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Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee

Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Bills & Legislation

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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB152

Introduced
2/1/22  
Refer
2/1/22  
Engrossed
2/3/22  
Refer
2/3/22  
Enrolled
2/22/22  
Chaptered
2/22/22  
Taxation, income tax, exclusion of enhanced federal child tax credits from American Rescue Plan Act from calculation of federal income tax deduction for tax year 2021, extension of the due date for certain taxpayers, Secs. 40-16-3.1, 40-18-39.2 added.
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB250

Introduced
3/21/24  
Introduced
3/21/24  
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 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 House Bill HB380

Introduced
3/21/24  
Introduced
3/21/24  
Report Pass
4/3/24  
Refer
3/21/24  
Refer
4/11/24  
Report Pass
4/3/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Refer
4/11/24  
Enrolled
4/30/24  
Report Pass
4/24/24  
Passed
5/7/24  
Enrolled
4/30/24  
Passed
5/7/24  
Taxation and revenue; income tax credit for storm shelter construction, extended
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB202

Introduced
4/11/23  
Refer
4/11/23  
Report Pass
5/2/23  
Refer
5/2/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
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.
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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB85

Introduced
1/13/22  
Toll road and bridge fees, income tax credit for state taxpayers for payments to Ala. Toll Road, Bridge, and Tunnel Authority, Revenue Dept. authorized to adopt rules, funds transferred from sales tax revenue to cover
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB176

Introduced
4/5/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/11/23  
Report Pass
4/11/23  
Engrossed
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/25/23  
Report Pass
5/25/23  
Enrolled
5/31/23  
To create the Students' Right to Know Act of 2023; to require the Alabama Commission on Higher Education to collect data and create an interactive online tool for students for use in making informed decisions relating to education and professions; and to require the commission and Workforce Development Division of the Department of Commerce to share data and information as necessary to comply with this act.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB164

Introduced
4/4/23  
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.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB174

Introduced
4/5/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/11/23  
Report Pass
4/11/23  
Engrossed
4/27/23  
Refer
4/27/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and the Employees' Retirement System; to amend Section 16-1-44.1, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide further for the compensation of retired law enforcement officers providing services as school resource officers for local boards of education.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB175

Introduced
4/5/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/11/23  
Report Pass
4/11/23  
Engrossed
4/27/23  
Refer
4/27/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
To establish the ReEngage Alabama Grant Program; to provide grant award payments to eligible adult learners; to provide eligibility standards, and to provide for administration by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; relating to grants for short-term credentials; to establish the Alabama Short-Term Credential Scholarship Program to provide grants to Alabama residents to help them earn short-term credentials; to determine eligible recipients; to establish procedures for administering the program; to set forth the process by which the program will be funded; and to repeal the Alabama Apprenticeship Tax Credit Act commencing with Section 40-18-422, Code of Alabama 1975.
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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB225

Introduced
2/16/22  
Public education employees, including K-12, postsecondary education, and AIDB, salary increase
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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 SB257

Introduced
4/27/23  
Relating to sales taxes; to amend Section 40-23-1, as last amended by Acts 2022-199 and 2022-291, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 40-23-2, as last amended by Act 2022-346, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 40-23-60, as last amended by Act 2022-199, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, and Section 40-23-61, Code of Alabama 1975; to define "food" and begin phasing-out 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 authorize a county and municipality to reduce the sales and use tax rate or exempt food from local sales and use taxes.
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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 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB333

Introduced
4/18/24  
Introduced
4/18/24  
Taxation, tax credits, Alabama employers provided a tax credit for employees eligible under the federal Work Opportunity Tax Credit program.