This act amends Sections 12-17-227.4 and 12-17-227.5, Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) increase the percentage of final average compensation used to calculate service retirement allowances and disability retirement allowances under the District Attorneys' Plan for Retirement under the Judicial Retirement Fund from three percent to four percent; (2) decrease the maximum service and disability retirement allowances under the plan from 80 percent to 75 percent of the recipient's final average compensation; and (3) require the service and disability retirement allowances for members who have attained at least 18 years of membership service to be 75 percent of the member's average final compensation.

This act proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to Blount County, to authorize qualified taxpayers 65 years of age or older to claim a senior property tax exemption for single-family owner-occupied residential property beginning October 1, 2027, subject to certain conditions.

This act authorizes Class 1 municipalities to adopt a vacant property registration ordinance that: (1) requires private owners of vacant residential and commercial property to register the property with the program adminstrator using a specific form within a certain time; (2) requires an initial registration fee of $250, subject to annual increases not to exceed $1,000, that may be refunded on a yearly basis upon the property no longer being vacant; (3) requires owners to submit a plan for restoration and occupancy; (4) provides exemptions for certain persons and properties from registration in general and time limit and fee requirements; (5) authorizes the program administrator to inspect the inside and outside of a registered property, subject to prior notice; (6) authorizes fines not exceeding $1,000 for ordinance violations which become liens on the property upon nonpayment; and (7) may require owners to enclose and secure vacant properties.

This act is the Alabama Personal Data Protection Act. This act: (1) applies to persons conducting business in the state or targeting state residents that control more than 25,000 consumers' personal data and derive more than 25 percent of gross revenue from selling such data; (2) authorizes consumers to invoke, and requires these controllers of personal data to comply with, certain rights of these consumers, including opting out of data processing or requesting deletion and correction of personal data; (3) authorizes parents, guardians, and conservators to exercise these rights on behalf of their child or consumer; (4) provides procedures and guidelines for making and complying with such requests, including that no fees may be charged and a controller must respond to authenticated requests within 45 days and provide information once a year; (5) requires controllers to provide a conspicuous link on their website for consumers to opt out of personal data processing; (6) requires controllers to limit collecting and to protect personal data, including deidentified data; (7) prohibits controllers from certain actions, including processing personal data for not reasonably necessary, undisclosed purposes, processing data of individuals without consent, processing data in a discriminatory manner, and providing a different quality of service to consumers upon opting out of data processing; (8) requires controllers to provide notice when personal data is sold to third parties or processed for targeted advertising; (9) requires personal data processors to adhere to controllers' instructions pursuant to this act; and (10) exempts certain persons and types of data from these requirements.