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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

What Happened: Passed out of the House of Representatives HB 46 – Rural Physicians Tax Credit What’s in the Bill: HB 46 terminates the existing Rural Physician Tax Credit program in Alabama, which provided tax credits to physicians practicing in rural areas, effective December 31, 2025.

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels. What do we do to very concretely provide heat shelters and cool shelters? And then access to those. So we could go on.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. When they think about homelessness, their mind goes to what I would call the individual risk factors, things like having a substance use disability or mental health disability.