---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public works contracts; requirement to publish publish advertisement; further provided"
description: "Competitive Bidding"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 320"
citation: "Alabama HB 320 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Competitive Bidding"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pringle"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e96fb1f-62a2-4527-8ceb-d0ff3ed1ec45"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "93ae857b46c47fc59a549580ed94c1eacbecbcc0f6e0eba61c1abc0edeec2e0d"
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 320 (2025rs) — Public works contracts; requirement to publish publish advertisement; further provided

Competitive Bidding

## 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/HB320-int.pdf)
2. **Elliott motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 917** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/7BQA1VV-1.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB320-eng.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 427** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SLL3T75-1.pdf)
5. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 428** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/W1WPG95-1.pdf)
6. **State Government 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/2JJB2KS-1.pdf)
7. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB320-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Pringle — 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** 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** Pringle Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1183
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 918 `passage`
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Elliott motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 917
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development 1st Substitute Offered (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2025-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-16T04:00:00+00:00** Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development 1st Substitute (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development `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 429 `passage`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 428
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Pringle 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 427
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** State Government Engrossed Substitute Offered (State Government) `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 (State Government)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (State Government)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** State Government 1st Amendment (State Government)
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (State Government)
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on State Government `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/2e96fb1f-62a2-4527-8ceb-d0ff3ed1ec45`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).