---
type: "Bill"
title: "Consumer protection; filter requirements on Internet enabled devices, penalties for violation"
description: "Consumer Protection"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "Alabama SB 186 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Consumer Protection"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chambliss"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
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/3fa5b966-a9e3-4702-9625-7c2801b0817c"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "1af9d1be17320d6634bdbff5166f4f9274f1ec1d74c3c8b8be9724eb196c3ad4"
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 186 (2025rs) — Consumer protection; filter requirements on Internet enabled devices, penalties for violation

Consumer Protection

## 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/SB186-int.pdf)
2. **Chambliss motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 744** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/MSTZ31H-1.pdf)
3. **Commerce and Small Business 1st Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/I3N49WW-1.pdf)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB186-eng.pdf)
5. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1098** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/11XNSZZ-1.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB186-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Chambliss — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 905
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1099 `passage`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1098
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Commerce and Small Business Engrossed Substitute Offered (Commerce and Small Business) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Commerce and Small Business)
- **2025-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House (Commerce and Small Business)
- **2025-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** Commerce and Small Business 1st Amendment (Commerce and Small Business)
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Commerce and Small Business)
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Commerce and Small Business `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 745 `passage`
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 744
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Petition to Cease Debate - Adopted Roll Call 743
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss 1st Substitute Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Carried Over
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Children and Youth Health)
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Children and Youth Health)
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Children and Youth Health `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/3fa5b966-a9e3-4702-9625-7c2801b0817c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).