---
type: "Bill"
title: "Driver's licenses and similar cards, applicant for new or renewal, inclusion of emergency contact information in records of Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency"
description: "Driver's licenses and similar cards, applicant for new or renewal, inclusion of emergency contact information in records of Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2018rs"
identifier: "HB 39"
citation: "Alabama HB 39 (2018rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brown"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-09T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1808b141-ccde-435e-b3b5-90778e198fc2"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB39"
source_hash: "4024ecbe490e17739daca79b26b43cd707474cce7e4c3d6008c1534302c4cc44"
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 39 (2018rs) — Driver's licenses and similar cards, applicant for new or renewal, inclusion of emergency contact information in records of Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency

## 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/HB39-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB39-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 750 — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 196 — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brown — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 196 `passage`
- **2018-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 750 `passage`
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2018-271. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 3:22 p.m. on March 13, 2018. `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** State Government first Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1808b141-ccde-435e-b3b5-90778e198fc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).