Volunteer fire departments; authorized to deposit funds with financial institutions

This act amends Section 13A-10-52, Code of Alabama 1975, to: (1) increase the penalty for fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer while operating a vehicle from a Class A misdemeanor to a Class D felony; (2) add that fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer while operating a vehicle with a child under 14 years of age in the vehicle is a Class C felony; (3) add that fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer while operating a vehicle by an individual released on bail, probation, parole, community corrections, or work release is a Class C felony; (4) add that fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer while operating a vehicle by an individual who has previously been convicted of fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer is a Class C felony; (5) add that striking a law enforcement officer or a vehicle occupied by a law enforcement officer while fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer is a Class B felony; (6) add that fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer by an individual who has two or more previous convictions for fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer is a Class B felony; (7) add that a second conviction for fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer within five years shall result in a minimum of 90 days confinement; and (8) add that a third or subsequent conviction for fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer within seven years shall result in a minimum of 180 days confinement.

Proof of Age; require certain retailers to use digital or card-swipe technology to verify customer age at point of sale

Taxation; Crime Stoppers of Metro Alabama, Incorporated, exempt from sales and use taxes

Covington County; underground carbon dioxide prohibited; constitutional amendment

Firearms; permit to carry pistol, criminal penalties, exempt persons, established; carrying pistol on employer's property revised; nonsubstantive conforming changes to code

Taxation; Life on Wheels, exempt from state, county, and municipal sales and use taxes

Ethics, Certain research and development activities of public institutions of higher education not covered by ethics laws

Motor vehicles; autocycles, headgear equipment required for operation

This act amends Section 30-3B-204 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide temporary emergency child custody determinations made pursuant to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act shall become final determinations six months after the temporary determination if no child custody proceeding has been commenced in another state with jurisdiction.

This act requires the Board of Pardons and Paroles to post on the board's website: (1) instructions and an electronically submittable application form for individuals who have lost their voting rights due to a criminal conviction to request the restoration of voting rights if applicable, not later than March 1, 2027; and (2) the Alabama Institutional Serial (AIS) number of parolees and probationers whose voting rights have been restored.

Parole, remote inmate participation at parole hearings, authorized, conditions established

Libraries; further provides for the appointment of local library boards

Self-Service Storage Facilities Act; rights of of self-storage facility operators further provided for, publication requirements for notice of sale of certain property revised

Child custody; modification of order authorized if material change of circumstances and modification is in best interest of the child, factors provided