---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sales tax, licenses from Revenue Dept., two-year surety bond required with new or renewal sales tax license registration under certain conditions and certain non-compliant licenses, Sec. 40-23-6 am'd."
description: "Sales tax, licenses from Revenue Dept., two-year surety bond required with new or renewal sales tax license registration under certain conditions and certain non-compliant licenses, Sec. 40-23-6 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2018rs"
identifier: "HB 151"
citation: "Alabama HB 151 (2018rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson (R)"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60535209-f1d3-4d1c-9dab-fb753bc3114d"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB151"
source_hash: "1fb3bb7205d697cf3addc5e5935cbef0ab8203729121cc3e6d590824fbe8a502"
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 151 (2018rs) — Sales tax, licenses from Revenue Dept., two-year surety bond required with new or renewal sales tax license registration under certain conditions and certain non-compliant licenses, Sec. 40-23-6 am'd.

## 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/HB151-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB151-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1078 — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 462 — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Johnson (R) — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 462 `passage`
- **2018-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1078 `passage`
- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2018-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2018-508. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 2:28 p.m. on March 27, 2018. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60535209-f1d3-4d1c-9dab-fb753bc3114d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).