---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the salaries of public education employees; to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect a pay increase of two percent beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to provide that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with a two percent pay increase beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to require salary schedules; to provide the employees of certain other public educational institutions and schools with a two percent pay increase for the 2023-2024 fiscal year; to provide for an across the board salary increase on all two-year postsecondary salary schedules, to establish other requirements on the two-year postsecondary salary schedules; and to establish miscellaneous pay provisions relating to public education."
description: "Public education employees, including K-12, postsecondary education, and AIDB, salary increase"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2023rs"
identifier: "SB 85"
citation: "Alabama SB 85 (2023rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public education employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arthur Orr"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 17
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-06-01T14:30:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba188c9f-4339-469f-b494-bb5f15afd5e7"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "66e778fb08cab7dbd9096881402d42bd64fecb362ee2588f8564b6d9ec3b2d04"
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 85 (2023rs) — Relating to the salaries of public education employees; to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect a pay increase of two percent beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to provide that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with a two percent pay increase beginning with the fiscal year 2023-2024; to require salary schedules; to provide the employees of certain other public educational institutions and schools with a two percent pay increase for the 2023-2024 fiscal year; to provide for an across the board salary increase on all two-year postsecondary salary schedules, to establish other requirements on the two-year postsecondary salary schedules; and to establish miscellaneous pay provisions relating to public education.

Public education employees, including K-12, postsecondary education, and AIDB, salary increase

## 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/SB85-int.pdf)
2. **Act 2023-376** (committee substitute) — [source](http://arc-sos.state.al.us/ucp/L1274807.AI1.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://www.legislature.state.al.us/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2023RS/SB85-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Roll of the S for Vote 615 on SB85 (2023 Regular Session) — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arthur Orr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-05-26T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2023-05-25T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2023-05-25T04:00:00+00:00** Read a Third Time and Pass `passage`
- **2023-05-25T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in Second House
- **2023-05-24T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in Second House
- **2023-05-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in Second House
- **2023-05-24T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Ways and Means Education) `committee-passage`
- **2023-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Referred to Committee (Ways and Means Education) `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in Second House `reading-1`
- **2023-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** Read a Third Time and Pass `passage`
- **2023-05-04T04:00:00+00:00** On Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2023-05-03T04:00:00+00:00** Read Second Time in House of Origin
- **2023-05-03T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
- **2023-05-03T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Favorably (Finance and Taxation Education) `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Introduced and Referred (Transportation and Energy) `introduction, referral`
- **2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** Read First Time in House of Origin `reading-1`
- **2023-06-01T14:30:00+00:00** Enacted as 2023-376 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ba188c9f-4339-469f-b494-bb5f15afd5e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).