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HB209 Alabama 2025 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026
HB209 Alabama 2025 Session
House Bill
In Second Chamber
Current Status
2025 Regular Session
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
2025 Regular Session
Title
Jury duty; exemption for nursing mothers
Description

Under existing law, individuals may be excused from jury duty for limited reasons including extreme physical or financial hardship, incapacity, or public necessity.

This bill would provide that a nursing mother may be excused from service as a juror.

This bill would also require a nursing mother seeking excusal from jury service to provide the court with certification from a health care professional that she is nursing.

Subjects
Courts & Judges

Bill Actions

S

Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

S

Reported Out of Committee Second House

S

Pending Senate Judiciary

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary

H

Engrossed

H

Motion to Add Cosponsor - Adopted Roll Call 332

H

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 331

H

Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 330 NRR47TT-1

H

Lands 1st Amendment Offered NRR47TT-1

H

Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 329 XD8MHEZ-1

H

Judiciary Engrossed Substitute Offered XD8MHEZ-1

H

Third Reading in House of Origin

H

Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

H

Reported Out of Committee House of Origin from House Judiciary XD8MHEZ-1

H

Judiciary 1st Amendment U963JGD-1

H

Pending House Judiciary

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary

Calendar

Hearing

Senate Judiciary Hearing

Room 325 at 08:30:00

Hearing

House Judiciary Hearing

Room 200 at 14:30:00

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Add Cosponsor - Roll Call 332

March 3, 2025 House Passed
Yes 80
Absent 24

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Roll Call 331

March 3, 2025 House Passed
Yes 103
Absent 1

Motion to Adopt - Roll Call 330 NRR47TT-1

March 3, 2025 House Passed
Yes 102
Absent 2

Motion to Adopt - Roll Call 329 XD8MHEZ-1

March 3, 2025 House Passed
Yes 102
Absent 2

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature