---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employees, travel expenses within the state for hosting of meetings, etc., certification by agency head rather than Governor prior to travel, further provided for, Sec. 36-7-21 am'd."
description: "State employees, travel expenses within the state for hosting of meetings, etc., certification by agency head rather than Governor prior to travel, further provided for, Sec. 36-7-21 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2018rs"
identifier: "HB 307"
citation: "Alabama HB 307 (2018rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Knight"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-25T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e85def1-7312-4379-965e-97eb126827af"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB307"
source_hash: "edbec729afcba825d43a88d94ddfe11485c567a93c675c3840cacc2e4517aa65"
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 307 (2018rs) — State employees, travel expenses within the state for hosting of meetings, etc., certification by agency head rather than Governor prior to travel, further provided for, Sec. 36-7-21 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/HB307-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB307-eng.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB307-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 622 — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 458 — **100–1** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 457 — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Knight — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01T05:00:00+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** Knight Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 457 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 458 `passage`
- **2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Hall intended to vote "Yea"
- **2018-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2018-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 622 `passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2018-203. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Forwarded to Governor on March 6, 2018 at 5:40 p.m. on March 6, 2018. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e85def1-7312-4379-965e-97eb126827af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).