---
type: "Bill"
title: "Crimes and offenses, crimes of concealing an illegal alien and human smuggling established, process for determining if a detainee is an illegal alien established"
description: "Crimes & Offenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 53"
citation: "Alabama SB 53 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes & Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kitchens"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/544ddc25-38d5-427e-9d15-80ba0b57303f"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "76920e3d790bb4e75365649a96ebb1315074c6e1405dcbeb1e0e73626c375254"
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 53 (2025rs) — Crimes and offenses, crimes of concealing an illegal alien and human smuggling established, process for determining if a detainee is an illegal alien established

Crimes & Offenses

## 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/SB53-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB53-eng.pdf)
3. **Judiciary 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/ZQZFMRW-1.pdf)
4. **Kitchens motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 92** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/JD3VFYN-1.pdf)
5. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1180** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/FK1E2CC-1.pdf)
6. **Singleton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 95** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/84WWM22-1.pdf)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB53-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Kitchens — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Kitchens Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1053
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1181 `passage`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1180
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Judiciary Engrossed Substitute Offered (Judiciary) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
- **2025-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House (Judiciary)
- **2025-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Judiciary 1st Amendment (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 96 `passage`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Singleton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 95
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Singleton 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Carried Over to the Call of the Chair
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Kitchens motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 92
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Kitchens 1st Substitute Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+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 (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal Government `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/544ddc25-38d5-427e-9d15-80ba0b57303f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).