---
type: "Bill"
title: "Design professionals, including architects, landscape architects, surveyors, engineers, or geologists, contracts for professional services of, required indemnification provisions in contracts for liability of third party prohibited"
description: "Design professionals, including architects, landscape architects, surveyors, engineers, or geologists, contracts for professional services of, required indemnification provisions in contracts for liability of third party prohibited"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2021rs"
identifier: "SB 261"
citation: "Alabama SB 261 (2021rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Businesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chambliss"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2021-02-23T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7d58656e-0332-4e61-9e71-7ee818211e87"
source_url: "http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/Alison/SESSBillStatusResult.aspx?BILL=SB261"
source_hash: "dc735df6e3dabd27c98dfd375f3be252692e97aab26c8710bf03d5bbd78979fe"
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 261 (2021rs) — Design professionals, including architects, landscape architects, surveyors, engineers, or geologists, contracts for professional services of, required indemnification provisions in contracts for liability of third party prohibited

## 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/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB261-int.pdf)
2. **Amd/Sub 210723-2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/210723-2.pdf)
3. **Amd/Sub 212723-1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/212723-1.pdf)
4. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB261-eng.pdf)
5. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/ALISON/SearchableInstruments/2021rs/PrintFiles/SB261-enr.pdf)

## Votes

- Chambliss motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 778 — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Chambliss motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 777 — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 779 — **28–0** (pass) · upper
- Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 905 — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chambliss — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar with 1 substitute and `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Judiciary first Substitute Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 777 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Chambliss motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 778 `amendment-passage`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 779 `passage`
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2021-04-06T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Commerce and Small Business `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the second time and placed on the calendar `reading-2`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading Passed `passage`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 905 `passage`
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Lipscomb Conflict of Interest filed
- **2021-04-20T04:00:00+00:00** Passed Second House `passage`
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Enrolled
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **2021-04-22T04:00:00+00:00** Assigned Act No. 2021-318. `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7d58656e-0332-4e61-9e71-7ee818211e87`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).