---
type: "Bill"
title: "Taxation; certain aircraft and aircraft parts are exempt from sales, use, and lease taxes"
description: "Taxation & Revenue"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 253"
citation: "Alabama HB 253 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation & Revenue"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Colvin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83cdc103-57c8-4732-b840-e4a5c68bd3e8"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "5426874d806491ba421f765a94468cce63ff1885c1557f9d2c9fea94a9f90d14"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-al"]
---

# Alabama HB 253 (2025rs) — Taxation; certain aircraft and aircraft parts are exempt from sales, use, and lease taxes

Taxation & Revenue

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB253-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB253-eng.pdf)
3. **Kitchens motion to Table - Adopted Voice Vote** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/W1WCXEE-1.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 435** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/4UUDNI3-1.pdf)
5. **Ways and Means Education 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/XD8CJZE-1.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB253-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Colvin — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 833 `passage`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Kitchens motion to Table - Adopted Voice Vote
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development 1st Amendment Offered (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development 1st Amendment (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 436 `passage`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 435
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Ways and Means Education Engrossed Substitute Offered (Ways and Means Education) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Ways and Means Education 1st Amendment (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education `reading-1, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83cdc103-57c8-4732-b840-e4a5c68bd3e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).