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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Broadband, authorizing the state, county, or a municipality to grant certain monies for broadband infrastructure, const. amend."
+description: "Broadband, authorizing the state, county, or a municipality to grant certain monies for broadband infrastructure, const. amend."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
+legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
+session: "2022rs"
+identifier: "HB 255"
+citation: "Alabama HB 255 (2022rs)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Broadband"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Shedd"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2022-02-03T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b23f5b2-9633-45de-b378-a7d4e0480d6e"
+source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB255"
+source_hash: "1071aed7608b72d9063a0b0e58ec8d5629be38a2707cbc9b5549f6393b3b3d7b"
+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 255 (2022rs) — Broadband, authorizing the state, county, or a municipality to grant certain monies for broadband infrastructure, const. amend.
+
+## 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/2022rs/PrintFiles/HB255-int.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2022rs/PrintFiles/HB255-enr.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 532 — **27–0** (pass) · upper
+- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 140 — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Shedd — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-03T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Urban and Rural Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 140 `passage`
+- **2022-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 532 `passage`
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Secretary of State at 11:45 a.m. on March 10, 2022.
+- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2022-117. `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b23f5b2-9633-45de-b378-a7d4e0480d6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).
+