---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Board of Nursing; to add a new Article 8 to Title 34, Chapter 21, Code of Alabama 1975, to create the Alabama Loan Repayment Program for Nursing Education; to establish and describe the program; to provide for program funding from the Education Trust Fund; to provide definitions; to outline the procedure for the board to award loans to applicants who contract with the board to work as an instructor in a prelicense nursing education program; and to provide further for the powers of the board under the program."
description: "Board of Nursing, Loan Repayment Program for Nursing Education created"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2023rs"
identifier: "SB 57"
citation: "Alabama SB 57 (2023rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Board of Nursing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["April Weaver"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-14T13:30:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e18cc25b-a305-4ec0-8b4d-8c6496734a5f"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "6a85a7ee441a436e02f3fdc157b34e64dd4699d05e98ec68c51bbdbf995b521a"
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 57 (2023rs) — Relating to the Board of Nursing; to add a new Article 8 to Title 34, Chapter 21, Code of Alabama 1975, to create the Alabama Loan Repayment Program for Nursing Education; to establish and describe the program; to provide for program funding from the Education Trust Fund; to provide definitions; to outline the procedure for the board to award loans to applicants who contract with the board to work as an instructor in a prelicense nursing education program; and to provide further for the powers of the board under the program.

Board of Nursing, Loan Repayment Program for Nursing Education 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/SB57-int.pdf)
2. **Act 2023-532** (committee substitute) — [source](http://arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/L1286156.AI1.pdf)
3. **Amendment C6FGQJ-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/C6FGQJ-1.pdf)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB57-eng.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB57-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Roll of the S for Vote 494 on SB57 (2023 Regular Session) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Roll of the S for Vote 493 on SB57 (2023 Regular Session) — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Roll of the H for Vote 1107 on SB57 (2023 Regular Session) — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- April Weaver — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-06-01T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2023-06-01T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2023-06-01T04:00:00+00:00** Read a Third Time and Pass `passage`
- **2023-06-01T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in Second House
- **2023-05-11T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in Second House
- **2023-05-10T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in Second House
- **2023-05-10T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Ways and Means Education) `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Committee (Ways and Means Education) `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in Second House `reading-1`
- **2023-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
- **2023-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Adopt
- **2023-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in House of Origin
- **2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
- **2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Finance and Taxation Education) `committee-passage`
- **2023-04-05T04:00:00+00:00** AMD/SUB (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** Introduced and Referred (Finance and Taxation Education) `introduction, referral`
- **2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in House of Origin `reading-1`
- **2023-06-14T13:30:00+00:00** Enacted as 2023-532 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e18cc25b-a305-4ec0-8b4d-8c6496734a5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).