---
type: "Bill"
title: "Entertainment districts, allow wineries, distilleries, and breweries to sell alcohol for consumption within districts, revise qualifications for certain municipalities to establish, Sec. 28-3A-17.1 am'd."
description: "Entertainment districts, allow wineries, distilleries, and breweries to sell alcohol for consumption within districts, revise qualifications for certain municipalities to establish, Sec. 28-3A-17.1 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019rs"
identifier: "SB 276"
citation: "Alabama SB 276 (2019rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Entertainment Districts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smitherman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-11T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f78cc16c-84ad-420d-b6af-40388399f76a"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB276"
source_hash: "a2d4f54e016293e8a55f98fa86773299dba0df92361ccfd71e09e5362fbd280b"
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 276 (2019rs) — Entertainment districts, allow wineries, distilleries, and breweries to sell alcohol for consumption within districts, revise qualifications for certain municipalities to establish, Sec. 28-3A-17.1 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/SB276-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/SB276-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 788 — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1145 — **83–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Smitherman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Transportation and Energy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Rereferred to Committee on Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** Acted on by Tourism as Favorable
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 788 `passage`
- **2019-05-15T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Economic Development and Tourism `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1145 `passage`
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-468. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f78cc16c-84ad-420d-b6af-40388399f76a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).