---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mental Health and other health related facilities, public corporations for treatment, programs contracted with Dept. of Mental Health, limitations of liability, further provided for, Sec. 22-51-15 added."
description: "Mental Health and other health related facilities, public corporations for treatment, programs contracted with Dept. of Mental Health, limitations of liability, further provided for, Sec. 22-51-15 added."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "SB 289"
citation: "Alabama SB 289 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mental Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Albritton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-03-02T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0c42982-145f-4bff-be3f-5e28ad97ccfb"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB289"
source_hash: "42f303e5e89a7de86b3781e81754e70849997d33746e63a0c0ae9dbc5d609b13"
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 289 (2021rs) — Mental Health and other health related facilities, public corporations for treatment, programs contracted with Dept. of Mental Health, limitations of liability, further provided for, Sec. 22-51-15 added.

## 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/SB289-int.pdf)
2. **Amd/Sub 212677-2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/212677-2.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB289-eng.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB289-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1094 — **102–0** (pass) · lower
- Albritton motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 929 — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 930 — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Albritton — 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 Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Judiciary first Substitute Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Albritton motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 929 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 930 `passage`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Health `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1094 `passage`
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Hurst intended to vote "Yea"
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-437. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0c42982-145f-4bff-be3f-5e28ad97ccfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).