---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles, autocycles, equipment required for operation, further provided, Secs. 32-6A-1, 32-5A-245 am'd."
description: "Motor vehicles, autocycles, equipment required for operation, further provided, Secs. 32-6A-1, 32-5A-245 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2022rs"
identifier: "HB 37"
citation: "Alabama HB 37 (2022rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Meadows"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6955fde0-b476-4a0c-8428-d22a0758c4c0"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB37"
source_hash: "2ea77a480242639518a8cd1eebafe2728e0edecf68d206e7b9aceb1750786915"
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 37 (2022rs) — Motor vehicles, autocycles, equipment required for operation, further provided, Secs. 32-6A-1, 32-5A-245 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/2022rs/PrintFiles/HB37-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2022rs/PrintFiles/HB37-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 207 — **71–15** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1044 — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Meadows — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-11T05:00:00+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`
- **2022-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 207 `passage`
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Carried Over
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** McClendon motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Open
- **2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1044 `passage`
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2022-433. `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Forwarded to Governor on April 7, 2022 at 10:45 a.m. on April 7, 2022. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6955fde0-b476-4a0c-8428-d22a0758c4c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).