This act is the Cryptocurrency Kiosk Fraud Prevention Act. This act adds Section 8-7A-28 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) require cryptocurrency kiosk operators to disclose to consumers, and consumers to acknowledge receipt of, both the terms governing kiosks and their services and warnings regarding the risks of fraud and theft when using kiosks; (2) require operators to take certain actions, including using blockchain analytics and tracing software to prevent transactions involving cryptocurrency addresses associated with criminal activity, not accepting transactions exceeding $1,000 per day and $10,000 per month for new customers and not exceeding $10,500 per day for existing customers, and providing live, toll-free, and U.S.-based customer service at all times; (3) require operators to refund fraudulent transactions, subject to conditions; (4) prohibit operators from offering privacy coins from kiosks; and (5) authorize the commission to assess civil penalties for violations of this act.

Relating to the Advanced Technology and Data Exchange Fund; expenditure of monies from the fund, creation of additional advanced technology and data exchange funds

This act amends Sections 15-13-112, 15-13-159, 15-13-160, 15-13-201, 15-13-202, 15-13-203, 15-13-205, 15-13-210, 15-13-211, and 15-13-217, Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) require the Supreme Court of Alabama to require an original qualifying power of attorney issued by a professional surety company that lists all agents of the company to be attached to all bail bond forms; (2) require circuit clerks to provide a list of the professional surety companies and bail bond companies authorized to operate within 30 days of authorization to the presiding circuit judge and Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board; (3) require professional surety bondsmen be licensed for at least three years before owning a professional surety company; (4) authorize the sale of a company to an unlicensed individual upon the death or incapacitation of the previous owner so long as a license is acquired within 90 days of purchase and an employee has been licensed for three years; (5) increase the required amount for a company's escrow agreement that is in a county with a population of 200,000 or more from $50,000 to $100,000 and require companies located in counties with a population of less than 200,000 to have an escrow agreement in an amount of $50,000; (6) provide apprentice bail bondsmen licenses expire after 180 days and may only be issued once to non-licensed persons and that apprentices may perform all duties without supervision except fugitive apprehension; (7) require 19 and 20-year-old apprentices to complete an eight-hour continuing education course and further define "apprentice"; (8) add one serving sheriff and one lay person nominated by their respective associations and appointed by the Governor to the Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board; (9) provide the failure to renew an individual's license with the Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board by September 30 of each year is punishable by a $125 late fee; (10) require applicants for licensure to have been state residents for one year; and (11) authorize a fee not exceeding $100 for renewing an inactive license subject to late fees.

Board of Respiratory Therapy; composition, powers, authorities revised; requirements for licensure revised; criminal penalties for certain actions provided

Consumer Protection, Rental Home Marketplace Guarantees Act created

City of Monroeville; annexation of corporate limits

Public utilities; Underground Damage Prevention Program; certain statutory sunset clauses deleted

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

Alabama Office of Minority Affairs; renamed to the Alabama Office of Civic Engagement

This act amends Section 36-26-15, Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) require the spouses of veterans and active duty service members to have 5 points, and the spouses of active duty service members who died in the line of duty to have 10 points, added to their competitive tests for state service; (2) authorize local governments to grant a hiring preference to veterans, spouses of living and dead veterans, and spouses of active duty service members; (3) authorize private employers to adopt a written and uniformly applied veterans' preference employment policy for veterans, spouses of veterans, and spouses of active duty service members upon submitting certain documents to the employer; and (4) require the Alabama Department of Workforce to publish on their website a registry of private employers with such policies.

Taxation; to exempt certain retail sales of fish or other seafood from sales and use taxes

Solid waste collection fees; veterans' benefits sole income households exempted

Juries; special venire in capital felony cases allowed, voire dire procedures and alternate juror procedures further provided for, procedures when there are not enough qualified jurors present established

Teacher certification; Military Veteran Temporary Teaching Certificate established

This act requires health benefit plans issued in the state which cover supplemental or diagnostic breast examinations for the purpose of cancer screening or evaluation to provide this coverage without requiring payment of a deductible, coinsurance, or a copayment.