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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Business and Nonprofit Entities Code, substantially revised to allow corporations to elect to become benefit corporations, update definitions, allow for electronic filing, and provide standards for filing instruments, numerous sections of Title 10A added, amended, and renumbered"
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description: "Business and Nonprofit Entities Code, substantially revised to allow corporations to elect to become benefit corporations, update definitions, allow for electronic filing, and provide standards for filing instruments, numerous sections of Title 10A added, amended, and renumbered"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
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legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
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session: "2020rs"
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identifier: "HB 202"
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citation: "Alabama HB 202 (2020rs)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Business and Nonprofit Entities Code"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Poole"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 14
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2020-02-11T05:00:00+00:00"
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last_action: "2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4bc7e3ad-cb56-4c85-8839-d7c77189cedd"
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source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB202"
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source_hash: "587122ee12451a1d284e87c26118a98ce33b9d8f41879ea62e1e3312ae6e921a"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-al"]
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---
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# Alabama HB 202 (2020rs) — Business and Nonprofit Entities Code, substantially revised to allow corporations to elect to become benefit corporations, update definitions, allow for electronic filing, and provide standards for filing instruments, numerous sections of Title 10A added, amended, and renumbered
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2020rs/PrintFiles/HB202-int.pdf)
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2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2020rs/PrintFiles/HB202-enr.pdf)
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## Votes
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- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 106 — **100–0** (pass) · lower
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- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 379 — **29–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Poole — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Fiscal Responsibility `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2020-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 106 `passage`
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- **2020-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 379 `passage`
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2020-73. `executive-signature`
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- **2020-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 1:15 p.m. on March 12, 2020. `executive-receipt`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4bc7e3ad-cb56-4c85-8839-d7c77189cedd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).
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