Relating to the Insurance Department; to amend Section 27-2-39 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the department to post notice of hearings for the consideration of matters which would otherwise require separate notices to more than 50 persons on a website maintained by the department; and to require the department to post notices of hearings held for consideration of rules of the commissioner on a website maintained by the department and to publish the notices in the Alabama Administrative Monthly.
Summary
Insurance Department, hearing notice for matters with precunary interest and rules of commissioner, publication with Alabama Administrative Monthly.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2023
Committee Review
Apr 2023
House Passage
Apr 2023
Senate Passage
Apr 2023
Signed into Law
May 2023
Introduced Mar 21, 2023
Signed May 16, 2023
Floor votes · Senate Apr 27, 2023 · House Apr 11, 2023
How they voted
29–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 34
Apr 27, 2023
D
Democratic8
75% Yea
R
Republican26
88% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
19
Key actions
6
Committee
5
Apr 27, 2023
Upper · Passed
Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
upper
Apr 19, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in Second House
upper
Apr 19, 2023
Upper · Passed
Reported Favorably (Banking and Insurance)
upper
Apr 12, 2023
Committee
Referred to Committee (Banking and Insurance)
upper
Apr 11, 2023
Lower · Passed
Read a Third Time and Pass
lower
Apr 5, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
lower
Apr 5, 2023
Lower · Passed
Reported Favorably (Insurance)
lower
Mar 21, 2023
Introduced
Introduced and Referred (Insurance)
lower
1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
David Faulkner
RRepublican
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