---
type: "Bill"
title: "Schools, emergency operations plans, alert levels, including school lockdowns, Secs. 16-1-44, 36-19-10 am'd."
description: "Schools, emergency operations plans, alert levels, including school lockdowns, Secs. 16-1-44, 36-19-10 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019rs"
identifier: "HB 385"
citation: "Alabama HB 385 (2019rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Robertson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/69fce3b4-88b0-4845-84d2-687bad6524e4"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB385"
source_hash: "bec5670917955d724e6a10b64f05997a5ca6ad37c43f86497b952210a95021ab"
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 385 (2019rs) — Schools, emergency operations plans, alert levels, including school lockdowns, Secs. 16-1-44, 36-19-10 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/HB385-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/HB385-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1485 — **27–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1007 — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robertson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1007 `passage`
- **2019-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Ward motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1485 `passage`
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-533. `executive-signature`
- **2019-05-31T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 6:26 p.m. on May 31, 2019. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/69fce3b4-88b0-4845-84d2-687bad6524e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).