---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor vehicles; reporting requirements for towed and unclaimed motor vehicles, further provided"
description: "Motor Vehicles & Traffic"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2026rs"
identifier: "HB 42"
citation: "Alabama HB 42 (2026rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles & Traffic"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Treadaway"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-09-18T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-03-17T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3b580d18-a70f-4819-b394-bf6ef3971669"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "397fbc8d728c09945a074c412f0ee755ebba3c5369cbd80e05931571d4ad46ad"
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 42 (2026rs) — Motor vehicles; reporting requirements for towed and unclaimed motor vehicles, further provided

Motor Vehicles & Traffic

## 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/2026RS/HB42-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2026RS/HB42-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Treadaway — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-18T04:00:00+00:00** Filed `filing`
- **2026-03-17T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2026-03-10T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2026-03-10T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2026-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2026-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 719 `passage`
- **2026-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2026-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2026-01-23T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2026-01-22T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2026-01-22T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 136 `passage`
- **2026-01-22T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2026-01-14T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2026-01-14T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2026-01-13T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2026-01-13T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security `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/3b580d18-a70f-4819-b394-bf6ef3971669`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).