---
type: "Bill"
title: "Judge Carole Smitherman, commended"
description: "Resolutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SJR 17"
citation: "Alabama SJR 17 (2025rs)"
classification: ["resolution"]
subjects: ["Resolutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Waggoner"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 10
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a133f2f6-b230-416f-828b-fe6e5162c787"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "bf5e3cd05be8958ef37dd196b3853d1508e4571bcbd932320ac52d7c372ec8e9"
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 SJR 17 (2025rs) — Judge Carole Smitherman, commended

Resolutions

## 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/SJR17-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SJR17-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Waggoner — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Reported from Rules (Rules) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Rules)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Received in the House and referred to the House committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Waggoner motion to Adopt - Adopted Voice Vote
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a133f2f6-b230-416f-828b-fe6e5162c787`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).