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HB399 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Jul 25, 2021
HB399 Alabama 2012 Session
House Bill
Enacted
Current Status
Regular Session 2012
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2012
Title
Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act, allows litigants to depose individuals and conduct discovery in a state other than the trial state
Description

This bill would provide for the Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act. The bill would: Allow litigants in another state to depose individuals and conduct discovery in this state; allow litigants to present a circuit clerk of the county where discoverable materials are sought with a subpoena issued by a court in the trial state; and would require the clerk to issue a subpoena in this state which would be treated the same as any other subpoena in this state.

Subjects
Uniform Interstate Depositions and Discovery Act

Bill Actions

Delivered to Governor at 11:59 p. m. on May 16, 2012.

Assigned Act No. 2012-518.

Clerk of the House Certification

Signature Requested

Enrolled

Concurred in Second House Amendment

DeMarco motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 1603

Concurrence Requested

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1540

Brooks motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1539

Brooks Amendment Offered

Third Reading Passed

Brooks Carry Over to the Call of the Chair Granted

Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Re-referred to Committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 920

Holmes motion to Adjourn lost Roll Call 919

Third Reading Passed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

April 21, 2012 House Passed
Yes 94
Abstained 1
Absent 10

Holmes motion to Adjourn

April 21, 2012 House Failed
Yes 19
No 70
Absent 16

DeMarco motion to Concur In and Adopt

May 18, 2012 House Passed
Yes 97
Abstained 1
Absent 7

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

May 19, 2012 Senate Passed
Yes 27
Abstained 1
Absent 7

Brooks motion to Adopt

May 19, 2012 Senate Passed
Yes 27
Abstained 1
Absent 7

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature