SB242 Alabama 2025 Session

Updated Feb 23, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Sam GivhanSenator
Republican
Session: 2025 Regular Session
Title: Legislature; codification of 2024 Regular Session Acts and Code Commissioner technical revisions into the Code of Alabama 1975
Summary: SB242 codifies into the Code of Alabama 1975 the 2024 regular session laws and 2025 replacement volumes, updates local-law volumes, and sets editorial and custody duties for the Code Publisher and Secretary of State.
What This Bill Does
It adopts into the Code the general and permanent laws enacted during the 2024 Regular Session as contained in the 2024 Cumulative Supplements and the 2025 Replacement Volumes 16A, 18, and 18A, plus the 2024 local-law supplements. It initially adopts Volume 22N Revised Local Laws for Pickens through Russell Counties. It makes specified editorial corrections to several volumes and clarifies that the adoption is a continuous, systematic codification of the entire Code. It also states that the act does not affect any 2025 session statutes and assigns duties to the Code Publisher for certifying the replacement volumes and to the Secretary of State for custody and certification of the supplements and replacement volumes, with immediate effect.

Who It Affects
State government officials, especially the Secretary of State and the Code Publisher, who will handle custody, filing, certification, and editorial tasks related to the new code volumes.
Local governments and Alabama residents who rely on the Code, particularly local-law volumes updated by the act, starting with Volume 22N Local Laws for Pickens through Russell Counties.

Key Provisions
Adopts and incorporates into the Code of Alabama 1975 the 2024 Regular Session general and permanent laws as contained in the 2024 Cumulative Supplements and the 2025 Replacement Volumes 16A, 18, and 18A.
Adopts and incorporates into the Code the 2024 supplements to local law volumes.
Initially adopts Volume 22N Revised Local Laws for Pickens through Russell Counties.
Makes specific editorial corrections to several volumes of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes.
Declares that the adoption creates a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code and that it does not affect any statutes enacted in the 2025 session.
Assigns duties to the Code Publisher for certifying the replacement volumes and to the Secretary of State for custody and certification of the supplements and replacement volumes.
Becomes effective immediately.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.
Subjects: Legislature