

Alabama Legislative Process
If you would like to view the complete
list of all bills filed in the 2008 Regular Session, go to the Alabama Legislature
Searchable Instruments page:
http://www.legislature.state.al.us/SearchableInstruments/2008RS/Bills/
For an explanation of the Alabama legislative process, click here.
Click here to find a particular bill, to determine the status
a bill, to check on the progress of the legislative session, or to conduct
a
search by keyword or by content using the Alabama Legislature's Alison legislative
reference system.
New Laws Filed
in the
2008 Legislative Session
Click on the bill numbers below to go
to the full text of each new law passed by the Alabama legislature and signed
into law by the Governor.
HOUSE
BILLS
House
Bill 28. Major revisions to the Alabama Juvenile Justice Act.
House
Bill 29. Another version of a total re-write of the Alabama Juvenile
Justice Act.
House
Bill 30. Establishes a legal privilege for mediators to protect
mediators from being forced to testify about confidential matters that occur
during a mediation.
House
Bill 39. A major revision of the Alabama Parentage Act that adopts
the majority of hte 2002 version of the Uniform Parentage Act.
House
Bill 79. To provide that the property of a person who is
convicted of soliciting a child by computer or transmitting obscene material
to a child by computer would be subject to forfeiture; and to provide the procedure
for the forfeiture of the property; to amend Section 13A-6-110, Code of Alabama
1975, relating to the crime of soliciting a child by computer, to further provide
for the elements of the crime.
SENATE BILLS
Senate
14. This bill would
impose a waiting period of 365 days from the date of the decree in divorces
with children and
180 days in divorces with no children.
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