Sen. Andrew Jones

Primary SB 261

Passed · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Cherokee County, constitutional amendment, authorizes legislature to fix court costs by local law

Cherokee County

Passed Apr 18, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 251

Passed · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Public Investments; to prohibit Board of Control of ERSA and TRSA from investing with restricted entities affiliated with Communist Chinese military companies

Retirement

Passed Apr 9, 2024 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SJR 38

Signed into law · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Chris Dendy, death mourned

Resolutions

Signed into law Apr 5, 2024 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 285

Signed into law · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Relating to wine and mead; to amend Section 28-3A-20.4, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that a nonprofit organization may be issued a license to host a wine festival; to further provide for the application process and conditions of licensure to host or participate in a wine festival; and to further provide for the collection and remittance of taxes due on the sale of wine at a wine festival; to amend Section 28-6A-2, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for wine manufacturer licensees located in dry counties by allowing such manufacturers to transport and sell wine to retailers under certain limits and to specify that such licensees may host or participate in wine festivals; to amend Section 28-7-10.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for small farm wineries by permitting such wineries to produce mead; and to amend Section 28-7-16, Code of Alabama 1975, to further provide for the excise tax rate for mead.

Wine festivals, permit nonprofit organization to host or sponsor

Signed into law Jun 14, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 298

Signed into law · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Relating to outdoor recreation; to provide for the development of a strategic trail network; to provide for grants for qualified donations of donated property; to create the Sweet Trails Alabama Project Fund and the Sweet Trails Alabama Acquisition Fund and provide for the use of monies in the funds; and to further provide for the liability of property owners for recreational use of certain property and abutting property.

Outdoor recreation, created the Sweet Trails Alabama Project Fund, provided parameters for the adoption of a master plan for greenway trails, and created a tax credit for certain landowners

Signed into law Jun 14, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 258

Signed into law · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Relating to water utilities; to amend Act 2022-378 of the 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 41-5A-12.2 of the Code of Alabama 1975, relating to certain nonprofit corporations providing water service and providing a one-time audit by the Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, to specify that the law applies to nonprofit corporations providing water service to its members or the public; and to authorize the department to conduct an additional one-time audit of a nonprofit corporation if the department suspects fraud or mismanagement of funds.

Water utilities, organized as nonprofit corporation under Title 11, Code of Alabama 1975, one-time audit by Department of Examiners of Public Accounts, includes entities providing water to members and public

Signed into law Jun 14, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 65

died · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Relating to municipal occupational license taxes; to add Section 11-51-91.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to reduce any municipal occupational license tax greater than one percent based on an annual reduction in the tax until the tax would be one percent; to provide that any occupational license tax levied by any municipality would not apply to any person performing an occupation in the police jurisdiction of the municipality or on any property annexed into the municipality after January 1, 2023; to provide for a referendum under certain conditions in certain counties in which two or more municipalities levied an occupational tax greater than one percent on January 1, 2023; to prohibit a municipality from levying a new occupational license tax or increasing the rate of any existing municipal occupational license tax; to provide for certain exceptions from any occupational taxes for certain temporary workers and for severance pay; to specify the power of a municipality pursuant to Section 11-51-90 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to license an exhibition, trade, business, vocation, occupation, or profession only within the corporate limits and jurisdiction of the municipality, to further provide for refunds and collections of the license fees and taxes, and to provide that these provisions are retroactive and declaratory of existing law.

Municipalities, occupational tax, reduced on annual basis to one percent, referendum under certain conditions in any county in which two or more municipalities have tax over one percent on January 1, 2023, occupational tax limited to activities in municipalities.

died May 31, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track

Primary SB 259

Signed into law · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Relating to Cherokee County; to authorize the Cherokee County Commission to levy and provide for the collection of an additional vehicle license and registration fee on each vehicle license and registration, transfer, or renewal of any vehicle in the county; and to provide for distribution of the proceeds from the fees to the sheriff and the district attorney.

Cherokee County, county commission, vehicle license and registration fee, additional issuance fee, distribution to sheriff and district attorney.

Signed into law May 30, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 22

Signed into law · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Relating to Emergency Management; to amend Section 31-9-10, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide contract letting requirements for local emergency management organizations; to amend Section 31-9-60, Code of Alabama 1975, to increase supplemental funding for assistance to local emergency management organizations; to amend 31-9-61, Code of Alabama 1975, to establish standards for course work for local emergency management director certification; to amend Section 31-9-62, Code of Alabama 1975, to change salary supplements for local emergency management directors and revise local emergency management organization eligibility for federal funds; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.

Local Emergency Management Organizations, contract letting, director certification, salaries and federal funds further provided for

Signed into law May 17, 2023 0 co-sponsors

Primary SB 257

Introduced · Alabama Senate · Lead sponsor

Relating to sales taxes; to amend Section 40-23-1, as last amended by Acts 2022-199 and 2022-291, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 40-23-2, as last amended by Act 2022-346, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 40-23-60, as last amended by Act 2022-199, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, and Section 40-23-61, Code of Alabama 1975; to define "food" and begin phasing-out the state sales and use tax on food on September 1, 2023; to require certain growth targets in the Education Trust Fund for future sales tax reductions on food; to establish the sales and use tax rate on food for purposes of county and municipal sales and use taxes as the existing general or retail sales and use tax rate; and to authorize a county and municipality to reduce the sales and use tax rate or exempt food from local sales and use taxes.

Taxation and revenue, food defined and rate established for sales and use tax purposes, tax rate reduced, rate established on food for local governments and authorized to reduce rate

Introduced Apr 27, 2023 0 co-sponsors Track