---
type: "Bill"
title: "Game breeder license; possessory interest in deer established; killing, testing, prohibition of transfer of deer by state agencies for disease prohibited, subject to exceptions"
description: "Animals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 509"
citation: "Alabama HB 509 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sorrells"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2fa6a99-17da-4e72-89e2-f394b24d80b1"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "ed5a46532ccf6c3217c95e60ef5d79d3e2170d98735da04f74cb0af7edd71a23"
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 509 (2025rs) — Game breeder license; possessory interest in deer established; killing, testing, prohibition of transfer of deer by state agencies for disease prohibited, subject to exceptions

Animals

## 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/HB509-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB509-eng.pdf)
3. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 843** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/YM1YV26-1.pdf)
4. **Sessions motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1020** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/5VEFG66-1.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB509-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Sorrells — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Sorrells Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1236
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1021 `passage`
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Sessions motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1020
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Sessions 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry)
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry)
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 844 `passage`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 843
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Sorrells 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Agriculture and Forestry)
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Agriculture and Forestry)
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry `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/f2fa6a99-17da-4e72-89e2-f394b24d80b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).