---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sales and use tax on food, state rate reduced, counties and municipalities authorized to reduce"
description: "Taxation & Revenue"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 386"
citation: "Alabama HB 386 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation & Revenue"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Garrett"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-12T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/807e6369-5ccb-4e48-acbb-fa1b33cb17fd"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "e570bc5487912d5ce059ac4c0d85d4ea4509e4d7f5846b05e7cef4e6b2761dc3"
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 386 (2025rs) — Sales and use tax on food, state rate reduced, counties and municipalities authorized to reduce

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/HB386-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB386-eng.pdf)
3. **Jones motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 974** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/ZQ22BKR-1.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 410** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/9J9WTBB-1.pdf)
5. **Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 975** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/L5P66WW-1.pdf)
6. **Ways and Means Education 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/I332X6W-1.pdf)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB386-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Garrett — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-12T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Garrett Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1193
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 976 `passage`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 975
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Orr 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Jones motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 974
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Finance and Taxation Education 1st Substitute Offered (Finance and Taxation Education) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Carried Over to the Call of the Chair
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Finance and Taxation Education 1st Substitute Offered (Finance and Taxation Education) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2025-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Finance and Taxation Education 1st Substitute (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Add Cosponsor - Adopted Roll Call 412
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 411 `passage`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 410
- **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
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Ways and Means Education 1st Amendment (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+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/807e6369-5ccb-4e48-acbb-fa1b33cb17fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).