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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