---
type: "Bill"
title: "Taxation, to increase the market value threshold amount for which tangible personal property is exempt from state ad valorem taxation"
description: "Taxation & Revenue"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 543"
citation: "Alabama HB 543 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation & Revenue"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown (C)"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b035e77c-42df-4496-92c4-97990d5517a4"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "5d5389af64dd2177568d7d6f6d51363e631072e4123b300f5793e5a0877e026b"
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 543 (2025rs) — Taxation, to increase the market value threshold amount for which tangible personal property is exempt from state ad valorem taxation

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/HB543-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB543-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Brown (C) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1004 `passage`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation General Fund)
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Finance and Taxation General Fund)
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1059 `passage`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means General Fund)
- **2025-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Ways and Means General Fund)
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means General Fund `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/b035e77c-42df-4496-92c4-97990d5517a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).