---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alabama Renewing Alabama's Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act created, additional funding for public schools authorized based on the individual needs of students"
description: "Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 305"
citation: "Alabama SB 305 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Orr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/445e5e39-a95b-48e7-ac65-a58a8bb76806"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "fc8a4472f0f0e11bf6731f2336c7b38fd1fdf0151f7cb90e880d54e49b5d8e2a"
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 305 (2025rs) — Alabama Renewing Alabama's Investment in Student Excellence (RAISE) Act created, additional funding for public schools authorized based on the individual needs of students

Education

## 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/SB305-int.pdf)
2. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB305-eng.pdf)
3. **Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 664** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/I3FQB6Z-1.pdf)
4. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB305-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Orr — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 987 `passage`
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Ways and Means Education)
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 665 `passage`
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 664
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+00:00** Orr 1st Substitute Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-10T04:00:00+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 (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Finance and Taxation Education)
- **2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education `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/445e5e39-a95b-48e7-ac65-a58a8bb76806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).