---
type: "Bill"
title: "Etowah County; Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit, authorized to sell, use, and destroy certain abandoned, stolen, and unclaimed property"
description: "Etowah County"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 294"
citation: "Alabama HB 294 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Etowah County"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butler (M)"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-11T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6793026b-d1fb-46d8-b413-ebe428bb7f00"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "d78b2556f6758f627a78e72b5425e24baeb5c92f1c0f3f45dc5a900ef5dc98fc"
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 294 (2025rs) — Etowah County; Etowah County Drug Enforcement Unit, authorized to sell, use, and destroy certain abandoned, stolen, and unclaimed property

Etowah County

## 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/HB294-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB294-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Butler (M) — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-11T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 443 `passage`
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Local Legislation )
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Local Legislation )
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Local Legislation `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 259 `passage`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Local Legislation)
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Local Legislation)
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Local Legislation `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/6793026b-d1fb-46d8-b413-ebe428bb7f00`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).