Unincorporated nonprofit associations; decentralized associations provided for

Ground ambulance services; to prohibit balance billing and set minimum reimbursement rates by health care insurers to emergency medical service providers

Relating to Alabama Housing Trust Fund; mortgage recording fee increase

Local land bank authorities; shorten tax sale redemption period; restrictions on geographic scope; creation of multijurisdictional land banks by agreement; Governor's emergency authorization to create land bank

Alabama Lottery, established; Alabama Lottery Corporation, established to operate and regulate lottery games; revenue distribution, provided; criminal penalties for gambling offenses, increased

Absentee voting; designee to deliver voter's absentee ballot application and absentee ballot to absentee election manager for disabled voter, authorized

Firearms; possession without identification prohibited in certain municipalities

Real property; creation of the Alabama Property Protection Act of 2026, title fraud prevention

Consumer protection; telephone solicitation database, prohibitions, penalties, damages, and defenses amended

Underground wells; carbon dioxide storage prohibited unless local governing body approves, approval procedures provided

This act is the Power to the People Act. This act amends Sections 17-14-2, 17-14-3, 36-3-1, 37-1-1, 37-1-3, 37-1-5, and 37-1-12, Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) expand the Public Service Commission from three to seven members from each congressional district as of 2024; (2) require the Governor to appoint four members to the commission by July 15, 2026, for two two-year terms and two four-year terms; (3) require elections of commissioners at the general elections in 2026, 2028, 2030, and 2032 to replace the current and appointed commissioners; (4) extend the length of commissioners' terms from four to six years; (5) prohibit utilities regulated by the commission from contributing to commission candidates; (6) subject commissioners to the state ethics laws; (7) prohibit commissioners from representing any person before the Legislature or executive agencies; (8) create the position of the Secretary of Energy within the Governor's cabinet to direct the commission, set the agenda for commission meetings, and administer the commission and its personnel. This act also adds Sections 37-1-81.1, 37-1-81.2, and 37-1-81.3 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) prohibit any retail electric utility rate increase until January 1, 2029; (2) provide for a rate hearing after this prohibition; (3) beginning January 1, 2029, prohibit these utilities from factoring into electric rates the costs of providing funding that impacts others' rates, lobbying, or advertising; and (4) require yearly public commission meetings on regulatory issues with utility representatives present.

Conservation; right to care for injured wildlife under certain conditions established

Public Safety; Ebony Alert System, established to assist in recovery of certain missing persons

Simplified sellers use tax, distribution of local proceeds revised

Restitution; order of restitution, given priority over all other fines, costs, and fees