“This is an unprecedented budget in an unprecedented time,” Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, said Thursday after the Alabama Senate approved an almost $9 billion spending plan (SB88) for education in the 2024 fiscal year. The record budget includes reduced income-tax rebates,…
Gov. Kay Ivey today signed legislation that would allow Alabama’s governor or Legislature to limit the state’s pricing gouging law to areas rather the entire state during declared emergencies. Act No. 2023-122 by Sam Givhan, R-Huntsville, and Rep. Jamie Kiel,…
With 15 days done in its 30-day regular session, the Alabama Legislature this week moved one of the state’s budgets with the other expected to be close behind. All 35 senators got behind a $300 million tax cut on food sales…
Expansion of Alabama’s income tax deduction for health insurance premiums paid gained House approval in late April, but the Senate Finance and Taxation Committee never considered it. The legislation’s goal was to encourage more small businesses to provide health insurance…
Retail-related legislation saw movement this week as the Alabama Legislature nears the mid-point of the regular session. Legislation that will reduce the cost for liquor liability insurance has been signed into law, bills to prosecute and punish retail thieves are expected to receive…
Legislation that will increase availability and reduce the cost for liquor liability insurance is on the governor’s desk. As soon as she signs it, it will become law. Thank you for all you did to urge lawmakers to vote for this…
Legislation that will increase the availability and reduce the cost for liquor liability insurance could receive final approval Tuesday, April 11. The House Insurance Committee approved HB158 and SB104 on April 5th, sending the bills to the full House. HB158…
Taxed sales in Alabama exceeded $18 billion in November and December 2022, slightly outpacing what the Alabama Retail Association predicted. Sales in the traditional holiday shopping months grew 5.6% compared to the same two months in 2021. Alabama Retail had…
Legislation that will increase availability and reduce the cost for liquor liability insurance could receive final approval as early as the first week of April. The Alabama Senate approved SB104 Thursday, March 23, and that bill plus its companion, HB158,…
The Alabama Legislature began the first regular session of its new term Tuesday, March 7, then the governor called a special session to spend $1.06 billion in pandemic relief funds. By the end of the first legislative day, 174 bills…