---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employees' Retirement System; retired firemedics, return to work without suspension of retirement allowance"
description: "Retirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 216"
citation: "Alabama SB 216 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chambliss"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5137967f-4c8d-4556-9ff4-2979cbc63938"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "03eb3d479aea153bb038fe3fd73f425e0cee5df97875a374ad659c5d200e23fb"
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 216 (2025rs) — Employees' Retirement System; retired firemedics, return to work without suspension of retirement allowance

Retirement

## 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/SB216-int.pdf)
2. **Chambliss motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 728** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/DGQPKHN-1.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB216-eng.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1151** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/RBU36YM-1.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB216-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`
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **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** Orr Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 927
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1152 `passage`
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1151
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Reynolds 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means General Fund)
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Ways and Means General Fund)
- **2025-04-17T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means General Fund `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 729 `passage`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 728
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation General Fund)
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Finance and Taxation General Fund)
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund `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/5137967f-4c8d-4556-9ff4-2979cbc63938`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).