republic-os/legislation/us/states/al/2025rs/hb-266.md

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Bill	Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act, providing for a nontraditional high school diploma option for students 17 years of age and older who withdraw from school through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System; to provide for the sharing of data on students who drop out of high school; and to provide that participating students are eligible for driver's licenses	Education	us/states/al	Alabama Legislature	2025rs	HB 266	Alabama HB 266 (2025rs)	bill	Education	enacted	Woods	6	22	0	2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00	2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/92241264-0c98-4eb4-8532-cfe3682a168f	https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/bill-search	bf93d1aa40a7871da29a468861086f59836794ac978bb820b56fe912c6966a45	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-al

Alabama HB 266 (2025rs) — Restoring Educational Advancement of Completing High School (REACH) Act, providing for a nontraditional high school diploma option for students 17 years of age and older who withdraw from school through the Adult Education Division of the Alabama Community College System; to provide for the sharing of data on students who drop out of high school; and to provide that participating students are eligible for driver's licenses

Education

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Education Policy 1st Amendment (committee substitute) — source
3. Engrossed (committee substitute) — source
4. Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 234 (committee substitute) — source
5. Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 235 (committee substitute) — source
6. Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Sponsors

• Woods — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-05-14T04:00:00+00:00 Enacted became-law
• 2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Delivered to Governor executive-receipt
• 2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Signature Requested
• 2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Enrolled
• 2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Ready to Enroll
• 2025-05-06T04:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 957 passage
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee Second House
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in Second House (Education Policy)
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Education Policy reading-1, referral-committee
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 Engrossed
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 236 passage
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 235
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 Smith 1st Amendment Offered amendment-introduction
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 234
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 Education Policy Engrossed Substitute Offered (Education Policy) amendment-introduction
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 Third Reading in House of Origin
• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
• 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 Reported Out of Committee House of Origin (Education Policy)
• 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 Education Policy 1st Amendment (Education Policy)
• 2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Education Policy)
• 2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Education Policy reading-1, referral-committee

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/92241264-0c98-4eb4-8532-cfe3682a168f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Alabama legislature records).