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Grocery tax bill’s passage will improve life for every Alabamian

The Alabama Senate voted 34-0 Tuesday for HB 386 by Rep. Danny Garrett, R-Trussville, a bill that will reduce the state sales tax on groceries from 3% to 2% beginning on Sept. 1 and give cities and counties more flexibility to reduce local grocery taxes if they choose. The Alabama House quickly concurred in the [...]
Issue
Tax Reform
Date
May 6, 2025
Author
Chris Sanders
News Releases

Alabama Arise praises new maternal health, paid parental leave laws

[caption id="attachment_10630" align="aligncenter" width="799"] Alabama Arise executive director Robyn Hyden (fifth from right) and worker policy advocate Dev Wakeley (sixth from right) participated in Gov. Kay Ivey’s bill signing ceremony for SB 199 on May 1, 2025, at the State Capitol in Montgomery. SB 199 will ensure paid parental leave for teachers, two-year college workers [...]
Issues
Health, Economic Opportunity
Date
May 1, 2025
Author
Chris Sanders
Blog

Arise legislative update: Week of April 28, 2025

With just five meeting days in Alabama Legislature's 2025 regular session, Arise's Robyn Hyden highlights one major issue left on the to-do list: further reducing the state sales tax on groceries. HB 386 has passed the House and needs to move to the Senate floor. We need your help to get this crucial legislation across [...]
Issue
Budgets
Date
April 28, 2025
Author
Alabama Arise
Blog

Arise legislative update: Week of April 21, 2025

Arise's Whitney Washington breaks down why HB 477, a bill to allow junk health plans, is not a solution for Alabama's health coverage gap. HB 477 would authorize non-insurance health plans that aren't regulated by the Alabama Department of Insurance and that could cap benefits and discriminate against people with preexisting conditions. This bill is [...]
Issues
Health, Medicaid Expansion
Date
April 22, 2025
Author
Alabama Arise
Blog

Arise legislative update: Week of April 14, 2025

Arise's David Stout breaks down the dangers of legislative proposals to expand the CHOOSE Act. This 2024 law will divert hundreds of millions of public dollars away from Alabama's public schools and toward private schools and homeschooling in the coming years. David highlights why further increasing that amount would be bad for Alabama's public school [...]
Issue
Budgets
Date
April 15, 2025
Author
Alabama Arise
Handbook

Alabama Arise legislative toolkit

Welcome to Alabama Arise’s legislative toolkit, a resource designed to help you understand and engage in the Alabama legislative process.

Date
April 15, 2025
Author
Matt Okarmus
Blog

Arise legislative update: Week of April 7, 2025

Arise's Carol Gundlach highlights a significant win from the 2025 legislative session: the enactment of paid parental leave for teachers and state employees, a top priority for Alabama Arise. This legislation represents a major advancement for parental and infant health. Arise also continued to oppose harmful proposals last week, including junk health plans and bills [...]
Issues
Budgets, Economic Opportunity
Date
April 7, 2025
Author
Alabama Arise
Handbook

Kit de herramientas de salud materna de Alabama

"Para mejorar la salud materna, debemos concentrarnos en mejorar la salud y el acceso a la atención de todas las mujeres; no solo durante el trabajo de parto y el nacimiento, sino también antes y después del embarazo, y durante toda nuestra vida". - Dra. Leana S. Wen Descargue aquí una copia completa en PDF [...]
Issue
Health
Date
April 3, 2025
Author
Alabama Arise
Blog

VIDEO: Alabama Arise Action Legislative Day 2025

Arise held its 2025 Legislative Day on Thursday, March 20. More than 200 supporters from across Alabama joined us in Montgomery to urge their lawmakers to continue to untax groceries and to support a plan to allow every public school in our state to provide no-cost school breakfast to all students. Our supporters also were [...]
Issues
Budgets, Health, Economic Opportunity
Date
April 3, 2025
Author
Matt Okarmus
News Releases

New paid parental leave law improves life for Alabama workers

Gov. Kay Ivey signed SB 199 into law Wednesday. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Vivian Figures, D-Mobile, will ensure paid parental leave for new parents who work as teachers, two-year college employees or state employees. The law, which will take effect on July 1, provides eight weeks of paid leave to mothers and two weeks [...]
Issues
Other Issues, Economic Opportunity
Date
April 2, 2025
Author
Chris Sanders