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Local Government & Preemption legislation, Alabama
State legislation that governs cities and counties -- home rule, state preemption of local ordinances, municipal finance, and local authority. Deliberately broad: a city affairs office cares about municipal bonds, utilities and courts as much as about preemption fights, so the hub errs toward including anything a municipality is subject to.
71 bills in Alabama. Membership is matched on bill titles and official subject tags; source coverage and update timing vary. See something missing? Tell us.
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Enacted (26)
Latest action 2026-04-17: Enacted
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Latest action 2026-04-15: Enacted
Latest action 2026-04-15: Enacted
- SB 304 — Municipalities; business license for certain businesses in the building trade provided forenacted
Latest action 2026-04-13: Enacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enacted
- HB 496 — Class 2 municipalities, foreclosure bidding preference and notice for adjoining ownersenacted
Latest action 2026-04-09: Enacted
Latest action 2026-04-07: Enacted
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Latest action 2026-03-31: Enacted
Latest action 2026-03-19: Enacted
Latest action 2026-03-17: Enacted
Latest action 2026-03-17: Delivered to Governor
Latest action 2026-03-13: Enacted
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Latest action 2026-02-17: Enacted
Latest action 2026-02-17: Signature Requested
Latest action 2026-01-23: Enacted
Died or failed (45)
Latest action 2026-04-07: Currently Indefinitely Postponed
Latest action 2026-04-07: Currently Indefinitely Postponed
Latest action 2026-04-07: Currently Indefinitely Postponed
Latest action 2026-04-07: Currently Indefinitely Postponed
- SB 10 — Tuscaloosa County; levy of additional or increased county or municipal sales and use tax prohibited without approval by referendum, constitutional amendmentdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-07: Third Reading in House of Origin
Latest action 2026-04-07: Currently Indefinitely Postponed
- SB 375 — Class 1 municipalities; mayor, compensation amendeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-02: Reported Out of Committee Second House
- HB 638 — Speed limits; municipal enforcement of speed limits within a municipality's police jurisdiction authorizeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-04-01: Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
Latest action 2026-04-01: Reported Out of Committee Second House
- HB 656 — Water and sewer commissioner boards; local government approval to sell or develop certain real property requireddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-31: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
- HB 649 — Class 1 municipalities; creation of housing trust fund authorizeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-31: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Jefferson County Legislation
- HB 431 — Injection wells; fees assessed on certain wells, notice and participation for local governments provided, study commission establisheddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-31: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund
- SB 377 — Firearms; possession without identification prohibited in certain municipalitiesdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-31: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary
Latest action 2026-03-19: Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation Education)
- SB 91 — County and municipal authorities; withdrawal from multi-jurisdiction authority authorized, taxes and distribution of monies from taxes further provided fordied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-19: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Economic Development and Tourism
- HB 561 — Municipalities; imposition of new or increased taxes or fees, ordinance requireddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (County and Municipal Government)
- HB 618 — Solar farms; certain county commissions authorized to establish zoning requirements, penalties for violations and appeal process provideddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- HB 468 — Local commissions and authorities; prohibition on officers serving on commission or board of directors of authority removed for certain municipalitiesdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Reported Out of Committee Second House
- HB 566 — Municipalities; business license for certain businesses in the building trade provided fordied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-17: Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- HB 398 — Taxation; to exempt High Socks for Hope from payment of state, county, and municipal sales and use taxesdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-11: Third Reading in House of Origin
- HB 607 — Taxation; Jackson Hospital & Clinic, and JHC Pharmacy exempt from state, county, and municipal fees and taxesdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-10: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education
- HB 273 — Municipal employees; eligible to receive grant funds paid through municipal treasury in certain circumstancesdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-10: Reported Out of Committee Second House
- HB 577 — Class 2 municipalities; sale of alcoholic beverages, restrictions amendeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-05: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Mobile County Legislation
- SB 105 — Counties and municipalities; online publication of financial statements, audits, expenditures, and budgets requireddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-05: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on County and Municipal Government
- HB 539 — Abatements; local governments, power to abate reviseddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-03-03: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on State Government
Latest action 2026-02-26: Third Reading in House of Origin
Latest action 2026-02-25: Reported Out of Committee Second House (Health)
- SB 236 — Taxation; Life on Wheels, exempt from state, county, and municipal sales and use taxesdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-24: Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
Latest action 2026-02-19: Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
- SB 310 — City of Montgomery; municipal occupational tax, city council authorized to imposedied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-19: Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
Latest action 2026-02-17: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Children and Senior Advocacy
- HB 469 — Municipal firefighters' bill of rights; rights and procedures for firefighters' personnel issues establisheddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-17: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
- SB 306 — Class 1 municipalities; vacant property registration authorizeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-12: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Jefferson County Legislation
- HB 450 — Firearms; possession without identification prohibited in certain municipalitiesdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-12: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
- SB 307 — Class 1 municipalities; authorization to establish community land trusts, affordable housingdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-12: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Jefferson County Legislation
- HB 22 — Class IV municipalities; audits, restrictions on hiring accountant removeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
- SB 264 — Municipalities; annexation, all municipalities authorized to extend corporate limits by resolution and special electiondied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal Government
- HB 89 — Elections; municipal elections, to set qualification fee amounts, to require indigent candidates to submit documentation for fee exemptiondied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-02-05: Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
- HB 314 — Motor vehicles; county and municipal prosecutors, dark tint on personal vehicles authorizeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-01-22: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
- HB 320 — County law library fund and judicial administration fund; to require separate funds to be maintained in the county treasurydied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-01-22: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary
- HB 215 — Transit authorities; to authorize participation in business organizationsdied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-01-14: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Jefferson County Legislation
- HB 197 — Community development district; Act 2025-294, which authorized annexation of certain district by a wet municipality, repealeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-01-13: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Economic Development and Tourism
- SB 36 — Local sales and use taxes, municipal sales and use taxes collected from nonresident Alabama taxpayers refundeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-01-13: Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund
- HB 198 — Sheriffs; appointment of special reserve deputies authorizeddied on adjournment
Latest action 2026-01-13: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Latest action 2026-01-13: Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Children and Senior Advocacy