---
type: "Bill"
title: "To create the School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act and the Alabama Principal Leadership Development System for public K-12 education; to provide for the creation and implementation of a mentoring program for new principals and a continuing professional learning program for principals and assistant principals; and to provide annual stipends for each principal and assistant principal who satisfactorily completes the program."
description: "Alabama School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act, created"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2023rs"
identifier: "SB 300"
citation: "Alabama SB 300 (2023rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alabama School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arthur Orr"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-01T13:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84a2a87c-b123-4993-b3ab-c67190684ec3"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "699258b964c49875f7ef469c5ecb39b00907e6b19ae691a41059d85d7210e5a7"
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 300 (2023rs) — To create the School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act and the Alabama Principal Leadership Development System for public K-12 education; to provide for the creation and implementation of a mentoring program for new principals and a continuing professional learning program for principals and assistant principals; and to provide annual stipends for each principal and assistant principal who satisfactorily completes the program.

Alabama School Principal Leadership and Mentoring Act, created

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB300-int.pdf)
2. **Act 2023-340** (committee substitute) — [source](http://arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/L1274792.AI1.pdf)
3. **Amendment ZSUAKK-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/ZSUAKK-1.pdf)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB300-eng.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB300-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Roll of the S for Vote 745 on SB300 (2023 Regular Session) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Roll of the S for Vote 746 on SB300 (2023 Regular Session) — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- Roll of the H for Vote 817 on SB300 (2023 Regular Session) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arthur Orr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2023-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2023-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** Read a Third Time and Pass `passage`
- **2023-05-23T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in Second House
- **2023-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in Second House
- **2023-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in Second House
- **2023-05-17T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Ways and Means Education) `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Committee (Ways and Means Education) `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in Second House `reading-1`
- **2023-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
- **2023-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** Adopt
- **2023-05-16T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2023-05-11T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in House of Origin
- **2023-05-10T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
- **2023-05-10T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Finance and Taxation Education) `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Introduced and Referred (Finance and Taxation Education) `introduction, referral`
- **2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in House of Origin `reading-1`
- **2023-06-01T13:00:00+00:00** Enacted as 2023-340 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84a2a87c-b123-4993-b3ab-c67190684ec3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).