HB608 Alabama 2014 Session

Article X of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, provides for exemptions in Alabama.

This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, to repeal the existing Article X and to readopt Article X to make nonsubstantive technical amendments, including capitalization and gender neutral references, to authorize the Legislature to provide by general law for the exemption of homesteads and personal property and other property and the waiver of the exemption and to delete specific provisions relating to the homesteads, laborer's and mechanic liens, and property rights of females.

To repeal existing Article X of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, relating to exemptions, and to add a new Article X relating to exemptions of homesteads.