HB184 Alabama 2025 Session

Updated Feb 22, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Laura HallRepresentative
Democrat
Session: 2025 Regular Session
Title: Coalition Against Domestic Violence, appropriation, operations plan and audited financial statement required, quarterly and end-of-year reports required
Summary: HB184 would appropriate $169,633 from the State General Fund to the Coalition Against Domestic Violence for FY 2026, but funds would be released only after submitting an operations plan, audited financials, and quarterly and end-of-year performance reports.
What This Bill Does
The bill provides a specific funding amount to the Coalition Against Domestic Violence for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. Before any funds are released, the coalition must send an FY2026 operations plan and an audited FY2024 financial statement to the Director of Finance. During FY2026, the coalition must submit quarterly expenditure and accomplishment reports and an end-of-year performance report detailing work, services, costs, and measures of program effectiveness. The Director of Finance will share copies of these reports with the Legislative Council in a timely manner.

Who It Affects
Coalition Against Domestic Violence: must prepare and submit an operations plan, an audited FY2024 financial statement, and quarterly and end-of-year reports; funding release depends on compliance.
Alabama Department of Finance and Legislative Council: the Department of Finance reviews and collects reports and controls fund release; Legislative Council receives copies of the reports.

Key Provisions
Section 1: Allocates $169,633 from the State General Fund to the Coalition Against Domestic Violence for FY2026; funds are to be budgeted and allotted under the Budget Management Act and specified Code sections (41-4-93, 41-4-95, 41-4-96).
Section 2: Prior to releasing funds, requires an FY2026 operations plan and an audited FY2024 financial statement to be forwarded to the Director of Finance; funds expected to be released after receipt of these reports.
Section 3: Requires quarterly FY2026 reports on planned expenditures and accomplishments and an end-of-year performance report detailing work, services, costs, and meaningful measures of program effectiveness; Director of Finance forwards copies to the Legislative Council.
Section 4: Effective date is October 1, 2025.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.
Subjects: Appropriations