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Alabama · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 85: Vaccines; religious exemption for K-12 students, further provided for; religious exemption for students at public institutions of higher education, provided

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 85 is a bill introduced in the Alabama Senate on February 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Vaccines; religious exemption for K-12 students, further provided for; religious exemption for students at public institutions of higher education, provided. Primary sponsor: Arthur Orr (Republican). Most recent recorded action (May 1, 2025): Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Health).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Health

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Arthur OrrPrimary sponsorRepublicanSenate3

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Health)
  2. Reported Out of Committee Second House
  3. Third Reading in House of Origin
  4. Singleton 1st Amendment Offered
  5. Orr motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 492
  6. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 493
  7. Engrossed
  8. Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on Health
  9. Pending Committee Action in Second House (Health)
  10. Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
  11. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Education Policy)
  12. Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Education Policy

Showing 12 most recent of 13 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source