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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public education employees; exclusion of students from classroom, provided for; principal authorized to suspend, expel, or recommend for alternative school certain students excluded from classroom; civil and criminal immunity provided to education employees; local boards of education authorized to reimburse or compensate employees for certain legal fees; rebuttable presumption, created; Board of Education, required to adopt rules"
+description: "Education"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
+legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
+session: "2024rs"
+identifier: "SB 157"
+citation: "Alabama SB 157 (2024rs)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Arthur Orr"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 10
+first_action: "2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00"
+last_action: "2024-05-17T04:00:00+00:00"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba6e7b4d-500b-4a20-8123-d194fed611d2"
+source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
+source_hash: "576286220fd748d6148d09d14f44ab248f85985e425c04eba00e2c340667e450"
+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 157 (2024rs) — Public education employees; exclusion of students from classroom, provided for; principal authorized to suspend, expel, or recommend for alternative school certain students excluded from classroom; civil and criminal immunity provided to education employees; local boards of education authorized to reimburse or compensate employees for certain legal fees; rebuttable presumption, created; Board of Education, required to adopt rules
+
+Education
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/SB157-int.pdf)
+2. **Act 2024-409** (committee substitute) — [source](http://arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/L1554061.AI1.pdf)
+3. **Amendment 8PECFH2-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/8PECFH2-1.pdf)
+4. **Amendment 9LDCMPM-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/9LDCMPM-1.pdf)
+5. **Amendment QU69545-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/QU69545-1.pdf)
+6. **Amendment YQZF2N6-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/YQZF2N6-1.pdf)
+7. **Education Policy Amendment E4VM929-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/E4VM929-1.pdf)
+8. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/SB157-eng.pdf)
+9. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2024RS/SB157-enr.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Roll of the S for Vote 1049 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- Roll of the S for Vote 299 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Roll of the H for Vote 1147 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Roll of the S for Vote 300 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Roll of the S for Vote 301 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- Roll of the H for Vote 1145 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+- Roll of the H for Vote 1143 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **101–0** (pass) · lower
+- Roll of the H for Vote 1144 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Roll of the H for Vote 1146 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Roll of the H for Vote 1145 on SB157 (2024 Regular Session) — **102–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Arthur Orr — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
+- **2024-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Signed by Governor
+- **2024-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Pending with Executive Amendment
+- **2024-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
+- **2024-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-05-08T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Reed Concur In and Adopt House Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1049
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1147 `passage`
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1146
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Hall 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1145
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Garrett 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1145 `passage`
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1144
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Education Policy Engrossed Substitute Offered (Education Policy) `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
+- **2024-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
+- **2024-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House (Education Policy)
+- **2024-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Education Policy 1st Amendment (Education Policy)
+- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Education Policy)
+- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
+- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 301 `passage`
+- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 300
+- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Orr 1st Substitute Offered `amendment-introduction`
+- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
+- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
+- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
+- **2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Education Policy)
+- **2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2024-05-15T20:40:00+00:00** Enacted as 2024-409 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba6e7b4d-500b-4a20-8123-d194fed611d2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).
+