Relating to income taxes; to provide a one-time refundable income tax credit to qualified taxpayers to partially offset the amount of sales taxes paid on groceries throughout the tax year; to create the Refundable Tax Credit Fund in the State Treasury; to provide that refundable credits would not be taxable for Alabama income tax purposes; and to provide an effective date.
Summary
One-time rebate for qualified tax payers.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
May 2023
Senate Passage
May 2023
House Passage
May 2023
Signed into Law
Jun 2023
Introduced Mar 21, 2023
Signed Jun 1, 2023
Floor votes · Senate May 4, 2023 · House May 26, 2023
How they voted
34–0
Passed
Total votes 34
May 4, 2023
D
Democratic8
100% Yea
R
Republican26
100% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
27
Key actions
10
Committee
8
May 26, 2023
Upper · Passed
AMD/SUB (Conference Committee on SB86)
upper
May 26, 2023
House · Passed
House Vote: pass (101-0-1)
house
May 25, 2023
Lower · Passed
Accede (Conference Committee on SB86)
lower
May 25, 2023
Upper · Passed
Non Concur and Appoint Conference Committee (Conference Committee on SB86)
upper
May 25, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended
lower
May 24, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in Second House
lower
May 24, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported Favorably (Ways and Means Education)
lower
May 4, 2023
Committee
Referred to Committee (Ways and Means Education)
lower
May 4, 2023
Upper · Passed
Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
upper
May 3, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
upper
May 3, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Favorably (Finance and Taxation Education)
upper
Mar 21, 2023
Introduced
Introduced and Referred (Finance and Taxation Education)
upper
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Arthur Orr
RRepublican
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