Representative Butler seeks to codify eviction procedures now governed by administrative rule

Representative Butler presented HB80 to the Senate Judiciary Committee, recounting a request from an Etowah County eviction officer who could not find statutory authority for the eviction protocol currently used in practice. Butler said the bill would codify the process—notification to tenants, the sheriff or constable keeping the peace, the landlord’s responsibility for moving property to the curb and subsequent disposal consistent with local ordinances—because existing administrative rules have been treated as the practice but lack statutory force.