Alabama House Bill 408 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on March 6 2025 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2025-03-06 - Pending House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Relating to self-defense, to amend Section 13A-3-23, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide a person's use of physical force in defending himself, herself, or another person is presumed reasonable; to further provide for the immunity received by a person whose use of physical force on another person is justified self-defense; to shift the burden of proving a person's use of physical force is not justified to the state; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style

Relating to self-defense, to amend Section 13A-3-23, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide a person's use of physical force in defending himself, herself, or another person is presumed reasonable; to further provide for the immunity received by a person whose use of physical force on another person is justified self-defense; to shift the burden of proving a person's use of physical force is not justified to the state; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style

Rep. Ernie Yarbrough [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-03-06	House	Pending House Judiciary
2025-03-06	House	Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search
Text	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB408-int.pdf