---
type: "Bill"
title: "County officials, uniform increases such as cost-of-living, newly elected or appointed officials, included in initial compensation under Omnibus Pay Act"
description: "Counties & Municipalities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 157"
citation: "Alabama HB 157 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties & Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 16
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa7dabcf-0cad-4545-bb01-02d79be59f01"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "91677cf4420fd4a7410f942ac8fb3bad26470d7a2ab1e914061717286fa98b39"
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 157 (2025rs) — County officials, uniform increases such as cost-of-living, newly elected or appointed officials, included in initial compensation under Omnibus Pay Act

Counties & Municipalities

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB157-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB157-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Lee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 985 `passage`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 281 `passage`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Fiscal Responsibility)
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Fiscal Responsibility)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Fiscal Responsibility `reading-1, referral-committee`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa7dabcf-0cad-4545-bb01-02d79be59f01`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).