---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sex offenders; restricted employment and volunteer provisions further provided for"
description: "Crimes & Offenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 27"
citation: "Alabama HB 27 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crimes & Offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Underwood"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-08-19T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/741011c9-6f31-4442-b1ae-d327c5623a3d"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "7a66086e96dee2bdf0379dfe618f1733869b821e8ff3176d0e79fff1c73e92ee"
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 27 (2025rs) — Sex offenders; restricted employment and volunteer provisions further provided for

Crimes & Offenses

## 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/HB27-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB27-eng.pdf)
3. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 138** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/1NE9L3Z-1.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB27-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Underwood — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-08-19T04:00:00+00:00** Filed `filing`
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 529 `passage`
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 139 `passage`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 138
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary 1st Substitute Offered (Judiciary) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary 1st Substitute (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary `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/741011c9-6f31-4442-b1ae-d327c5623a3d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).