Hearing
House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Hearing
Room 429 at 09:00:00
SB42 Alabama 2025 Session
Updated Jan 14, 2026
SB42 Alabama 2025 Session
Senate Bill
Enacted
Current Status
2025 Regular Session
Session
1
Sponsor
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
-
Tim Melson SenatorRepublican - Session
- 2025 Regular Session
- Title
- Property; governmental body authorized to allow condemned abandoned state road to revert back to original landowner once deemed unusable
- Description
Under existing law, the Director of Transportation has the authority to acquire rights-of-way to construct a state road, by purchase or under the state, county, or municipal condemnation laws, as deemed necessary.
This bill would authorize the appropriate governing body, upon petition from the land owner of the adjacent parcels, to deed the road back to the original land owner if the road has been abandoned and no longer used for the original purpose it was purchased due to unforeseeable circumstances rendering it unusable.
- Subjects
- Property & Estates; Transportation
Bill Actions
S
Enacted
S
Enacted
S
Delivered to Governor
H
Signature Requested
S
Enrolled
S
Ready to Enroll
S
Melson Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1047
H
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1210
H
Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1209 FKKVF55-1
H
Crawford 1st Amendment Offered FKKVF55-1
H
Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1208 MSS8J11-1
H
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Engrossed Substitute Offered MSS8J11-1
H
Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar
H
Reported Out of Committee Second House from House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure MSS8J11-1
H
Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure 1st Amendment DGG9CTH-1
H
Pending House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
H
Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure
S
Engrossed
S
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 128
S
Stutts motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 127 XD8SUZZ-1
S
Stutts 1st Amendment Offered XD8SUZZ-1
S
Melson motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 126 MS4X3H1-1
S
Melson 1st Amendment Offered MS4X3H1-1
S
Third Reading in House of Origin
S
Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar
S
Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
S
Pending Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
S
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
Calendar
Hearing
Senate Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Hearing
room 316 at 15:30:00
Bill Text
Votes
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Roll Call 128
Yes
32
Absent
2
Stutts motion to Adopt - Roll Call 127 XD8SUZZ-1
Yes
32
Absent
2
Melson motion to Adopt - Roll Call 126 MS4X3H1-1
Yes
32
Absent
2
Third Reading in House of Origin
Yes
32
Absent
2
SBIR: Passed by House of Origin
Yes
32
Absent
2
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Roll Call 1210
Yes
94
No
3
Abstained
5
Absent
1
Motion to Adopt - Roll Call 1209 FKKVF55-1
Yes
99
No
2
Absent
2
Motion to Adopt - Roll Call 1208 MSS8J11-1
Yes
97
No
2
Abstained
1
Absent
3
Melson Concur In and Adopt - Roll Call 1047
Yes
29
Absent
5
Documents
Bill Text (Enrolled)
SB42 Alabama 2025 Session - Enrolled
Bill Text (Engrossed)
SB42 Alabama 2025 Session - Engrossed
Bill Text (Introduced)
SB42 Alabama 2025 Session - Introduced
Amendment
Senate Stutts motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 127
Amendment
Senate Melson motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 126
Amendment
House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Reported Out of Committee Second House
Amendment
House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure 1st Amendment
Amendment
House Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1209
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note - Introduced
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note - Passed First Chamber
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note - Reported by Second Chamber Committee
Fiscal Note
Fiscal Note - Enacted
Source: Alabama Legislature