SB 204 — To adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to certain volumes of the code and 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B; and to adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to local law volumes; to make corrections in certain volumes of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes; to specify that this adoption and incorporation constitute a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, and that this act is a law that adopts a code; to declare that the Code Publisher has certified that it has discharged its duties regarding the replacement volumes; to expressly provide that this act does not affect any 2023 session statutes; and to specify the duties of the Secretary of State regarding the custody of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes.

SB204 INTRODUCEDENROLLED JI76YF-1JI76YF-2 By Senator Givhan RFD:

12-Apr-23 2023 Regular Session Page 0 JI76YF-1SB204 04/11/2023Enrolled JMHEnrolled, (L)crAn 2023-1184Act, 23 4To SYNOPSIS:adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to certain volumes of the code and 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B;

Under existing law, the general and permanent laws of the State of Alabama enacted subsequent to the adoption and enactment of the Code of Alabama 1975, including acts of the 1976 Regular Session of the Legislature through the 2021 Regular Session as contained in the respective annual cumulative supplements and replacement volumes to the code, have been adopted and incorporated in a continuous and systematic manner into the Code of Alabama 1975.

This bill would adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to certain volumes of the code and 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B.

This bill would adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, the 2022 supplements to local law volumes.

This bill would make certain corrections to the replacement volumes and volumes of the cumulative supplements.

Page 1 SB204 INTRODUCED This bill would specify that this adoption and incorporation constitute a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, and would expressly provide that this act does not affect 2023 session statutes.

This bill would also specify the duties of the Secretary of State regarding the custody of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to certain volumes of the code and 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B;

to declare that the Code Publisher has certified that it has discharged its Page 2 SB204 INTRODUCED duties regarding the replacement volumes;

(a) Those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to Volumes 3 to 12B, and Volumes 14 to 22A, inclusive, and the 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B, Page 1 SB204 Enrolled and the additions and deletions made by the Code Commissioner for editorial purposes, as edited and published by Thomson Reuters, as the Code Publisher, which volumes of the 2022 Cumulative Supplements and 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B are identified and authenticated by the Great Seal of the State of Alabama placed upon the front and back of each of the volumes of the cumulative supplements and upon the first inside page and the last inside page of the replacement volumes, are adopted and incorporated into the Code of Alabama 1975.

To update the number of circuit judges in the tenth judicial circuit and the twenty-third judicial circuit to reflect the reallocation of a judgeship in the tenth judicial circuit to the twenty-third judicial Page 3 SB204 INTRODUCED circuit by the Judicial Resource Allocation Commission pursuant to Section 12-9A-2, in subdivision (b)(8), replace "27" with "26" in the first sentence and add the following language at the end of subdivision (8):

To revise an internal citation to reflect the renumbering of the subdivisions and addition of new subdivisions to that section by Acts 2018-286, 2019-437, and 95 2021-134, in subsection (a), replace "Section 32-1-1.1(81)" with "Section 32-1-1.1" Page 2 SB204 Enrolled (3) Section 45-51A-32.113, 2022 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 22M, page 4.

Those local and permanent laws of the state previously enacted and contained in the local and permanent laws pertaining to various counties enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session, as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to Volumes 22B, 22C, 22D, 22E, 22F, 22G, 22H, 22I, 22J, 22K, 22L, and 22M and the additions and deletions made by the Code Commissioner for editorial purposes, as edited and published by Thomson Reuters, as the Code Publisher, which volumes of the 2022 Cumulative Supplement are identified and authenticated by the Great Seal of the State of Alabama placed upon the front and Page 4 SB204 INTRODUCED back of each of the volumes of the cumulative supplements, are adopted and incorporated into the Code of Alabama 1975.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this act shall be deemed to codify any provision of law that was adopted in violation of any provision of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, establishing requirements for, or Page 3 SB204 Enrolled limitations on, the enactment of a law.

It is declared that Thomson Reuters, as the Code Publisher, has certified that it has discharged its duties and responsibilities to edit and publish 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B of the Code of Alabama 1975, by combining the material in the previous bound volumes with the material contained in the cumulative supplements without making substantive changes, but making, under the supervision and pursuant to the direction of the Code Commissioner, nonsubstantive changes and corrections as may 95 have resulted from changes in reference numbers, changes of names and titles of governmental departments, agencies, and officers, typographical errors, grammatical changes, and misspellings.

The adoption of this act shall not repeal, supersede, amend, or in any other way affect any statute Page 5 SB204 INTRODUCED enacted into law during any 2023 session of the Legislature.

Page 4 SB204 Enrolled Section 7.

Page 65 SB204 Enrolled ________________________________________________ President and Presiding Officer of the Senate ________________________________________________ Speaker of the House of Representatives SB204 Senate 27-Apr-23 I hereby certify that the within Act originated in and passed the Senate.

Patrick Harris, Secretary.

House of Representatives Passed:

09-May-23 By:

Senator Givhan Page 6