---
type: "Bill"
title: "Regional Mental Health Authority Boards; to revise membership and qualifications"
description: "Mental Health"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "Alabama SB 236 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Mental Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barfoot"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d6063e5-ab03-4c92-82cd-84aeecdf66ef"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "6f6c40dbfa2c8609d176909c90a4b55aae17ec19a31cc6adf7153670a6eaed36"
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 236 (2025rs) — Regional Mental Health Authority Boards; to revise membership and qualifications

Mental Health

## 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/SB236-int.pdf)
2. **Barfoot motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 824** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/PSI4IER-1.pdf)
3. **Barfoot motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 825** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/5VRRT66-1.pdf)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB236-eng.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB236-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Barfoot — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **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** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1222 `passage`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (State Government)
- **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 (State Government)
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on State Government `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 826 `passage`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Barfoot motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 825
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Barfoot motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 824
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** County and Municipal Government 1st Amendment Offered (County and Municipal Government) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** County and Municipal Government 2nd Amendment Offered (County and Municipal Government) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** County and Municipal Government 2nd Amendment (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** County and Municipal Government 1st Amendment (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on County and Municipal 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/5d6063e5-ab03-4c92-82cd-84aeecdf66ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).