---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alabama Highway Finance Corporation auth. to borrow money and issue bonds to improve the Mobile Ship Channel."
description: "Alabama Highway Finance Corporation auth. to borrow money and issue bonds to improve the Mobile Ship Channel."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019fs"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Alabama HB 3 (2019fs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Highway Financing Corporation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Poole"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-06T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1153c294-d0aa-4dd7-b037-d45a9d6a716b"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB3"
source_hash: "01fadd63e20b0b5e30125e892671fbfd2368948a7c544f8bcc1175aa9e1749cf"
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 3 (2019fs) — Alabama Highway Finance Corporation auth. to borrow money and issue bonds to improve the Mobile Ship Channel.

## 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/2019fs/PrintFiles/HB3-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019fs/PrintFiles/HB3-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 29 — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 19 — **100–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Poole — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 19 `passage`
- **2019-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Transportation and Energy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 29 `passage`
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-3. `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 3:21 p.m. on March 12, 2019. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1153c294-d0aa-4dd7-b037-d45a9d6a716b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).