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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 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.
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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 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB339

Introduced
4/23/24  
Introduced
4/23/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
4/23/24  
Retirement Systems of Alabama; to provide a benefit increase for certain retirees of the ERS and the TRS
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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB382

Introduced
2/22/22  
Refer
2/22/22  
Engrossed
3/9/22  
Refer
3/10/22  
Enrolled
4/6/22  
Chaptered
4/6/22  
Sales taxes, motor vehicles, drive out exclusion if requested in another state, to include travel trailers or housecars, proof or out-of-state residency, Sec. 40-23-2 am'd.
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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 SB273

Introduced
5/2/23  
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 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB239

Introduced
2/22/22  
Taxation, Long Ranch, exempt from state, county and local ad valorem tax and municipal sales and use tax
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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 Senate Bill SB277

Introduced
5/2/23  
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.
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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB244

Introduced
2/22/22  
Refer
2/22/22  
Engrossed
3/29/22  
Nourish One Child, a non-profit corporation, exempt from state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes, Sec. 40-23-5 am'd.
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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB243

Introduced
2/22/22  
Taxation, sales and use taxes, Upper Sand Mountain United Methodist Larger Parish Incorporated exempt from state, county, and municipal taxes