In the 2024 regular session, your Alabama Retail Association successfully supported the repeal of the annual report requirement for thousands of small corporation and stopped legislation that would have required retailers to accept cash. Your association also convinced lawmakers to pare down country-of-origin labeling for restaurant and…
The 2022 regular session saw an estimated $107 million in tax cuts enacted that will directly benefit Alabama businesses. The session also included several changes to alcohol policy, including 18-year-old servers in restaurants plus drive-thru and takeout alcohol service. Other issues tackled included…
After having to cut its 2020 session short due to a worldwide pandemic, the Alabama Legislature caught up in 2021 pushing through hundreds of bills in this year’s regular session. Record budgets, COVID-19 liability protections and emergency process reforms, plus…
In the first year of their term, Alabama lawmakers elected in 2018 tackled hot-button issues in long work weeks and late-night debates. The Alabama Legislature packed much into its three-month 2019 regular session. The Legislature approved changes in unemployment compensation…
In its 2018 regular session, the Alabama Legislature again revised the state’s voluntary use tax program to further level the playing field between brick-and-mortar and online-only retailers. Stay tuned for more on April 17, when the U.S. Supreme Court delves…
Delivery license reform, a change in the back-to-school sales tax holiday date and alcohol sales for Sunday brunch topped the retail news that came out of the Alabama Legislature’s 2017 regular session. The Alabama Retail Association thanks Gov. Kay Ivey,…
The Alabama Legislature had a regular session and two special sessions in 2015. Here are our summaries of what happened in each: 2015 Regular Session Summary 2015 First Special Session Summary 2015 Second Special Session Summary
In the final year of the quadrennium with minimal conflict, lawmakers ended the Alabama Legislature’s regular session early while enacting some substantial legislation significant to retailers. No legislation Alabama Retail actively opposed became law. For 71 years Alabama Retail has…
The Alabama Legislature applied the brakes slightly in the 2013 regular session to the dizzying pace at which it had been enacting legislation during the current term. Fewer bills were introduced and fewer were enacted. Even so, more than 400…
In the second year of the legislative term, the Alabama Legislature introduced and enacted more bills than it did in its record-breaking first year in office. During the regular session that ended May 16, 2012, and the special session that…