---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elmore County, to allow county commission to levy a tax on vapor products, alternative nicotine products, and tobacco products; and to levy a property assessment"
description: "Constitutional Amendments Statewide; Taxation & Revenue"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 496"
citation: "Alabama HB 496 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Constitutional Amendments Statewide"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Stubbs"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b793e4e-6afe-4ecf-b054-619e41a2cb91"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "a3c7daee49312ae912f3eade815a4f632d7106632fe60b254e7c21d0c1cadca1"
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 496 (2025rs) — Elmore County, to allow county commission to levy a tax on vapor products, alternative nicotine products, and tobacco products; and to levy a property assessment

Constitutional Amendments Statewide; 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/HB496-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB496-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Stubbs — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Sent to Secretary of State
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Barfoot Local Certification Resolution - Adopted Roll Call 1061
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1060 `passage`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Waggoner Petition to Cease Debate - Adopted Roll Call 1059
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Local Legislation )
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Local Legislation )
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** LocalCertificationResolutionAdopted
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 742 `passage`
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Local Legislation)
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Local Legislation)
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Local Legislation `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/7b793e4e-6afe-4ecf-b054-619e41a2cb91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).