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House Ways and Means Education Committee

Alabama 2024 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Education Committee Bills & Legislation (Page 3)

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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB305

Introduced
4/8/25  
Refer
4/8/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Engrossed
4/10/25  
Refer
4/10/25  
Report Pass
4/22/25  
Enrolled
4/29/25  
Passed
5/6/25  
Alabama Renewing Alabama's Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act created, additional funding for public schools authorized based on the individual needs of students
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB207

Introduced
4/12/23  
Refer
4/12/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Engrossed
4/25/23  
Refer
4/25/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Enrolled
5/25/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB325

Introduced
4/13/23  
Refer
4/13/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Engrossed
5/26/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB315

Introduced
4/13/23  
Refer
4/13/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Engrossed
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB303

Introduced
4/13/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB308

Introduced
4/13/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB334

Introduced
4/18/23  
Refer
4/18/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Engrossed
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB330

Introduced
4/18/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB343

Introduced
4/18/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB357

Introduced
4/20/23  
Relating to the state income tax; to establish the Alabama Workforce Housing Tax Credit Act; to create the Alabama Workforce Housing Tax Credit for qualified workforce housing projects; to define certain terms; to provide for minimum and maximum annual award amounts for qualified projects; to allow the tax credits to be claimed for 10 years against the income tax liability of a qualified taxpayer; to allow carryforward for earned but unused tax credits; to require a minimum of the annual award cycle cap be awarded for qualified projects located in areas designated as rural by the authority; and to require the Alabama Housing Finance Authority to implement and administer the provisions of this act.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB368

Introduced
4/20/23  
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 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB388

Introduced
4/25/23  
Relating to athletic trainers; to create the Athletic Trainer Secondary School Incentive Program; to provide grants to local boards of education that meet certain requirements related to the use of athletic trainers in rural and Title I secondary schools; to authorize the Alabama Board of Athletic Trainers to adopt rules to administer the incentive program and the grant application process; to require grants issued from the incentive program to be provided as stipends to qualifying athletic trainers; and to limit each secondary school and athletic trainer to one grant per school year.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB375

Introduced
4/25/23  
Refer
4/25/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Engrossed
5/17/23  
Refer
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Relating to sales and use tax; to amend Section 40-23-4, as amended by Acts Act 2022-199, 2022-291, 2022-293, and 2022-373 of the 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, to exempt the purchase of gun safes and gun safety devices from sales and use tax.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB262

Introduced
4/27/23  
Refer
4/27/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Engrossed
5/4/23  
Refer
5/4/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Enrolled
5/25/23  
To make an appropriation of $13,651,435 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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB263

Introduced
4/27/23  
Refer
4/27/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Engrossed
5/24/23  
Refer
5/24/23  
Report Pass
5/25/23  
Report Pass
5/25/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
Relating to 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, Code of Alabama 1975; to change the terms failing school and nonfailing school to priority school and qualifying school, respectively; to revise and add definitions; to expand scholarships for eligible students attending nonfailing or qualifying schools; to revise the poverty threshold for determining the qualifications of an eligible student; to provide for the qualifying expenses of eligible students with unique needs; to revise the method of determining the amount of educational scholarship awards; to increase the maximum cumulative amount of tax credits that may be issued each year; to require a scholarship granting organization to maintain a reserve balance and to verify the qualifications of an eligible student with unique needs; and to authorize the Department of Revenue to bar qualifying schools or educational service providers from participating in the program under certain circumstances.