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HB418 Alabama 2024 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026
HB418 Alabama 2024 Session
House Bill
Enacted
Current Status
Regular Session 2024
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2024
Title
State Licensing Board for General Contractors; minimum cost of undertaking subject to licensure requirements, increased
Description

Under existing law, a person who, for a fixed price, commission, fee, or wager, undertakes to construct, superintend, or engage in the construction, alteration, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, remediation, reclamation, or demolition of any building, highway, sewer, structure, site work, grading, or paving is deemed to have engaged in the business of general contracting if the cost of the undertaking is $50,000 or more.

Also under existing law, a person who engages in the business of general contracting is required to be licensed by the State Licensing Board for General Contractors.

This bill would increase the threshold cost of the undertaking amount to $100,000.

This bill would also exempt from the requirements of obtaining a license from the board a labor broker or other temporary labor provider that provides temporary workers to a licensed contractor to perform work under that licensed contractor.

Subjects
Authorities, Boards, & Commissions

Bill Actions

H

Enacted

H

Enacted

H

Delivered to Governor

H

Enrolled

S

Signature Requested

H

Ready to Enroll

S

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 947

S

Third Reading in Second House

S

Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

S

Reported Out of Committee Second House

S

Re-referred to Committee in Second House to Senate County and Municipal Government

S

Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

S

Reported Out of Committee Second House

S

Pending Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

H

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 688

H

Third Reading in House of Origin

H

Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

H

Reported Out of Committee House of Origin

H

Pending House Commerce and Small Business

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Commerce and Small Business

Calendar

Hearing

Senate County and Municipal Government (Senate) Hearing

Finance and Taxation at 13:00:00

Hearing

Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development (Senate) Hearing

Finance and Taxation at 11:22:00

Hearing

House Commerce and Small Business (House) Hearing

Room 418 UPDATED AGENDA at 15:00:00

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Roll Call 688

April 18, 2024 House Passed
Yes 102
Absent 1

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Roll Call 947

May 2, 2024 Senate Passed
Yes 31
Absent 4

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature