republic-os/legislation/us/states/al/2025rs/sb-138.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Convicted felons; restrictions on obtaining occupational licenses by convicted felons revised; certificate of employability for convicted felons created; immunity to employers provided	Incarceration	us/states/al	Alabama Legislature	2025rs	SB 138	Alabama SB 138 (2025rs)	bill	Incarceration	enacted	Smitherman	6	27	0	2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00	2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/26463708-345f-4091-a620-acf45c3a5df2	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search	5811bdab184023300f477707a96367c18474ee9618301cb2703146b0d81e0de8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-al

Alabama SB 138 (2025rs) — Convicted felons; restrictions on obtaining occupational licenses by convicted felons revised; certificate of employability for convicted felons created; immunity to employers provided

Incarceration

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
3. Smitherman motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 312 (committee substitute) — source
4. Smitherman motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 313 (committee substitute) — source
5. Weaver motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 314 (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Smitherman — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Enacted became-law
• 2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Delivered to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01T04:00:00+00:00 Signature Requested
• 2025-04-30T04:00:00+00:00 Enrolled
• 2025-04-30T04:00:00+00:00 Ready to Enroll
• 2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 1133 passage
• 2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 Third Reading in Second House
• 2025-04-29T04:00:00+00:00 Carried Over to the Call of the Chair
• 2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
• 2025-04-03T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee Second House
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in Second House (Judiciary)
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Engrossed
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 315 passage
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Weaver motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 314
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Weaver 1st Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Smitherman motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 313
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Smitherman motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 312
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Judiciary 2nd Amendment Offered (Judiciary) amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Judiciary 1st Amendment Offered (Judiciary) amendment-introduction
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 Third Reading in House of Origin
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Judiciary)
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 Judiciary 2nd Amendment (Judiciary)
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 Judiciary 1st Amendment (Judiciary)
• 2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Judiciary)
• 2025-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary reading-1, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26463708-345f-4091-a620-acf45c3a5df2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).