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AlabamaHB5092025 Regular SessionHouse

Game breeder license; possessory interest in deer established; killing, testing, prohibition of transfer of deer by state agencies for disease prohibited, subject to exceptions

Sponsored By: Jeff Sorrells (Republican)

Enacted

Animals

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Bill Overview

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2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.

Limits on forced killing protect deer breeders

Alabama limits when its conservation department can order licensed breeders to kill deer-family animals because of disease. The department can order killing if the same disease was found in another animal the breeder holds. It can also order killing of a transferred animal linked by disease tracing to a diseased animal the sending breeder holds. These limits took effect immediately.

Deer breeders gain transfer options with safeguards

Alabama's conservation department must consult the State Veterinarian and adopt transfer rules by March 1, 2026. The rules must allow licensed breeders to move deer-family animals from disease management zones to another licensee or enclosure outside. Transfer options must require all applicable testing after death plus at least one safeguard. Safeguards include double fencing and pen standards, a federally certified live chronic wasting disease test, accepted genetic test values, or another federally approved test recommended by the State Veterinarian. The law took effect immediately, and the department cannot override these requirements through an emergency rule.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Jeff Sorrells

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

  • Andy Whitt

    Republican • House

  • Bill Lamb

    Republican • House

  • Bob Fincher

    Republican • House

  • Brett Easterbrook

    Republican • House

  • Bryan Brinyark

    Republican • House

  • Chip Brown

    Republican • House

  • Chris Blackshear

    Republican • House

  • Craig Lipscomb

    Republican • House

  • David Standridge

    Republican • House

  • Ed Oliver

    Republican • House

  • Ivan Smith

    Republican • House

  • Jamie Kiel

    Republican • House

  • Leigh Hulsey

    Republican • House

  • Marcus Paramore

    Republican • House

  • Matthew Hammett

    Republican • House

  • Mike Kirkland

    Republican • House

  • Paul W. Lee

    Republican • House

  • Rex Reynolds

    Republican • House

  • Rhett Marques

    Republican • House

  • Rick Rehm

    Republican • House

  • Ron Bolton

    Republican • House

  • Shane Stringer

    Republican • House

  • Steve Clouse

    Republican • House

  • Steve Hurst

    Republican • House

  • William Brock Colvin

    Republican • House

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 438 • No: 12

Senate vote • 5/7/2025

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1021

Yes: 30 • No: 0

House vote • 5/7/2025

Sorrells Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1236

Yes: 102 • No: 1

Senate vote • 5/7/2025

Sessions motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1020

Yes: 30 • No: 0

House vote • 4/15/2025

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 844

Yes: 84 • No: 8 • Other: 9

House vote • 4/15/2025

Third Reading in House of Origin

Yes: 93 • No: 2 • Other: 7

House vote • 4/15/2025

Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 843

Yes: 99 • No: 1

Actions Timeline

  1. Enacted

    5/22/2025House

  2. Signature Requested

    5/14/2025Senate

  3. Delivered to Governor

    5/14/2025House

  4. Sessions 1st Amendment Offered

    5/7/2025Senate

  5. Sessions motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1020

    5/7/2025Senate

  6. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1021

    5/7/2025Senate

  7. Sorrells Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1236

    5/7/2025House

  8. Ready to Enroll

    5/7/2025House

  9. Enrolled

    5/7/2025House

  10. Reported Out of Committee Second House

    4/29/2025Senate

  11. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

    4/29/2025Senate

  12. Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry

    4/24/2025Senate

  13. Pending Committee Action in Second House

    4/24/2025Senate

  14. Third Reading in House of Origin

    4/15/2025House

  15. Sorrells 1st Amendment Offered

    4/15/2025House

  16. Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 843

    4/15/2025House

  17. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 844

    4/15/2025House

  18. Engrossed

    4/15/2025House

  19. Reported Out of Committee House of Origin

    4/9/2025House

  20. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

    4/9/2025House

  21. Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

    4/3/2025House

  22. Pending Committee Action in House of Origin

    4/3/2025House

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