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House Ways and Means Education Committee

Alabama 2024 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Education Committee Bills & Legislation

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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB439

Introduced
5/4/23  
Refer
5/4/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Engrossed
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Enrolled
5/25/23  
Relating to the Growing Alabama Credit; to add Section 40-18-417.8 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to provide that the credit from a parent or holding company may be claimed by the subsidiary in certain circumstances; and to provide retroactive effect.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB438

Introduced
5/4/23  
To amend Section 40-23-4, as last amended by Act 2022-291, Act 2022-293, Act 2022-373, and Act 2022-199, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to sales tax exemptions; to provide for a sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases of diapers; to provide for a sales and use tax exemption for certain purchases of menstrual hygiene products; to provide for definitions; and to provide for rulemaking authority.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB443

Introduced
5/9/23  
Refer
5/9/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Relating to economic tax incentives; to amend Section 40-1-50, Code of Alabama 1975; to change the reporting date requirements of state agencies which administer economic tax incentives; to align committee schedules to review state agency reports; to establish sunset dates for tax incentive programs; to establish future sunset dates for extended tax incentive programs; and to provide required guidelines for all new incentive legislation.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB442

Introduced
5/9/23  
To create the Alabama Fits All Scholarship Program; require the State Board of Education to contract with a program manager to administer the program; to authorize the program manager to establish scholarship accounts on behalf of eligible students; to prohibit a program manager from accepting scholarship funds in certain circumstances; to require fiscal safeguards and accountability measures; to require eligible schools and service providers to meet certain standards to be eligible to receive scholarship funds; to authorize the program manager to distribute scholarship funds; to require the State Board of Education to provide limited oversight of the program manager, including an appeal process for the program manager's administrative decisions; to prohibit certain regulations of eligible schools and eligible service providers; to require criminal history background information checks for employees and officers of a program manager; to provide for program funding; and to require the program manager and the board to submit reports on the program to the Legislature.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB300

Introduced
5/9/23  
Refer
5/9/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Engrossed
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Enrolled
5/23/23  
To create the School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act and the Alabama Principal Leadership Development System for public K-12 education; to provide for the creation and implementation of a mentoring program for new principals and a continuing professional learning program for principals and assistant principals; and to provide annual stipends for each principal and assistant principal who satisfactorily completes the program.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB445

Introduced
5/9/23  
Refer
5/9/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Engrossed
5/26/23  
Refer
5/26/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
Enrolled
6/2/23  
Relating to economic development; to amend Section 40-18-417.4, Code of Alabama 1975, as amended by Act 2023-34 of the 2023 Regular Session; to amend Section 5 of Act 2023-34 of the 2023 Regular Session, now appearing as Sections 40-18-472 and 40-18-473, Code of Alabama 1975, to correct a date referenced in the Growing Alabama Act; to clarify the tax rebates under the Sweet Home Alabama Tourism Investment Act for certain businesses for certified tourism destination projects are only available for projects placed into service after the effective date of this act; to amend Section 41-7-3, Code of Alabama 1975 to include the Chairs of the Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee and Ways and Means Education Committee and the ranking minority member of each committee, or their designees, to the Tourism Advisory Board; and to amend Sections 41-10-47.03 and 41-10-47.04, Code of Alabama 1975, from Section 1 of Act 2023-35 of the 2023 Regular Session, to align rural population provisions of the Site Evaluation Economic Development Strategy with the Jobs Act.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB299

Introduced
5/9/23  
Refer
5/9/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Engrossed
5/23/23  
Refer
5/23/23  
Report Pass
5/25/23  
Report Pass
5/25/23  
Enrolled
6/7/23  
Relating to the Coal Production Tax Credit; to amend Section 40-18-220, Code of Alabama 1975, to allow the credit to be claimed against both income and utility services taxes; to allow the credits to be earned by all persons that increase their production of coal mined in Alabama from the prior year; to allow any unused credits to be carried forward for no more than five years;
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB479

Introduced
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Engrossed
5/26/23  
Refer
5/26/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
Enrolled
6/2/23  
Relating to sales and use taxes; to amend Sections 40-23-1, 40-23-2, 40-23-60, and 40-23-61, Code of Alabama 1975, to define "food" and begin reducing the state sales and use tax on food on September 1, 2023; to require certain growth targets in the Education Trust Fund for future sales tax reductions on food; to establish the sales and use tax rate on food for purposes of county and municipal sales and use taxes as the existing general or retail sales and use tax rate; and to provide for the levy of sales and use tax on food by counties and municipalities.
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB326

Introduced
3/19/24  
Introduced
3/19/24  
Report Pass
4/17/24  
Refer
3/19/24  
Refer
4/30/24  
Report Pass
4/17/24  
Report Pass
5/8/24  
Refer
4/30/24  
Entertainment Industry Incentive Act of 2009 amended, music albums included as qualified production, minimum qualifications established
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB358

Introduced
3/21/24  
Introduced
3/21/24  
Report Pass
4/16/24  
Refer
3/21/24  
Refer
4/18/24  
Report Pass
4/16/24  
Refer
4/18/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Engrossed
4/18/24  
Enrolled
5/8/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Passed
5/9/24  
Enrolled
5/8/24  
Passed
5/9/24  
Relating to child care and workforce development; to establish the employer tax credit and child care provider tax credit; to make legislative findings.
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB346

Introduced
3/21/24  
Introduced
3/21/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Refer
3/21/24  
Engrossed
4/18/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Engrossed
4/18/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
4/18/24  
Enrolled
5/8/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Passed
5/9/24  
Enrolled
5/8/24  
Passed
5/9/24  
Establishes the Alabama Workforce Housing Tax Credit Act; creates the Alabama Workforce Housing Tax Credit
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB310

Introduced
3/7/24  
Introduced
3/7/24  
Rural Hospital Investment Program established, tax credits for donations to rural hospitals authorized
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB356

Introduced
3/21/24  
Introduced
3/21/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Refer
3/21/24  
Engrossed
4/30/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Engrossed
4/30/24  
Income tax, tax credit for voluntary cash contributions to pregnancy center or residential maternity facility
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB278

Introduced
4/2/24  
Introduced
4/2/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Refer
4/2/24  
Engrossed
4/18/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Engrossed
4/18/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
4/18/24  
Public education employees, providing compensation to full-time public education employees, on the job injury program, trust fund, and board created
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB297

Introduced
4/4/24  
Introduced
4/4/24  
Report Pass
4/18/24  
Refer
4/4/24  
Report Pass
4/18/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Refer
4/18/24  
Engrossed
4/30/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Engrossed
4/30/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
4/30/24  
Enrolled
5/7/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Passed
5/20/24  
Enrolled
5/7/24  
Passed
5/20/24  
Precious Metal Bullion, exchange excludes net gain from gross income, grants net capital loss deduction from gross income