---
type: "Bill"
title: "Daylight Savings Time, adopted statewide if Congress amends Federal law to allow"
description: "Daylight Savings Time, adopted statewide if Congress amends Federal law to allow"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "SB 388"
citation: "Alabama SB 388 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Daylight Savings Time"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Livingston"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 13
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c306e3e2-ad79-4582-9080-5d5e3289fd99"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB388"
source_hash: "3d2802ec78a5131a0de1daec028be5f62537d4d21b3b7830b76e500321c1d294"
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 388 (2021rs) — Daylight Savings Time, adopted statewide if Congress amends Federal law to allow

## 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/SB388-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB388-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1035 — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Cosponsors Added — **50–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1151 — **93–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Livingston — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `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 1035 `passage`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Economic Development and Tourism `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1151 `passage`
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Cosponsors Added
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-421. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c306e3e2-ad79-4582-9080-5d5e3289fd99`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).