---
type: "Bill"
title: "Primary elections, revise date in off-presidential years"
description: "Elections, Voting, & Campaigns"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 258"
citation: "Alabama HB 258 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carns"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd696d63-fd2d-42de-9ca4-3afe75eaf9fd"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "27c6a0eac2fe9f9ba6d4054c7a199e2f7b86bc3e67cc91991e4d9b2c97640ce5"
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 258 (2025rs) — Primary elections, revise date in off-presidential years

Elections, Voting, & Campaigns

## 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/HB258-int.pdf)
2. **Roberts motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 738** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/84MAUHH-1.pdf)
3. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB258-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Carns — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Carns Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1017
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 843 `passage`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Carried Over to the Call of the Chair
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Roberts motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 738
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** County and Municipal Government 1st Amendment Offered (County and Municipal Government) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** County and Municipal Government 1st Amendment (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 499 `passage`
- **2025-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Constitution, Campaigns and Elections)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Constitution, Campaigns and Elections)
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Constitution, Campaigns and Elections `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/bd696d63-fd2d-42de-9ca4-3afe75eaf9fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).