---
type: "Bill"
title: "Governor's Office of Minority Affairs, name changed to Alabama Office of Minority Affairs, established as a separate state agency, authorized to draft policy recommendations, merit and non-merit staff provided for, technical corrections re name change made to Historic Tax Credit Evaluating Committee, Secs. 36-13-50, 36-13-51, 36-13-53, 40-9F-38 am'd."
description: "Governor's Office of Minority Affairs, name changed to Alabama Office of Minority Affairs, established as a separate state agency, authorized to draft policy recommendations, merit and non-merit staff provided for, technical corrections re name change made to Historic Tax Credit Evaluating Committee, Secs. 36-13-50, 36-13-51, 36-13-53, 40-9F-38 am'd."
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2022rs"
identifier: "HB 199"
citation: "Alabama HB 199 (2022rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Minority Affairs", "Alabama Office of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-02-01T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ff33669-1087-4d16-a4c1-32fadc2dcd9f"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HB199"
source_hash: "d7c37fab150a09afa01819243a5ea474d838082af983643f2c388bf3802b9121"
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 199 (2022rs) — Governor's Office of Minority Affairs, name changed to Alabama Office of Minority Affairs, established as a separate state agency, authorized to draft policy recommendations, merit and non-merit staff provided for, technical corrections re name change made to Historic Tax Credit Evaluating Committee, Secs. 36-13-50, 36-13-51, 36-13-53, 40-9F-38 am'd.

## 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/2022rs/PrintFiles/HB199-int.pdf)
2. **Amd/Sub 217207-2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2022rs/PrintFiles/217207-2.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2022rs/PrintFiles/HB199-eng.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2022rs/PrintFiles/HB199-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1024 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 343 — **101–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 342 — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-01T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on State Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** State Government Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 342 `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 343 `passage`
- **2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2022-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1024 `passage`
- **2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2022-402. `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 9:46 a.m. on April7, 2022. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ff33669-1087-4d16-a4c1-32fadc2dcd9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).