2026 Alabama House Bills
A list of all 2026 Alabama House Bills. Click any bill to read the full text and get the current status.
| Bill | Title | Sponsor | Last Action | Signed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HB1 | Motor vehicles; suspension of driver license and ignition interlock device following first driving while under the influence conviction required | Barbara Bigsby Boyd | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB10 | Juvenile offenders, delinquent acts for purposes of juvenile proceedings further provided for | Phillip Pettus | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB11 | Youthful offender status, to prohibit a judge from granting youthful offender status to any person who is 16 years of age and older and charged with capital murder or murder | Phillip Pettus | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB12 | Health; discrimination by certain entities against individuals who refuse certain immunizations, drugs, or facial coverings for reasons of conscience prohibited; civil cause of action for violations provided; Attorney General authorized to defend an entity subject to related federal penalties | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB13 | Illegal immigration, procedures for arrest, detention, transportation of illegal immigrants provided for; reporting requirements established | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB14 | Referendum measures; authorize general laws and constitutional amendments to be initiated through public petition process | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB15 | Taxation, sales tax exemptions, sales and use tax exemption with local option provided for purchases of optical aids, including eyeglasses and contact lenses. | Mark Shirey | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB16 | Fair Campaign Practices Act; authorize notifications of civil penalties by electronic mail in lieu of certified mail in certain circumstances | Bill Lamb | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB17 | Municipal audits, expenditure thresholds for municipal audits revised | Bill Lamb | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB18 | Acknowledgement of paternity; certain rebuttable presumptions relating to the best interest of a child, created | Patrick Sellers | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB19 | Child custody; rebuttable presumption of joint physical custody and substantial parenting time created, final order of the court further provided for | Patrick Sellers | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB2 | Gulf of Mexico, renamed, observation and implementation by state and local entities and state and local employees required where practicable | David Standridge | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB20 | Crimes and offenses; list of capital offenses, further provided to include murder committed when the defendant knowingly creates a great risk to multiple persons | Matt Simpson | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB21 | Employees, annual leave to attend school related activities authorized | Patrick Sellers | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB22 | Class IV municipalities; audits, restrictions on hiring accountant removed | Mack N. Butler | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB23 | Public preK-12 education; discussions of gender identity prohibited, employees prohibited from displaying flags or insignia relating to sexual orientation or gender identity and from referring to students by pronouns inconsistent with student's biological sex | Mack N. Butler | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB24 | Vaccines; religious exemption for K-12 students further provided for, religious exemption for students at public institutions of higher education provided | Mack N. Butler | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB25 | Air pollution; dispersion of items intended to affect weather prohibited; pollution reduction fund created; environmental management department required to administer | Mack N. Butler | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB26 | Sex offenders; restrictions for certain sex offenders further provided, Board of Pardons and Paroles authorized to adopt rules | Mack N. Butler | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB27 | Relating to Catastrophe Savings Accounts; expands allowable expenses | Chip Brown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB28 | Taxation; to establish an income tax credit for oyster shell recycling | Chip Brown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB29 | Crimes and offenses; manslaughter; further provided to include certain victims of sexual extortion | Ronald Bolton | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB3 | Taxation; to exempt certain retail sales of fish or other seafood from sales and use taxes | Chip Brown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB30 | Solid waste collection fees; veterans' benefits sole income households exempted | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB31 | Public assistance; Department of Human Resources required to request waiver to prohibit the purchase of soda, energy drinks, candy, and processed desserts with SNAP benefits, implementation of prohibition provided for | Reed Ingram | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB32 | Motor vehicles; child passenger restraint systems, use further provided | Ronald Bolton | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB33 | Driver licenses; school enrollment and attendance requirements for application and renewal of driver licenses removed | Ronald Bolton | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB34 | Crimes and offenses; crime of giving false information to a law enforcement officer, established; crime of refusing to give a law enforcement officer information, established | Ronald Bolton | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB35 | Motor vehicles; Alabama Squat Truck Law; prohibitions on the alteration of the height of the fender of a vehicle, provided | Ronald Bolton | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB36 | Law enforcement; Attorney General and Governor authorized to appoint interim police chief, subject to conditions | Reed Ingram | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB37 | Crimes and offenses; penalties for eluding or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer, penalties further provided | Reed Ingram | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB38 | State waters; Alabama Seagrass Restoration Task Force established to remediate seagrass loss within state marine waters | Chip Brown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB39 | Seafood dealer license; license fee for applicants holding other seafood licenses revised; retroactive effect provided | Chip Brown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB4 | Taxation; establishes Alabama Broadband Investment Maximization Act; exempts ADECA project funded or administered purchases from sales and use tax | Matt Woods | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB40 | Health care insurance; to eliminate cost-sharing for screening of men who are at high risk for prostate cancer | Jeremy Gray | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB41 | Crimes and offenses; rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and sexual torture, penalties further provided for | Matt Simpson | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB42 | Motor vehicles; reporting requirements for towed and unclaimed motor vehicles, further provided | Allen Treadaway | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB43 | Public K-12 education; Pledge of Allegiance and moment of silence or prayer required each day, constitutional amendment | Reed Ingram | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB44 | Public assistance; Department of Human Resources required to request waiver to allow the purchase of hot rotisserie chickens with SNAP benefits, implementation of prohibition provided for | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB45 | Absentee voting; designee to deliver voter's absentee ballot application and absentee ballot to absentee election manager for disabled voter, authorized | Adline Clarke | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB46 | Abortion; authorized to preserve health of mother or if pregnancy result of rape or incest; man convicted of rape or incest required to pay for abortion and undergo vasectomy; mother of unborn child who undergoes abortion to preserve her health authorized to petition to require father of unborn child to pay for certain abortion costs; judge authorized to excuse father from payment if he undergoes vasectomy | Juandalynn Givan | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB47 | Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, makeup artist license and lash/brow artist permit qualifications provided, exemptions | Juandalynn Givan | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB48 | Public Safety; Ebony Alert System, established to assist in recovery of certain missing persons | Juandalynn Givan | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB49 | Employment; employers required to provide location and break time for employees to express breast milk | Juandalynn Givan | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB5 | Service contracts; terms defined; certain disclosures in advertising required; disclosures of limitations of contracts further provided for | Artis McCampbell | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB50 | Imagination Library of Alabama Program, Department of Early Childhood Education to administer through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | Terri Collins | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB51 | Crimes and offenses; assault in the second degree, harassment, and harassing communications, further provided | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB52 | Sexual abuse of a minor; time-barred civil claims revived for period of 10 years, Attorney General required to conduct public awareness campaign, discrimination for bringing suit, prohibited | Rolanda Hollis | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB53 | Child sexual abuse; Legislature authorized to revive lapsed rights or remedies, constitutional amendment | Rolanda Hollis | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB54 | Incarceration; supervised pre-incarceration probation for certain pregnant women provided for, self-surrender 12 weeks after birth required, criminal penalties for failure to surrender provided | Rolanda Hollis | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB55 | Mortgages; require lenders to all mortgagors to make additional mortgage payments | Rolanda Hollis | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB56 | Motor vehicles; autocycles, headgear equipment required for operation | Rolanda Hollis | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB57 | Pickens County; City of Carrollton, annexation | Ronald Bolton | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB58 | Criminal and Civil procedure; continuance of case when party, attorney, or witness is on active military duty; bail required to be set in such cases subject to conditions | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB59 | Certified Public Accountants Board; board notifications by electronic mail authorized, board's authority to adopt rules revised, advertising restrictions on certified public accountant firms revised | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB6 | Employees' Retirement System, all ALEA law enforcement officers, including State Police Tier II Plan members, to receive payment for up to 80 hours of accrued and unused annual leave per year | Phillip Pettus | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB60 | Criminal and Civil procedure; continuance of case when party, attorney, or witness is on active military duty; bail required to be set in such cases subject to conditions | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB61 | Covington County; underground carbon dioxide and nonhazardous fluids storage prohibited; constitutional amendment | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB62 | Local boards of education, salary payment schedule for employees | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB63 | Adoption; de facto parent adoption authorized in certain circumstances | Allen Treadaway | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB64 | Colbert County; senior property tax exemption, authorized; constitutional amendment | Jamie Kiel | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB65 | Franklin County; senior property tax exemption, authorized; constitutional amendment | Jamie Kiel | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB66 | Motor vehicles; driver licenses; designation of certain medical conditions, provided for | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB67 | Voter Information; limit cost of reproducing voter registration list; crime for misuse of personal voter information; created | Jamie Kiel | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB68 | Motor vehicles; driver licenses; designation of certain medical conditions, provided for | Kenyatte Hassell | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB69 | Alabama Department of Environmental Management; water well drillers, licenses and fees revised | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB7 | Crimes and offenses, penalty increased for crimes of making a terrorist threat in the first or second degree, principal to immediately contact law enforcement of terrorist threat, suspension of student, readmittance, and restitution provided | Matt Woods | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB70 | Sentencing; resentencing of certain sentences subject to judicial override, authorized; retroactive application, provided | Chris England | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB71 | Crimes and offenses; medical examiners, criminal penalties imposed for retention of deceased individual's organ without notice and consent | Chris England | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB72 | Crimes & offenses; smoking or vaping marijuana in motor vehicle when child is present prohibited, criminal penalties provided, notification of Department of Human Resources required, mandatory reporting if child smells of marijuana required | Patrick Sellers | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB73 | Notaries public; commission term decreased; notary seals to have embedded identifying information; penalties for violations | Rolanda Hollis | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB74 | Law enforcement officers; retirement, benefits provided | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB75 | Public high schools; excusing students from class for scholarship acceptance, college commitment, military enlistment | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB76 | Death penalty, abolished | Chris England | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB77 | Taxation and Revenue; disabled veterans' homestead taxes inclusion in debt-to-income ratio under certain circumstances prohibited | Kenneth Paschal | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB78 | Early childhood education; guidelines for limited screen time for children in licensed child-care facilities, certain preschools, and public kindergarten established, annual training requirement for teachers and certain staff members established, Department of Early Childhood Education, Department of Human Resources, and State Board of Education authorized to implement and enforce limited screen time requirements | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB79 | Vessel Registration; amends boater registration fees and their distribution | Danny Crawford | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB8 | Campus chaplains; public K-12 schools authorized to accept as volunteers, local boards of education and governing bodies authorized to vote on whether to allow, limitations provided | Mark Gidley | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB80 | Evictions, law enforcement role, notices to tenants | Mack N. Butler | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB81 | State government; use of term "West Bank" prohibited as reference to Judea and Samaria | Mark Gidley | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB82 | Baldwin County, annexation of the City of Daphne | Matt Simpson | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB83 | Blount County; judge of probate authorized to exercise equity jurisdiction under certain conditions; Constitutional Amendment | David Standridge | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB84 | Covington County, judge of probate authorized to exercise equity jurisdiction under certain conditions, Constitutional Amendment | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB85 | Ad valorem taxes, reappraisal of Class II and Class III property every three years | Curtis L. Travis | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB86 | Parole; criteria for parole consideration revised | Chris England | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB87 | Taxation; to exempt sales of deer feed from sales and use taxes | Chris Sells | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB88 | Driver license; examinations administered exclusively in English | Phillip Pettus | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB89 | Elections; municipal elections, to set qualification fee amounts, to require indigent candidates to submit documentation for fee exemption | Mack N. Butler | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB9 | Abuse and exploitation of an elder, effect of conviction on intestate succession, wills, joint assets, and other contractual obligations provided | Mark Gidley | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB90 | St. Clair County, mayors of participating municipalities may participate in Employees' Retirement System, local constitutional amendment | Jim Hill | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB91 | Court fees; use of funds allocated to sheriff's office expanded | Jim Hill | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB92 | Tuscaloosa County; full-time mayors authorized to participate in RSA, constitutional amendment | Unknown | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB93 | Civil procedure, provisions of agreements that prohibit disclosure of certain acts of sexual abuse rendered unenforceable, retroactive effect | David Faulkner | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB94 | State Auditor; powers and duties revised, audit exception for certain property in Department of Corrections and Department of Youth Services facilities, Division of Property Investigations created | Jamie Kiel | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB95 | Elections; post election audit required | Joe Lovvorn | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB96 | Debtors homestead exemption; in bankruptcy cases; increase homestead exemption for seniors and disabled | Chris Pringle | 01/12/2026 | |
| HB97 | Geographic Information Technology; to recognize the Geographic Information Executive Council, the Geographic Information Program Office, the Advisory Committee, and to provide for coordination with the 911 Board | Chris Pringle | 01/12/2026 |