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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Trusts, Uniform Trust Decanting Act, enacted, decanting power of fiduciaries of certain trusts to distribute assets of the trusts to other trusts, fiduciary duties, procedures, notice, limitations, trusts for the care of animals, authorized"
+description: "Trusts, Uniform Trust Decanting Act, enacted, decanting power of fiduciaries of certain trusts to distribute assets of the trusts to other trusts, fiduciary duties, procedures, notice, limitations, trusts for the care of animals, authorized"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
+legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
+session: "2018rs"
+identifier: "HB 163"
+citation: "Alabama HB 163 (2018rs)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Trusts"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Beckman"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c92ba7b-5dff-4832-b0aa-36670f3d822b"
+source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB163"
+source_hash: "d1dfdc5bde14173df0425b8af0556eff0c18cec17d4edb2b97f058f1405818f5"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-al"]
+---
+
+# Alabama HB 163 (2018rs) — Trusts, Uniform Trust Decanting Act, enacted, decanting power of fiduciaries of certain trusts to distribute assets of the trusts to other trusts, fiduciary duties, procedures, notice, limitations, trusts for the care of animals, authorized
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB163-int.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB163-enr.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 352 — **87–0** (pass) · lower
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1081 — **29–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Beckman — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Financial Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2018-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 352 `passage`
+- **2018-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Banking and Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1081 `passage`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
+- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
+- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
+- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2018-519. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 2:28 p.m. on March 27, 2018. `executive-receipt`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2c92ba7b-5dff-4832-b0aa-36670f3d822b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).
+