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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Limestone County, municipalities, authorized to establish protest and non-protest areas"
+description: "Limestone County, municipalities, authorized to establish protest and non-protest areas"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
+legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
+session: "2021rs"
+identifier: "SB 278"
+citation: "Alabama SB 278 (2021rs)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Limestone County"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Melson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 13
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-03-02T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20649fe8-5cb1-427f-ae40-5a74c042436e"
+source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB278"
+source_hash: "5a5a1b7d4424c244f35777976b06c4637362714c5054f4ae1fd08d59b6c7c276"
+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 SB 278 (2021rs) — Limestone County, municipalities, authorized to establish protest and non-protest areas
+
+## 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/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB278-int.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB278-enr.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1018 — **28–0** (pass) · upper
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1164 — **23–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Melson — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1018 `passage`
+- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Rereferred from LL to LSCL
+- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
+- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1164 `passage`
+- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
+- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
+- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
+- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-513. `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20649fe8-5cb1-427f-ae40-5a74c042436e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).
+