---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lawrence Co., service of process fee, increased, including service for out-of-state documents, fee, distribution to sheriff's office"
description: "Lawrence Co., service of process fee, increased, including service for out-of-state documents, fee, distribution to sheriff's office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2020rs"
identifier: "HB 255"
citation: "Alabama HB 255 (2020rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Lawrence County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robertson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-18T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2020-05-07T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54992684-49ec-4529-a388-62ef641088c5"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB255"
source_hash: "493fed0baaf640730b04c6015c75403841272f35afd1aceac5995d64b0f3b859"
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 255 (2020rs) — Lawrence Co., service of process fee, increased, including service for out-of-state documents, fee, distribution to sheriff's office

## 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/2020rs/PrintFiles/HB255-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2020rs/PrintFiles/HB255-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 94 — **23–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 538 — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Robertson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 94 `passage`
- **2020-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2020-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2020-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2020-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 538 `passage`
- **2020-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2020-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2020-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2020-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2020-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2020-181. `executive-signature`
- **2020-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 4:21 p.m. on May 7, 2020. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54992684-49ec-4529-a388-62ef641088c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).