---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act, providing for a nontraditional high school diploma option for students 17 years of age and older who withdraw from school through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System; to provide for the sharing of data on students who drop out of high school; and to provide that participating students are eligible for driver's licenses"
description: "Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 266"
citation: "Alabama HB 266 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woods"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92241264-0c98-4eb4-8532-cfe3682a168f"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "bf93d1aa40a7871da29a468861086f59836794ac978bb820b56fe912c6966a45"
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 266 (2025rs) — Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act, providing for a nontraditional high school diploma option for students 17 years of age and older who withdraw from school through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System; to provide for the sharing of data on students who drop out of high school; and to provide that participating students are eligible for driver's licenses

Education

## 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/HB266-int.pdf)
2. **Education Policy 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/MUDR1WW-1.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB266-eng.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 234** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/5VLQH66-1.pdf)
5. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 235** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/U96MSXG-1.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB266-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Woods — 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 957 `passage`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 236 `passage`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 235
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Smith 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 234
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Education Policy Engrossed Substitute Offered (Education Policy) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+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 (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** Education Policy 1st Amendment (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Education Policy `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/92241264-0c98-4eb4-8532-cfe3682a168f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).