---
type: "Bill"
title: "School safety, to require mental health awareness to be included in the annual training session for employees of each K-12 school, Sec. 16-1-44 am'd."
description: "School safety, to require mental health awareness to be included in the annual training session for employees of each K-12 school, Sec. 16-1-44 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "HB 97"
citation: "Alabama HB 97 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Schools"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morris"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15dbf782-f70f-4337-aa6a-f8cbb579e47a"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB97"
source_hash: "fdf3e4cf8a0c5d1acd0321f68208c00cf30468f611b80517264fbdc58eaa5d67"
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 97 (2021rs) — School safety, to require mental health awareness to be included in the annual training session for employees of each K-12 school, Sec. 16-1-44 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/2021rs/PrintFiles/HB97-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/HB97-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1336 — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 498 — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Morris — 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 Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 498 `passage`
- **2021-03-30T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1336 `passage`
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-424. `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 8:42 p.m. on May 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/15dbf782-f70f-4337-aa6a-f8cbb579e47a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).