---
type: "Bill"
title: "Dallas County, Employees' Retirement System, authorizing certain elected or appointed county officials to elect to participate, const. amend."
description: "Dallas County, Employees' Retirement System, authorizing certain elected or appointed county officials to elect to participate, const. amend."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "HB 583"
citation: "Alabama HB 583 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employees' Retirement System"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chestnut"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b4a51c2c-f9c3-4ab2-b542-5bc85944b68f"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB583"
source_hash: "e70071d751b60da4c97b81c9b0bae04a1e627ba1bcebac970191f9d03b079866"
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 583 (2021rs) — Dallas County, Employees' Retirement System, authorizing certain elected or appointed county officials to elect to participate, const. amend.

## 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/HB583-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/HB583-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 738 — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- Chestnut motion to Local Application pending Roll Call 739 — **57–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1110 — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Chambliss motion to adopt Local Application Resolution adopted Roll Call 1111 — **28–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Chestnut — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 738 `passage`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Chestnut motion to Local Application pending Roll Call 739
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1110 `passage`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss motion to adopt Local Application Resolution adopted Roll Call 1111
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-265. `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Forwarded to Secretary of State at 11:27 a.m. on April 22, 2021.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b4a51c2c-f9c3-4ab2-b542-5bc85944b68f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).