On Thursday Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he was sending the state legislature back to work on scaling back the harsh provisions in [HB 658](https://colorlines.com/archives/2012/05/alabamas_monster_anti-immigrant_hb_56_gets_stronger_harsher_update.html), an anti-immigration bill lawmakers passed the previous today. This afternoon, Bentley reversed his decision, and signed HB 658 into law. "I still have concerns about the school provision in the original law," Governor Bentley said in [a statement](http://www.governor.alabama.gov/news/news_detail.aspx?ID=6584). "That provision is currently enjoined by a federal court, so it is not currently in effect, and we can re-address this issue if the need arises." Bentley said he also disagreed with a provision that immigrant rights activists have coined the "scarlet letter provision," which calls for the state to create an online publicly searchable database of every undocumented immigrant who appears in Alabama state court for any reason. HB 658 was intended to be an attempt to address the fallout of HB 56, the anti-immigrant law modeled after Arizona’ SB 1070, which allows police officers to question and detain anyone who they merely suspect may be undocumented. Yet the revision bill keeps unchanged many of the harshest provisions of the original. Ultimately, Bentley said he signed the bill because after another hectic day of back and forth on the bill, it was clear the legislature "did not have the appetite for addressing further revisions at this time." "The bottom line is there are too many positive aspects of House Bill 658 for it to go unsigned. I don’t want to lose the progress we have made," Governor Bentley said.