---
type: "Bill"
title: "Marriage and Family Therapy, Board of Examiners in, sunset law review, continued until Oct 1, 2025."
description: "Marriage and Family Therapy, Board of Examiners in, sunset law review, continued until Oct 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "HB 48"
citation: "Alabama HB 48 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Marriage and Family Therapy", "Board of Examiners in"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sanderford"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1633ab13-d7b8-45e1-af85-ad57e8d6ca9e"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB48"
source_hash: "ebe6ef9d919bec118cdad93c4cc56de04b1339d128e08db732d9f9d05ea26c4f"
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 48 (2021rs) — Marriage and Family Therapy, Board of Examiners in, sunset law review, continued until Oct 1, 2025.

## 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/2021rs/PrintFiles/HB48-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/HB48-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 156 — **87–4** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 397 — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Sanderford — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Boards, Agencies and Commissions `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 156 `passage`
- **2021-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 397 `passage`
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-56. `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 2:29 p.m. on March 4, 2021. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1633ab13-d7b8-45e1-af85-ad57e8d6ca9e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).