---
type: "Bill"
title: "Criminal procedure; split sentence authorized for 30 year sentence"
description: "Criminal Procedure"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 43"
citation: "Alabama HB 43 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Criminal Procedure"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill (J)"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-09-11T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0f7a9a6-dd8f-47f2-b677-1a2c255a2839"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "027d8d510d8dc5f10f241f8a2c74e3e7f05fafd62630b26a6438536905eafbc0"
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 43 (2025rs) — Criminal procedure; split sentence authorized for 30 year sentence

Criminal Procedure

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB43-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB43-eng.pdf)
3. **Judiciary 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/B68S44Q-1.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 68** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/N2HX88T-1.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB43-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hill (J) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-11T04:00:00+00:00** Filed `filing`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 971 `passage`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 69 `passage`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 68
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary Engrossed Substitute Offered (Judiciary) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary 1st Amendment (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary 1st Amendment (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0f7a9a6-dd8f-47f2-b677-1a2c255a2839`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).