republic-os/legislation/us/states/al/2023rs/sb-183.md

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Bill	Relating to labor and employement; to exclude consideration of a motor carrier's use of safety improvements, technologies, practices, and driver coaching in determining a motor carrier driver's classification as an independent contractor or an employee under state law.	Labor and employment, motor carriers and drivers, excludes safety improvement requirements for drivers from employee or independent contractor determination.	us/states/al	Alabama Legislature	2023rs	SB 183	Alabama SB 183 (2023rs)	bill	Labor and employment	enacted	Garlan Gudger	5	18	3	2023-04-05T04:00:00+00:00	2023-05-15T14:30:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/0f60e0db-0235-4fb2-9c67-16f1e20ebab2	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search	0c25f7d707c536d83aa03e0cf35929d013fa1243da1c3d20803cd5c1f045a2e0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-al

Alabama SB 183 (2023rs) — Relating to labor and employement; to exclude consideration of a motor carrier's use of safety improvements, technologies, practices, and driver coaching in determining a motor carrier driver's classification as an independent contractor or an employee under state law.

Labor and employment, motor carriers and drivers, excludes safety improvement requirements for drivers from employee or independent contractor determination.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act 2023-191 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment U4MMDG-1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
5. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Roll of the S for Vote 387 on SB183 (2023 Regular Session) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Roll of the S for Vote 386 on SB183 (2023 Regular Session) — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Roll of the H for Vote 614 on SB183 (2023 Regular Session) — 101–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Garlan Gudger — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 Enrolled
• 2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 Ready to Enroll
• 2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 Read a Third Time and Pass passage
• 2023-05-09T04:00:00+00:00 On Third Reading in Second House
• 2023-05-03T04:00:00+00:00 Read Second Time in Second House
• 2023-05-03T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee in Second House
• 2023-05-03T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Favorably (Commerce and Small Business) committee-passage
• 2023-04-27T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Committee (Commerce and Small Business) referral-committee
• 2023-04-27T04:00:00+00:00 Read First Time in Second House reading-1
• 2023-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
• 2023-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 Adopt
• 2023-04-25T04:00:00+00:00 On Third Reading in House of Origin
• 2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Read Second Time in House of Origin
• 2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
• 2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Favorably (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development) committee-passage
• 2023-04-05T04:00:00+00:00 Introduced and Referred (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development) introduction, referral
• 2023-04-05T04:00:00+00:00 Read First Time in House of Origin reading-1
• 2023-05-15T14:30:00+00:00 Enacted as 2023-191 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0f60e0db-0235-4fb2-9c67-16f1e20ebab2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).