SB206
Updating Alabama's Official Law Books for the Year 2025
In one sentence
This law adds new rules from the 2025 legislative session into the official Code of Alabama and fixes specific errors in those books.
What it does
- Adds general state laws passed during the 2025 Regular Session to volumes 3 through 22A of the Code of Alabama 1975 via Cumulative Supplements.
- Includes local county laws from the 2025 session into specific supplementary volumes labeled 22B through 22N.
- Corrects six specific mistakes in the text, including wrong section numbers, an age limit change to 21 years, and typos found in previous drafts.
- States that this update counts as an official, continuous organization of all state laws under Section 85 of the Alabama Constitution.
- Requires the Secretary of State to keep the new law books at their office and provide certified copies when asked.
Who it affects
- The Code Commissioner who edits and publishes the legal volumes.
- Thomson Reuters, which is named as the official publisher for these code updates.
- The Secretary of State's office, which must store and manage the new law books.
Limits and unknowns
- This act does not change or affect any laws created during a legislative session in 2026.
- The bill only fixes specific errors listed in Section 1 and does not rewrite other parts of the law books unless stated.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Codification
- The process of collecting laws into one organized book or set of volumes so they are easy to find and use.
- Cumulative Supplements
- Extra sections added to the main law books that contain new rules passed since the last full update.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
This act is the annual codification act. This act: (1) adopts and incorporates into the Code of Alabama 1975, the general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2025 Regular Session, as contained in the 2025 Cumulative Supplements to volumes 3 through 22A, and makes corrections in certain volumes of the cumulative supplements; (2) adopts and incorporates into the Code of Alabama 1975, the 2025 Cumulative Supplements to local law volumes 22B through 22N; (3) specifies that this adoption and incorporation constitutes a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, and that this act is a law that adopts a code; (4) declares that the code publisher has certified that it has discharged its duties regarding the replacement volumes; (5) expressly provides that this act does not affect any 2026 session statutes; and (6) specifies the duties of the Secretary of State regarding the custody of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes.
Official activity
Bill history
- EnactedSenate
- Delivered to GovernorSenate
- Signature RequestedHouse
- EnrolledSenate
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1227 (Yeas 101, Nays 0)House
- Third Reading in Second House (Yeas 104, Nays 0)House
- Ready to EnrollSenate
- Read for the Second Time and placed on the CalendarHouse
- Reported Out of Committee Second HouseHouse
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 215 (Yeas 33, Nays 0)Senate
- Third Reading in House of Origin (Yeas 33, Nays 0)Senate
- Pending Committee Action in Second HouseHouse
- Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on State GovernmentHouse
- Read for the Second Time and placed on the CalendarSenate
- Reported Out of Committee House of OriginSenate
- Pending Committee Action in House of OriginSenate
- Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on State Governmental AffairsSenate