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catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it.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 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
Signed by the governorDone, date not recorded, step 5 of 6
In effectDone, , step 6 of 6
In effectStep 6 of 6
=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Created the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer and repealed the old state competitive bid articles, including Code section 41-16-20, effective October 1, 2022.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 Flagged because the Department of Veterans Affairs’ September 2026 booklet still cites the repealed section 41-16-20.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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