daniels | 03/23/2023 | |
HB216 | Relating to motor vehicle licenses and registration; to amend Section 32-6-62, Code of Alabama 1975, to extend the validity period of motor vehicle license plate designs from five years to 10 years. | Russell Bedsole | 04/12/2023 | |
HB215 | Relating to consumer credit financing in the sale or lease of motor vehicles; to amend Section 8-37A-4 of the Code of Alabama 1975, as added by Act 2022-179 of the 2022 Regular Session, relating to motor vehicle value protection agreements and the requirements of a provider of the agreements to insure performance of the obligations of the provider; to further clarify the requirements of an insurance policy maintained by the provider for this purpose. | Reed Ingram | 04/05/2023 | |
HB214 | Relating to building codes; to amend Section 27-2-39, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for a portion of fees and taxes collected by the Department of Insurance to the Alabama Residential Building Code Fund; to designate Sections 34-14A-1 through 34-14A-20 as Article 1 of Chapter 14A of Title 34, Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Sections 34-14A-1, 34-14A-2, 34-14A-7, 34-14A-12, 34-14A-20, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the establishment of the Alabama Residential Building Code and its authority; to further provide for the practice of residential home building; to further provide for the duties of the Home Builders Licensure Board; to add Article 2, commencing with Section 34-14A-41, to Chapter 14A of Title 34, Code of Alabama 1975, to establish the Alabama Residential Building Code Division within the Home Builders Licensure Board and provide for its duties; to establish the Alabama Residential Building Code Fund in the State Treasury and provide for its administration; to add Article 6A, commencing of Section 41-9-175, to Chapter 9 of Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975, to establish the Alabama Residential Building Code Advisory Council and provide for its membership and duties; to amend Sections 41-23-80, 41-23-81, 41-23-82, 41-23-84, 41-23-85, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the change of the name of the Alabama Energy and Residential Codes Board to the Alabama Commercial Energy Code Board and further provide for the membership of the board; and to provide requirements for certain local building codes adopted or amended after a date certain. | Chip Brown | 04/05/2023 | |
HB213 | Relating to the Volunteer Rescue Squad Tuition Reimbursement Act of 2018; to amend Sections 22-18-60, 22-18-61, and 22-18-64, Code of Alabama 1975, to decrease the required contracted for service time after graduation and licensing from three years to two years; to expand the program to include students who contract and provide service to ambulance services; to provide exclusions from reimbursement; and to increase the amount of operational expenses reimbursed to the Alabama Community College System; and to add Section 22-18-61.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the retroactive reimbursement of certain fees and expenses. | Joe Lovvorn | 03/23/2023 | |
HB212 | Relating to the Alabama Board of Funeral Service; to amend Section 34-13-1, as amended by Act 2022-339, 2022 Regular Session, Sections 34-13-20, 34-13-21, and 34-13-22, Sections 34-13-23 and 34-13-27, as amended by Act 2022-339, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to rename the Alabama Board of Funeral Service as the Alabama Board of Funeral Services and to provide further for definitions and the membership of the board; to add Article 5 to Chapter 13, Title 34, Code of Alabama 1975, by amending and renumbering Sections 27-17A-1, 27-17A-3, 27-17A-4, 27-17A-10 to 27-17A-25, inclusive, 27-17A-30 to 27-17A-34, inclusive, and 27-17A-40 to 27-17A-57, inclusive, as Sections 34-13-170 to 34-13-172, inclusive, 34-13-190 to 34-13-206, inclusive, 34-13-230 to 34-13-234, inclusive, and 34-13-260 to 34-13-277, inclusive, Code of Alabama 1975; to establish the Alabama Preneed Funeral and Cemetery Act of 2023; to transfer the existing Preneed Funeral and Cemetery Act, and the regulation of preneed contracts, from the Commissioner and Department of Insurance to the Alabama Board of Funeral Service; to authorize the Department of Insurance to temporarily transfer certain funds to the board to defray costs associated with the administration and operation of the Alabama Preneed Funeral and Cemetery Act of 2023; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Steve Clouse | 04/05/2023 | |
HB211 | Relating to motor vehicle registration; to amend Sections 32-6-250 and 32-6-251, Code of Alabama 1975, to add the Air Medal to the list of military awards eligible to be commemorated on a distinctive permanent license plate; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update existing language to current style. | Rick Rehm | 04/12/2023 | |
HB210 | Relating to mandatory motor vehicle liability insurance; to amend Section 32-7A-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide an exception to allow an individual on active military duty, whose motor vehicle is registered in Alabama but who, as a result of his or her military assignment, is required to reside in another state, to satisfy the requirement for mandatory motor vehicle liability insurance by purchasing liability coverage in the state where residing on active military duty or assignment in an amount equal to or greater than the minimum amount required in Alabama. | Rhett Marques | 04/19/2023 | |
HB209 | Relating to voting; to prohibit any person from distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, completing, obtaining, or delivering an absentee ballot application or absentee ballot of another person in certain circumstances; to provide for exceptions; to prohibit a person from receiving a payment or providing a payment to another person for distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, completing, obtaining, or delivering an absentee ballot application or absentee ballot of another person in certain circumstance; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Jamie Kiel | 04/19/2023 | |
HB208 | To enact the Pregnancy Resource Act; Relating to income tax; to provide a state income tax credit to individuals and businesses that make contributions to eligible charitable organizations that operate as a pregnancy center or residential maternity facility; and to specify the obligations of the Department of Revenue in implementing the act. | Jamie Kiel | 03/23/2023 | |
HB207 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Board of Examiners of Landscape Architects until October 1, 2027. | Neil Rafferty | 04/19/2023 | |
HB206 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Athlete Agents Commission until October 1, 2027. | Neil Rafferty | 04/19/2023 | |
HB205 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Athletic Commission until October 1, 2027. | Neil Rafferty | 04/18/2023 | |
HB204 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Construction Recruitment Institute until October 1, 2026. | Chris Pringle | 04/18/2023 | |
HB203 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Board of Examiners on Admission to the State Bar until October 1, 2027. | Chris Pringle | 04/18/2023 | |
HB202 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Polygraph Examiners Board until October 1, 2027. | Randall Shedd | 04/18/2023 | |
HB201 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the State Board for Registration of Architects until October 1, 2027. | Randall Shedd | 04/18/2023 | |
HB200 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Historical Commission until October 1, 2027. | Randall Shedd | 04/18/2023 | |
HB199 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Security Regulatory Board until October 1, 2027. | Randall Shedd | 04/18/2023 | |
HB198 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors until October 1, 2027. | Randall Shedd | 04/18/2023 | |
HB197 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama State Board of Occupational Therapy until October 1, 2027. | Randall Shedd | 04/18/2023 | |
HB196 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board until October 1, 2025. | Matt Simpson | 04/18/2023 | |
HB195 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Real Estate Commission until October 1, 2024. | Matt Simpson | 04/18/2023 | |
HB194 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Onsite Wastewater Board until October 1, 2027. | Matt Simpson | 04/18/2023 | |
HB193 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the State Licensing Board for General Contractors until October 1, 2024. | Matt Simpson | 04/18/2023 | |
HB192 | Relating to the Alabama Sunset Law; to continue the existence and functioning of the Alabama Board of Massage Therapy until October 1, 2027. | Rex Reynolds | 04/18/2023 | |
HB191 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to add Article 12, commencing with Section 13A-6-260, to Chapter 6 of Title 13A to the Code of Alabama 1975, to identify gang members, to enhance penalties for any criminal activity that benefits, promotes, or furthers the interest of a gang, and to establish mandatory consecutive penalties for any firearm possession in certain circumstances; to amend Section 12-15-204, Code of Alabama 1975, to require any juvenile 16 years of age or older to be tried as an adult for any gang related criminal activity; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Allen Treadaway | 04/12/2023 | |
HB190 | Relating to rights and remedies of a purchaser of real estate sold at a tax sale; to amend Section 40-10-82 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide limitations of actions that may be brought in circuit court to resolve certain issues related to real estate sold for the payment of taxes and to limit the period of time for a land owner to file a motion to redeem real estate sold for the payment of taxes, to challenge the validity of a tax sale, or to pay a court ordered judgment and costs. | Tim Wadsworth | 04/05/2023 | |
HB189 | Relating to the Alabama Forestry Commission; to establish the Rural Logging Support Act of 2023; to provide for the distribution funding to the Alabama Forestry Commission to support rural economic development; and to amend Section 40-21-51, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the distribution of certain state revenues collected on the state license tax of certain public utilities. | Joe Lovvorn | 03/22/2023 | |
HB188 | Relating to public contracts; to prohibit the consideration of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria when awarding a public contract; and to require a responsible bidder, as a condition of being awarded a public contract, to certify, under penalty of perjury, that its employees will not be subject to a personal ESG rating as a basis of hiring, firing, or evaluation. | Chip Brown | 03/22/2023 | |
HB187 | Relating to vaccines; to amend Section 22-8-4, Code of Alabama 1975; to require consent of a parent or legal guardian for any minor to receive a vaccination. | Chip Brown | 04/05/2023 | |
HB186 | Relating to public K-12 schools, to allow a parent or legal guardian to opt his or her child out of policies requiring a face covering at certain locations. | Chip Brown | 04/12/2023 | |
HB185 | Relating to Walker County; to authorize the Walker County Commission to establish voting centers throughout Walker County. | Matt Woods | 04/19/2023 | |
HB184 | Relating to charitable organizations; to amend Section 13A-9-71, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit the imposition of certain filing or reporting requirements on certain charitable organizations. | Jamie Kiel | 04/05/2023 | |
HB183 | To provide for an additional circuit judgeship, designated as Circuit Judgeship Number 4, in the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit comprised of Autauga, Chilton, and Elmore Counties; to provide for an additional circuit judgeship in the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit comprised of Madison County; to provide for an additional circuit judgeship in the Twenty-eighth Judicial Circuit comprised of Baldwin County; and to provide for the authority of the judges and for the compensation and benefit of the judges. | Troy Stubbs | 04/06/2023 | |
HB182 | Relating to revenue and taxation; to amend Section 40-18-19, as last amended by Act 2022-292, Act 2022-294, and Act 2022-297 of the 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975 to expand the definition of a dependent to include an unborn child. | Tracy Estes | 03/22/2023 | |
HB181 | Relating to financial institutions; to amend Section 5-5A-43, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit financial institutions from disclosing certain customer financial records of firearms transactions with certain exceptions; to allow the Department of Finance to disqualify a financial institution from any selection process for state contracts for violation of this prohibition; and to provide civil penalties and criminal penalties for violation of the act. | Mack N. Butler | 03/22/2023 | |
HB180 | Relating to Agriculture, to amend Sections 2-8-126, 2-8-128, 2-8-131, 2-8-133, 2-8-134, 2-8-135, and 2-8-323, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the requirements for giving notice of a referendum on an assessment to be used to promote peanuts specifically as well as other nuts, bulbs, fruits, and vegetables; to revise the time an assessment on the sale of nuts, bulbs, fruits, or vegetables is effective between referendums; to revise the percentage the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries may deduct from the sum of the assessment on nuts, bulbs, fruit, and vegetables; to revise the length of time between audits of an organization certified to conduct a referendum regarding an assessment on the sale of sheep and goats; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Jennifer Fidler | 04/18/2023 | |
HB179 | Relating to distinctive motor vehicle license plates; to amend Section 32-6-281, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the distribution of proceeds of sales of distinctive motor vehicle license plates to emergency medical services providers. | James Lomax | 04/05/2023 | |
HB178 | Related to the Alabama Unconscionable Pricing Act; to amend Sections 8-31-3 and 8-31-4, Code of Alabama 1975 to authorize the Governor or the Legislature to specify the affected areas and time periods to which the prohibition against imposition of unconscionable pricing would apply. | Jamie Kiel | 04/05/2023 | |
HB177 | Relating to municipal water works boards; to amend Section 11-50-300, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Sections 11-50-300.1, 11-50-300.2, 11-50-300.3, 11-50-300.4, 11-50-300.5, 11-50-300.6, 11-50-300.7, and 11-50-300.8 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the composition, manner of appointment, and length of terms of members of certain municipal water works boards; to provide qualifications for and place limits on the employment of directors; to provide for conversion of these boards to regional boards; to further provide for these boards to amend their articles of incorporation; to subject these boards to the ethics laws of Alabama and require training on the matter; to require these boards to produce certain financial records; and to repeal Sections 11-50-301, 11-50-302, 11-50-303, and 11-50-304, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to certain municipal water works boards. | Jim Carns | 04/12/2023 | |
HB176 | Relating to retirement; to extend the provisions of Act 2022-229 to allow local units participating in the Employees' Retirement System additional time to elect to come under the provisions of the act. | Reed Ingram | 04/05/2023 | |
HB175 | Relating to income taxes; to provide a one-time rebate for the promotion of general welfare. | Danny Garrett | 03/21/2023 | |
HB174 | To make supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023, from the Education Trust Fund to various agencies and entities a total amount of $2,787,667,309. | Danny Garrett | 03/21/2023 | |
HB173 | Relating to the salaries of public education employees; to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect a pay increase of two percent beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to provide that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with a two percent pay increase beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to require salary schedules; to provide the employees of certain other public educational institutions and schools with a two percent pay increase for the 2023-2024 fiscal year; to provide for an across the board salary increase on all two-year postsecondary salary schedules, to establish other requirements on the two-year postsecondary salary schedules; and to establish miscellaneous pay provisions relating to public education. | Barbara Drummond | 03/21/2023 | |
HB172 | To make an appropriation of $389,327 from the Education Trust Fund to Southern Preparatory Academy, formerly Lyman Ward Military Academy, in Camp Hill, Alabama for the support and maintenance of the educational program of the institution, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024; to provide that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975; to require an operations plan and an audited financial statement prior to the release of any funds; and to require an end of year report. | Ed Oliver | 03/21/2023 | |
HB171 | To make an appropriation of $1,069,234 from the Education Trust Fund to Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama for the support and maintenance of the educational program of the institution, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024; to provide that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975; to require an operations plan and an audited financial statement prior to the release of any funds; and to require an end of year report. | Barbara Bigsby Boyd | 03/21/2023 | |
HB170 | To make an appropriation of $13,151,435 from the Education Trust Fund to Tuskegee University in Tuskegee, Alabama for the support and maintenance of the educational program of the institution, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024; to provide that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975; to require an operations plan and an audited financial statement prior to the release of any funds; and to require an end of year report. | Pebblin W. Warren | 03/21/2023 | |
HB169 | To make appropriations for the support, maintenance and development of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024. | Danny Garrett | 03/21/2023 | |
HB168 | Relating to public contracts; to amend Sections 41-16-50, 41-16-51, 41-16-52, 41-16-53, 41-16-54, and 41-16-55, Code of Alabama 1975, to increase the threshold dollar amount for which competitive bidding is generally required for certain state and local public awarding authorities, with exceptions; to amend Sections 39-2-2 and 39-2-4, Code of Alabama 1975, to increase the threshold dollar amount for which competitive bidding is generally required for public works contracts; to provide a legislative method for the increase of the threshold dollar amounts; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Rick Rehm | 03/21/2023 | |
HB167 | Relating to Houston County; to provide for contracting of police services by a municipality with the Sheriff of Houston County; and to provide for compensation and distribution. | Rick Rehm | 03/21/2023 | |
HB166 | Relating to alcoholic beverages; to amend Section 2 of Act 2022-431 of the 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 28-3A-13.3, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the amounts of alcoholic beverages that may be sold curbside. | Parker Moore | 04/05/2023 | |
HB165 | Relating to Randolph County; to authorize the establishment of voting centers; and to validate existing county voting centers. | Bob Fincher | 04/13/2023 | |
HB164 | Relating to public high schools; to require students to complete a personal financial literacy and money management course before graduation; to provide for the creation and administration of a financial literacy examination; and to require the reporting of a summary of examination results to the State Department of Education. | Andy Whitt | 04/19/2023 | |
HB163 | Relating to building codes; to authorize the use of certain refrigerants and refrigerant-equipped products that are in compliance with the National Clean Air Act. | Chip Brown | 04/05/2023 | |
HB162 | Relating to the Alabama Medical Liability Act of 1996; to amend Section 6-5-549.1 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that the term "health care provider" as used in that act and the Alabama Medical Liability Act of 1987 would include emergency medical services personnel and any emergency medical provider service. | Ed Oliver | 04/19/2023 | |
HB161 | Relating to the Insurance Department; to amend Section 27-2-39 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the department to post notice of hearings for the consideration of matters which would otherwise require separate notices to more than 50 persons on a website maintained by the department; and to require the department to post notices of hearings held for consideration of rules of the commissioner on a website maintained by the department and to publish the notices in the Alabama Administrative Monthly. | David Faulkner | 04/19/2023 | |
HB160 | Relating to tax exemptions, to amend Section 40-9-12, Code of Alabama 1975, to change the name of the National Foundation to reflect its current name, the March of Dimes Inc. | David Faulkner | 04/05/2023 | |
HB159 | Relating to court costs; to amend Section 22-52-14, Code of Alabama 1975; to further provide for an appointed attorney's compensation in a commitment proceeding. | David Faulkner | 04/05/2023 | |
HB158 | Relating to civil liability; to amend Section 6-5-71, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the right of action for injuries resulting from the illegal furnishing of alcoholic beverages, by basing liability for a person who illegally furnishes alcoholic beverages to an individual who injures a third party on what the furnisher knew or should have known under the circumstances; to specify when the right of action is not available; and to provide legislative intent. | David Faulkner | 04/11/2023 | |
HB157 | Relating to public contracts; to amend Section 39-3-4, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide requirements for the use of iron produced within the United States for certain public works projects under certain conditions. | David Faulkner | 04/19/2023 | |
HB156 | Relating to state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes; to amend Section 40-23-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to exempt capital expenditures of the Birmingham Zoo from state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes through September 30, 2027. | David Faulkner | 03/21/2023 | |
HB155 | To make an appropriation of $169,633 from the State General Fund to the Coalition Against Domestic Violence for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, to require an operations plan and an audited financial statement prior to the release of any funds, and to require quarterly and end of the year performance reports. | Laura Hall | 03/21/2023 | |
HB154 | To provide a cost-of-living increase for state employees for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2023. | Napoleon Bracy | 04/19/2023 | |
HB153 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Sections 13A-6-92 and 30-3-130, Code of Alabama 1975, to define the term electronic tracking device; to add Sections 13A-6-95 and 13A-6-96 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit a person from placing certain devices on the property of another person; to prohibit a person from placing certain devices on the property of another in violation of an established court order; to provide for penalties; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Allen Treadaway | 04/05/2023 | |
HB152 | Relating to public institutions of higher education; to add Section 16-22-1.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to authorize public institutions of higher education that employ campus police officers to also employ reserve police officers; and to specify the qualifications and duties of reserve campus police officers. | Allen Treadaway | 04/05/2023 | |
HB151 | Relating to health care facilities; to add Section 22-21-437 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require health care facilities to adopt certain visitation policies; to provide that patients have a right to certain visitation; to allow patients to designate an essential caregiver and to guarantee that caregiver certain visitation rights; to prohibit a health care facility from adopting a visitation policy that is more stringent than certain employee policies; to prohibit a health care facility from requiring visitors to show proof of vaccination or from prohibiting consensual physical contact between visitors and patients; to provide for the circumstances in which patients may not be denied visitors who are not essential caregivers; to require health care facilities to provide visitation policies to the Department of Public Health; to require the Department of Public Health to develop a mechanism for complaints; to provide certain immunity from liability in certain circumstances; and to repeal Sections 22-21-430 through 22-21-436, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to hospital visitation during a public health emergency. | Debbie Wood | 03/21/2023 | |
HB150 | Relating to St. Clair County; to further provide for the expense allowance and salary of the Revenue Commissioner of St. Clair County. | Jim Hill | 04/19/2023 | |
HB149 | Relating to St. Clair County; to provide for qualifications of the sheriff; and to require completion of continuing education. | Jim Hill | 04/18/2023 | |
HB148 | Relating to St. Clair County; to amend Section 4 of Act 85-435, 1985 Regular Session (Acts 1985, p. 403); and to create and provide for the distribution of an additional license tag fee of two dollars ($2). | Jim Hill | 04/18/2023 | |
HB147 | Relating to St. Clair County; providing that the offices of judge of probate, revenue commissioner, and sheriff shall be reimbursed from the county general fund for monetary loss resulting from the performance of official duties for errors or mistakes made in good faith, not to exceed a certain maximum per annum; and providing for the voiding of licenses issued and other transactions based on worthless or forged checks. | Jim Hill | 04/18/2023 | |
HB146 | Relating to St. Clair County; to provide for the electronic filing of business personal property tax returns in the Office of the St. Clair County Revenue Commissioner; and to authorize the revenue commissioner to establish procedures for filing of the returns. | Jim Hill | 04/11/2023 | |
HB145 | To provide for additional circuit judgeships and additional district judgeships to be funded out of the State General Fund in Fiscal Years 2024, 2025, and 2026; and to provide for the authority of the judges and for the compensation and benefits of the judges. | Jim Hill | 03/21/2023 | |
HB144 | Relating to courts; to amend Section 15-1-3, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for a certification process for court interpreters. | Jim Hill | 04/19/2023 | |
HB143 | Relating to Butler County; to provide for the salary of the Coroner of Butler County; and to repeal Section 45-7-60 of the Code of Alabama 1975, providing for an expense allowance for the coroner. | Chris Sells | 04/13/2023 | |
HB141 | Relating to disability insurance policies; to authorize disability insurers to offer paid family leave benefit policies. | Corley Ellis | 04/19/2023 | |
HB140 | Relating to juvenile probation services; to amend Section 12-5A-13 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to include Shelby County in the counties where juvenile court services are under the control of the state court system and the Administrative Office of Courts. | Corley Ellis | 04/05/2023 | |
HB139 | Relating to Shelby County; to provide for the qualifications of the sheriff; and to require completion of continuing education. | Corley Ellis | 04/19/2023 | |
HB138 | Relating to Shelby County; to amend Section 3 of Act 79-524, 1979 Regular Session, (Acts 1979, p. 935), as last amended by Act 2015-343 of the 2015 Regular Session (Acts 2015, p. 1069), establishing a personnel board for employees of county law enforcement officers in the county; to provide for the compensation of the chief deputy sheriff, the operations manager, and up to two majors in the sheriff's department; and to repeal Act 2009-336 of the 2009 Regular Session (Acts 2009, p. 576), relating to the compensation of the chief deputy sheriff. | Corley Ellis | 04/19/2023 | |
HB137 | Relating to sales and use taxes; to amend Section 40-23-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide an exemption from state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes for the Black Belt Regional Child Advocacy Center in Marengo County. | Artis McCampbell | 04/19/2023 | |
HB136 | Relating to courts; to amend Section 12-19-210, Code of Alabama 1975, to increase the expense allowance and mileage reimbursement paid to jurors by order or rule. | Prince Chestnut | 03/21/2023 | |
HB135 | Relating to Tallapoosa County, to revise the salary of the sheriff. | Ed Oliver | 04/19/2023 | |
HB134 | Relating to assisted living facilities; to amend Section 22-21-25, Code of Alabama 1975, to create the Alabama Assisted Living Board of Mitigation to resolve conflicts between certain assisted living facilities and the Alabama Department of Public Health; and to provide for the membership and duties of the board. | Ed Oliver | 04/19/2023 | |
HB133 | Relating to state income tax; to establish the Preceptor Tax Incentive Program to provide income tax credit incentives for certain medical students who train in rural and underserved counties in the state. | Neil Rafferty | 04/19/2023 | |
HB132 | Relating to sales and use tax; to add a new Section 40-23-4.5, Code of Alabama 1975, to exclude products under Chapter 2A of Title 20 from the producer value added sales and use tax exemption. | Van Smith | 04/19/2023 | |
HB131 | Relating to parole; to amend Section 15-22-28, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that a prisoner is not eligible for parole of he or she has been duly charged with a new offense that has not been disposed. | Wes Kitchens | 04/05/2023 | |
HB130 | To alter, rearrange, and extend the boundary lines and corporate limits of the City of Lake View in Tuscaloosa and Jefferson Counties. | Bill Lamb | 04/11/2023 | |
HB129 | Relating to funeral services; to amend Section 34-13-122, Code of Alabama 1975; to define dignified and humane manner for the disposition of cremated remains; and to mandate best efforts to identify the unclaimed cremated remains of Alabama veterans eligible for burial in a state or national military cemetery. | Kenneth Paschal | 04/05/2023 | |
HB128 | Relating to Calhoun County; to authorize the license commissioner to void a motor vehicle license plate, decal, sales and use tax, issuance fees, interest, penalties, and costs when a check or credit card tendered by an individual, company, or other entity for payment of any motor vehicle license is found non-collectible at the time of deposit; and to provide for the reimbursement from the General Fund of Calhoun County to the License Commissioner for losses by the office of the license commissioner for errors and omissions. | Randy Wood | 04/19/2023 | |
HB127 | To make an appropriation of $39,097,848 from the Children First Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, to the entities and for the purposes designated in Section 41-15B-2.2, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for the deposit of tobacco settlement revenues into the Children First Trust Fund; to require written notification of anticipated agency allocations by the State Director of Finance; to require quarterly allocations; to condition allocations on receipt of tobacco revenues; to provide for the transfer to the State General Fund during fiscal year 2024 that portion of Children First Trust Fund receipts currently allocated for the State Board of Education; to make an appropriation of $50,511,261 from other tobacco settlement funds for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024; and to make a conditional appropriation and allocation of additional tobacco revenues upon the recommendation of the Director of Finance, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance and Taxation-General Fund Committee, and the approval of the Governor. | Pebblin W. Warren | 04/19/2023 | |
HB126 | To create the Medicaid Emergency Reserve Fund and to provide for the withdrawal and use of amounts deposited into the fund. | Kyle South | 04/19/2023 | |
HB125 | To make supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2023: from the Veterans' Assistance Fund to the Department of Veterans' Affairs in the amount of $10,000,000, and from the State General Fund to various agencies and entities a total amount of $188,573,865. | Rex Reynolds | 04/19/2023 | |
HB124 | To make appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial agencies of the State, for other functions of government, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024. | Rex Reynolds | 04/19/2023 | |
HB123 | Relating to firearms; to amend Section 13A-11-72, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide a criminal penalty for a parent or legal guardian who fails to reasonably secure their firearm resulting in their minor possessing the firearm on the premises of a public school; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Barbara Drummond | 04/12/2023 | |
HB122 | Relating to health care; to prohibit discrimination against an individual with a disability in receiving an anatomical gift or organ transplant based on his or her disability; and to require health care providers and organ transplant centers to provide reasonable accommodations to individuals with a disability in medical need of an anatomical gift or organ transplant. | Debbie Wood | 04/19/2023 | |
HB121 | Relating to state government; to establish the Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Replacement Fund of the Board of Pardons and Paroles; and to provide for the maintenance, lease, and purchase of motor vehicles. | Randall Shedd | 03/21/2023 | |
HB120 | Relating to sales and use tax; to establish the Alabama Broadband Investment Maximization Act; to amend Section 40-23-4, Code of Alabama 1975, to exempt the purchase of broadband equipment and supplies from sales and use tax. | Randall Shedd | 03/21/2023 | |
HB119 | This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to | Arnold Mooney | 04/19/2023 | |
HB118 | Relating to home inspectors; to add Section 34-14B-11 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide a limitation period on actions against licensed home inspectors; and to amend Section 34-14B-3, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide legislative intent. | Danny Garrett | 04/05/2023 | |
HB117 | Relating to income taxes; to amend Section 40-18-19, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2022-292, Act 2022-294, and Act 2022-297 of the 2022 Regular Session of the Legislature; to increase the exemption for taxable retirement income for individuals who are 65 years of age or older. | Danny Garrett | 03/21/2023 | |
HB116 | Relating to individual income taxes; to amend Section 40-18-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to eliminate the two percent tax rate on the first five hundred dollars ($500) of taxable income for single persons, heads of families, and married persons filing separate returns and would also eliminate the two percent tax rate on the first one thousand dollars ($1,000) of taxable income for married persons filing a joint return. | Danny Garrett | 04/06/2023 | |
HB115 | Relating to individual income taxes; to amend Section 40-18-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to phase-in a reduction in the top tax rate from five percent to four and ninety-five hundredths percent. | Danny Garrett | 04/06/2023 | |
HB114 | Relating to fiduciary funds in the hands of officials; to amend Section 19-3-87, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for disposition of unclaimed funds held in a county treasury after being unclaimed for a certain number of years; and to amend Section 35-12-73, Code of Alabama 1975, to exempt unclaimed funds under Section 19-3-87, Code of Alabama 1975. | Matt Woods | 04/18/2023 | |
HB113 | Relating to Limestone County; to establish a service of process fee for the service or attempted service of documents by the Limestone County Sheriff's Office in the civil division of the circuit and district courts; to establish a fingerprint fee for fingerprinting certain persons and a local background check fee; to ratify and confirm fingerprint fees and local background check fees collected prior to the effective date of this act; and to provide for a booking fee to be imposed on each person booked into the Limestone County Jail and subsequently convicted of a crime, the collection of the fees, and for the distribution of the revenues derived from the fees. | Danny Crawford | 04/06/2023 | |
HB112 | To amend Section 17-3-8, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2022-112 of the 2022 Regular Session, relating to meeting days of boards of registrars; to increase the number of working days that the Limestone County Board of Registrars may meet each week. | Danny Crawford | 04/12/2023 | |
HB111 | Relating to Etowah County; to provide that the director and employees of The Etowah County Punishment and Corrections Authority have arrest powers and may make arrests in certain circumstances. | Mack N. Butler | 04/11/2023 | |
HB110 | Relating to the Board of Physical Therapy; to amend Sections 34-24-191, 34-24-193, 34-24-194, 34-24-196, 34-24-210, 34-24-210.1, 34-24-211, 34-24-212, 34-24-213, 34-24-214, and 34-24-217, Code of Alabama 1975; to give the board authority over certain physical therapy professionals licensed in other states. | Parker Moore | 04/12/2023 | |
HB109 | Relating to credentials and the workforce; to create the Alabama Credential Quality and Transparency Act as a new Division 9, commencing with Section 41-29-350, Article 3, Chapter 29, Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; to create the Alabama Terminal on Linking and Analyzing Statistics on Career Pathways Act as a new Division 10, commencing with Section 41-29-360, Article 3, Chapter 29, Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; and to establish the Alabama College and Career Readiness Act by adding Section 41-29-298 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for the creation of a free, searchable public online registry of educational and occupational credentials; to restrict the release of personally identifiable information; to provide procedures for handling data breaches; to establish a statewide definition of college and career readiness; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Terri Collins | 04/13/2023 | |
HB108 | Relating to Jefferson County; to amend Section 45-37-30, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the funding of the Jefferson County Cemetery Board, and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Juandalynn Givan | 04/06/2023 | |
HB107 | Relating to Jefferson County; to prohibit certain forms of street racing and exhibition driving; to authorize the county commission to assess civil penalties for violations; to authorize the towing and impoundment of a motor vehicle for a violation; to provide for the administration and enforcement procedures; and to provide adjudicative and appellate procedures. | Juandalynn Givan | 04/06/2023 | |
HB106 | Relating to counties and municipalities; to add Section 11-80-19 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that a county, municipality, or political subdivision of a county or municipality may satisfy a notice requirement by publishing the notice on a website maintained by the state or county or municipal governing body. | Cynthia Lee Almond | 04/12/2023 | |
HB105 | Relating to guardianships and conservatorships; to create the Colby Act; to provide for a supported decision-making agreement as an alternative to a guardianship or conservatorship; and to provide the scope and limitations of a supported decision-making agreement. | Cynthia Lee Almond | 03/22/2023 | |
HB104 | Relating to the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering; to amend Section 34-7B-2, Code of Alabama 1975, to remove the prohibition against any individual who is affiliated with or owns a school regulated by the board from serving on the board; and to increase the membership of the board by two members who are affiliated with or own a school regulated by the board. | Alan Baker | 03/22/2023 | |
HB103 | Relating to public education employee sick leave; to amend Section 16-1-18.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the use of up to eight weeks of sick leave for attending to an ill child for whom a petition for adoption has been filed and for attending to an adopted child. | Alan Baker | 04/04/2023 | |
HB102 | Relating to Escambia County; to authorize the county commission to provide a supplemental salary to the sheriff for the performance of additional duties relating to the operation of the county pound. | Alan Baker | 04/11/2023 | |
HB101 | Relating to adoption; to add Chapter 10E and Chapter 10F to Title 26 of the Code of Alabama 1975, and Section 12-15-115.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Section 12-15-133 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to repeal Section 12-12-35 of the Code of Alabama 1975, and Chapter 10A of Title 26 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to create the Alabama Minor Adoption Code and the Alabama Adult Adoption Code; to provide for jurisdictional and procedural requirements relating to adoptions; to provide for the communication of certain courts handling adoption-related proceedings; to provide that certain individuals must consent to an adoption; to provide for the confidentiality of certain adoption records; to provide for investigative requirements for the adoption of a minor; to provide procedures to adopt an adult; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Ginny Shaver | 04/18/2023 | |
HB100 | Relating to absentee voting; to amend Sections 17-11-4 and 17-11-9, Code of Alabama 1975, to allow a disabled voter to designate an individual to deliver the voter's application for an absentee ballot to the absentee election manager; to allow a disabled voter to designate an individual to deliver the voter's absentee ballot to the absentee election manager; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Adline Clarke | 03/07/2023 | |
HB99 | Relating to Elmore County; to amend Section 45-26-101, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for the appointment of the county superintendent of education; and to repeal Act 258 of the 1931 Regular Session (Local Acts 1031, p. 117). | Reed Ingram | 04/18/2023 | |
HB98 | Relating to Elmore County; to levy a lodging tax and room fee and provide for the collection of the tax and the distribution of the proceeds from the tax; to provide and confirm that this act is intended to be retroactive and curative; to provide that the levying and collecting of the taxes authorized by this act be approved and confirmed as of August 1, 2020; to provide that the collection of taxes pursuant to Act 2020-178 is ratified and confirmed; to provide that to the extent any amount of taxes authorized by this act was paid by a person prior to the effective date of this act, such amount shall be deemed to be legally levied and paid and shall be deemed to be a credit against the amount of taxes levied pursuant to this act; and to repeal Sections 45-26-246 through 45-26-246.04 and 45-26-246.06, and Section 45-26-246.05, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2022-49, which authorized the levy of a lodging tax in Elmore County. | Troy Stubbs | 04/18/2023 | |
HB97 | Relating to state holidays; to amend Section 1-3-8, Code of Alabama 1975; to specify that the State of Alabama shall observe as holidays days designated as a holiday by the federal government; and to delete duplicative language and make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Laura Hall | 03/07/2023 | |
HB96 | Relating to voting rights; to amend Sections 15-22-36.1, 17-3-31, and 17-4-3, Code of Alabama 1975; to eliminate the application requirement and the Certificate of Eligibility to Register to Vote; to require the Board of Pardons and Paroles to determine whether an individual may have his or her right to vote restored if the individual has lost his or her right to vote by reason of conviction in a state or federal court and has been pardoned or released from incarceration or period of probation or parole; to allow an indigent individual to have his or her right to vote restored if he or she has paid all fines and restitution and is in compliance with an approved payment plan for the payment of court costs and fees or an approved community service plan to offset the payment of court costs and fees; to remove impeachment from the list of offenses that prohibit an individual from having his or her right to vote restored to make consistent with existing law; and to add Section 17-3-31.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to require notification to the individual that his or her right to vote has been restored. | Laura Hall | 03/07/2023 | |
HB95 | Relating to voting; to amend Sections 17-11-3 and 17-11-7, Code of Alabama 1975; to authorize absentee voting without an excuse. | Thomas Jackson | 03/07/2023 | |
HB94 | Relating to elections; to require each county to provide at least one early voting center to be open during the week immediately preceding election day to allow registered voters to vote prior to election day; to prescribe the hours of operation for each early voting center; and to clarify that this act does not impair or affect the powers and duties of boards of registrars, judges of probate, and other election officials. | Thomas Jackson | 03/07/2023 | |
HB93 | This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to Dale County, to allow mayors in municipalities in the county to participate in the Employees' Retirement System under certain conditions. | Steve Clouse | 04/18/2023 | |
HB92 | Relating to motor vehicle driver licenses and registrations; to amend Section 40-12-244, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for an exemption from the license tax and registration fee levied on motor vehicles, to include all active duty, retired, and honorably discharged members of the United States Armed Forces; and to provide an exemption from any drivers license or nondriver identification card fees to certain individuals. | Fred “Coach” Plump | 03/07/2023 | |
HB91 | Relating to the City of Columbiana in Shelby County; to authorize the City Council of the City of Columbiana to establish and regulate the operation of entertainment districts in the city as designated by the Columbiana City Code; and to authorize the city council to provide penalties for violations. | Corley Ellis | 04/19/2023 | |
HB90 | Relating to special education; to add Section 16-39-3.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that certain students with an intellectual disability are entitled to certain educational services up to the student's twenty-sixth birthday. | John W. Rogers | 04/19/2023 | |
HB89 | Relating to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act; to amend Section 41-22-3, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the definition of rule for purposes of the Administrative Procedure Act to exclude from the definition certain communications within an agency or with another agency and to provide for retroactive effect. | Chris Sells | 03/22/2023 | |
HB88 | Relating to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board; to add Section 28-3A-6.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize a licensed manufacturer or importer of alcoholic beverages to donate a limited amount of alcoholic beverages to a licensed nonprofit special event. | Chris Sells | 04/19/2023 | |
HB87 | Relating to public officers and employees; to amend Section 36-21-7, Code of Alabama 1975, to increase the time period during which the state or a political subdivision of the state must be reimbursed for the training of a new law enforcement officer, certified corrections officer, fire protection personnel, or firefighter; to include custom fitted uniform items in the required reimbursement; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Parker Moore | 04/05/2023 | |
HB86 | Relating to motor vehicles and traffic; to amend Sections 11-49-4, 32-5A-173, and 32-5A-176, Code of Alabama 1975; to prohibit a municipality from setting speed limits on county-maintained streets within its corporate limits; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Debbie Wood | 04/05/2023 | |
HB85 | Relating to taxation; to amend Section 40-18-140, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide an income tax refund check-off for a contribution to the State Parks Division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Department of Mental Health, or the Alabama Medicaid Agency. | Debbie Wood | 04/05/2023 | |
HB84 | Relating to Class 2 municipalities; to amend Sections 11-44C-7 and 11-44C-9, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the deadline to qualify as a candidate for city council and mayor prior to the election; to extend the qualifying deadline for each office; to change the publication date for notice of a regular Class 2 municipal election; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Chris Pringle | 03/21/2023 | |
HB83 | Relating to the Department of Transportation; to establish the State Transportation Commission; to provide for the members, duties, responsibilities, and compensation and expenses of the commission; to prohibit a person serving on the State Transportation Commission from benefiting by entering employment with or contracting with companies that do business with the Department of Transportation while he or she serves on the commission or for a period of two years thereafter; to provide for the appointment and duties of the Director of the Department of Transportation; and for this purpose to amend Sections 23-1-21 and 23-1-21.2, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the appointment and authority of the Director of the Department of Transportation. | Chris Pringle | 03/07/2023 | |
HB82 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section 13A-6-3, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the crime of manslaughter; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Chris Pringle | 03/22/2023 | |
HB81 | Relating to the Alabama Board of Funeral Service; to amend Section 34-13-1, as amended by Act 2022-339, 2022 Regular Session, Sections 34-13-20, 34-13-21, and 34-13-22, Sections 34-13-23 and 34-13-27, as amended by Act 2022-339, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to rename the Alabama Board of Funeral Service as the Alabama Board of Funeral Services and to provide further for definitions and the membership of the board; to add Article 5 to Chapter 13, Title 34, Code of Alabama 1975, by amending and renumbering Sections 27-17A-1, 27-17A-3, 27-17A-4, 27-17A-10 to 27-17A-25, inclusive, 27-17A-30 to 27-17A-34, inclusive, and 27-17A-40 to 27-17A-57, inclusive, as Sections 34-13-170 to 34-13-172, inclusive, 34-13-190 to 34-13-206, inclusive, 34-13-230 to 34-13-234, inclusive, and 34-13-260 to 34-13-277, inclusive, Code of Alabama 1975; to establish the Alabama Preneed Funeral and Cemetery Act of 2023; to transfer the existing Preneed Funeral and Cemetery Act, and the regulation of preneed contracts, from the Commissioner and Department of Insurance to the Alabama Board of Funeral Service; to authorize the Department of Insurance to temporarily transfer certain funds to the board to defray costs associated with the administration and operation of the Alabama Preneed Funeral and Cemetery Act of 2023; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Steve Clouse | 03/07/2023 | |
HB80 | Relating to the Insurance Premium Tax; to amend Section 27-4A-3, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for real property investments to qualify for the Alabama Real Property Investment Credit; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Steve Clouse | 03/07/2023 | |
HB79 | Relating to the Board of Pharmacy; to amend Section 34-23-32 of the Code of Alabama 1975, requiring a manufacturer, bottler, packager, wholesale drug distributor, and other entities in the supply chain for pharmaceutical products to obtain an annual permit from the board; to require each permit holder to designate a representative of the permit holder who would be required to register with the board; and to provide for an additional annual registration fee. | Phillip Rigsby | 04/19/2023 | |
HB78 | Relating to the Board of Pharmacy; to amend Section 34-23-30 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to persons required to have a permit issued by the board to perform pharmacy services; to provide that an entity providing pharmacy services to residents of this state, rather than a person, would be required to have a permit issued by the board. | Phillip Rigsby | 04/05/2023 | |
HB77 | Relating to sales tax; to amend Section 40-23-7, as last amended by Section 5 of Act 2022-53 of the 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for an increase in the amount of the average monthly sales tax liability for required estimated payments. | Danny Garrett | 03/22/2023 | |
HB76 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Sections 13A-6-130, 13A-6-131, and 13A-6-132, Code of Alabama 1975, to include additional family members that may be a victim of domestic violence; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Matt Simpson | 03/22/2023 | |
HB75 | Relating to the Alabama Private Investigation Regulatory Act; to designate as Article 1, Sections 34-25B-1 to 34-25B-29, inclusive, Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Sections 34-25B-2, 34-25B-3, 34-25B-4, 34-25B-7, 34-25B-10, 34-25B-11, 34-25B-12, 34-25B-13, 34-25B-14, 34-25B-17, 34-25B-18, 34-25B-21, 34-25B-22, and 34-25B-26 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Alabama Private Investigation Board; to add Section 34-25B-12.1 and add a new Article 2, commencing with Section 34-25B-50 to Chapter 25B, Title 34 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to require applicants for private investigator licenses to complete education and work experience; to clarify those fees collected by the board that must be deposited into the Alabama Private Investigation Board Fund; to provide further for the qualifications for licensure as a private investigator; to provide further for criminal history background checks for applicants for licensure; to authorize the board to grant inactive status to licensees and to provide, by rule, for a procedure and fee to reinstate an inactive license; to provide for administrative penalties against any person practicing without a license; to require licensees to report arrests to the board within 72 hours; and to clarify that the number of hours of continuing education required to maintain licensure is 16 hours during the two-year license period; to license private investigator apprentices and allow apprentices to gain work experience through an internship; to provide for licensure of apprentices as private investigators after completing certain requirements; and to provide for licensure of private investigation agencies that do business in the state; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Arnold Mooney | 03/22/2023 | |
HB74 | Relating to Lamar County, to amend Section 45-38-101, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for the compensation and expense reimbursement of the county superintendent of education. | Tracy Estes | 04/19/2023 | |
HB73 | Relating to public K-12 education; to require each local board of education and public charter school to create and adopt an intradistrict enrollment policy and an interdistrict enrollment policy addressing open enrollment; and to require the policies, and any amendments, to be posted on the website of the local education agency or public charter school and reported to the State Department of Education. | Danny Garrett | 03/22/2023 | |
HB72 | Relating to pardons and paroles; to amend Section 15-22-32, as last corrected by Act 2022-371, the Codification Act, 2022 Regular Session, and Sections 15-22-51 and 15-22-53, Code of Alabama 1975, to prevent a parolee in custody from being released to parole supervision in certain circumstances; to provide that a specialist, in addition to a parole officer, may conduct an investigation and provide a report to the court regarding a defendant; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Jerry Starnes | 04/19/2023 | |
HB71 | Relating to Houston County; to amend Section 45-35-111, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the compensation and appointment of election officials; and to repeal Section 45-35-111.01, Code of Alabama 1975. | Rick Rehm | 04/19/2023 | |
HB70 | Relating to Houston County; to authorize the appointment of temporary judges of probate to serve contemporaneously with the judge of probate under certain circumstances; and to provide for compensation for temporary judges of probate under certain circumstances. | Rick Rehm | 04/19/2023 | |
HB69 | Relating to the Alabama National Guard; to authorize the Governor to appoint honorary generals and provide for their duties. | Randall Shedd | 03/07/2023 | |
HB68 | Relating to state employee travel expenses; to amend Section 41-23-4, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that employees of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs may be reimbursed for their actual travel expenses; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Randall Shedd | 04/04/2023 | |
HB67 | To alter, rearrange, and extend the boundary lines and corporate limits of the municipality of Skyline in Jackson County. | Mike Kirkland | 04/18/2023 | |
HB66 | Relating to the Retirement Systems of Alabama; to amend Section 36-27-59, Code of Alabama 1975, to remove the time limit for purchasing hazardous duty time for prior eligible service for certain firefighters, law enforcement officers, and correctional officers covered under the Employees' Retirement System or the Teachers' Retirement System as Tier I plan members. | Joe Lovvorn | 04/12/2023 | |
HB65 | To amend Sections 16-13B-1, Section 16-13B-4, and 16-13B-5, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to competitive bidding on contracts of city and county boards of education; to increase the minimum amount for contracts subject to competitive bid from $15,000 to $25,000; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Terri Collins | 04/12/2023 | |
HB64 | Relating to firearms; to amend Section 13A-11-72, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for persons prohibited from possessing a firearm; to prohibit aliens unlawfully in the United States or aliens admitted under a nonimmigrant visa from possessing a firearm; to provide a penalty for persons in violation of this provision; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Ronald Bolton | 04/05/2023 | |
HB63 | Relating to child-care facilities; to add Section 38-7-3.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to exempt certain child-care facilities that provide instructional cultural arts programs from licensure requirements; to require exempt child-care facilities to comply with fire and health codes and certain other policies; to require exempt child-care facilities to provide notice that the facility is not licensed and to require parents to submit an affidavit confirming the notice; to require the Department of Human Resources to inspect certain exempt child-care facilities; and to allow the district attorney to investigate certain allegations against an exempt child-care facility. | Jeremy Gray | 03/06/2023 | |
HB62 | Relating to building codes; to provide a limited exemption to applicable building codes for certain nonprofit veterans' organizations that acquire certain buildings under certain conditions. | Ben Robbins | 04/05/2023 | |
HB61 | Relating to income tax; to define certain terms; to provide for a tax credit to a recruited worker or remote worker who moves to certain counties in Alabama. | Ben Robbins | 03/06/2023 | |
HB60 | Relating to the Alabama Department of Insurance; to amend Sections 27-7-5, 27-7-14.1, 27-9A-6, 27-9A-8, 27-9A-9, 27-9A-11, 27-25-4.1, and 27-25-4.3, Code of Alabama 1975, to delete the requirement for insurance producers, independent adjusters, apprentice independent adjusters, and title insurance agents to complete a prelicensing course of study approved by the Commissioner of Insurance prior to licensure by the department; and to eliminate the issuance of new service representative licenses prospectively and to authorize a current licensee to renew his or her license. | Corley Ellis | 04/19/2023 | |
HB59 | Relating to fire alarm systems; to amend Section 34-33A-10, Code of Alabama 1975, to require the plans for a fire alarm system submitted to and approved by a municipality, a county, or the state, to bear the seal of a professional engineer licensed in this state. | Corley Ellis | 03/22/2023 | |
HB58 | Relating to insurance; to define lender-placed insurance on real property and provide a framework for regulating lender-placed insurance; to require separation between lenders and insurers and define unfair competitive practices in the sale, placement, solicitation, and negotiation of lender-placed insurance; to further provide for the term of the lender-placed insurance on real property and for the calculation of coverage and payment of premium; to provide for prohibited practices in the issuance of lender-placed insurance on real property; to require certain details of the insurance to be set forth in the policy or certificate of insurance; to require for the filing and approval by the Department of Insurance of the forms and rates to be charged for the insurance; to provide for the enforcement of the act and penalties for violations of the act; and to provide for judicial review of orders of the Commissioner of Insurance. | Corley Ellis | 03/22/2023 | |
HB57 | To amend Section 12-17-81 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the salary of all circuit clerks in the Unified Judicial System based on the pay plan adopted by the personnel system of the Unified Judicial System. | Paul W. Lee | 04/04/2023 | |
HB56 | Relating to the Alabama Board of Social Work Examiners; to amend Section 34-30-3, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Section 34-30-34 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to provide further for the scope of practice of licensees. | Frances Holk-Jones | 04/19/2023 | |
HB55 | Relating to the Alabama Department of Public Health; to adopt the Genesis Act; to require the Department of Health to establish a Certificate of Nonviable Birth form to issue to parents, upon request, for certain nonviable births. | Juandalynn Givan | 04/19/2023 | |
HB54 | Relating to electronic vote counting systems; to amend Section 17-7-21, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit the use of electronic vote counting systems that are capable of connection to the Internet or cell phone networks or that possess modem technology. | Arnold Mooney | 03/06/2023 | |
HB53 | Relating to voting; to amend Section 17-7-23, Code of Alabama 1975, to require any approved electronic vote counting system used in an election to require the use of paper ballots; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Arnold Mooney | 03/06/2023 | |
HB52 | Relating to the Board of Pardons and Paroles; to amend Section 15-22-30.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to require that at least one residential transition center established by the board to be a women's facility. | Barbara Drummond | 04/12/2023 | |
HB51 | Relating to public contracts; to amend Sections 41-16-50, 41-16-51, 41-16-52, 41-16-53, 41-16-54, and 41-16-55, Code of Alabama 1975, to increase the threshold dollar amount for which competitive bidding is generally required for certain state and local public awarding authorities, with exceptions; to provide a legislative method for the increase of the threshold dollar amount; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Corley Ellis | 04/12/2023 | |
HB50 | Relating to revenue and taxation; to amend Section 40-18-19, Code of Alabama, as last amended by Act 2022-292, Act 2022-294, and Act 2022-297 of the 2022 Regular Session, to expand the definition of a dependent to include a taxpayer, or spouse of a taxpayer, in their third trimester of pregnancy during the tax year. | Tracy Estes | 03/06/2023 | |
HB49 | Relating to the State Treasurer; to create the Alabama Local Government Investment Pool Program within the Office of the State Treasurer to allow state and local public entities to deposit monies in an investment pool administered by the treasurer; to provide parameters for investments; to authorize the treasurer to take certain actions to administer the program; to establish the Alabama Local Government Investment Advisory Board and provide for its membership and duties; and to provide further for the Office of the State Treasurer's travel expenses. | Reed Ingram | 03/22/2023 | |
HB48 | Relating to municipalities; to amend Section 11-42-5 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to validate and ratify under certain conditions any municipal annexation by any municipality prior to the effective date of this act notwithstanding any procedural defect by the municipality. | Jim Hill | 03/22/2023 | |
HB47 | Relating to the Alabama Uniform Trust Code; to amend Section 19-3B-414, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the modification or termination of an uneconomic trust. | Cynthia Lee Almond | 04/12/2023 | |
HB46 | To amend Section 36-27-8.2, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Employees' Retirement System, to permit any individual retired under the Employees' Retirement System, who was previously classified as a law enforcement officer, to perform duties as a school resource officer without suspension of his or her retirement allowance. | Allen Treadaway | 02/23/2023 | |
HB45 | Relating to public K-12 sports; to create the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act; to require the State Board of Education to adopt certain guidelines and information sheets regarding sudden cardiac arrest and distribute those information sheets to students, parents, and coaches; to require coaches to undergo certain training related to sudden cardiac arrest and to remove students who exhibit symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest from play; to require students and parents to acknowledge consent of certain informational materials related to sudden cardiac arrest; to establish certain penalties for coaches and to protect a coach from certain liability related to sudden cardiac arrest. | Jeremy Gray | 04/12/2023 | |
HB44 | Relating to the Alabama Job Creation and Military Stability Commission; to amend Sections 31-14-2 and 31-14-3, Code of Alabama 1975, to expand the membership of the commission. | Chris Blackshear | 04/19/2023 | |
HB43 | To amend Section 16-28-4, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the minimum age for attendance at public schools; to require a child who becomes six years of age between September 1 and December 31 to complete kindergarten or demonstrate first grade readiness before entering the first grade; to provide for circumstances under which a child who is under five years of age on September 1 may be admitted to public kindergarten; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Pebblin W. Warren | 04/19/2023 | |
HB42 | Relating to public K-12 education; to amend Section 16-1-44, Code of Alabama 1975, providing for comprehensive school emergency operations plans; to require the participation of school resource officers and law enforcement agencies in regularly scheduled lockdown drills; and to designate the days on which lockdown drills are conducted as school safety and awareness days. | Pebblin W. Warren | 02/23/2023 | |
HB41 | Relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and the Employees' Retirement System; to amend Sections 16-25-26 and 36-27-8.2, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Sections 16-25-25.2 and 36-27-8.3 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to temporarily revise the eligibility and compensation of retirees of either system for participating in either system after retirement. | Rex Reynolds | 04/04/2023 | |
HB40 | Relating to retired justices and judges; to amend Sections 12-18-10 and 12-18-61, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise the compensation received by retired justices and judges who are called to active duty; to require retired justices and judges be paid per diem and mileage and be provided court-supportive personnel; to require continuing legal education annually; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Jim Hill | 04/05/2023 | |
HB39 | Relating to criminal procedure; to amend Section 15-18-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the sentencing of offenders; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Jim Hill | 02/23/2023 | |
HB38 | Relating to sentencing; to amend Section 12-25-34.2, Code of Alabama 1975, to allow a judge to deviate from the presumptive sentencing standards if a defendant is convicted after requesting a trial. | Jim Hill | 02/23/2023 | |
HB37 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to create the crime of making a terrorist threat in the second degree; to establish penalties for violations; to repeal Section 13A-10-15, Code of Alabama 1975, the existing crime of making a terrorist threat, and create the new crime of making a terrorist threat in the first degree; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Jim Hill | 04/12/2023 | |
HB36 | To amend Section 22-27-2 of the Code of Alabama 1975, the Solid Waste and Recyclable Materials Management Act; to amend the definitions under the act; to define "advanced recycling" and to specify that advanced recycling would not be considered as solid waste disposal, solid waste processing, solid waste management, or incineration; and to define "mill scale and slag" and include the term in the definition of solid waste. | Terri Collins | 02/23/2023 | |
HB35 | Relating to religious expression; to amend Section 16-1-20.3, Code of Alabama 1975; to require a local board of education to provide certain school resources to students to facilitate student-led prayer. | Tracy Estes | 02/23/2023 | |
HB34 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to amend Section 13A-11-61.1, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide that it is unlawful to discharge a firearm on school property; to provide criminal penalties; to provide for exceptions; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Tracy Estes | 04/12/2023 | |
HB33 | Relating to Marion County; to amend Section 45-47-245.05, providing for the distribution of the proceeds of a local tobacco tax in the county, to further provide for the distribution of a portion of the proceeds to the Marion County Firefighters Association. | Tracy Estes | 04/13/2023 | |
HB32 | Relating to Lamar County; to authorize the Judge of Probate of Lamar County to set and collect a mail fee for the renewal of motor vehicle license registrations and business licenses by mail or through the Internet. | Tracy Estes | 04/19/2023 | |
HB31 | To amend Sections 16-6C-2, as amended by Act 2022-374, 2022 Regular Session, 16-6D-3, 16-6D-4, 16-6D-6, 16-6D-8, and 16-6D-9, as amended by Act 2022-390, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the public K-12 school grading system and the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to change the designation of a failing school to a fully supported school and the designation of a nonfailing school to a non-fully supported school; and to require the State Board of Education to reflect those changes in terminology when amending or adopting rules. | Artis McCampbell | 02/23/2023 | |
HB30 | To amend Sections 16-6C-2, as amended by Act 2022-374, 2022 Regular Session, 16-6D-3, 16-6D-4, 16-6D-6, 16-6D-8, and 16-6D-9, as amended by Act 2022-390, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the public K-12 school grading system and the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to change the designation of a failing school to a lowest sixth percent school and the designation of a nonfailing school to a highest 94th percent school; and to require the State Board of Education to reflect those changes in terminology when amending or adopting rules. | Artis McCampbell | 04/19/2023 | |
HB29 | Relating to motor vehicles; to prohibit certain motor vehicle speed contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed, and motor vehicle sideshows; to provide criminal penalties for a violation; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Allen Treadaway | 04/12/2023 | |
HB28 | Relating to firearms; to amend Section 13A-11-72, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the unlawful possession of a firearm on the premises of a public school; to remove exemption for persons with pistol permits; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Chris England | 04/05/2023 | |
HB27 | Relating to state holidays; to amend Section 1-3-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to remove Jefferson Davis' birthday and add State Employee Appreciation Day as a state holiday; and to delete duplicative language and make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Chris England | 02/23/2023 | |
HB26 | To amend Section 17-3-8, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2022-112 of the 2022 Regular Session, relating to meeting days of boards of registrars; to increase the number of working days that the Blount County Board of Registrars may meet each week. | David Standridge | 04/04/2023 | |
HB25 | Relating to criminal procedure; to amend Sections 13A-5-9 and 15-18-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the sentencing of individuals convicted of violating a Class D felony. | Parker Moore | 02/23/2023 | |
HB24 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to prohibit an individual from loitering on a public roadway or in the right-of-way of a public roadway; to remove the prohibition on a pedestrian soliciting employment, business, or contributions or distributing articles on a highway; to provide criminal penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama 2022. | Reed Ingram | 04/05/2023 | |
HB23 | Relating to volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads; to make legislative findings that volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads fulfill a public purpose; to authorize volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads to purchase kitchen equipment and supplies for their stations; and to authorize mileage reimbursement to firefighters and squad members. | Chip Brown | 04/19/2023 | |
HB22 | To authorize any municipality or governmental entity subject to a countywide civil service system to elect by a majority vote of the municipal governing body to opt out of the countywide civil service system; to require the municipality or governmental entity to adopt a human resources policy and procedures manual; and to require the municipality or governmental entity to notify the director of the countywide civil service system of its decision to withdraw from the system. | Chip Brown | 03/22/2023 | |
HB21 | Relating to criminal procedure; to require law enforcement agencies and the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences to submit an annual report containing certain data regarding sexual assault cases to the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency; and to require the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency to submit an annual report containing certain data regarding sexual assault cases to the Chairs of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. | Chip Brown | 04/12/2023 | |
HB20 | Relating to coastal areas; to provide for permits for living shoreline restoration from the State Lands Division of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Management and for the use of source sediment by riparian property owners. | Chip Brown | 04/05/2023 | |
HB19 | Relating to criminal procedure; to amend Sections 15-24-2 and 15-24-5, Code of Alabama 1975, to update the definition of "intellectually disabled person"; to allow defendants an additional opportunity to present evidence of intellectual disability; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style. | Chris England | 02/08/2023 | |
HB18 | Relating to the Department of Corrections; to amend Section 14-1-24, Code of Alabama 1975, to require the Department of Corrections to make certain reports monthly. | Chris England | 02/08/2023 | |
HB17 | Relating to abortion; to repeal Section 13A-13-7, Code of Alabama 1975, providing for criminal penalties for inducing or attempting to induce an abortion, miscarriage, or premature delivery. | Chris England | 02/08/2023 | |
HB16 | Relating to criminal justice; to create the Criminal Justice Policy Development Council; to specify the membership of the council; to specify the duties of the council; and to amend Section 15-22-26, Code of Alabama 1975, to require the Board of Pardons and Paroles to use parole release guidelines; to revise certain parole proceedings; and to provide appellate review of certain parole decisions. | Chris England | 02/08/2023 | |
HB15 | Relating to any municipality; to authorize the governing body of a municipality to reduce or eliminate its local sales and use tax rate on food; and to provide an effective date. | Chris England | 02/08/2023 | |
HB14 | Relating to sentencing; to amend Section 13A-5-46, Code of Alabama 1975, to require a unanimous vote of a jury to impose a death sentence in a capital murder case; to add Section 13A-5-46.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for resentencing for certain defendants sentenced for capital murder; to repeal Section 13A-5-47.4, Code of Alabama 1975; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Chris England | 02/08/2023 | |
HB13 | Relating to municipalities; to amend Section 11-45-9.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that all municipalities may authorize a law enforcement officer to issue a summons and complaint in lieu of a custodial arrest for certain criminal offenses. | Chris England | 04/19/2023 | |
HB12 | Relating to firearms; to amend Section 13A-11-95, Code of Alabama 1975, as added by Act 2022-133, 2022 Regular Session, to provide that failure by a person to inform a law enforcement officer that he or she is in possession of a concealed pistol or firearm upon request is a Class A misdemeanor; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama 2022. | Chris England | 04/19/2023 | |
HB11 | Relating to the Alabama Electronic Security Board of Licensure; to amend Section 34-1A-5 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the display of licensing information in advertising by licensees of the board. | Chris Sells | 03/22/2023 | |
HB10 | Relating to municipalities; to amend Section 11-46-23, Code of Alabama 1975, to permit municipalities to adjust districts and wards by census tract description; to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style; and to provide for retroactive application of this act. | Jim Hill | 03/22/2023 | |
HB9 | Relating to correctional incentive time; to amend Section 14-9-41, as last amended by Act 2022-322, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to reduce the amount of correctional incentive time a prisoner receives; to require a prisoner to remain in a certain classification for a longer period of time before moving up to a higher classification; to provide for additional circumstances in which a prisoner may be required to forfeit his or her correctional incentive time; and to require the Department of Corrections to provide annual reports to the Legislature, the Governor, and the Attorney General regarding correctional incentive time. | Russell Bedsole | 03/22/2023 | |
HB8 | Relating to motor vehicles; to amend Sections 32-5A-350, 32-5A-351, and 32-5A-352, Code of Alabama 1975, and to add Sections 32-5A-350.1 and 32-5A-353 to 32-5A-359, inclusive, to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide prohibitions on the use of a wireless telecommunications device while operating a motor vehicle, with exceptions; to further provide criminal penalties; to provide exemptions; to distribute a portion of any fines collected to the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs for the purchase of devices to enable substantially hands-free voice-based communications in a motor vehicle and to provide the devices to certain low-income families in the state; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Randy Wood | 04/04/2023 | |
HB7 | Relating to education; to provide prohibitions on the promotion, endorsement, and affirmation of certain divisive concepts in certain public settings; and to authorize certain penalties for violation. | Ed Oliver | 04/12/2023 | |
HB6 | Relating to parental rights; to establish legislative findings relating to the fundamental rights of parents; and to provide that the government may not burden certain fundamental rights of parents. | Kenneth Paschal | 04/12/2023 | |
HB5 | Relating to state holidays; to designate Alabama Peace Officers' Memorial Day. | Russell Bedsole | 03/22/2023 | |
HB4 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to make it unlawful for certain individuals to require another individual to be implanted with a microchip; to provide criminal penalties; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Prince Chestnut | 03/22/2023 | |
HB3 | Relating to crimes and offenses; to prohibit smoking or vaping in a motor vehicle when a child is present; to provide penalties; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. | Rolanda Hollis | 04/13/2023 | |
HB2 | Relating to persons charged with driving under the influence; to amend Section 32-5A-191, Code of Alabama 1975, effective July 1, 2023, to continue the requirement that a person charged with driving under the influence and who enters a pretrial diversion program or similar program be required to install an ignition interlock device on his or her vehicle for six months or the duration of the program, whichever is greater; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Arnold Mooney | 04/05/2023 | |
HB1 | Relating to controlled substances; to amend Section 13A-12-231, Code of Alabama 1975; to add mandatory minimums for certain felony drug trafficking crimes; to provide for additional penalties for subsequent offenses; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022. | Matt Simpson | 04/06/2023 |