---
type: "Bill"
title: "Municipal elections, voters required to register in same time frame as registering for county or state elections, Sec. 11-46-38 am'd."
description: "Municipal elections, voters required to register in same time frame as registering for county or state elections, Sec. 11-46-38 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019rs"
identifier: "HB 16"
citation: "Alabama HB 16 (2019rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3bfdbe0b-75c2-4e76-aa7d-c6bbcca48599"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB16"
source_hash: "16db4a85532e7d9f5401eda9cd157f340f3be1f4313ed40f973077b29dcba767"
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 16 (2019rs) — Municipal elections, voters required to register in same time frame as registering for county or state elections, Sec. 11-46-38 am'd.

## 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/2019rs/PrintFiles/HB16-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/HB16-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 90 — **81–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1206 — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Carried Over
- **2019-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** Hill motion to Carry Over Temporarily adopted Voice Vote
- **2019-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 90 `passage`
- **2019-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Grimsley intended to vote "Nay"
- **2019-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1206 `passage`
- **2019-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-358. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 1:33 p.m. on May 29, 2019. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3bfdbe0b-75c2-4e76-aa7d-c6bbcca48599`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).