---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public education employees, including K-12, postsecondary education, and AIDB, salary increase"
description: "Public education employees, including K-12, postsecondary education, and AIDB, salary increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "Alabama SB 188 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Orr"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-27T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5672951a-a2dd-4b77-91b5-cf92894c39b9"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB188"
source_hash: "e8d0432060180b0327d661c547e9d66e65ac352375fceb8e0b4b4bdb37e250e9"
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 188 (2021rs) — Public education employees, including K-12, postsecondary education, and AIDB, salary increase

## 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/SB188-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB188-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 683 — **26–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 970 — **100–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Orr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** Reported from Finance and Taxation Education as Favorable `committee-passage`
- **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 683 `passage`
- **2021-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 970 `passage`
- **2021-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-330. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5672951a-a2dd-4b77-91b5-cf92894c39b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).