HB492 Alabama 2026 Session

Updated Jan 8, 2026

House Bill

In Second Chamber

Current Status

Regular Session 2023

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Jim Hill Representative
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2023
Title: Relating to judges and justices; to prohibit government agencies, individuals, businesses, and associations from publicly posting or displaying judge's or justice's personal information on the Internet, provided they have received a written request from the judge or justice to refrain from doing so; to prohibit commercial data collectors from knowingly selling, trading, licensing, transferring, or purchasing judges' personal information; to provide for a process for a judge or justice to request their personal information not be made public; to provide for penalties for violations; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022.
Description: This bill creates the Judicial Privacy Act.
This bill would prohibit government agencies, individuals, businesses, and associations from publicly posting or displaying judge's or justice's personally identifiable information on the Internet, provided they have received a written request from the judge or justice to refrain from doing so.
This bill would prohibit commercial data collectors from knowingly selling, trading, licensing, transferring, or purchasing judges' personally identifiable information.
This bill would provide for a process for judges and justices to request their personal information not be made public.
This bill would also provide for penalties for violations.
Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or HB492 INTRODUCED provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.
The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.