HB333 Alabama 2025 Session

Updated Feb 22, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: David FaulknerRepresentative
Republican
Session: 2025 Regular Session
Title: Municipalities to jointly form an authority to open and operate law enforcement training facilities
Summary: Two or more Alabama municipalities can form a regional authority to build, run, and finance a shared law enforcement training facility.
What This Bill Does
The bill allows municipalities to establish a regional law enforcement training facility authority to construct, maintain, and operate a training facility (including a shooting range). It sets up a board to govern the authority, authorizes bond issuance and borrowing, and allows participating municipalities to contribute money or property. It also gives priority training to officers from participating municipalities and provides for the authority to be a governmental entity with its own employees, pensions, and tax considerations. The act includes rules for dissolution if no obligations remain and outlines how property and duties would be handled in that case.

Who It Affects
Participating municipalities (cities and counties) that form or join the authority: they will share governance, funding responsibilities, and ownership of the facility.
Law enforcement officers in participating municipalities: they will receive priority training at the new regional facility once operational.
Authority employees and local governments: the authority can hire staff, participate in the Employees' Retirement System, and manage financing, property, and tax considerations.

Key Provisions
Allows two or more municipalities to establish a regional law enforcement training facility authority to construct, maintain, and operate the facility and to join an existing authority.
Board composition includes two members from municipalities with populations of 20,000 or more, one member from each participating municipality (who may be on the municipal council), and the mayor of each municipality; board members serve at the pleasure of their appointing councils.
The authority can plan, acquire, build, operate, and maintain the training facility (including a shooting range) and may issue bonds, borrow money, and enter contracts as needed.
Municipalities may contribute money or services, transfer property, and pay its income or special tax proceeds to the authority; the authority’s property and income are exempt from state taxes (subject to local approvals).
Obligations and bonds of the authority are its own, not the municipalities’ debts, and dissolution is possible if no bonds or obligations remain, with property distributed among participating municipalities.
Effective date is June 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: Counties & Municipalities