---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to motor vehicles and traffic; to amend Sections 11-49-4, 32-5A-173, and 32-5A-176, Code of Alabama 1975; to prohibit a municipality from setting speed limits on county-maintained streets within its corporate limits in certain circumstances; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style."
description: "Counties & Municipalities, prohibited municipalities from setting speed limits on county-maintained streets"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2023rs"
identifier: "SB 33"
citation: "Alabama SB 33 (2023rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties & Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steve Livingston"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-09T12:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d519419-015f-4413-a747-97d7737e7bf1"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "2dafd5f79e36b44836fbd1e203bfe4bc9ad883d87bcc7b7371e8272000f50e41"
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 SB 33 (2023rs) — Relating to motor vehicles and traffic; to amend Sections 11-49-4, 32-5A-173, and 32-5A-176, Code of Alabama 1975; to prohibit a municipality from setting speed limits on county-maintained streets within its corporate limits in certain circumstances; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.

Counties & Municipalities, prohibited municipalities from setting speed limits on county-maintained streets

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB33-int.pdf)
2. **Act 2023-130** (committee substitute) — [source](http://arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/L1254853.AI1.pdf)
3. **Amendment TD0Q55-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/TD0Q55-1.pdf)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB33-eng.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB33-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Roll of the H for Vote 481 on SB33 (2023 Regular Session) — **81–17** (pass) · lower
- Roll of the S for Vote 57 on SB33 (2023 Regular Session) — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Roll of the S for Vote 56 on SB33 (2023 Regular Session) — **29–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steve Livingston — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2023-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2023-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Read a Third Time and Pass `passage`
- **2023-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in Second House
- **2023-04-12T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in Second House
- **2023-04-12T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in Second House
- **2023-04-12T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure) `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Committee (Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure) `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in Second House `reading-1`
- **2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
- **2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Adopt
- **2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in House of Origin
- **2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
- **2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (County and Municipal Government) `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced and Referred (County and Municipal Government) `introduction, referral`
- **2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in House of Origin `reading-1`
- **2023-05-09T12:00:00+00:00** Enacted as 2023-130 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d519419-015f-4413-a747-97d7737e7bf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).