republic-os/legislation/us/states/al/2025rs/sb-43.md

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Bill	Health care providers; prohibit enforcement of contractual terms that restrict sharing cost information to patients and consumers	Health	us/states/al	Alabama Legislature	2025rs	SB 43	Alabama SB 43 (2025rs)	bill	Health	enacted	Melson	7	27	0	2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00	2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/334cdfa0-9353-42a0-9d60-1e8c36f27781	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search	ab7b49c391d0e8a1e1bb44f8d85880ce209e9ccc352374b213e31336b71bdd0b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-al

Alabama SB 43 (2025rs) — Health care providers; prohibit enforcement of contractual terms that restrict sharing cost information to patients and consumers

Health

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. Health 1st Amendment (committee substitute) — source
4. Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1206 (committee substitute) — source
5. Singleton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 537 (committee substitute) — source
6. Singleton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 538 (committee substitute) — source
7. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Melson — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Delivered to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-22T04:00:00+00:00 Enacted became-law
• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Delivered to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Signature Requested
• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Enrolled
• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Ready to Enroll
• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Melson Concur In and Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1046
• 2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1207 passage
• 2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1206
• 2025-05-07T04:00:00+00:00 Health Engrossed Substitute Offered (Health) amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Health)
• 2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee Second House (Health)
• 2025-04-24T04:00:00+00:00 Health 1st Amendment (Health)
• 2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in Second House (Health)
• 2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Health reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 Engrossed
• 2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 539 passage
• 2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Singleton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 538
• 2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Singleton 1st Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Singleton motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 537
• 2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Banking and Insurance 1st Substitute Offered (Banking and Insurance) amendment-introduction
• 2025-04-08T04:00:00+00:00 Third Reading in House of Origin
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Banking and Insurance)
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Banking and Insurance 1st Substitute (Banking and Insurance)
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Banking and Insurance)
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Banking and Insurance reading-1, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/334cdfa0-9353-42a0-9d60-1e8c36f27781. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).