AL HR160

HR160 establishes the Special Order Calendar for the Alabama House of Representatives on February 24, 2026, the fifteenth legislative day, designating specific bills to take precedence over regular business.

Bills on the calendar include HB360 creating a "2nd Amendment Sales Tax Holiday" exempting certain items from sales tax during the last weekend of August, and HB363 establishing the crime of disruption of a worship service.

Education-related measures include HB8 authorizing public K-12 schools to accept campus chaplains as volunteers and HB306 establishing a Military Veteran Temporary Teaching Certificate.

Tax and economic bills include HB4 (Alabama Broadband Investment Maximization Act exempting ADECA-funded purchases from sales tax), HB244 (exempting energy use in commercial greenhouses, irrigation systems, and poultry houses from utility taxes), and SB155 creating a Coal-Impacted Communities Economic and Workforce Development Grant program.

Criminal justice and public safety measures include HB132 revising second-degree assault, HB86 revising parole consideration criteria, HB247 providing death benefits to survivors of volunteer firefighters who die of cancer, and HB429 prohibiting drone operation near ticketed entertainment events.