---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fort Payne, city council, election of members further provided for, vacancies, Sec. 45-25A-40 am'd."
description: "Fort Payne, city council, election of members further provided for, vacancies, Sec. 45-25A-40 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019rs"
identifier: "HB 397"
citation: "Alabama HB 397 (2019rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DeKalb County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ledbetter"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-16T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/987ee210-2b6b-4aa3-9756-7c7af06c0ec4"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB397"
source_hash: "19cb670bd8f77803184f1beba7f149167dd2841fabccba35d73955d60cf95627"
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 397 (2019rs) — Fort Payne, city council, election of members further provided for, vacancies, Sec. 45-25A-40 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/HB397-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/HB397-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 251 — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 757 — **21–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ledbetter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-04-18T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-18T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 251 `passage`
- **2019-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 757 `passage`
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2019-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-246. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 10:01 a.m. on May 16, 2019. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/987ee210-2b6b-4aa3-9756-7c7af06c0ec4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).