---
type: "Bill"
title: "Corrections Department, correctional Capital Improvement Fund, appropriation of $400,000,000 from federal funds, American Rescue Act, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2022"
description: "Corrections Department, correctional Capital Improvement Fund, appropriation of $400,000,000 from federal funds, American Rescue Act, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2022"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021s1"
identifier: "HB 5"
citation: "Alabama HB 5 (2021s1)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clouse"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-09-27T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d90363d-7dd8-4a77-9f6c-c67f74a5daab"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB5"
source_hash: "01274f159e23a30e972e225998376285a0269997ab6410e5dd4c281f3da575ad"
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 HB 5 (2021s1) — Corrections Department, correctional Capital Improvement Fund, appropriation of $400,000,000 from federal funds, American Rescue Act, for fiscal year ending September 30, 2022

## 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/2021FS/PrintFiles/HB5-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021FS/PrintFiles/HB5-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 17 — **30–1** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 6 — **75–25** (pass) · lower
- Ledbetter motion to Previous Question adopted Roll Call 5 — **75–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clouse — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-09-27T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means General Fund `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-28T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-09-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-09-29T04:00:00+00:00** Ledbetter motion to Previous Question adopted Roll Call 5
- **2021-09-29T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 6 `passage`
- **2021-09-29T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-09-29T04:00:00+00:00** Hanes intended to vote "Yea"
- **2021-09-30T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 17 `passage`
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-547. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-01T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 2:51 p.m. on October 1, 2021. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0d90363d-7dd8-4a77-9f6c-c67f74a5daab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).