House Bill 345 Alabama 2026 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chris PringleRepresentative

Republican

Session

2026 Regular Session

Title

Legislature; codification of 2025 Regular Session acts and Code Commissioner technical revisions into Code of Alabama 1975

Summary

HB345 would codify the 2025 Regular Session laws and local-law supplements into the Code of Alabama 1975, fix several editorial errors, and assign custody duties to the Secretary of State to support a continuous codification.

What This Bill Does

It adopts into the Code of Alabama 1975 the general and permanent laws enacted during the 2025 Regular Session, as shown in the 2025 cumulative supplements for volumes 3 through 22A and the 2025 local law supplements for volumes 22B through 22N. It makes targeted editorial corrections in the 2025 supplements and replacement volumes to fix cross references, age references, and other publishing errors. It declares that this adoption creates a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975 and that it does not affect statutes or replacement volumes enacted in the 2026 session. It assigns duties to the Secretary of State regarding custody, filing, preservation, and certification of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes once transmitted, with immediate effect.

Who It Affects

• General public and state/local government entities in Alabama, whose laws will be reflected in the Code of Alabama 1975 including the 2025 general and local laws.
• Secretary of State and Code publishing staff, who are responsible for custody, transmission, storage, and certification of the codified volumes.

Key Provisions

• Adoption and incorporation of 2025 Regular Session general and permanent laws into the Code of Alabama 1975 for volumes 3–22A and 2025 local-law supplements for volumes 22B–22N, including Code Commissioner editorial changes.
• Corrections to the 2025 cumulative supplements and replacement volumes, addressing specific sections such as 11-40-62, 13A-12-3.5, 13A-12-3.8, 17-3-2, 39-2-2, and 45-16A-40.07 among others.
• A declaration that the act constitutes a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975 and that it does not repeal or affect 2026 session statutes or replacement volumes.
• Specification of the Secretary of State's duties to custody, receive, file, and certify the authenticated volumes upon request and payment of a fee, with the volumes to be stored in the Secretary of State's office and not removed.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 12, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.

Subjects

Legislature