---
type: "Bill"
title: "Limestone County, municipalities, authorized to establish protest and non-protest areas"
description: "Limestone County, municipalities, authorized to establish protest and non-protest areas"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "SB 278"
citation: "Alabama SB 278 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Limestone County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2021-03-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20649fe8-5cb1-427f-ae40-5a74c042436e"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB278"
source_hash: "5a5a1b7d4424c244f35777976b06c4637362714c5054f4ae1fd08d59b6c7c276"
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 278 (2021rs) — Limestone County, municipalities, authorized to establish protest and non-protest areas

## 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/SB278-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB278-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1018 — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1164 — **23–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Melson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1018 `passage`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Rereferred from LL to LSCL
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1164 `passage`
- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-513. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20649fe8-5cb1-427f-ae40-5a74c042436e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).