Alabama State Senator

Sam Givhan 2023 Regular Session - Authored & Sponsored Legislation

Legislative Session

Primary Sponsor of Legislation

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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB136

Introduced
3/23/23  
Relating to building codes; to amend Section 27-2-39, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for a portion of fees and taxes collected by the Department of Insurance to the Alabama Residential Building Code Fund; to designate Sections 34-14A-1 through 34-14A-20 as Article 1 of Chapter 14A of Title 34, Code of Alabama 1975; to amend Sections 34-14A-1, 34-14A-2, 34-14A-7, 34-14A-12, 34-14A-20, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the establishment of the Alabama Residential Building Code and its authority; to further provide for the practice of residential home building; to further provide for the duties of the Home Builders Licensure Board; to add Article 2, commencing with Section 34-14A-41, to Chapter 14A of Title 34, Code of Alabama 1975, to establish the Alabama Residential Building Code Division within the Home Builders Licensure Board and provide for its duties; to establish the Alabama Residential Building Code Fund in the State Treasury and provide for its administration; to add Article 6A, commencing of Section 41-9-175, to Chapter 9 of Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975, to establish the Alabama Residential Building Code Advisory Council and provide for its membership and duties; to amend Sections 41-23-80, 41-23-81, 41-23-82, 41-23-84, 41-23-85, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the change of the name of the Alabama Energy and Residential Codes Board to the Alabama Commercial Energy Code Board and further provide for the membership of the board; and to provide requirements for certain local building codes adopted or amended after a date certain.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB137

Introduced
3/23/23  
Relating to gross income; to amend Section 40-18-14, Code of Alabama 1975; to exclude hours worked above 40 in any given week from gross income.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB148

Introduced
4/4/23  
Refer
4/4/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Relating to guardians ad litem; to amend Section 15-12-21, Code of Alabama 1975; to increase the compensation for an attorney appointed to serve as a guardian ad litem in certain juvenile cases.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB149

Introduced
4/4/23  
Relating to the probate code; to amend Act 2022-427, 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Sections 43-8-213 and 43-8-215, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the jurisdiction of certain will contest proceedings that have been removed from the probate court to the circuit court.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB150

Introduced
4/4/23  
Refer
4/4/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Engrossed
4/27/23  
Refer
4/27/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
Relating to judges of probate; to amend Section 35-2-57, Code of Alabama 1975, to specify the method for a judge of probate to record that an electronic map or a plat has been vacated.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB166

Introduced
4/4/23  
Refer
4/4/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Engrossed
4/27/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Enrolled
5/17/23  
Relating to municipalities; to add a new Article 3, commencing with Section 11-54B-80 to Title 11, Chapter 54B, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that Class 3 municipalities may establish self-help business improvement districts.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB171

Introduced
4/5/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Relating to the State Health Officer; to amend Section 22-2-8, Code of Alabama 1975, to revise appointment of the State Health Officer; to require certain emergency rules, orders, or directives issued by the State Health Officer to be approved by the Governor and a copy filed with the Secretary of State before the emergency rule, order, or other directive has the full force and effect of law; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB172

Introduced
4/5/23  
Relating to rights and remedies of a purchaser of real estate sold at a tax sale; to amend Section 40-10-82 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide limitations of actions that may be brought in circuit court to resolve certain issues related to real estate sold for the payment of taxes and to limit the period of time for a land owner to file a motion to redeem real estate sold for the payment of taxes, to challenge the validity of a tax sale, or to pay a court ordered judgment and costs.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB173

Introduced
4/5/23  
Relating to the State Treasurer; to create the Alabama Local Government Investment Pool Program within the Office of the State Treasurer to allow state and local public entities to deposit monies in an investment pool administered by the treasurer; to provide parameters for investments; to authorize the treasurer to take certain actions to administer the program; to establish the Alabama Local Government Investment Advisory Board and provide for its membership and duties; and to provide further for the Office of the State Treasurer's travel expenses.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB204

Introduced
4/12/23  
Refer
4/12/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Engrossed
4/27/23  
Refer
4/27/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Enrolled
5/9/23  
To adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, those general and permanent laws of the state enacted during the 2021 First Special Session, the 2021 Second Special Session, the 2022 First Special Session, and the 2022 Regular Session as contained in the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to certain volumes of the code and 2023 Replacement Volumes 13, 13A, and 13B; and to adopt and incorporate into the Code of Alabama 1975, the 2022 Cumulative Supplements to local law volumes; to make corrections in certain volumes of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes; to specify that this adoption and incorporation constitute a continuous systematic codification of the entire Code of Alabama 1975, and that this act is a law that adopts a code; to declare that the Code Publisher has certified that it has discharged its duties regarding the replacement volumes; to expressly provide that this act does not affect any 2023 session statutes; and to specify the duties of the Secretary of State regarding the custody of the cumulative supplements and replacement volumes.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB222

Introduced
4/19/23  
Refer
4/19/23  
Report Pass
4/26/23  
Report Pass
4/26/23  
Engrossed
5/2/23  
Refer
5/2/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Enrolled
5/11/23  
Relating to the Legislature; to amend Section 29-1-4, 29-2-41, 29-2-41.2, 29-2-80, 29-2-81, 29-2-83, 29-2-201, 29-4-70, 29-5A-22, 29-5A-46, 29-6-1, 29-6-2, 29-6-3, 29-6-7, 41-5A-16, 41-9-370, and 41-9-374, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide further for the date the Legislature convenes during the first year of a regular session; to provide additional time for the Contract Review Committee to review a contract and provide further for certain types of professional contracts; to provide further for property owned by the Legislative Council; to provide contingencies if a vacancy occurs in the Office of the Lieutenant Governor; to provide further for the role of the Code Commissioner and duties of the Legislative Council and Legislative Services Agency; to revise membership of the Joint Legislative Committee on Finances and Budgets; to provide further for tax expenditure reports made by the Legislative Fiscal Officer; to revise when members of the Legislative Committee on Public Accounts are elected; to repeal 29-5A-24 and 29-6-6, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to obsolete duties of the Legislative Reference Service and the Legislative Council; to repeal Sections 17-16-50 through 17-16-53, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the contested election of a legislator; and to delete obsolete language and make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB245

Introduced
4/25/23  
Refer
4/25/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Engrossed
5/25/23  
Refer
5/25/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Relating to the Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entity Code; to add Chapter 3A to Title 10A, Code of Alabama 1975, by revising the Alabama Nonprofit Corporation Law to reflect the national standards set by the Model Nonprofit Corporation Act of 2021 and the Delaware General Corporation Law; and to make conforming changes throughout the Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entity Code in order to effectuate the changes to the Alabama Nonprofit Corporation Law and conform with the other entities governed by the Alabama Business and Nonprofit Entity Code by amending Sections 10A-1-1.03, 10A-1-1.08, 10A-1-3.32, 10A-1-8.01, 10A-1-8.02, 10A-1-9.01, 10A-2A-1.40, 10A-2A-1.43, 10A-2A-1.51, 10A-2A-2.02, 10A-2A-2.06, 10A-2A-7.04, 10A-2A-7.20, 10A-2A-7.32, 10A-2A-8.10, 10A-2A-8.21, 10A-2A-8.22, 10A-2A-8.24, 10A-2A-10.06, 10A-2A-10.07, 10A-2A-10.08, 10A-2A-11.02, 10A-2A-11.06, 10A-2A-12.02, and 10A-2A-14.13, Code of Alabama 1975; adding Sections 10A-2A-10.00 and 10A-2A-10.10 to the Code of Alabama 1975; and amending Sections 10A-5A-2.03, 10A-5A-10.07, 10A-8A-9.08, 10A-9A-2.02, and 10A-9A-10.08, Code of Alabama 1975.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB275

Introduced
5/2/23  
Refer
5/2/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Engrossed
5/26/23  
Refer
5/26/23  
Report Pass
5/31/23  
Relating to residential real estate; to provide prohibition on the installation of centralized mail delivery devices by residential real estate developers in certain new residential neighborhoods, with exceptions.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB276

Introduced
5/2/23  
Refer
5/2/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Engrossed
5/4/23  
Refer
5/4/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Report Pass
5/17/23  
Enrolled
5/18/23  
Relating to Madison County; to repeal Act 466 of the 1939 Regular Session and Act 435 of the 1978 Regular Session relating to the County Board of Barber Examiners; to abolish the County Board of Barber Examiners; and to provide that the practice of barbering in Madison County be regulated by the Alabama Board of Cosmetology and Barbering.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB289

Introduced
5/3/23  
Refer
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Engrossed
5/16/23  
Relating to political action committees; to amend Section 17-5-15, Code of Alabama 1975, to permit PACs to make contributions to political parties in certain circumstances.