republic-os/legislation/us/states/al/2023rs/sb-56.md

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Bill	Relating to public K-12 schools; to add Section 16-39-13 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require local boards of education to install, maintain, and operate video cameras in certain self-contained classrooms providing special education services, if the funding to do so is available; and to provide protections for the use of video recordings.	Education, use of video cameras in certain special education classrooms required	us/states/al	Alabama Legislature	2023rs	SB 56	Alabama SB 56 (2023rs)	bill	Education	enacted	Arthur Orr	8	24	5	2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00	2023-06-14T13:30:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1f4d69a9-814b-4cb1-81ce-7b7e8f766654	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search	7c9494047572e540b76c3e932734c836729755190021d4a06cdf4194d581cb8b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-al

Alabama SB 56 (2023rs) — Relating to public K-12 schools; to add Section 16-39-13 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require local boards of education to install, maintain, and operate video cameras in certain self-contained classrooms providing special education services, if the funding to do so is available; and to provide protections for the use of video recordings.

Education, use of video cameras in certain special education classrooms required

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act 2023-527 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment E0ZX99-1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment NN0CT8-1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment XVCT7E-1 (committee substitute) — source
6. Education Policy Amendment 1GJ93Z-1 (committee substitute) — source
7. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
8. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Roll of the S for Vote 48 on SB56 (2023 Regular Session) — 31–0 (pass) · upper
• Roll of the S for Vote 50 on SB56 (2023 Regular Session) — 30–1 (pass) · upper
• Roll of the S for Vote 49 on SB56 (2023 Regular Session) — 30–1 (pass) · upper
• Roll of the H for Vote 1091 on SB56 (2023 Regular Session) — 101–0 (pass) · lower
• Roll of the H for Vote 1092 on SB56 (2023 Regular Session) — 103–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Arthur Orr — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-06-01T04:00:00+00:00 Enrolled
• 2023-06-01T04:00:00+00:00 Concur In and Adopt
• 2023-05-31T04:00:00+00:00 Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended passage
• 2023-05-31T04:00:00+00:00 Adopt
• 2023-05-31T04:00:00+00:00 Carry Over to the Call of the Chair
• 2023-05-31T04:00:00+00:00 On Third Reading in Second House
• 2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Read Second Time in Second House
• 2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee in Second House
• 2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Favorably (Education Policy) committee-passage
• 2023-04-19T04:00:00+00:00 AMD/SUB (Education Policy)
• 2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 Referred to Committee (Education Policy) referral-committee
• 2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 Read First Time in Second House reading-1
• 2023-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 AMD/SUB (Education Policy)
• 2023-03-23T04:00:00+00:00 Read A Third Time And Passed As Amended
• 2023-03-23T04:00:00+00:00 Adopt
• 2023-03-23T04:00:00+00:00 Adopt
• 2023-03-23T04:00:00+00:00 Adopt
• 2023-03-23T04:00:00+00:00 On Third Reading in House of Origin
• 2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Read Second Time in House of Origin
• 2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee in House of Origin
• 2023-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Favorably (Education Policy) committee-passage
• 2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 Introduced and Referred (Education Policy) introduction, referral
• 2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 Read First Time in House of Origin reading-1
• 2023-06-14T13:30:00+00:00 Enacted as 2023-527 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1f4d69a9-814b-4cb1-81ce-7b7e8f766654. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).