Republican
Kay Ivey
RepublicanIn office since 2017
Kay Ivey
Governor · Alabama
2017
In office since
Nov 3
Next election
2026 · term-limited
537
Bills into law
since 2025
0
Vetoed
since 2025
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Bills on the governor's desk · since January 2025
537
became law
0
vetoed
Governors don't write bills — Alabama's legislature sends them bills, and they sign or veto. Each one below is a bill Alabama's own record shows Kay Ivey acted on. Bills still waiting for a decision, and resolutions, aren't included.
- Became lawApr 22, 2026
- Became lawApr 20, 2026
- Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Voter Information; limit cost of reproducing voter registration list; crime for misuse of personal voter information; createdBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Public K-12 education; violence prevention, conflict resolution, and mediation instruction required before graduation from high school beginning in sixth grade, State Board of Education required to adopt standardsBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Manufactured Homes; certificate of title for 1999 models and earlier, Alabama Department of Revenue authorized to issue titles upon requestBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Alabama Resilience Council established, membership, responsibilities, and duties of council as an advisory group within the executive branch provided; appointment of Chief Resilience Officer; statewide resilience plan requiredBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Public utilities; maximum fees payable to directors of certain public utility corporations increased, terms of certain directors extendedBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Living organ donors; to prohibit discrimination in obtaining insurance coverage, provide paid medical leave for public employees who donate organs and a tax credit to private sector employers that provide similar paid leave to their employeesBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Retirement benefits; participation of qualifying sheriffs in supernumerary program and Employees' Retirement System based on separate years of service authorizedBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services recreated as a legislative department, duties revised and clarified, Legislative Committee on the Evaluation of Services createdBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Individual income taxes, to allow an exclusion from gross income for contributions to Trump Accounts and to make permanent the exclusion for amounts paid by an employer on any qualified education loan.Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Public K-12 schools; sex education (sex ed) curriculum further provided for, sexual risk avoidance established as sex ed curriculum, policies of local boards of education related to sex ed further provided for, parent or guardian notice of sex ed curriculum required, Attorney General authorized to enforceBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Alabama Uniform Trust Code; amended to conform with Alabama Qualified Dispositions in Trust Act, limit property subject to creditors' claimsBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Tax increment districts, Major 21st Century Manufacturing Zone allowed to be located within a tax increment district without regard to size of district and further provides for use of ad valorem tax revenues collected within a districtBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Supplemental appropriations from the Education Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Public K-12 education; expedited career and technical teaching certification pathway created for individual holding equivalent issued by another stateBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Higher education, to require public colleges and universities to submit annual report on the amount of state and federal funds received and expended, and plans for operating if federal or state funding reducedBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- School lands; Department of Conservation and Natural Resources required to issue certain deeds upon request;Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Campaign contributions; contributions made with credit card with billing address outside U.S. prohibited, exceptions providedBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Became lawApr 17, 2026
- Electric Utilities; review by Public Service Commission of certain contracts with large load data centers further provided forBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Multi-member boards; Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker, and President Pro Tempore authorized to replace any board member whom the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker, and President Pro Tempore has appointing authority overBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Public high schools; students excused from class for scholarship acceptance, college commitment, military enlistmentBecame lawApr 17, 2026
- Etowah County, privilege and license tax on lodging, time of continuous supply for tax exemption increasedBecame lawApr 17, 2026
Source: Alabama's legislature, collected by Open States · checked Oct 8, 2026. Some states record a governor's action as “became law” without saying whether it was signed.