Department of Mental Health; expand category for involuntary commitment to include individuals with co-occurring substance use disorder, authorize service of petition in county of respondent's location when original petition was filed, authorize judge to determine when to bring respondent before court for hearing on restriction of liberty pending final hearing, authorize judge of probate to petition district or municipal court for suspension of criminal confinement for commitment; bill does not require providers to expand services unless additional funding provided
Abortion, harboring or transporting of minor girl in order to obtain abortion prohibited in certain circumstances, criminal penalties and affirmative defense provided, certain civil remedies authorized
Tax lien auctions and sales; auctions and fees further provided for; tax lien redemptions; tax lien price further provided for; redemption of tax lien further provided for; prohibit entry on land; penalties established
Bail Bonds; Bail Reform Act of 1993 and Bail Bond Regulatory Act amended; certain undeposited fees forgiven; penalties for crime of bail jumping increased; to provide further for conditional forfeitures, out-of-state bondsmen and sureties, limitations on property owners as sureties; to provide further for the definition of an employee of a professional bail bond company or professional surety company, for the licensing and duties of apprentices; to increase the membership of the Alabama Professional Bail Bonding Board; provide for a late fee for renewals; and to require applicants for licensing to be residents of this state for at least one year
Relating to self-defense, to amend Section 13A-3-23, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide a person's use of physical force in defending himself, herself, or another person is presumed reasonable; to further provide for the immunity received by a person whose use of physical force on another person is justified self-defense; to shift the burden of proving a person's use of physical force is not justified to the state; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style
Motor vehicles, Dept of Revenue, transfer of ownership interest in deceased individual's motor vehicle prohibited, except by order of a probate or circuit court, by a small estates distribution, by affidavit of all heirs, Class B misdemeanor for false affidavit.