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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Insurance Department; to amend Section 27-2-39 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the department to post notice of hearings for the consideration of matters which would otherwise require separate notices to more than 50 persons on a website maintained by the department; and to require the department to post notices of hearings held for consideration of rules of the commissioner on a website maintained by the department and to publish the notices in the Alabama Administrative Monthly."
description: "Insurance Department, hearing notice for matters with precunary interest and rules of commissioner, publication with Alabama Administrative Monthly."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2023rs"
identifier: "HB 161"
citation: "Alabama HB 161 (2023rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["David Faulkner"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-05-16T19:20:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/955f9b9f-c5bb-4c28-a78a-437f55adfe9a"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "5d6204dbe35821daf117d401bd8750a88a4f315c8ee18c1595769f0de532cff6"
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 161 (2023rs) — Relating to the Insurance Department; to amend Section 27-2-39 of the Code of Alabama 1975, to authorize the department to post notice of hearings for the consideration of matters which would otherwise require separate notices to more than 50 persons on a website maintained by the department; and to require the department to post notices of hearings held for consideration of rules of the commissioner on a website maintained by the department and to publish the notices in the Alabama Administrative Monthly.
Insurance Department, hearing notice for matters with precunary interest and rules of commissioner, publication with Alabama Administrative Monthly.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/HB161-int.pdf)
2. **Act 2023-202** (committee substitute) — [source](http://arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/L1261235.AI1.pdf)
3. **Amendment JA86FY-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/JA86FY-1.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/HB161-enr.pdf)
## Votes
- Roll of the H for Vote 137 on HB161 (2023 Regular Session) — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- Roll of the H for Vote 645 on HB161 (2023 Regular Session) — **99–1** (pass) · lower
- Roll of the S for Vote 440 on HB161 (2023 Regular Session) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- Roll of the S for Vote 441 on HB161 (2023 Regular Session) — **30–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- David Faulkner — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Concur In and Adopt
- **2023-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
- **2023-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Adopt
- **2023-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in Second House
- **2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in Second House
- **2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in Second House
- **2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Banking and Insurance) `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-12T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Committee (Banking and Insurance) `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-12T04:00:00+00:00** AMD/SUB (Banking and Insurance)
- **2023-04-12T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in Second House `reading-1`
- **2023-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Read a Third Time and Pass `passage`
- **2023-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2023-04-05T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in House of Origin
- **2023-04-05T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
- **2023-04-05T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Insurance) `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Introduced and Referred (Insurance) `introduction, referral`
- **2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in House of Origin `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16T19:20:00+00:00** Enacted as 2023-202 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/955f9b9f-c5bb-4c28-a78a-437f55adfe9a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).