Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
5 instruments in Alabama. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲▼Expands and restrictsReaches Guard and reserve veterans and adds spouse points, but no longer names the widow of a disabled veteran for ten points.
Amends Code section 36-26-15 from January 1, 2027: veteran now means anyone honorably discharged from the Guard or a reserve or active component; five points for a veteran, a veteran’s spouse and the spouse of an active duty member; ten points for a compensably disabled veteran and spouse and for the surviving spouse of a member who died in the line of duty. The 1971 text, with five points for an honorably discharged member of five named branches and ten for disabled veterans and certain widows and wives, governs until then. Adds section 11-80-21 for counties and cities and section 25-1-55 for private employers, with a Department of Workforce registry. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ booklet prints the 2027 terms without saying they are not yet in force.
▲Expands benefitsReleases a VA permanently and totally disabled veteran from the annual homestead verification once qualified.
Amended Code sections 40-7-2.1 and 40-9-21.1. From October 1, 2026, a veteran determined by VA to be permanently and totally disabled who qualifies under section 40-9-19(d) or 40-9-21 does not have to claim or verify again after first qualifying; the release ends on the veteran’s death or a new homestead. Everyone else still verifies each year. Flagged because the Department of Veterans Affairs’ booklet describes the release as reaching any veteran claiming on a service-connected disability and cites section 40-9-21, which the act did not amend.
Sponsor
Paul W. LeeRepublican, House, District 86
Touches Code of Ala. § 40-9-21.1 · Code of Ala. § 40-7-2.1
▲Expands benefitsExempts a household living only on veterans' benefits from county and municipal solid waste fees.
Amended Code section 22-27-3 to add households whose sole income is veterans’ benefits to the Social Security exemption from county and municipal solid waste fees. At or below the federal poverty level it applies everywhere; above it only where the county or city adopts a resolution. Proof goes to the county health officer and the exemption is requested each year. Effective October 1, 2026.
▲Expands benefitsKeeps property tax out of the debt-to-income ratio on a home loan for a 100% permanent and total veteran.
Added Code section 40-9-21.3, the Disabled Veterans Property Tax Debt-To-Income Ratio Exemption Act. A tax assessing official issues a tentative certificate of permanent and total disability within 20 days of a Department of Revenue affidavit, the purchase agreement and VA documentation of a 100 percent service-connected permanent and total disability; it becomes a valid certificate on purchase, and a settlement agent or loan closing officer may not count the ad valorem tax in the debt-to-income ratio. Effective October 1, 2026.
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=No change to benefitsMoves the veteran-owned business preference to sections 41-4-130 and 41-4-131 without changing it.
Created the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer and repealed the old state competitive bid articles, including Code section 41-16-20, effective October 1, 2022. The preferred vendor definition, with its fourth priority for an Alabama business more than half owned by a veteran, is now section 41-4-130(4)d., and the discretion to award within 5 percent of the lowest non-preferred bid is section 41-4-131(b). No figure or gate changed. Flagged because the Department of Veterans Affairs’ September 2026 booklet still cites the repealed section 41-16-20.
Sponsor
Arthur OrrRepublican, Senate
Touches Code of Ala. § 41-16-20 · Code of Ala. § 41-4-130 · Code of Ala. § 41-4-131
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