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AL Code § 29-1-1.2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-1.2 - House Districts; Legal Actions; Official Maps; Severability; Effective Date.

Section 29-1-1.2House districts; legal actions; official maps; severability; effective date. THIS SECTION WAS REENACTED IN THE 2021 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2021-556 EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 4, 2021. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) The Alabama House of Representatives shall consist of 105 members. Each member elected shall reside in the district which he or she represents or seeks to represent. The State of Alabama is divided into 105 House Districts as provided in subsection (b).  (b) The numbers and boundaries of the districts are designated and established by the map prepared by the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment and identified and labeled as Pringle House Plan 4, including the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties, and are incorporated by reference as part of this section.  (c) The Legislature shall post for viewing on its public website the map referenced in subsection (b), including the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties, and any alternative map, including the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties, introduced by any member of the Legislature during the legislative session in which this section is added or amended.  (d) Upon enactment of the act adding this section and adopting the map identified in subsection (b), the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall transmit the map and the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties identified in subsection (b) for certification and posting on the public website of the Secretary of State.  (e) The boundary descriptions provided by the certified map referenced in subsection (b) shall prevail over the boundary descriptions provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties generated for the map. (Code 1852, §26; Code 1867, §27; Code 1876, sect; 24; Code 1886, §24; Code 1896, §2213; Code 1907, §90; Code 1923, §1507; Code 1940, T. 32, §1; Acts 1962, Ex. Sess., No. 91, p. 121, §3; Acts 1965, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 48, p. 70, §1; Acts 1973, Ex. Sess., No. 3, p. 6, §1; Acts 1981, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 81-1049, p. 253, §1; Acts 1982, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 82-629, p. 3, §1; Acts 1983, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 83-154, p. 163, §1; Acts 1983, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 83-824, p. 40; Acts 1984, No. 84-371, p. 864; Acts 1987, No. 87-436, p. 648; Act 2001-729, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 207, §§2-8; Act 2012-602, 1st Sp. Sess., p. 1939, §§2-8; repealed by Act 2017-348, §§1-4; added by Act 2017-348, §§2-8; repealed by Act 2021-556, §1; added by Act 2021-556, §2.)
AL Code § 29-1-2.3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-2.3 - Senate Districts; Legal Actions; Official Maps; Severability; Effective Date.

Section 29-1-2.3Senate districts; legal actions; official maps; severability; effective date. THIS SECTION WAS REENACTED IN THE 2021 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2021-558 EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 4, 2021. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a) The Alabama Senate shall consist of 35 members. Each member elected shall reside in the district which he or she represents or seeks to represent. The State of Alabama is divided into 35 Senate Districts as provided in subsection (b).  (b) The numbers and boundaries of the districts are designated and established by the map prepared by the Permanent Legislative Committee on Reapportionment and identified and labeled as McClendon Senate Plan 1, including the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties, and are incorporated by reference as part of this section.  (c) The Legislature shall post for viewing on its public website the map referenced in subsection (b), including the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties, and any alternative map, including the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties, introduced by any member of the Legislature during the legislative session in which this section is added or amended.  (d) Upon enactment of the act adding this section and adopting the map identified in subsection (b), the Secretary of the Senate shall transmit the map and the corresponding boundary description provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties identified in subsection (b) for certification and posting on the public website of the Secretary of State.  (e) The boundary descriptions provided by the certified map referenced in subsection (b) shall prevail over the boundary descriptions provided by the census tracts, blocks, and counties generated for the map. (Code 1852, sect; 27; Code 1867, §30; Code 1876, §28; Code 1886, §28; Code 1896, §2214; Code 1907, §901; Code 1923, §1508; Code 1940, T. 32, §2; Acts 1962, Ex. Sess., No. 91, p. 121, §1, 2; Acts 1973, Ex. Sess., No. 3, p. 6, §2; Acts 1981, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 81-1049, p. 253, sect; 2; Acts 1982, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 82-629, p. 3, §2; Acts 1983, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 83-154, p. 163, §2, Act 2001-727, 2nd Sp. Sess, p. 29, §§2-7; repealed by Act 2012-603, 1st Sp. Sess., §1; added by Act 2012-603, 1st Sp. Sess., §§2-8; repealed by Act 2017-347, §1.; added by Act 2017-347, §§3-5; repealed by Act 2021-558, §1.; added by Act 2021-558, §2.)
AL Code § 29-1-2.4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-2.4 - Effective Date.

Section 29-1-2.4Effective date. THIS SECTION WAS REPEALED IN THE 2001 SECOND SPECIAL SESSION BY ACT 2001-727 AND ACT 2001-729, EFFECTIVE JULY 3, 2001. (Acts 1982, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 82-629, p. 3, §5; Acts 1983, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 83-154, p. 163, §5.)
AL Code § 29-1-2.5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-2.5 - Contesting Redistricting or Reapportionment Plans.

Section 29-1-2.5Contesting redistricting or reapportionment plans.  (a) Any legal action which contests the validity of any redistricting or reapportionment plan, or any portion of any such plan, for the state Senate, state House of Representatives, United States Congress, State Board of Education, or any other statewide redistricting or reapportionment plan, or portion of any other statewide plan, enacted by the Legislature, shall be commenced in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. (b) Any legal action pending in any court other than the Circuit Court of Montgomery County on July 3, 2001, which contests the validity of any redistricting or reapportionment plan, or any portion of any such plan, for the state Senate, state House of Representatives, United States Congress, State Board of Education, or any other statewide redistricting or reapportionment plan, or portion of any other statewide plan, enacted by the Legislature, shall be transferred to or re-filed in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. (Act 2001-728, 2nd Sp. Sess., p. 206, §§1, 2.)
AL Code § 29-1-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-3 - Annual Sessions; Place of Meeting.

Section 29-1-3Annual sessions; place of meeting. The Legislature shall meet annually at the Capitol, in the Senate chamber and in the hall of the House of Representatives, unless at any time it should, from any cause, become impossible or dangerous for the Legislature to meet or remain at the Capitol or for the Senate to meet or remain in the Senate chamber, or for the Representatives to meet or remain in the hall of the House of Representatives, then the Governor may convene the Legislature, or remove it after it has convened, to some other place for the sitting of the respective houses, or either of them, as necessity may require. (Code 1852, §32; Code 1867, §37; Code 1876, §31; Code 1886, §31; Code 1896, §2215; Code 1907, §902; Code 1923, §1509; Acts 1939, Ex. Sess., No. 12, p. 11; Code 1940, T. 32, §3.)
AL Code § 29-1-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-4 - Time of Meeting and Length of Organizational and Regular Sessions.

Section 29-1-4Time of meeting and length of organizational and regular sessions. The Legislature shall convene on the second Tuesday in January next succeeding its election in organizational session and shall remain in session for not longer than 10 consecutive calendar days. Commencing in the year 1999, the annual sessions of the Alabama Legislature shall commence on the first Tuesday in March of the first year of the term of office of the legislators, on the first Tuesday of February of the second and third years of the term and on the second Tuesday in January of the fourth year of the term. The annual sessions shall not continue longer than 30 legislative days and 105 calendar days. (Code 1867, §38; Code 1876, §32; Code 1886, §32; Code 1896, §2216; Code 1907, §§903, 904; Code 1923, §§1510, 1511; Acts 1939, Ex. Sess., No. 12, p. 11; Code 1940, T. 32, §4; Acts 1951, No. 33, p. 242, §1; Acts 1975, No. 1240, p. 2606, §1; Acts 1976, No. 257, p. 291; Acts 1979, Ex. Sess., No. 79-22, p. 32; Acts 1979, Ex. Sess., No. 79-23, p. 33; Acts 1997, No. 97-923, § 1.)
AL Code § 29-1-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-5 - Length of Special Sessions.

Section 29-1-5Length of special sessions. No special session of the Legislature shall continue for longer than 12 legislative days and 30 calendar days. (Acts 1939, Ex. Sess., No. 12, p. 11; Code 1940, T. 32, §5; Acts 1951, No. 33, p. 242, §2.)
AL Code § 29-1-6 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-6 - Administration of Oath of Office to Members.

Section 29-1-6Administration of oath of office to members. The oath of office may be administered to the members of the Legislature by any judge of the Supreme Court, Court of Civil Appeals, Court of Criminal Appeals, circuit, district or probate court, the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may be sworn in by any member of their respective houses. (Code 1852, §42; Code 1867, §48; Code 1876, §42; Code 1886, §42; Code 1896, §2225; Code 1907, §913; Code 1923, §1520; Code 1940, T. 32, §11.)
AL Code § 29-1-7 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-7 - Privilege of Members From Arrest and Civil Process.

Section 29-1-7Privilege of members from arrest and civil process. (a) Members of the Legislature of Alabama shall in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest and shall not be subject to service of any summons, citation or other civil process during their attendance at the session of their respective houses and in going to and returning from the same. (b) Whoever knowingly and willfully denies to any member of the Legislature the privilege and immunity granted herein is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both. (Acts 1959, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 88, p. 148.)
AL Code § 29-1-8 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-8 - Compensation and Mileage of Officers and Members.

Section 29-1-8Compensation and mileage of officers and members. (a) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall each receive $12.00, and each member of the Legislature shall receive $10.00, for each day during the period in which the Legislature is in session, but not exceeding in any event the number of calendar days for which the Legislature is authorized to be in session, and no additional sum shall be paid or received for per diem or expenses. (b) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives and each member of the Legislature shall be paid $.10 per mile in going from his residence to, and in returning to his residence from, the seat of government, to be computed by the nearest usual route traveled, and according to the distances herein specified: (1) Autauga, 14 miles. (2) Baldwin, 155 miles. (3) Barbour, 101 miles. (4) Bibb, 72 miles. (5) Blount, 132 miles. (6) Bullock, 41 miles. (7) Butler, 44 miles. (8) Calhoun, 150 miles. (9) Chambers, 83 miles. (10) Cherokee, 173 miles. (11) Chilton, 40 miles. (12) Choctaw, 159 miles. (13) Clarke, 134 miles. (14) Clay, 142 miles. (15) Cleburne, 153 miles. (16) Coffee, 140 miles. (17) Colbert, 228 miles. (18) Conecuh, 82 miles. (19) Coosa, 126 miles. (20) Covington, 92 miles. (21) Crenshaw, 52 miles. (22) Cullman, 150 miles. (23) Dale, 92 miles. (24) Dallas, 50 miles. (25) DeKalb, 186 miles. (26) Elmore, 18 miles. (27) Escambia, 105 miles. (28) Etowah, 160 miles. (29) Fayette, 177 miles. (30) Franklin, 213 miles. (31) Geneva, 136 miles. (32) Greene, 142 miles. (33) Hale, 102 miles. (34) Henry, 144 miles. (35) Houston, 119 miles. (36) Jackson, 250 miles. (37) Jefferson, 96 miles. (38) Lauderdale, 233 miles. (39) Lamar, 208 miles. (40) Lawrence, 211 miles. (41) Lee, 66 miles. (42) Limestone, 214 miles. (43) Lowndes, 24 miles. (44) Macon, 45 miles. (45) Madison, 207 miles. (46) Marengo, 100 miles. (47) Marion, 200 miles. (48) Marshall, 186 miles. (49) Mobile, 185 miles. (50) Monroe, 161 miles. (51) Morgan, 183 miles. (52) Perry, 80 miles. (53) Pickens, 148 miles. (54) Pike, 52 miles. (55) Randolph, 119 miles. (56) Russell, 75 miles. (57) Shelby, 74 miles. (58) St. Clair, 140 miles. (59) Sumter, 135 miles. (60) Talladega, 110 miles. (61) Tuscaloosa, 107 miles. (62) Tallapoosa, 97 miles. (63) Walker, 137 miles. (64) Washington, 210 miles. (65) Wilcox, 115 miles. (66) Winston, 185 miles. (c) No more than one such travel allowance shall be paid for each session of the Legislature. The 10-day or organization session is hereby declared to be a session for which such travel allowance is due. (Code 1852, §43; Code 1867, §49; Code 1876, §43; Code 1886, §43; Code 1896, §2226; Code 1907, §914; Code 1923, §1521; Acts 1939, Ex. Sess., No. 12, p. 11; Code 1940, T. 32, §12.)
AL Code § 29-1-8.1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-8.1 - Treatment of Legislators' Travel Expenses for State Income Tax Purposes.

Section 29-1-8.1Treatment of legislators' travel expenses for state income tax purposes. Repealed by Act 98-502, p. 1083, effective December 31, 1998.  (Acts 1981, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 81-1142, p. 422.)
AL Code § 29-1-9 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-9 - Compensation of Legislative Interim Committees.

Section 29-1-9Compensation of legislative interim committees. The compensation of all members of the legislative interim committees provided for by joint resolution or by act of the two houses of the Legislature shall be $10.00 per day for the entire time while engaged in its work, except in cases of adjournment exceeding three days. The members of such committees shall collect mileage in traveling to and from the residence of such members to the Capitol for not more than one roundtrip per week. The chair of each committee shall certify to the Comptroller what amount is due each member and the Comptroller shall draw his or her warrant therefor on the Treasurer. No legislative interim committee shall receive compensation for more than 60 days. (Code 1886, §45; Code 1896, §2228; Code 1907, §916; Code 1923, §1523; Acts 1927, No. 79, p. 60; Code 1940, T. 32, §13; Acts 1982, No. 82-423, p. 665; Acts 1997, No. 97-658, p. 1249, §1.)
AL Code § 29-1-10 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-10 - Appropriation for Organization Sessions and Legislative Interim Committees.

Section 29-1-10Appropriation for organization sessions and legislative interim committees. (a) There shall be appropriated from the General Fund to the Legislature the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expenses of the Legislature in its organizational session and for the expense of such legislative interim committees as may be created by the Legislature. (b) There shall be appropriated from the General Fund to the Legislature funds sufficient for the additional expenses incurred and payable to the members of the Legislature and for the operations of the Legislature during any special session called by the Governor, as certified by the Legislative Council. (Code 1940, T. 32, §14; Act 2015-408, §1.)
AL Code § 29-1-11 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-11 - Certification of Compensation Due Officers and Members.

Section 29-1-11Certification of compensation due officers and members. The compensation due to the officers and members of the Legislature must be certified by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, to the Comptroller, who must issue his warrant therefor on the Treasurer. (Code 1852, §45; Code 1867, §52; Code 1876, §46; Code 1886, §47; Code 1896, §2230; Code 1907, §918; Code 1923, §1525; Code 1940, T. 32, §15.)
AL Code § 29-1-12 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-12 - Journals of House and Senate - Compiling and Filing.

Section 29-1-12Journals of House and Senate - Compiling and filing. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House shall be allowed 16 weeks within which to check, compare, and deliver the journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives of each session of the Legislature to the Secretary of State and the state printer. The journals of the 10-day or organization session of the Legislature shall be compiled, combined, and filed with the journals of the next ensuing regular session. The time allowed after final adjournment of any session, other than the 10-day or organization sessions, for the filing of the journals in the Office of the Secretary of State and completing the work specified by this section shall be 16 weeks. If there is a special session during, or within 16 weeks after the final adjournment of a regular session, or if there is a regular session within 16 weeks after the final adjournment of a special session, or if there is a special session within 16 weeks after the final adjournment of a special session, the time for comparing and filing the journals of such sessions, including the indices, shall be extended for each session for a period of time as the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate may determine to be necessary for the clerk and secretary to have sufficient time within which to transcribe and file the journals of each house. The extended time shall not exceed a total of 16 weeks for each session. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate may, in instances of extreme hardship, unforeseen circumstances, or uncontrollable circumstances, grant to the clerk and secretary an extra time extension that is in addition to any other extension permitted by law. If the time is extended, the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate shall give written notice to the Secretary of the State and to the state printer of the extension. (Code 1907, §925; Code 1923, §1533; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 18, p. 9; Acts 1935, No. 261, p. 655; Code 1940, T. 32, §24; Acts 1965, 2nd Ex. Sess., No. 14, p. 26; Acts 1965, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 20, p. 226; Acts 1990, No. 90-224, p. 280, §1; Acts 1993, No. 93-73, p. 15, §1; Acts 1997, No. 97-658, p. 1249, §1.)
AL Code § 29-1-13 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-13 - Journals of House and Senate - Delivery to Secretary of State; Compensation.

Section 29-1-13Journals of House and Senate - Delivery to Secretary of State; compensation. The Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall be allowed 16 weeks from the date of the final adjournment of each session of the Legislature of Alabama, other than the 10-day or organization session, in which to check, compare, and deliver the journals of the House and Senate to the Secretary of State in such form or state of completion, including camera ready drafts, the final form for printing, or other forms, as the clerk or secretary deem necessary and appropriate, and copy and deliver the journals of their respective houses to the public printer; or, alternatively, to prepare the final bound and printed journals, if the secretary or clerk in his or her discretion decides to do so, within his or her own respective office. For these services, when performed, the secretary or clerk shall receive respectively the sum of $800, which shall be paid out of the appropriation made for the per diem and expenses of that session of the Legislature upon presentation to the Comptroller of proper certificates signed by the proper officers of their respective houses. (Code 1896, §2240; Code 1907, §928; Code 1923, §1536; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 276, p. 277; Code 1940, T. 32, §29; Acts 1990, No. 90-224, p. 280, §1; Acts 1993, No. 93-73, p. 15, §1.)
AL Code § 29-1-14 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-14 - Papers and Documents of Legislature - Deposit With Secretary of State.

Section 29-1-14Papers and documents of Legislature - Deposit with Secretary of State. At the close of each session of the Legislature, the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and Secretary of State must select all the papers belonging to the Legislature, except such as relate to unfinished business, and deposit them in the office of the Secretary of State. (Code 1852, §38; Code 1867, §44; Code 1876, §38; Code 1886, §38; Code 1896, §2221; Code 1907, §909; Code 1923, §1516; Code 1940, T. 32, §7.)
AL Code § 29-1-15 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 29 - Legislature.|Chapter 1 - General Provisions.|Article 1 - Members, Terms, Records, Etc.|Section 29-1-15 - Papers and Documents of Legislature - Engrossed Copies of Laws, etc., to Be Preserved.

Section 29-1-15Papers and documents of Legislature - Engrossed copies of laws, etc., to be preserved. The engrossed copies of all laws and joint resolutions passed by the Legislature must be preserved by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House, and deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. (Code 1867, §39; Code 1876, §45; Code 1886, §39; Code 1896, §2222; Code 1907, §910; Code 1923, §1517; Code 1940, T. 32, §8.)