---
type: "Bill"
title: "Lyman Ward Military Academy, appropriation"
description: "Lyman Ward Military Academy, appropriation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2019rs"
identifier: "SB 203"
citation: "Alabama SB 203 (2019rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Whatley"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-02T04:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7cf7d752-8c55-4ca6-bd65-584ac9f48cb9"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB203"
source_hash: "553f94d9de1211644acba6fe5bd26ed390a5397bb4a477a91531efad091d97b8"
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 203 (2019rs) — Lyman Ward Military Academy, appropriation

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/SB203-int.pdf)
2. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2019rs/PrintFiles/SB203-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 552 — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1091 — **102–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Whatley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-04-02T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 552 `passage`
- **2019-05-02T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Ways and Means Education `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-22T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2019-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2019-05-28T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1091 `passage`
- **2019-05-29T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2019-05-30T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2019-385. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7cf7d752-8c55-4ca6-bd65-584ac9f48cb9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).