---
type: "Bill"
title: "County housing authorities, bonds, electronic posting of notices to potential purchasers of bonds, eliminate bids from being advertised for three weeks, Secs. 24-1-71, 24-1-83, 41-4-16 am'd."
description: "County housing authorities, bonds, electronic posting of notices to potential purchasers of bonds, eliminate bids from being advertised for three weeks, Secs. 24-1-71, 24-1-83, 41-4-16 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019rs"
identifier: "SB 79"
citation: "Alabama SB 79 (2019rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing Authorities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Holley"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8dba753c-179b-42fc-a9b0-005e0f5769e0"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB79"
source_hash: "cf1211bad01bc3e6d0ddbf080b1c80d06e51551eee82e9e5626b5c132cf57c1d"
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 79 (2019rs) — County housing authorities, bonds, electronic posting of notices to potential purchasers of bonds, eliminate bids from being advertised for three weeks, Secs. 24-1-71, 24-1-83, 41-4-16 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/2019rs/PrintFiles/SB79-int.pdf)
2. **Amd/Sub 197997-2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/197997-2.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/SB79-eng.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/SB79-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 24 — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Holley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 23 — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 396 — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Holley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and `reading-2`
- **2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Governmental Affairs first Substitute Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Holley motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
- **2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Holley motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 23 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 24 `passage`
- **2019-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2019-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Rereferred from SG to BA&C
- **2019-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 396 `passage`
- **2019-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-105. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8dba753c-179b-42fc-a9b0-005e0f5769e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).