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Alabama · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 53: Child custody; rebuttable presumption of joint legal custody and substantial parenting time for both parents created

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 53 is a bill introduced in the Alabama House on October 1, 2024. According to its official title, it concerns: Child custody; rebuttable presumption of joint legal custody and substantial parenting time for both parents created. Primary sponsor: Patrick Sellers (Democratic). Most recent recorded action (May 1, 2025): Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Children and Youth Health.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Family Law

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Patrick SellersPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse57

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Children and Youth Health
  2. Pending Committee Action in Second House (Children and Youth Health)
  3. Third Reading in House of Origin
  4. Judiciary 1st Substitute Offered (Judiciary)
  5. Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1087
  6. Paschal 1st Substitute Offered
  7. Sellers motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 1088
  8. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1089
  9. Engrossed
  10. Judiciary 1st Substitute (Judiciary)
  11. Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
  12. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)

Showing 12 most recent of 15 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source