Hot-button, controversial issues dominated debate in the Alabama Legislature this week, while gaming legislation that consumed the first two weeks of the 2024 session stalled once it reached the Alabama Senate. “We’re going to spend some time on it,” said…
Legislation introduced in February would have created a protected class of workers, including retail workers, and allowed those protected workers to recover damages if assaulted while performing their official job duties. HB202 by Rep. Anthony Daniels, D-Huntsville, would have created…
Lottery, casinos and sports betting legislation that will require a vote of the people to become law cleared the Alabama House on Thursday. The gaming package, which includes a 7% cut of each lottery ticket sold for retailers, now heads to the…
Some members of Alabama’s Joint Study Commission on Grocery Taxation expressed a desire Feb. 12 to find a way to go forward in 2024 with another 1% reduction in the state’s 3% grocery tax. Alabama Arise and Alabama Grocers Association…
Casinos, sports betting, lottery – oh my! A proposal to legalize gaming in Alabama got the most attention in the first week of the Alabama Legislature’s 2024 regular session. By the end of the third legislative day, 242 bills had been introduced,…
Thousands of Alabama retailers will have better cash flow and fewer accounting headaches in the future, thanks to legislation enacted in the Alabama Legislature’s 2023 regular session. As of Oct. 1, Act No. 2023-422 by Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, will increase the…
In the 2024 tax year, Alabama income taxes won’t apply to overtime pay for full-time workers in our state, under Act No. 2023-421, which gained legislative approval on the final day of the Alabama Legislature’s 2023 regular session. The Legislature…
Under Act No. 2023-554, Alabama will gradually half the state sales tax on food. The Alabama House concurred June 1 with Senate changes to the legislation by Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, and Sen. Andrew Jones, R-Centre, and the governor signed…
The Insurance Services Office, or ISO, has cut in half the hazard risk for liquor liability insurance in Alabama thanks to reform legislation adopted during the Alabama Legislature’s 2023 regular session. The intent of Alabama’s new standard for liquor liability…
Alabama’s new retail theft and organized retail theft law takes effect Sept. 1. Retailers will be able to sign out warrants for arrests without leaving their stores. The law also gives convicted thieves and their organizers real jail time plus monetary consequences. In…