---
type: "Bill"
title: "State Port Authority, director, appointment of additional employees at executive level, terms of certain contracts exempt from state confidentiality laws, Secs. 33-1-3, 33-1-39 am'd."
description: "State Port Authority, director, appointment of additional employees at executive level, terms of certain contracts exempt from state confidentiality laws, Secs. 33-1-3, 33-1-39 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "SB 169"
citation: "Alabama SB 169 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Port Authorities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Figures"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-02-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0accf2b8-8d9f-4e07-8292-9e5558d672f9"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB169"
source_hash: "af62d88846a27a0b345cd1a1da6ed54c4f1ffbd2f72a6d3542def516e82fd4c9"
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 169 (2021rs) — State Port Authority, director, appointment of additional employees at executive level, terms of certain contracts exempt from state confidentiality laws, Secs. 33-1-3, 33-1-39 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/SB169-int.pdf)
2. **Amd/Sub 209895-2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/209895-2.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB169-eng.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB169-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 635 — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Figures motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 210 — **24–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 211 — **24–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Figures — 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 Senate committee on Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment `reading-2`
- **2021-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Governmental Affairs Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Figures motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 210 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 211 `passage`
- **2021-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2021-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 635 `passage`
- **2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-184. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0accf2b8-8d9f-4e07-8292-9e5558d672f9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).