---
type: "Bill"
title: "School safety, permits sheriffs and chiefs of police to contract with nonpublic schools to provide school resource officers"
description: "Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "Alabama SB 4 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elliott"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2024-07-24T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/264c76d7-97ac-44bf-91f5-e3a3b14b366c"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "3052697af0ebeaee24f9b3ba019b7a413f35c79d629a9ddf6be8a35abd0eece5"
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 4 (2025rs) — School safety, permits sheriffs and chiefs of police to contract with nonpublic schools to provide school resource officers

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/SB4-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/SB4-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Elliott — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-07-24T04:00:00+00:00** Filed `filing`
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** Enacted `became-law`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Ready to Enroll
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 289 `passage`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in Second House
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Public Safety and Homeland Security)
- **2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 15 `passage`
- **2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (County and Municipal Government)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+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/264c76d7-97ac-44bf-91f5-e3a3b14b366c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).