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Bill	Creating Hope and Opportunity for Our Students’ Education (CHOOSE) Act of 2024, established to provide education savings accounts (ESAs) for parents of children to use in providing education services for those children.	Education	us/states/al	Alabama Legislature	2024rs	HB 129	Alabama HB 129 (2024rs)	bill	Education	enacted	Danny Garrett	14	40	12	2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00	2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c13908a5-0a17-4a40-ab81-9d323d8c5713	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search	32c9507996edb66268e1c8562bb2a2a7820431a3d0dab83c9813100c8eb87306	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-al

Alabama HB 129 (2024rs) — Creating Hope and Opportunity for Our Students’ Education (CHOOSE) Act of 2024, established to provide education savings accounts (ESAs) for parents of children to use in providing education services for those children.

Education

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Act 2024-21 (committee substitute) — source
3. Amendment 48XF3RI-1 (committee substitute) — source
4. Amendment 68BQ1Z3-1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Amendment AB9L77Q-1 (committee substitute) — source
6. Amendment AKB2S7S-1 (committee substitute) — source
7. Amendment DKC9NHH-1 (committee substitute) — source
8. Amendment NYYG88T-1 (committee substitute) — source
9. Amendment RPI5YNY-1 (committee substitute) — source
10. Amendment RPQINNN-1 (committee substitute) — source
11. Amendment RTZSNNY-1 (committee substitute) — source
12. Amendment VK4HVVP-1 (committee substitute) — source
13. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
14. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Roll of the H for Vote 131 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 69–34 (pass) · lower
• Roll of the H for Vote 125 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 71–27 (pass) · lower
• Roll of the S for Vote 176 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 26–8 (fail) · upper
• Roll of the H for Vote 130 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 82–7 (pass) · lower
• Roll of the S for Vote 178 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 10–23 (fail) · upper
• Roll of the H for Vote 129 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 82–9 (fail) · lower
• Roll of the H for Vote 128 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 85–6 (pass) · lower
• Roll of the H for Vote 127 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 74–17 (pass) · lower
• Roll of the S for Vote 179 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 9–21 (pass) · upper
• Roll of the H for Vote 126 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 68–29 (pass) · lower
• Roll of the S for Vote 177 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 10–23 (fail) · upper
• Roll of the S for Vote 180 on HB129 (2024 Regular Session) — 23–9 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Danny Garrett — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 Enacted became-law
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Signature Requested
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Enrolled
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Delivered to Governor executive-receipt
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Ready to Enroll
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 180 passage
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Orr motion to Table - Adopted Voice Vote
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Stutts 2nd Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Orr motion to Table - Adopted Voice Vote
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Stutts Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Singleton motion to Adopt - Lost Roll Call 179
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Singleton 2nd Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Singleton motion to Adopt - Lost Roll Call 178
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Singleton Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Smitherman motion to Adopt - Lost Roll Call 177
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Smitherman Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Third Reading in Second House
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Finance and Taxation Education)
• 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee Second House
• 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in Second House (Finance and Taxation Education)
• 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 Engrossed
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 131 passage
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Garrett motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 130
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Harrison Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Garrett motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 129
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Yarbrough Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Garrett motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 128
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Mooney Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 127
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Lovvorn Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 126
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 W&ME Substitute Offered (Ways and Means Education) amendment-introduction
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Third Reading in House of Origin
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute Adopted (Ways and Means Education)
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means Education)
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
• 2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Ways and Means General Fund)
• 2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means Education reading-1, referral-committee
• 2024-03-07T14:35:00+00:00 Enacted as 2024-21 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c13908a5-0a17-4a40-ab81-9d323d8c5713. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).