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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 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB204

Introduced
2/20/24  
Introduced
2/20/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Refer
2/20/24  
Refer
4/2/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Report Pass
5/8/24  
Refer
4/2/24  
Birmingham Host Committee 2025 World Police and Fire Games tax exemptions
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB167

Introduced
2/27/24  
Introduced
2/27/24  
Report Pass
3/19/24  
Refer
2/27/24  
Engrossed
4/16/24  
Report Pass
3/19/24  
Engrossed
4/16/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
4/16/24  
Alabama Jobs Act; requirements for approved companies revised
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB236

Introduced
2/27/24  
Introduced
2/27/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Refer
2/27/24  
Engrossed
3/19/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Engrossed
3/19/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
3/19/24  
Taxation, sales tax exemptions, sales and use tax exemption provided for certain purchases of diapers, baby supplies, baby formula, maternity clothing, and menstrual hygiene products
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB152

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
3/19/25  
Engrossed
3/20/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Enrolled
5/6/25  
Passed
5/12/25  
Taxation, sales tax exemptions, sales and use tax exemption provided for certain purchases of diapers, baby supplies, baby formula, maternity clothing, and menstrual hygiene products
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB1

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Enrolled
4/16/25  
Passed
4/24/25  
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 SB331

Introduced
4/18/24  
Introduced
4/18/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Refer
4/18/24  
Refer
4/30/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Growing Alabama Act, Innovating Alabama Act, Alabama Jobs Act, Innovate Alabama, allow existing communities to qualify for incentives
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB477

Introduced
4/23/24  
Introduced
4/23/24  
Employees of local boards of education; twelve weeks of paid parental leave following birth of child, placement of child for adoption, miscarriage, or stillbirth provided for; State Board of Education authorized to adopt rules
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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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB396

Introduced
4/27/23  
To amend Sections 40-23-1 and 40-23-4, as last amended by Act 2022-291, Act 2022-293, Act 2022-373, and Act 2022-199, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, related to sales taxes; to define food and exempt sales of food from state sales and use taxes; to establish the local sales tax rate on food for purposes of county and municipal sales and use taxes as the existing general or retail local sales tax rate; and to allow a local governing body to reduce the local sales tax rate or exempt food from local sales and use taxes.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB267

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  
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, 1A, 2A, 3A, 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 Senate Bill SB278

Introduced
5/2/23  
Refer
5/2/23  
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  
Relating to education; to create the Distressed Institutions of Higher Education Revolving Loan Program to be administered by the State Treasurer; to define "eligible institutions"; to authorize the State Treasurer to establish terms and conditions of loans; to require reporting of contract terms and on the operation of the program; to establish the Distressed Institutions of Higher Education Loan Program Fund in the State Treasury to receive appropriations from the Legislature for funding loans and loan repayments; and to provide for recovery of amounts due.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB269

Introduced
5/2/23  
Refer
5/2/23  
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  
Relating to education; to establish the K-12 Capital Grant Program within the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to provide grants to local schools to assist with capital project, deferred maintenance, or technology needs; to provide the purposes for which grant funds can be used; to establish the process for grant applications and approvals; to establish the K-12 Capital Grant Program Fund in the State Treasury; and to provide an effective date.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB429

Introduced
5/3/23  
Refer
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Engrossed
5/24/23  
Refer
5/24/23  
Refer
5/24/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Relating to the Entertainment Industry Incentive Act of 2009; to amend Sections 41-7A-40, 41-7A-41, 41-7A-42, 41-7A-45, and 41-7A-48, Code of Alabama 1975, to expand the incentive by renaming it the Film and Music Incentive Act of 2023, to increase the cap on incentives to fifty million dollars annually, and to allow for the inclusion of music and virtual reality as qualified production companies.