SB321 Alabama 2025 Session

Updated Feb 23, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Bobby D. SingletonSenator
Democrat
Session: 2025 Regular Session
Title: Alabama Drycleaning Response Trust Fund Board, requirement that the Alabama Department of Environmental Management prevent involvement of other units of government in contamination problems deleted; required minimum balance in Alabama Drycleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund reduced from one million to two hundred fifty thousand dollars
Summary: SB321 amends Alabama's drycleaning contamination fund rules by removing an intergovernmental involvement barrier and cutting the fund's minimum balance from $1 million to $250,000.
What This Bill Does
It eliminates the requirement that the Department of Environmental Management prevent involvement by other federal, state, or local government units in contamination problems. It lowers the minimum amount that must be kept in the Alabama Drycleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund from $1,000,000 to $250,000. The fund continues to be used to pay for investigation, assessment, and remediation of drycleaning-related contamination under board and department oversight. The act takes effect on October 1, 2025.

Who It Affects
Owners, operators, and wholesale distributors of drycleaning facilities (and related entities) in Alabama, who may experience changes in how government involvement is coordinated in contamination responses.
Impacted third parties and adjacent landowners where contamination concerns a drycleaning facility, who may seek or benefit from fund-supported cleanup and related actions.

Key Provisions
Deletes the requirement that the Alabama Department of Environmental Management prevent involvement of other federal, state, and local government units in contamination problems.
Reduces the minimum balance the fund must maintain from $1,000,000 to $250,000.
Effective date of the act is October 1, 2025.

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