2025 Legislative Summary 

The 2025 Legislative Session is over, and I am happy to say that we had a successful session in which we put Alabama families first and in turn made life better for us all in the greatest state in the nation.

First and foremost, we as a Legislature wanted to be sure we put more money into the pockets of every single Alabama resident. We cut taxes for Alabamians, dropping the grocery tax from 3 percent to 2 percent, saving money for every family and every person in our state.

Sales taxes were removed from diapers, baby formula, wipes and other essentials necessary for newborns. A new life is a blessing; there is no reason such a joyous occasion should cause financial strain. And it remains a priority of both House and Senate Republicans that we pledge to continue cutting taxes whenever circumstances and state finances allow it.

A record $9.9 billion was directed to public education in our state, including $80 million to the Alabama Choose Act which allows our families to pick the education that is right for their students whether that be public, private, religion-based or homeschooling. That is how you give freedom to your constituents.

We also promise to continue to take care of our communities and the people in our neighborhoods.
This year, we approved a measure that would protect local pharmacies and help even the playing field for them against the mega-corporate-owned pharmacies.
We created the Rural Hospital Investment Tax credit to help keep our rural hospitals open.

This keeps our local experts who know our families in our lives making each day better in Alabama.
We provided a means for the Alabama Farmers’ Federation to offer affordable healthcare to our farmers to keep them on their farms and in the life they love. It is the least we can do for those who feed and care for our families as part of their own.

We passed legislation that will protect our children from the dangers of THC by limiting the sales of drinks, gummies and other consumables containing THC. We made it illegal to inhale or use nitrous oxide, better known as laughing gas, for recreational purposes.
These substances are the newest ways that our children are being taken from us, taking them down the path to addiction and lethal overdoses.

In Alabama, we will not allow our most valuable asset, our children, to be taken from us by those who wish to make money from harmful substances. We simply won’t.
We passed a bill to prohibit sex offenders from serving as first responders. This sounds like common sense, but it was not actually codified in the law, so we fixed it because we are here to protect our families, our children and our communities from those who would seek to do them harm, especially those who do so under the blanket of the noble title of a first responder.

We put the definition of what is a “man” and a “woman” into the law. I know this is another issue that seems silly to have to pass legislation about, but at a time when extremists argue that there are as many as 74 different genders, it was time to set the record straight. Men are born men. Women are born women. Full stop. And no amount of wishing can ever make one the other.

Finally, we passed a bill that will make government run smoother in Baldwin County. This legislation expanded the use of our satellite courthouses in Foley and Fairhope. It sounds simple but this change will address overcrowding at the main courthouse in Bay Minette and eliminate many of the scheduling issues our courts are currently facing. This will potentially move cases through our courts faster, benefitting everyone from citizens to courthouse staff.

In all over the course of nearly three and a half months, we passed a total of 310 bills that made their way to the Governor’s desk and were signed into law by Governor Kay Ivey.

Each of these is a way to make life better in Alabama for Alabamians. Each is a way to protect what is dearest to us here in the greatest state in the union – our families, our values, and our way of life.

I am proud of the work we did this session, and, as always, I am proud to serve Baldwin County.
If you have an issue or a question, never hesitate to reach out by emailing me at mattsimpsonal96@gmail.com.