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catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it.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.
2 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 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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