---
type: "Bill"
title: "Legislature Meritorious Nursing Award, established"
description: "Legislature Meritorious Nursing Award, established"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2022rs"
identifier: "HJR 45"
citation: "Alabama HJR 45 (2022rs)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["Resolutions", "Legislative"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-02-08T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e02b3b26-d1f2-4019-8f4e-455ddfa6b0b9"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=HJR45"
source_hash: "d62433177977c7c6229592f610e039e1486269f7ccdc6ca9b9506933be7372e4"
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 HJR 45 (2022rs) — Legislature Meritorious Nursing Award, established

## 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/HJR45-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2022rs/PrintFiles/HJR45-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 931 — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 154 — **101–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Rules `introduction`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** Reported from Rules `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** Jones (M) motion to Adopt adopted Voice Vote `amendment-passage`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** Received in Senate and referred to the Senate committee on Rules `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Reported from Rules `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Waggoner motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Voice Vote `passage`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Clerk of the House Certification
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2022-217. `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor at 5:25 p.m. on March 29, 2022. `executive-receipt`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e02b3b26-d1f2-4019-8f4e-455ddfa6b0b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).