---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public K-12 schools, cell phone policy and Internet/social media safety"
description: "Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/al"
legislature: "Alabama Legislature"
session: "2025rs"
identifier: "HB 166"
citation: "Alabama HB 166 (2025rs)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hulsey"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/048ea252-e511-4bd3-98aa-85de1047bcd4"
source_url: "https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search"
source_hash: "86674d32d852570f8f0424d31ba4063ca7702aac2b10e9c2a6df39cfbf22caf1"
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 HB 166 (2025rs) — Public K-12 schools, cell phone policy and Internet/social media safety

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/HB166-int.pdf)
2. **Elliott motion to Adopt - Lost Roll Call 1009** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/9JGCHPB-1.pdf)
3. **Engrossed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB166-eng.pdf)
4. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 627** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/W11V3EE-1.pdf)
5. **Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 628** (committee substitute) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/BYVS74Q-1.pdf)
6. **Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/files/pdf/SearchableInstruments/2025RS/HB166-enr.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Hulsey — 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** Delivered to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Signature Requested
- **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 1010 `passage`
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Elliott motion to Adopt - Lost Roll Call 1009
- **2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00** Elliott 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
- **2025-04-30T04:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee Second House
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in Second House (Education Policy)
- **2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Education Policy `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Engrossed
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 629 `passage`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 628
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Sellers 1st Amendment Offered `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 627
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Education Policy 1st Substitute Offered (Education Policy) `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00** Third Reading in House of Origin
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** Carried Over
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** Education Policy 1st Substitute (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Education Policy)
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Education Policy `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/048ea252-e511-4bd3-98aa-85de1047bcd4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).