{{Short description|American politician (born 1958)}} {{use mdy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Terri Collins | honorific_suffix = | image = Terri Collins.png | caption = | alt = | state_house = Alabama | district = 8th | term_start = November 3, 2010 | term_end = | predecessor = Bill J. Dukes | successor = | prior_term = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1958|05|06}} | birth_place = Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = Tom | children = 3 | party = Republican }}
'''Terri Doyle Collins''' (born May 6, 1958) is an American politician. She is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 8th District, serving since 2010. Collins has sponsored 469 bills as of March 1, 2017.<ref>{{cite web|title=Terri Collins|url=https://openstates.org/al/legislators/ALL000057/terri-collins/|publisher=Open States|accessdate=March 1, 2017}}{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>{{update inline|date=May 2019}} She is a Republican.<ref>{{cite web|title=Terri Collins|url=http://www.legislature.state.al.us/aliswww/ISD/ALRepresentative.aspx?OID_SPONSOR=85923&OID_PERSON=6661|publisher=Alabama Legislature website|accessdate=March 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Terri Collins|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Terri_Collins|publisher=Ballotpedia|accessdate=March 1, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Elliott NPR">{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/719096129/alabama-lawmakers-move-to-outlaw-abortion-in-challenge-to-roe-v-wade|work=NPR|date=May 1, 2019|title=Alabama Lawmakers Move To Outlaw Abortion In Challenge To Roe V. Wade|last=Elliott|first=Debbie}}</ref>
She was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She met her husband Tom while in college at the University of Alabama and moved to Decatur in 1982 to raise three children. She served as the vice president of marketing and sales of First American Bank for 16 years before election to the legislature in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Collins |first1=Terri |title=Terri Collins Personal Website |url=https://www.terricollins.org/ |website=Terri Collins |accessdate=15 May 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Terri Collins: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know |date=May 15, 2019 |url=https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/terri-collins/ |publisher=Heavy |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref> Tom died in early 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas Pryor Collins; Obituary |url=https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/decatur-al/thomas-collins-9031546 |website=Roselawn Funeral Home & Cemetery |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref>
Early in her legislative career she proposed a bill that would have prohibited making beer or wine at home.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Crain |first1=Abby |title=Rep. Terri Collins: Banker turned pro-life crusader |date=November 3, 2019 |url=https://www.al.com/politics/2019/11/rep-terri-collins-banker-turned-pro-life-crusader.html |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref>
She chairs the Education Policy Committee and serves on the Education Ways and Means Committee.<ref>{{cite web |title=Terri Collins: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know |date=May 15, 2019 |url=https://heavy.com/news/2019/05/terri-collins/ |publisher=Heavy |accessdate=3 July 2020}}</ref>
She introduced the Human Life Protection Act, a bill that Debbie Elliott of ''NPR'' said would become the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States if enacted. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed the bill into law on Wednesday, May 15, 2019.
In the 2019 session of the legislature, Collins voted against a bill that expanded the seat belt requirement to include everyone in a vehicle. She said that had she been in office when the first seat belt law was proposed she would have voted against it. The bill passed.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Whitmore |first1=Kyle |title=Alabamafication unmasked |url=https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/alabamafication-unmasked.html |accessdate=3 July 2020 |publisher=Alabama dot com |date=2 July 2020}}</ref>
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