---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retirement of members of the Teachers' Retirement System and the Employees' Retirement System who elect to receive a reduced retirement allowance, additional option of electing to receive a partial lump-sum distribution as a single payment, provided for under certain conditions, Secs. 16-25-14 & 36-27-16 am'd."
description: "Retirement of members of the Teachers' Retirement System and the Employees' Retirement System who elect to receive a reduced retirement allowance, additional option of electing to receive a partial lump-sum distribution as a single payment, provided for under certain conditions, Secs. 16-25-14 & 36-27-16 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2018rs"
identifier: "HB 498"
citation: "Alabama HB 498 (2018rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Baker"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 4
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bc5d721-5b3f-41bc-88e7-c13ac14511bf"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB498"
source_hash: "3f45c7cdb29f8a1119178f97051b083d6fb49c1ffdb35c7b0c0c684ebc280ce9"
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 498 (2018rs) — Retirement of members of the Teachers' Retirement System and the Employees' Retirement System who elect to receive a reduced retirement allowance, additional option of electing to receive a partial lump-sum distribution as a single payment, provided for under certain conditions, Secs. 16-25-14 & 36-27-16 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/2018rs/PrintFiles/HB498-int.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Baker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. -. `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Pending third reading on day 22 Favorable from Ways and Means Education `committee-passage-favorable`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bc5d721-5b3f-41bc-88e7-c13ac14511bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).