Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB294

Introduced
1/20/26  

Caption

Alabama Professional Workforce Protection Act; state list of professional careers designated; eligibility for state workforce development programs, grants, scholarships, and loan repayment mandated

Companion Bills

No companion bills found.

Previously Filed As

AL SB193

Office of Occupational and Professional Licensing within the Department of Workforce; created as centralized entity for providing leadership, support, and oversight to certain boards.

AL HB302

Workforce; regulating staffing and hiring of aliens with temporary or asylum status in the state

AL HB365

Alabama STEM Council created in the Department of Workforce, membership and duties provided

AL HB385

Occupational and professional licensing boards; prohibited from purchasing or acquiring real property under the power of eminent domain

AL SB266

Contract Review Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee, review of personal or professional services contracts, limitation that funds be issued on a state warrant removed, occupational and professional licensing boards included as state entities

AL HB188

Scholarship program, to create for dependents of long-term law enforcement officers

AL SB112

Appropriations from Education Trust Fund for the support, maintenance, and development of public education for fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

AL HB169

Appropriations from Education Trust Fund for the support, maintenance, and development of public education for fiscal year ending September 30, 2026

AL HB130

Sunset Law; Alabama Board of Licensure for Professional Geologists continued with modification until October 1, 2027

AL HB410

Bail Bonds; Bail Reform Act of 1993 and Bail Bond Regulatory Act amended; certain undeposited fees forgiven; penalties for crime of bail jumping increased; to provide further for conditional forfeitures, out-of-state bondsmen and sureties, limitations on property owners as sureties; to provide further for the definition of an employee of a professional bail bond company or professional surety company, for the licensing and duties of apprentices; to increase the membership of the Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board; provide for a late fee for renewals; and to require applicants for licensing to be residents of this state for at least one year

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