---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act, amending definitions"
description: "Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 303"
citation: "Alabama SB 303 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Orr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b16c8528-79e2-4cb7-9619-9ef23087490a"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "34680f056cf0f045c76ef5d82e69cb8e82edb705bf655ef319110af5e7a15d29"
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 303 (2025rs) — School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act, amending definitions

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/2025RS/SB303-int.pdf)
2. **Education Policy 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/3PXB7VZ-1.pdf)
3. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 993** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/CXYMKJJ-1.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB303-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Orr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Orr Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 852
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 994 `passage`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 993
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Education Policy Engrossed Substitute Offered (Education Policy) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House (Education Policy)
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Education Policy 1st Amendment (Education Policy)
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Education Policy)
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 688 `passage`
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education `reading-1, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b16c8528-79e2-4cb7-9619-9ef23087490a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).