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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Home buyers, first-time, savings accounts authorized to save funds for a down payment and closing costs, income tax deduction for contributions"
+description: "Home buyers, first-time, savings accounts authorized to save funds for a down payment and closing costs, income tax deduction for contributions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
+legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
+session: "2018rs"
+identifier: "HB 248"
+citation: "Alabama HB 248 (2018rs)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Banks and Banking"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["South"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2018-01-18T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5ead60df-5092-4c9a-b4e5-b71fdd19dd25"
+source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB248"
+source_hash: "56101cca26321971d06bd4421f50e5a02e0a29f6db0d0163fbfeeaf1d031c1f6"
+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 248 (2018rs) — Home buyers, first-time, savings accounts authorized to save funds for a down payment and closing costs, income tax deduction for contributions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB248-int.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB248-eng.pdf)
+3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB248-enr.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Cosponsors Added — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 946 — **21–2** (pass) · upper
+- Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 210 — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 209 — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 211 — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 948 — **22–2** (pass) · upper
+- Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 947 — **22–2** (pass) · upper
+- South motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 1004 — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 208 — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- South — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Financial Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00** Rereferred from FR to W&ME
+- **2018-02-01T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Ways and Means Education Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 208 `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Collins Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 209 `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Clarke Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 210 `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 211 `passage`
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Cosponsors Added
+- **2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
+- **2018-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Banking and Insurance `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Re-referred to Committee on Finance and Taxation Education `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Orr Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 946 `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Orr Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Orr motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 947 `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 948 `passage`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Concurrence Requested
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** South motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 1004 `passage`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Concurred in Second House Amendment
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2018-467. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Ways and Means Education first Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Forwarded to Governor on March 22, 2018 at 2:22 p.m. on March 22, 2018. `executive-receipt`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5ead60df-5092-4c9a-b4e5-b71fdd19dd25`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).
+