---
type: "Bill"
title: "Courts, appointment, support, and powers of visiting judges provided for"
description: "Courts & Judges"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 307"
citation: "Alabama HB 307 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts & Judges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill (J)"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59c6ee64-d4a6-4550-b254-8a4aa7b03917"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "40c1d9a6cadb8b100f3cac16d5f772d4308f6882042ed1ab3f4b049be50ed6c0"
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 307 (2025rs) — Courts, appointment, support, and powers of visiting judges provided for

Courts & Judges

## 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/HB307-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB307-eng.pdf)
3. **Judiciary 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/FKAU6CC-1.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 441** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/L55P3AY-1.pdf)
5. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 442** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/PS1J4RR-1.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB307-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hill (J) — 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 936 `passage`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Carried Over
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Local Legislation )
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 443 `passage`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 442
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Hill 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 441
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Judiciary Engrossed Substitute Offered (Judiciary) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **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 House of Origin (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Judiciary 1st Amendment (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Judiciary)
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+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/59c6ee64-d4a6-4550-b254-8a4aa7b03917`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).