---
type: "Bill"
title: "Financial Institutions and Businesses; authorizes gold and silver bullion and coins as legal tender"
description: "Businesses & Financial Institutions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 130"
citation: "Alabama SB 130 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Businesses & Financial Institutions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Melson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 17
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d927834-954f-40cf-81a7-e215076cea92"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "c54af15caa28a9158010fc785e2d0dc24d8d811dbb0a830c830e4fc199bf864d"
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 SB 130 (2025rs) — Financial Institutions and Businesses; authorizes gold and silver bullion and coins as legal tender

Businesses & Financial Institutions

## 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/SB130-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB130-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Melson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-04-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-02T04:00:00+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 595 `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 (Financial Services)
- **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 (Financial Services)
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Financial Services `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 253 `passage`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Banking and Insurance)
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Banking and Insurance)
- **2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance `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/4d927834-954f-40cf-81a7-e215076cea92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).