HB423 Alabama 2020 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2020

Title

Evidence, unsworn declarations, allowed when given under penalty of perjury, with exceptions, Secs. 12-21-80 to 12-21-87, inclusive, repealed

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, when a declaration is to be used in a judicial or administrative proceeding, the declaration is required to be in the form of an affidavit that is sworn to in the presence of a notary public</p><p class="bill_description"> Also under existing law, the Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act provides that when a declaration is unsworn, with exceptions, the declaration is valid if the declarant is outside the territorial limits of the United States and the declaration is signed under penalty of perjury</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide that, with exceptions, when a matter is required to be evidenced by a sworn declaration of the person making the declaration, the matter may be valid if it is unsworn and subscribed to by the declarant under penalty of perjury</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to evidence; to repeal the Alabama Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act, Subdivision 3.5, commencing with Section 12-21-80, Division 1, Article 1, Chapter 21, Title 12 of the Code of Alabama 1975; and to provide that when a matter is required to be evidenced by a sworn declaration of the person making the declaration, the matter may be valid if it is unsworn and subscribed to by the declarant under penalty of perjury, with exceptions. </p>

Subjects

Evidence