---
type: "Bill"
title: "Landlords, disabled persons requiring assistance, animal or service animal, documentation may be required, misrepresentations, crimes established, penalties, Alabama Assistance and Service Animal Integrity in Housing Act"
description: "Landlords, disabled persons requiring assistance, animal or service animal, documentation may be required, misrepresentations, crimes established, penalties, Alabama Assistance and Service Animal Integrity in Housing Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2018rs"
identifier: "HB 198"
citation: "Alabama HB 198 (2018rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes and Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fridy"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b75b9caa-5dff-4172-b96b-8c21500b497b"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB198"
source_hash: "3f6e9ed18ab067ca8c0c876514f4aa9e79bd37cb83e5012eee8a9ba1cf496381"
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 198 (2018rs) — Landlords, disabled persons requiring assistance, animal or service animal, documentation may be required, misrepresentations, crimes established, penalties, Alabama Assistance and Service Animal Integrity in Housing Act

## 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/HB198-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB198-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Whatley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 636 — **27–2** (pass) · upper
- Cosponsors Added — **53–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 649 — **22–2** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 124 — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Fridy motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 628 — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Whatley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 638 — **27–2** (pass) · upper
- Whatley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 637 — **27–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fridy — 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 Public Safety and Homeland Security `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2018-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 124 `passage`
- **2018-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** Cosponsors Added
- **2018-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 2 amendments `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Whatley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 636 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Whatley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 637 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Whatley Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Whatley motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Whatley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 638 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 649 `passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Concurrence Requested
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Fridy motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 628 `passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Second House Amendment
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2018-235. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 10:16 a.m. on March 8, 2018. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b75b9caa-5dff-4172-b96b-8c21500b497b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).