| Issue |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
 Career/Technical Education |
Adopted 06/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides an option for individuals with a bachelor's or higher degree to become certified through the Specialty Area Career and Technical Certificate Approach. Recognizes full-time secondary and/or postsecondary teaching experience in a prescribed program area as acceptable full-time work experience. Provides flexibility in certification by allowing individuals to be issued a renewable Specialty Area 2 Certificate after completing the five required education courses. Allows acceptance of a bachelor's degree in lieu of 36 of the required 45 semester hours of earned coursework for issuance of the Specialty Area 3 Certificate.
Title: AL ADC 290-3-2-.23, 24, 25, 26
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Accountability--Measures/Indicators |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes legislative findings. Directs the state superintendent of education to develop a school grading system for schools and districts, using an A, B, C, D, F framework. In developing the system, directs the superintendent to seek input from specified stakeholders on how the system can reflect each school's overall academic proficiency as well as academic progress, along with other key performance indicators. Directs the state superintendent to prescribe the design and content of the school grading system by December 31, 2012, and provides legislative intent that the system be in place by the 2013-14 school year. Permits the state superintendent to assign grades to school feeder patterns or grades that reflect the fiscal health and fiscal efficiency of a school or school system. Provides relative to making grades available to the public and to parents of public school students. Requires that a school's grade, at a minimum, be based on a combination of student achievement scores, achievement gap, college and career readiness, learning gains, and other indicators as determined by the state superintendent.
Establishes the Legislative School Performance Recognition Program to recognize high performance and exemplary progress in school rankings, to be implemented no earlier than the school grading system's 2nd academic year of implementation, provided rules governing the program's administration and implementation have been promulgated by the state department of education. Provides for the awarding of financial awards to selected schools, subject to the availability of appropriated funds. Requires that funds be awarded on a competitive basis. Provides relative to awarding of funds to schools. Provides that a school eligible for an award is exempt from any statute or regulation related to the prescribed use of funds at the school level, or any categorical spending requirements imposed through the appropriation of funds from the state, except those requirements associated with the receipt of federal funds. Requires that a list of schools eligible for an award be posted annually on the department of education website. Provides that a school eligible for an award is eligible for this flexibility regardless of whether the school receives a financial award.
Title: H.B. 588
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Accountability--School Improvement |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
From K-12 appropriations bill: Specifies that funds appropriated to the Governor's Local School and School System Academic and Financial Improvement Program are to be used for specified purposes, including to employ personnel under short-term contracts to provide direct assistance to placed in intervention for academic and/or financial reasons. Permits the state superintendent to use funds appropriated to the Governor's Local School and School System Academic and Financial Improvement Program to implement flexibility and innovation in rules and procedures to assist schools in need of academic and/or financial assistance as determined by the state superintendent. Provides these programs include, but are not limited to, after-school programs, character education programs, dropout prevention programs, summer programs, career technical youth programs, programs to improve reading, and/or math and/or science skills to increase grade-to-grade promotion, high school graduation and college preparedness, and other activities designed to assist at-risk students. Provides personnel employed or contracted by the department of education to assist at-risk schools must be on release status from their local boards of education and retain all benefits and tenure status unless they are given permanent employment in the state department of education. Pages 21-22 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Use of Specified At-Risk Funds
Source: www.alsde.edu |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
From K-12 appropriations bill: Permits at-risk funds to be used for student programs to improve the efficiency and utilization of technology-based resources in the classroom. Provides that appropriation to the at-risk student program includes $750,000 appropriation for the Alabama Student Information Management System (ASIMS). Page 12 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - At-Risk Students
Source: |
Attendance--Compulsory |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Lowers the minimum age at which children are required to attend public school from seven to six years of age.
Title: S.B. 28
Source: |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
From K-12 appropriations bill: Provides that workforce development funds may be expended for technical dual enrollment programs. Also requires that up to $200,000 be used to provide regional council seed funding in Regions 3 and 8 to develop leadership strategies in the local areas. Requires each region to set measurable goals through a local planning process to determine current and future skills needed in the local area, develop seamless educational pathways, and align funding with identified local needs. Directs the chancellor of the department of postsecondary education to report quarterly to legislative leadership on any funds expended for workforce training. Pages 17-18 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Workforce Investment
Source: www.alsde.edu |
Career/Technical Education |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Specifies that not more than $900,000 of the appropriation for the career tech initiative must be first used for agriscience purposes if an adequate number of RFPs are received. Requires such funds to be made available through a competitive grant process to compensate and pay expenses of agriscience teachers. Provides that any of the $900,000 not expended for agriscience must revert to the balance of the appropriation and be distributed at the state superintendent's discretion for additional career tech initiatives. Pages 24-25 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Agriscience in CTE
Source: www.alsde.edu |
Curriculum--Drivers Education |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits a driver education instructor at a private high school who is certified, approved, and trained by the department of public safety to act as a third party testing agent for the department of public safety for students enrolled in a driver education class. Specifies that the state department of education is in no way responsible for the approval and training of private high school driver education instructors as third party testing agents for the department of public safety.
Title: H.B. 19
Source: Westlaw |
Finance--Bonds |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Changes the baseline date for the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Distributions provisions in the education code from January 1, 2010 to January 1, 2006. Increases the amount the Alabama Public School and College Authority is authorized to issue bonds for (for renovation or construction of school faciliities in BRAC-impacted areas) from $175 million to $208 million; extends purpose of such bonds to include school bus fleet renewal. Amends qualifications for recipient school districts. By January 2013, requires the authority to allocate, and the department to distribute such allocation of $33 million of bond principal for local boards to renew school bus fleets. Provides that local procedures for administering such school bus fleet funds are different from existing procedures for administration of BRAC school facility construction and renovation funds. Repeals a provision that in order to qualify for bond proceeds, a local school system may redirect an existing tax not currently dedicated to schools to qualify for bonds.
Title: H.B. 407
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides each K-12 public classroom teacher $300 annually from the Education Trust Fund. Defines "classroom supplies." Authorizes the state superintendent of education to promulgate rules regarding implementation of these provisions, including a simple and minimal paperwork method for teachers to account for expenditure of such funds.
Title: S.B. 257
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Expands exemptions from competitive bidding requirements by local boards of education to include exemptions from additional cooperative purchasing programs.
Title: H.B. 504
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Finance--Resource Efficiency |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
From K-12 appropriations bill: Establishes legislative intent that local school systems be permitted to develop flexible school terms extending over the school year including late school start dates. School systems are encouraged to use late school dates to replace high cooling cost days in August with lower cost days later in the school year. Directs the state department of education to encourage and work with pilot school systems to determine the cost savings from a later start date.
Title: S.B. 318 - School Start Dates
Source: |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires each local board of education to develop guidelines and other pertinent information regarding medical evaluation of concussions or head injuries. Prohibits a youth athlete who has been removed from a practice or an athletic game because of a concussion from returning to play the day of the injury.
Title: H.B. 308
Source: |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
From K-12 appropriations bill: Provides that of appropriation to the School Nurses Program, $250,000 is appropriated for the collection and management of statewide student health data, school by school, by means of the Alabama Student Information Management System (ASIMS). Page 13 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Student Health Data
Source: www.alsde.edu |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Classifies certain members of the Alabama National Guard as residents eligible for in-state tuition rates.
Title: H.B. 97
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Postsecondary Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Requires any new construction of a building containing classrooms or dorm rooms at a public two-year or four-year institution of higher education to include an Alabama Building Commission approved safe space or hallway.
Title: H.B. 427
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures--Administrative/Leadership Issues |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
Postsec. |
Increases the minimum amount of contracts at higher education institutions subject to the competitive bidding process from $7,500 to $15,000.
Title: S.B. 14
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Scheduling/School Calendar--Year |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Creates the Flexible School Calendar Act of 2012. Permits the 180-day minimum school term requirement to be met through the hourly equivalent thereof, beginning with the 2012-13 school year and ending with the last day of the 3rd month of the 2013-14 school year. Requires the local school calendar to be annually established by the local board of education. Establishes limits on earliest by which the school year may start and the latest that the last day of instruction may be. Prohibits a local board from reducing the amount in any cell of any employee salary schedule based on these provisions or a future modification to its calendar or schedule. Requires salary allocations in all future Education Trust fund budgets to be based on the number of contact days allocated by the legislature, or the hourly equivalent thereof. Directs the legislative fiscal office to report, by the 10th legislative day of the 2014 session, on the impact of these provisions on state tax revenues, including state sales, use, and lodging tax revenues.
Title: H.B. 360
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Food Service |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Farm-To-School Procurement Act. Directs the state department of education and the department of agriculture and industries coordinate and develop certain farm-to-school procurement processes and procedures; establishes respective duties of each agency. Provides for procedures and recommendations for certain farm product producers to access school-related food programs. Provides for the dissemination of certain information to schools and farm product producers. Specifies that district competitive bidding requirements do not apply to purchases of unprocessed agricultural products of under $100,000.
Title: H.B. 670
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Lieutenant Dexter Holcomb Act. Prohibits a local board from hiring or entering into any agreement with any person for the purposes of operating a school bus transporting students unless the person is physically qualified to drive a school bus. Establishes requirements an individual must meet to be physically qualified to drive a school bus. Requires all new and currently employed school bus drivers to pass a physical examination, performed by a duly licensed physician, within three months after the effective date of this act, and at least once every two years thereafter. Requires local boards to document results of physical exams. Permits a driver holiding a valid Alabama school bus driver certificate to be grandfathered in under specified circumstances. Provides that failure to comply with these provisions will result in the driver losing his/her Alabama School Bus Driver Certificate issued by the state department of education.
Title: S.B. 191
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that $950,000 of the appropriation to the Governor's High Hopes for Alabama Students program be expended to link the Alabama Student Information Management Systems (ASIMS) to students' home computers. Page 27 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Student Data
Source: www.alsde.edu |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Defines "sports official" and qualifies sports officials as independent contractors. Exempts sports officials at an interscholastic or intercollegiate sports event from workers' compensation coverage. Provides that sports officials are not subject to liability in any civil action for injuries or damages claimed in connection with his/her duties at sporting events.
Title: H.B. 497
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Provides that the Third Party Prescription Program Act does not apply to the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan.
Title: S.B. 571
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Permits an active member of the Teachers' Retirement System or the Employees' Retirement System with at least 10 years of credible service in either system to claim and purchase service credit in the system for up to 10 years of prior service for employment with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency if the member complies with specified conditions. Prohibits a member from receiving credit for any service the member is already credited with in the system or any other public retirement plan other than federal Social Security. Prohibits any year of service purchased under these provisions from being considered in determining a specified out-of-pocket premium amount charged to retirees. Provides that any service so purchased does not provide a member with early eligibility for benefits under the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan or the State Employees' Health Insurance Plan.
Title: H.B. 598
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Technology--Devices/Software/Hardware |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Alabama Ahead Act. Beginning with the 2012-13 school year, requires provision of electronic textbooks and other instructional materials to all grade 9-12 students and teachers in districts that choose to participate, to the extent approved electronic textbooks are practicable and obtainable from the publisher. Where feasible, provides each 9th grade student and teacher a pen-enabled tablet, mobile computer, or other similar wireless electronic device. Directs the department of education to adopt an implementation plan, to be provided to legislative leadership by October 1, 2012, and to establish an advisory committee that includes legislators to assist in implementation of this act. Authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue up to $100,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of additional bonds for the acquisition and maintenance of computer equipment, software, and digital textbooks for public education. Provides for oversight of the bonds. http://alisondb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2012rs/bills/hb165.htm
Title: H.B. 165
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Textbooks and Open Source |
Signed into law 05/2012 |
P-12 |
Requires that $10,000 of the appropriation to ACCESS (Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators, and Students Statewide) be expended for a study on quality and efficiency of online textbooks. Page 23 of 69: http://www.alsde.edu/general/SB0318_ENACTED.pdf
Title: S.B. 318 - Study of Quality/Efficiency of Online Textbooks
Source: www.alsde.edu |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Establishes the School Board Governance Improvement Act of 2012. Provides legislative intent. Requires prospective board members to publicly affirm certain principles of educational governance. Specifies the responsibilities of board members. Provides for the implementation of training and continuing education in boardsmanship for all board members. Provides for certain sanctions to be imposed upon board members upon a finding that the action or inaction of a board member constitutes neglect of duty or willful misconduct. Requires the state board of education to adopt a model code of conduct for board members, and for local boards of education to adopt a code of conduct that includes, at a minimum, the model code of conduct adopted by the state board. Amends Sections 16-8-1 and 16-11-2, relating to the qualifications of members of city and county boards of education.
Title: H.B. 431
Source: |
Health |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Directs the department of education, in consultation with the Alabama Department of Public Health, to strongly encourage all public K-12 schools to participate in an influenza vaccination program that includes specified attributes.
Title: S.J.R. 11
Source: |
Leadership--District Superintendent--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
P-12 |
Makes a supplemental appropriation in the amount of $2,313,850 from the Education Trust Fund to the state department of education for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2012, to pay the entire $5,000 salary supplement to teachers for the fiscal years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 who complete the process to become certified by the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards. Authorizes the payment of the same annual salary supplement provided for teachers for any principal who receives national board certification.
Title: S.B. 143
Source: |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 04/2012 |
Postsec. |
Appropriates specified amounts from the Education Trust Fund to the PACT Trust Fund for the fiscal years ending in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Removes provision that specified appropriations will make the PACT Fund fully funded, according to the actuarial professional retained by the PACT board, and makes such changes retroactive to April 30, 2010. Authorizes the PACT Board to negotiate, accept, and implement a legally binding resolution with PACT purchasers and beneficiaries to address any actuarial deficit in the PACT Trust Fund. Repeals 16-33C-17, which prohibited a public institution of higher education from charging the PACT plan or a PACT plan contract owner mandatory fees or tuition per credit hour in an amount exceeding the cost of mandatory fees or tuition per credit hour, with exceptions. Makes such repeal retroactive to April 30, 2010. Repeals 16-33C-19, which strongly encouraged the PACT board to make any financially beneficial changes to PACT rules, procedures, or policies.
Title: H.B. 603
Source: |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2012 |
P-12 |
Makes clarifying changes to the laws governing certain criminal history background checks, and provides for permissive referrals for prosecution or for termination of employment. Clarifies which employees of the department of human resources are required to undergo criminal history background checks. Eliminates certain requirements that the department of human resources request certain criminal background information from the department of education for individuals who have had a criminal background check through the department of education.Provides for: (1) The transmission of criminal history reports from the department of public safety to the department of human resources via a FBI-certified channeler; (2) the transmission of criminal history reports to applicants that have disqualifying crimes; and (3) further clarification of the department of public safety's duties regarding the transmission of arrests or convictions or subsequent arrests or convictions for applicants. Also clarifies which types of suitability determinations may be considered for reversal.
Title: S.B. 60
Source: |
Health |
Issued 12/2011 |
P-12 |
Establishes the HIV/AIDS Prevention Task Force. Includes the state superintendent of education or designee among the membership. Charges the task force with researching and developing options to encourage statewide efforts to reduce cases of HIV/AIDS and to improve the overall health of Alabamians by adopting and promoting a statewide comprehensive HIV/AIDS Prevention and Direct Services Plan to the general public, state and local elected officials, various public and private organizations and associations, businesses and industries, agencies, potential funders and other community resources.
http://governor.alabama.gov/news/news_detail.aspx?ID=5951
Title: Executive Order 26
Source: governor.alabama.gov |
Bilingual/ESL |
To governor 06/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Specifies that verification of lawful presence in the U.S. must not be required for K-12 education. However, requires public schools to determine the citizenship and immigration status of their students, to compile data on students who are legally and illegally in the U.S. and submit such data to the state board of education. Requires the state board of education to submit an annual report to the legislature, providing data, aggregated by public school, regarding the numbers of U.S. citizens, lawfully present aliens, and of aliens believed to be unlawfully present in the U.S. enrolled at all K-12 public schools in this state. Requires that the report also:
--Provide the number of students in each category participating in English as a Second Language (ESL) programs enrolled at such schools.
--Analyze and identify the effects upon the quality of education provided to students who are U.S. citizens residing in Alabama that may have occurred, or are expected to occur, as a consequence of the enrollment of students who are illegal aliens.
--Analyze and itemize the fiscal costs to the state and political subdivisions thereof of providing instruction, computers, textbooks and other supplies, free or discounted school meals, and extracurricular activities to students who are illegal aliens.
Requires the state board to prepare and issue objective baseline criteria for identifying and assessing the other educational impacts on the quality of education provided to students who are U.S. citizens due to the enrollment of illegal aliens, in addition to the statistical data on citizenship and immigration status and ESL enrollment required by this act.
Prohibits an illegal alien from enrolling in any postsecondary institution in the state. Requires an alien enrolled in a postsecondary institution to possess either lawful permanent residence or an appropriate nonimmigrant visa. Provides an illegal alien is ineligible for any education benefit, including scholarships, grants, or financial aid. Permits a public postsecondary education institution officer to seek federal verification of an alien's immigration status with the federal government.
Title: H.B. 56
Source: |
Finance |
To governor 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the Department of Finance to produce monthly reports on the condition of the Education Trust Fund. Provides legislative intent that such reports increase the transparency of state finances and, when conditions emerge that make budget proration likely, provide advance notice to the affected agencies of government so that they can prepare as much as possible for its impact on their operations.
Title: H.B. 25
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Requires the governing body of each sport or recreational organization to develop guidelines and other pertinent information to inform parents and youth athletes on the nature and risk of concussion and brain injury. Requires the youth athlete and athlete's parent to annually sign a concussion and head injury information sheet before the youth athlete's initiating practice or competition. Requires each sports or recreational organization governing body to ensure that coaches receive annual training on recognizing the symptoms of a concussion and seeking proper medical treatment for a person suspected of having a concussion. Requires each sports or recreational organization to establish by rule the requirements of the training and timelines. Requires a youth athlete suspected of having a concussion to be immediately removed from participation and may not return to play until the athlete receives written clearance to return to play from a licensed physician.
Title: H.B. 108
Source: |
Leadership--District Superintendent |
To governor 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Relates to the posting of notices of vacancies in the positions of appointed county superintendent of education and appointed city superintendent of education. Extends the deadline for the local board of education to fill the position of superintendent from 120 to 180 days. Provides that within 90 days after a vacancy occurs, a county or city board of education must announce a proposed process and timeline for posting and selecting a superintendent. Repeals language directing the state superintendent to fill a vacancy that is not filled by the statutory deadline; replaces with language directing the state superintendent to withhold state warrants until the vacancy is filled unless the board, to the state superintendent's satisfaction, exhibits good faith and reasonable effort in progress toward selecting a superintendent. Permits a county or city board of education to appoint an interim superintendent to serve for up to 180 days. Requires that the interim superintendent satisfy the minimum qualifications required for service as a county or city superintendent of education. Provides the county or city board of education is not required to post the interim superintendent position.
Title: H.B. 455
Source: |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
To governor 06/2011 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Plan (PEEHIP). Subjects employees or retirees who knowingly and willfully submit false or misleading information to the board or engage in fraudulent activity to disqualification from coverage in the plan. Provides that all employees retiring after December 31, 2011, with certain exceptions, be subject to a new sliding scale premium calculation based on years of service. Provides that all employees retiring after December 31, 2011, be subject to a sliding scale premium calculation based on the difference between the age of the employee at retirement and the Medicare entitlement age. Provides that for all employees retiring after December 31, 2011, the employer contribution for a Page non-Medicare retiree may not exceed the employer contribution for an active employee no later than October 1, 2016. Provides that assistance be given to low-income employees and retirees who fall within 300% of the federal poverty level. Provides further for percentages of federal poverty level with regard to assistance to low-income families. Provides that a two-thirds vote of the Public Education Employees' Health Insurance Board is no longer required to change the employee or retiree contribution to the health insurance premium or other out-of-pocket expenses.
Title: S.B. 419
Source: |
Finance--Facilities |
To governor 05/2011 |
P-12 |
Legislature resolved to work with governor and state superintendent of education to provide funding for tornado-damaged schools.
Title: H.J.R. 460
Source: |
Postsecondary Faculty--Tenure |
Signed into law 05/2011 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Establishes the Students First Act of 2011. Establishes the purposes of this act. Provides definitions. Provides no action may be proposed or approved based upon the personal or political reasons of the employer, chief executive officer or governing board. Establishes processes and conditions for teachers to obtain and retain tenure, and for probationary classified employees to obtain and retain nonprobationary status. Provides that neither tenure nor nonprobationary status creates or confers any enforceable right or protected interest in or to a specific position, rank, work site or location, assignment, title, or rate of compensation within those categories of employment. Provides that neither tenured status or time in probationary service are transferable from one employer to another. Provides conditions and processes for the termination of probationary classified employees and probationary teachers. Provides conditions under which tenured teachers and nonprobationary classified employees may be terminated, and procedures for such termination. Provides for a hearing upon employee request. Provides procedures for an employee terminated following a hearing to obtain a review of an adverse decision.
Provides layoffs or other personnel actions that are unavoidable reductions in the workforce beyond normal attrition due to decreased student enrollment or shortage of revenues are not subject to challenge or review under this act. Provides conditions and processes for an employee's suspension for cause with or without pay. Provides employees may be transferred or reassigned at any time as the needs of the employer require to any position for which they are qualified. Permits a chief executive officer to reassign a teacher to any grade, position, or work location within the same school, or, for two-year institutions operated under the authority and control of the department of postsecondary education, to any teaching position or work location that is under the control and jurisdiction of the institution, as the needs of the employer require. Permits tenured teachers to be transferred within an agency or system to any grade or position outside of the school to which the teacher is assigned, subject to specified terms and conditions; establishes similar conditions for nonprobationary classified employees, including employees of two-year institutions operated by the department of postsecondary education. Establishes conditions under which probationary and tenured teachers and probationary and nonprobationary classified employees may be transferred to another position with lower compensation or a shorter term of employment. Provides that the employment of a teacher whose certificate is revoked by the state superintendent of education is summarily terminated. Provides that if a conviction resulting in the revocation of the certificate is overturned, the certificate must be immediately reinstated, and the employer must either place the employee in a position for which the employee holds appropriate certification or place the employee on paid administrative leave.
Prohibits a teacher from terminating his/her employment within 30 days of first day of the next school term, or for employees of two-year institutions operated by the department of postsecondary education, within 30 days of the fall semester. Provides for relief for an employee who has been denied a hearing before an employer. Permits an employer to grant an employee a one-year leave of absence for good cause without impairing the employee's tenured or nonprobationary status. Requires that leaves of absences for military service be as provided in Section 31-2-13.
Provides that all laws or parts of laws that conflict with this act are repealed, specifically portions of the Teacher Tenure Law, commencing with Section 16-24-1; the Fair Dismissal Act, commencing with Section 36-26-100; and Section 16-24B-7, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to teacher transfers.
Title: S.B. 310
Source: |
Postsecondary Institutions--For-Profit/Proprietary |
To governor 05/2011 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the regulation of certain schools and courses of instruction and exemptions from school licensing. Clarifies the definitions of for-profit and nonprofit schools. Allows additional nonprofit schools to apply for exemption from licensure.
Title: H.B. 321
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Adopted 04/2011 |
P-12 |
Amends rule 290-3-1-.02(8) (g)6 which will allow any Alabama public school system to substitute the IB Diploma Program courses for required Alabama High School Diploma with Advanced Academic Endorsement core courses, including the arts.
Title: AL ADC 290-3-1-.02
Source: |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 01/2011 |
Postsec. |
The new rule is intended to provide administrative procedures as regards the Alabama Student Grant Program administered by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education.
Title: AL ADC 300-4-3-.01
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Rural |
Issued 01/2011 |
P-12 |
Makes findings relative to education in rural areas of Alabama. Creates the Alabama Office of Rural Development. Provides the Alabama Office of Rural Development will be managed by a director and to consist of members to be appointed by, and to serve at the pleasure of the Governor. Directs this office, under the leadership of the director, to work with existing department heads, commissioners and directors to coordinate the efforts of their state agencies, departments, and commissions that support, aid or assist, or have the capacity to support, aid or assist in the education, healthcare and economic development in rural areas of Alabama. Rescinds Executive Order #22, issued on August 11, 2004, and Executive Order #50, issued on June 4, 2010. http://governor.alabama.gov/news/news_detail.aspx?ID=4249
Title: Executive Order 5
Source: governor.alabama.gov |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 12/2010 |
P-12 |
Rewrites Chapter 290-3-2. To align the format so that all relevant information on each topic is placed together which will make the document more user-friendly. To include practices and procedures that are currently being implemented based on memoranda or requirements made effective by other sections within the department of education. To include substantive requirements in the alternative approaches to ensure that applicants selected by LEAs have demonstrated content knowledge before working with students. To provide consistency in requirements and dates across various certification approaches. To incorporate safeguards within various certification approaches to ensure that the most qualified teachers/instructional support personnel are in the schools of Alabama. To delete all references to the term 'satisfactory' as related to an individual's performance due to the subjectivity. To clarify the certification revocation process and the authority of the state superintendent regarding sanctions against a certificate or license holder. To streamline the certification process. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/docs/ed/290-3-2.pdf
Title: ADC 290-3-2-.01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
Source: www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 |
Authorizes local boards of education, during FY 2011 only, to expend public school funds on any operating expense (according to SREB report, http://publications.sreb.org/2010/10S07_2010_Final_Leg_Rep.pdf, districts were previously "required to spend the funds only within the designated categories where appropriations were made.")
Title: H.B. 724
Source: |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Signed into law 09/2010 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a state agency to enact an employee furlough plan if the plan is approved by the state personnel department. Provides any adopted furlough plan must be applicable to the entire agency affected and must be voluntary at the sole discretion of the employee. Provides that such furloughs do not affect employees' state retirement and insurance, including family coverage, other state benefits, leave, time of service, and status.
Title: H.B. 678
Source: |
Rural |
Issued 06/2010 |
P-12 |
Creates the Alabama Rural Action Commission. Identifies responsibilities of the commission, including to set comprehensive goals and specific objectives for improving the quality of life in rural Alabama, and to identify and assess organizations, authorities, and entities already involved in various aspects of rural education and economic development. http://governorpress.alabama.gov/pr/ex-50-2010-06-04.asp
Title: E.O. 50
Source: governorpress.alabama.gov |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Pocket veto by governor 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Beginning with the 2010-11 school year, requires all students in grades K-8 to take physical education; provides that this may include dance education if taught at a magnet school, or may include marching band, JROTC, or other activity as approved in the student's IEP.
Title: H.B. 105
Source: www.lexis.com |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Creates new rules related to Teacher Leader programs. Establishes rationale, criteria for admission to teacher leader programs, teacher leader program and curricular requirements.
Title: 290-3-3-52.01
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 05/2010 |
P-12 |
Creates new rules related to Instructional Leadership programs. Establishes rationale, criteria for admission to instructional leader programs, and program requirements.
Title: 290-3-3-53.01
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Teacher Rights |
Pocket veto by governor 05/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Defines "public education employee" as any public education employee employed by federal, state or county government or any public college, school, or university. Relates to arrest warrants for public education employees. Specifies that when a public education employee is charged with a misdemeanor committed in the line of duty (while performing duties within the scope of his/her employment), the charge or complaint must be presented to the local law enforcement agency where the offense was alleged to have been committed. Provides that if the local law enforcement agency determines probable cause exists, a warrant for the arrest of the public education employee must be issued. Provides such a warrant may be served during the workday at the workplace, but that a warrant issued for the arrest of a public education employee who is employed on a public college, school or university campus may not be served in the presence of students.
Title: H.B. 236
Source: www.lexis.com |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
The state of Alabama issued $66.5 million in bonds dedicated toward public education. These bonds were paid for through dedicated state excise tax revenue. Details about this borrowing program must be provided to the chairs of the house education appropriation committee and the senate finance and taxation-education committee before the bonds are issued.
Title: H.B. 743
Source: www.lexis.com |
High School |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Extends eligibility for high school diplomas to honorably discharged Vietnam veterans.
Title: H.B. 74
Source: www.lexis.com |
No Child Left Behind--Finance |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Urges the Congress of the United States, in the course of reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), to direct federal funding thereunder in accordance with current funding formulae.
Title: S.J.R. 159
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Teachers' Retirement System; authorizes the officers and employees of the Alabama Higher Education Partnership, Inc. (http://www.higheredpartners.org/ ), to participate in the system.
Title: H.B. 585
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
Postsec. |
Relates to the Alabama Student Grant Program. Removes the qualifying requirement that an approved institution not already accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1) be formally seeking accreditation by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools or (2) award credits accepted by at least three other institutions accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Title: S.B. 290
Source: www.lexis.com |
School/District Structure/Operations--Facilities |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Specifies that any new contract awarded for the construction of a new public school must require that the school include an Alabama Building Commission approved safe space or hallway.
Title: H.B. 459
Source: www.lexis.com |
Students--Athletics/Extracurricular Activities |
Signed into law 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Requests that Alabama High School Athletic Association consider authorizing bass fishing as a recognized school sport in the state.
Title: H.J.R. 30
Source: www.lexis.com |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 04/2010 |
P-12 |
Amended Chapter 290-4-1 will include the Alabama Educator Code of Ethics and will stipulate that, 'Schools and school systems are responsible for ensuring that all educators and other school employees who have contact with children are familiar with and act in accordance with the Alabama Educator Code of Ethics.'
Title: 290-4-1-.01
Source: Westlaw/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Adds new Section 36-6-49.25. Relates to commercial driver licenses issued by the department of public safety. Effective July 2010, prohibits the issuance or renewal of a commercial driver's license with an endorsement authorizing the license holder to drive a school bus (S endorsement) if the person is required to register as a sex offender. Directs the department to revoke the commercial driver license with an S endorsement of any person convicted of any offense on or after July 1, 2010. Requires the department of public safety to search both the statewide registry and the National Sex Offender Public Registry before issuing a commercial driver license with an S endorsement to an applicant. Provides that a person driving a school bus and who does not have a valid commercial driver license with an S endorsement because the person is a convicted sex offender is guilty of a Class C felony.
Title: H.B. 144
Source: www.lexis.com |
Curriculum--Financial Literacy/Economics Ed. |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Urges the state department of education and the state board of education to require local school districts to incorporate a money management course in their curriculum for high school students.
Title: S.J.R. 95
Source: www.lexis.com |
Leadership |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Amends Sections 16-4-1.1 and 16-60-111.1. Requires the state board to post a vacancy notice for the position of state superintendent of education or chancellor on the Internet. Requires vacancy notice for chancellor's position to be additionally posted at each postsecondary campus and worksite, including all state and local board of education offices, at least 30 calendar days before the position is to be filled. Requires vacancy notice for the position of chancellor to include specified information (same information as on vacancy notice for state superintendent position). Permits state board to temporarily fill the state superintendent or chancellor's position for two 6-month periods. Adds provision that chancellor's position must be filled within 180 days after vacancy occurs .
Amends Sections 16-9-11 and Section 16-12-1. Requires local (county or city) board of education to fill a superintendent position in 120 days. Adds provision requiring notice of a local superintendent vacancy to be posted at each school campus and worksite at least 30 calendar days before the position is to be filled, and to remain posted until the position is filled. Requires notice to include specified information. Prohibits the local board from filling the position during the required posting period. Adds provision that violation of the notice requirements in this section will void any related employment action taken by the board.
Amends Section 16-60-111.9 relating to chief executive officer of any two-year school or college and CEOs of specified specialty schools in the state. Requires vacancy notice for such CEO position to be posted on the Internet. Clarifies that a vacancy in the position of executive officer may be filled by the board within more than 120 days after such vacancy occurs in the case of a financial emergency.
Title: H.B. 79
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Accountability--Accreditation |
Adopted 03/2010 |
Postsec. |
Defines "non-accredited institution" as an institution not accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education or Council on Higher Education Accreditation. Requires a non-accredited institution seeking to offer degree programs in Alabama to undergo an external review of its programs of study by an outside consultant(s) chosen by the commission on higher education. Requires the unaccredited institution to underwrite all costs related to the external review. Specifies that program proposals must meet standards used by the commission for new off-campus offerings by in-state public institutions, to be in full compliance with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools/Commission on Colleges (SACS/COS) guidelines.
Title: 300-2-1-.02
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 03/2010 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Creates the Two Year College System Joint Interim Legislative Committee. Directs the committee to study all facets of the two-year college system and to adopt the recommendations of the Final Report of the House of Representatives Interim Legislative Study Committee to Assess the Two-year College System, submitted to the Alabama State Legislature on January 21, 2010. Directs the committee to report its findings, conclusions and recommendations to the legislature by the 5th day of the 2011 Regular Session, at which time the committee will be dissolved.
Title: H.J.R. 97
Source: |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Adopted 03/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides administrative procedures as regards the Alabama Teacher Recruitment Incentive Program (ATRIP), which is intended to provide a scholarship/loan program to attract qualified students into the teaching profession in designated critical need areas. Provides that the commission on higher education serves as the state agency for higher education responsible for administration of the Alabama Teacher Recruitment Incentive Program.
Title: 300-4-7
Source: |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 02/2010 |
P-12 |
Provides that after determining the state board's proposed July 2009 amendment to Rule 290-4-1, creating the "Alabama Educator Code of Ethics," was ambiguous and incapable of being enforced as currently drafted, the legislative joint committee disapproved the proposed rule change and proposed a revised rule to be adopted by the board. Provides the state board of education refused to accept the recommended amendment and resubmit the revised rule while continuing to support the original proposed rule. Provides that because the state board of education refused to accept the proposed amendment and resubmit the revised rule proposed by the Joint Committee, the decision of the Joint Committee to disapprove the proposed amendment to Rule 290-4-1, entitled "Education Accountability," is sustained.
Title: S.J.R. 9
Source: www.lexis.com |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 01/2010 |
P-12 |
Extends the life of the Alabama Select Commission on High School Graduation and Student Dropouts (created by Act No. 2009-229, SJR24, 2009 Regular Session) to December 31, 2010 (2009 S.J.R. 24 creating the commission directed the entity to provide a final report to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house and chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court on or before December 31, 2009, at which point the commission was to be dissolved). Provides the total expenditures of the legislative members of the commission may not exceed $ 5,000.
Title: S.J.R. 21
Source: www.lexis.com |
Career/Technical Education |
Adopted Rule Filing 09/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals and rewrites rules regarding career and technical education, including teacher certification, current practices and curriculum, student organizations and requirements for instructional-related expenses.
Title: 290-6-1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 08/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals and adopts new chapter concerning specific teaching fields and areas of instructional support. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/AAM-AUG-09/CERTIFIEDRULES.pdf
Title: 290-3-3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 07/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds section creating the Alabama Educator Code of Ethics. Identifies nine areas of standards of conduct, including teacher/student relationships, background checks and confidentiality of the content of student records and standardized tests. Requires educators to report a breach of one or more of the Standards in the Alabama Educator Code of Ethics as soon as possible, but no later than 60 days from the date the educator became aware of the alleged breach. Provides circumstances under which the state superintendent of education may revoke, suspend or refuse to issue a certificate, and establishes grounds that must serve as cause for disciplinary action.
Title: 290-4-1
Source: www.lexis.com |
State Longitudinal Data Systems |
Adopted 06/2009 |
P-12 |
Amends public school rules to replace the student social security number with the unique state student identifier as the official identification of each student in all record-keeping systems.
Title: 290-3-1-.02(4)(b)3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Increases the upper mandatory school age to 17 while retaining existing exceptions for certain students. Allows a student over the age of 17 to leave school before graduation if the child's parent provides written consent and an exit interview is conducted where the student and the student's parent are advised that dropping out will likely reduce the student's future earning potential and increase the student's likelihood of being unemployed.
Requires the department to incorporate specific dropout prevention strategies, target resources, and gather data that will improve graduation rates and educational outcomes in all grades in all public schools. Directs the department to develop specific methods of intervention or identify appropriate existing methods for districts with 4-year graduation rates below a state board-determined percentage. Specifies 8 interventions that may be included. Directs the department to compile specified data on truancy, 9th grade success, alternative education placements and other indicators to ensure that dropout prevention programs are based upon evidence-based research, are data-driven and show continuous improvement. Directs the department to annually report to the legislature on outcomes of the dropout prevention program and any planned modifications based on compiled data.
Directs the state superintendent, chancellor of the department of higher education and the Alabama Commission on Higher Education to develop a plan for a high school fast track to college program offering individuals the opportunity to simultaneously earn a high school diploma as well as credits for a certificate program or associate's degree. Targets program to individuals either age 18 not enrolled in school, or age 16-18, with consent from an administrator in which the student is enrolled. Directs the department to report to the legislature on the feasibility of establishing the fast track to college program.
Title: S.B. 334
Source: www.lexis.com |
Attendance |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Adds Alabama to the Interstate Commission on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, an interstate compact to address the education transition issues of children of active duty military families. Allows for the uniform treatment at the state and local district level of military children for transferring between school districts and states.
Title: H.B. 438
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Requires each applicant for admission to a teacher preparation program at a two-year or four-year institution to complete a criminal history background check. Requires institution publications that describe teacher preparation program requirements or application processes to inform prospective students of this requirement.
Title: S.B. 270
Source: www.lexis.com |
Curriculum--Physical Education |
Pocket veto by governor 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Beginning in the 2009-10 school year, requires K-8 students in public and private schools to take physical education.
Title: H.B. 719
Source: www.lexis.com |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Allows local boards of education to expend their reserve funds if (1) the governor declares proration in the Education Trust Fund or (2) total state funds appropriated by the legislature to the local boards of education are less than the same appropriation for the preceding fiscal year.
Title: S.B. 165
Source: www.lexis.com |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
(Constitutional Amendment) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to provide that special county education taxes taxes may be levied by a majority vote, not by three-fifths vote, of those voting at the election.
Title: H.B. 253
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Requires that an automated external defibrillator be placed in each public K-12 school in the state. Requires at one employee at each school to be trained in the use of an automated external defibrillator.
Title: S.B. 306
Source: www.lexis.com |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Directs the School Superintendents of Alabama to administer a professional development program for school superintendents of education. Requires the program to draw guidance from the National Staff Development Council definition of "professional development." Also requires newly elected or appointed superintendents to participate in the School Superintendents of Alabama's Mentor and Executive Coaching Program, a free training program for new superintendents serving in member school systems. Provides that each new superintendent must be assigned an executive coach, an experienced superintendent who must make at least eight contacts during the first year. Also requires quarterly meetings between the superintendent and coach to be held to provide information on specified areas of professional growth.
Title: S.B. 262
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Relates to Police Officer's and Firefighter's Survivors Educational Assistance. Defines volunteer firefighter; Adds dependents and spouses of volunteer firefighters killed or totally disabled in the line of duty to those eligible for free tuition through the assistance program (previously only dependents and spouses of injured or killed full-time law enforcement officers and firefighters were eligible).
Title: S.B. 379
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Extends educational benefits for a spouse and dependents of deceased or totally disabled veterans or prisoners of war. Extends term of tuition/fee waiver from four to five years, and from 36 to 45 months. Adds references to husbands and widowers to section on those dependents eligible for educational benefits.
Title: H.B. 177
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Authorizes public two-year and four-year institutions of higher education to waive undergraduate tuition and fees for Purple Heart recipients.
Title: H.B. 578
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Calls on the Retirement Systems of Alabama to conduct a thorough actuarial study of the financial issues of the Alabama Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (PACT) Program, and to report its written findings, conclusions and recommendations to the governor and individual members of the legislature as soon as possible.
Title: S.J.R. 150
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Pocket veto by governor 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Requires notice of a vacancy in the positions of state superintendent of education and chancellor to be posted by the state board of education. Establishes procedures for the state board to follow in posting such vacancies. Provides the position may not be filled during the required posting period, except in accordance with state law, and must be filled within a certain number of days after the vacancy occurs, although the position may be filled on an interim basis for up to six months. Adds similar provisions for local boards of education filling appointed county and city superintendent vacancies. Adds provisions defining the "board" and "executive officer" of certain specialized state schools such as the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, and the state board in reference to/president of any two-year state college under the auspices of the state board of education. Establishes procedures for the filling of vacancies in the position of executive officer by such boards.
Title: H.B. 64
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Governance and Structures |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
Postsec. |
Allows the board of trustees of the University of Alabama, the executive committee of the board, or any other committee established by the board to participate in meetings by conference telephone or video conferences if the notice of the meetings is given pursuant to the Open Meetings Act and members of the public are given the opportunity to simultaneously listen to or observe such meetings.
Title: S.B. 138
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Pocket veto by governor 05/2009 |
Community College,
Postsec. |
Creates the Joint Interim Legislative Study Committee to Assess the Two-year College System. Directs the committee to make an assessment of the two-year college system and all entities within the purview of the department of postsecondary education, its governance, organization, accountability, instructional needs, and the adequacy and efficiency of the programs and services delivered by these entities. Directs the committee to report its findings and recommendations to the legislature by the fifth working day of the 2010 legislative session, upon which time the committee is dissolved.
Title: H.J.R. 878
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Establishes the Alabama Virtual Library and the Alabama Virtual Library Executive Council, and executive council membership, responsibilities and duties. Includes 3 appointees each of state superintendent, chancellor of postsecondary education and executive director of the commission on higher education on 15-member executive council. http://www.avl.lib.al.us/
Title: H.B. 322
Source: www.lexis.com |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Effective October 1, 2009. Establishes the Student Harassment Prevention Act. Requires local boards to adopt policies by July 2010 to prevent student harassment and suicide. Includes written and electronic acts motivated by a student characteristic in the definition of harassing behavior. Limits harassment to behavior that takes place on school property or school buses, or at school-sponsored events. Provides no student should be subject to harassment or intimidation. Allows any student who is the object of harassment (or student's parent) to file a written complaint. Requires all schools to develop plans or programs, including peer mediation teams, to encourage students to report and address incidents of harassment, violence or threats of violence. Directs the department to develop a model policy prohibiting harassment, violence and threats of violence that contains specified components, including procedures to report acts of intimidation or harassment, suicide threats, violence and threats of violence.
Requires schools to:
--Implement proven practices to promote safe and harassment-free school environments
--Implement proven practices to prevent harassment, intimidation, violence and threats of violence, and to intervene when such incidents occur
--Incorporate awareness of harassment and intimidation prohibitions into character education curricula
--Report statistics on harassment, violence and threats of violence to the local board, which must provide statistics by school and for the district as a whole to the department of education for posting on the department Web site.
Provides that, to the extent that legislative or local funds are available, all school systems must implement 12 specified suicide prevention standards and policies, including educating students in recognizing signs of suicidal tendencies, informing students of available community suicide prevention services, and promoting cooperation between school staff and community suicide prevention program staff. Effective October 1, 2009.
Title: H.B. 216
Source: www.lexis.com |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Becomes effective July 1, 2010. Requires local boards of education to adopt school safety plans and protocols. Requires principals to instruct students on procedures to be used for drills and evacuations, and precautions to be taken case of a severe weather watch, alert or warning. Requires schools to conduct a safety drill at least once every school year to instruct students in procedures to follow in the event of terrorism, a person possessing a firearm or a deadly weapon, or any other act of violence. Requires schools to hold annual training sessions for employees on the school safety drills and procedures to be conducted during a school year.
Title: H.B. 199
Source: www.lexis.com |
School Safety |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12 |
Creates a system for increasing the age at which a person is eligible to apply for a learner's permit or driver's license if the person, over the age of 12 years and a student in a public or private school, was subject to habitual school punishment for an infraction committed on school property. Provides increasing numbers of points to be imposed for in-school suspensions, out-of-school suspensions, an alternative school placement and expulsion. Provides the points accumulate on a yearly basis, and that each point adds a week to the age at which the student is eligible to be issued a learner's permit or driver's license.
Title: H.B. 464
Source: www.lexis.com |
School Safety--Sexual Harassment and Assault |
Pocket veto by governor 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Restricts the presence of convicted sex offenders on or near certain college or university property. Prohibits a convicted sex offender from loitering at or around a school bus stop.
Title: S.B. 137
Source: www.lexis.com |
Special Education |
Signed into law 05/2009 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Specifies that the following provisions will become operative only when legislative funds are appropriated. Provides for the establishment of regional autism centers to offer nonresidential resource and training services for individuals of all ages with autism. Requires centers to coordinate services in and among state and local agencies and school districts; bars centers from duplicating services provided by those agencies or school districts. Provides for creation of a constituency board for each center, to work collaboratively with the centers and meet quarterly with center staff to provide advice on policies, priorities and activities. Specifies that each center must provide:
(1) Staff with expertise in autism and related disabilities.
(2) Individual and direct family assistance in the home, community and school. Requires each district to provide a free and appropriate education for school-age center clients, including preschool special education.
(3) Technical assistance and consultation services, including specific intervention and assistance for the client's family and the school district.
(4) Professional training programs for personnel who work with center clients and their families.
(5) Programs to increase public awareness about autism and related disabilities.
Provides that where possible, centers must be based on postsecondary campuses that submit a proposal to the Alabama Interagency Autism Coordinating Council.
Directs the Alabama Interagency Autism Coordinating Council, in cooperation with the state board and the regional autism centers, to adopt necessary rules to carry out the purposes of this act.
Title: H.B. 615
Source: www.lexis.com |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention) |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Alabama Select Commission on High School Graduation and Student Dropouts. Directs the commission to study the problems and patterns of high school dropouts in the state and their educational and economic impact on the state and local communities. Permits the commission to examine a range of issues and factors in connection with this study, including:
(1) The graduation and dropout rates in Alabama
(2) The educational and economic impact of students failing to graduate from high school on time and dropping out of school
(3) The importance to the entire state of every student leaving high school prepared to enter the workforce or to succeed in higher education
(4) Research on best practices and factors related to students' success in school
(5) How well high school students understand the social and economic consequences of dropping out of school
(6) Strategies, programs, and support services that help to enable students to graduate from high school
(7) Related laws and policies that must be addressed to ensure the availability of effective strategies, programs, and support services for students
(8) The educational and fiscal impact of raising the compulsory attendance age
(9) Possible exemptions from the law for certain students, including those students who fulfill their graduation requirements early and receive a diploma
(10) The fiscal impact of reduced dropouts on the state government and the Alabama economy
(11) The laws and programs of other states in increasing graduation rates and raising the compulsory school attendance age
(12) Input on the issue from a wide range of sources across Alabama, including school personnel, student dropouts, students at risk of dropping out, community, civic, philanthropic, legal, and education leaders who have studied or addressed this problem.
Directs the commission to provide a final report to the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the house and chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court on or before December 31, 2009, at which point the commission is dissolved.
Title: S.J.R. 24
Source: www.lexis.com |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Effective March 1, 2010, requires local boards to adopt policies for orientation and ongoing training of board of education members.
Title: S.B. 220
Source: www.lexis.com |
Leadership |
Adopted 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Repeals and rewrites rules regarding leadership development. Includes references to both the Alabama Definition of Professional Development and the Alabama Standards for Professional Development. Introduces the Office of Leadership Development, outlines the responsibilities of the office, defines what is meant by Instructional Leader and provides an overview of the requirements for professional development of instructional leaders.
Title: 290-4-3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 04/2009 |
P-12 |
Urges the use of biodiesel in diesel-powered public school buses to reduce diesel emissions.
Title: S.J.R. 14
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Approved by voters 11/2008 |
P-12 |
(AMENDMENT 1; ACT 2008-508) Proposes an amendment to the Constitution to reestablish the Education Trust Fund Rain Day Account within the state trust fund; establishes the General Fund Rainy Day Account within the state trust fund. http://www.lrs.state.al.us/publications/2008-special-session.html#Anchor-Ac-2475
Title: V. 1
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Dual/Concurrent Enrollment |
Adopted 08/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends rules to remove the pilot status of the Early College Enrollment Program for juniors and seniors effective the 2008-2009 school year. Provides that program guidelines are found in the Career and Technical Education Methods of Administration Manual.
Title: 290-3-1-.02
Source: www.lexis.com |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 08/2008 |
P-12 |
Repeals and replaces chapter on teacher certification.
Title: 290-3-2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 06/2008 |
P-12 |
Allows for 75%, up from 20%, of unexpended education funds to be appropriated to the Education Trust Fund.
Title: H.B. 63A
Source: www.lexis.com |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Amends policies relating to the creation of a tax increment district.
Title: S.B. 556
Source: www.lexis.com |
Governance--State Boards/Chiefs/Agencies |
Vetoed 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Requires the posting of notices of vacancies in the offices of State Superintendent of Education, county superintendent of education, city superintendent of education, Chancellor of Postsecondary Education, and the chief executive officer of any two-year school or college under the auspices of the State Board of Education, the Institute for Deaf and Blind, the School of Fine Arts, the Department of Youth Services School District, and the High School of Mathematics and Science.
Veto message: http://governorpress.alabama.gov/PDFs/Veto_Message_HB222.pdf
Title: H.B. 222
Source: www.lexis.com |
High School--Exit Exams |
Adopted 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Deletes reference to the Alternate Adult High School Diploma option for students who do not pass specified sections of the high school graduation exam.
Title: 290-4-2-.02
Source: www.lexis.com |
High School--Exit Exams |
Adopted 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Increases the minimum number of teaching days in the school year from 175 to 180 (in compliance with 2003 S.B. 4). Permits secondary school students (in both summer school and regular school year) to demonstrate mastery of Alabama course of study content standards without specified instructional time. Authorizes local boards to create honors curricula that include rigor above that of the Advanced Academic Endorsement. Provides that effective with the ninth grade class of 2009-2010 (Class of 2013), the Alabama High School Diploma with Advanced Academic Endorsement becomes the first-choice diploma option for high school students. Permits local boards of education to voluntarily implement this endorsement as the first-choice diploma option for the 2008-2009 school year. Provides that effective with 9th grade students during the 2008-2009 school year, students will be required to complete one distance-learning course prior to graduation. Allows exceptions through Individualized Education Plans.
Eliminates the Alternate Adult High School Diploma, which allowed students who did not pas all sections of the graduation exam to earn a high school diploma by completing all course requirements and passing the GED.
Establishes the Alabama High School Diploma with Credit-Based Endorsement for students who have taken the Alabama High School Graduation Exam through the 12th grade and have passed the reading, mathematics, and one of the science, language, or social studies subject-area tests of the exam. Provides that effective for students in the 12th grade during 2007-2008 school year, to earn an Alabama High School Diploma with Credit-Based Endorsement, eligible general education students and students with disabilities must complete the required credits in the core curriculum for an Alabama diploma and earn one additional Career/Technical Education (CTE) or academic credit related to the student's career objective consistent with any guidelines established by the State Department of Education and local boards of education.
Authorizes local boards to establish Credit Recovery programs allowing certain students learning opportunities to master concepts and skills in one or more failed courses. Requires course content for credit recovery courses to be composed of standards in which students proved deficient rather than all standards of the original course. Provides schools may offer these courses using computer software, online instruction, or teacher-directed instruction. Requires the curriculum to align with state board courses of study content standards in which students are deficient.
Eliminates provision that a secondary school student may earn no more than ten credits during a school year.
Title: 290-3-1-.02
Source: www.lexis.com |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to the State Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program and State College Education Savings Program. Authorizes an income tax deduction of up to $5,000 for contributions to the Alabama prepaid affordable college tuition program or the Alabama college education savings program. Provides that if the taxpayer makes a nonqualified withdrawal, the amount of the nonqualified withdrawal, plus 10% of the amount withdrawn, must be added back to the income of the contributing taxpayer in the year the nonqualified withdrawal was distributed.
Title: H.B. 43
Source: www.lexis.com |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to competitive bidding on contracts of certain state and local agencies. Increases the minimum amount of contracts subject to competitive bid. Includes city and county boards of education in the list of awarding authorities that may establish local preference zones. Changes from mandatory to permissive the furnishing of a bid bond by a bidder. Provides the authority may make purchases or contracts through a reverse auction procedure.
Title: H.B. 442
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Signed into law 05/2008 |
P-12 |
Relates to public school teacher licensing and certification. Extends access to the expanded alternative certification program from prospective teachers of grades 9-12 to prospective teachers of grades 6-12. Removes certain requirements necessary to obtain a provisional certificate issued by the State Superintendent of Education. Adds that applicants for an alternative certificate must be recommended for certification by the employing local superintendent or private school administrator, be assigned a mentor, meet the requirements of the Alabama prospective teacher testing program, and meet credit hour or degree requirements, or a passing score on the appropriate Praxis II content test.
Extends period of time for which an alternative certificate may be issued from three to four years. Allows holder of alternative certificate to work in up to two districts or private schools.
Title: H.B. 398
Source: www.lexis.com |
High School--Exit Exams |
Adopted 12/2007 |
P-12 |
Allows alternate requirements for students currently protected by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation act of 1973 to receive the Alabama High School Diploma. Specifies that if a student with a disability does not pass one subject-area test of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam, but all other graduation requirements have been met, the alternate documentation to earn the high school diploma must indicate the disability/disabilities that substantially limits the student's ability to demonstrate achievement in the area where a subject-area test of the AHSGE is not passed, and that the student participated in remediation of the AHSGE subject-area test not passed. Amends similar language relating to individuals enrolled in an adult diploma program.
Changes the science subject-area test of Alabama High School Graduation Exam to biology only, effective with students who were first-time ninth-graders in or after the 2006-2007 school year (Class of 2010).
Title: AAC 290-4-2-.02
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Adopted 12/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Increases the maximum award amount for Alabama Student Assistance Program from $2,500 to $5,000.
Title: AAC 300-4-2-.06
Source: http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/monthly.html |
Finance--Facilities |
Signed into law 09/2007 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Act 2007-415, HB21, is the Education Facilities Excellence Act of 2007. Authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue bonds for capital improvements for the support of public education in an amount of $1,070,585,022. The bulk of the funds from this bond issue will be used for facility construction or improvement projects for K-12 schools and higher education buildings. Also creates the Alabama Public School and College Education Incentive Fund and appropriates $55,000,000 from the first bond issue under the act into the incentive fund.
No link to full legislation available.
Link to Alabama Department of Education Grant Application for Capital Expenditures: http://www.alsde.edu/general/APSCE_Incentive_Fund_GRANT_packet.pdf
Title: H.B. 21
Source: |
Online Learning--Virtual Schools/Courses |
Adopted 09/2007 |
P-12 |
Removes the existing restriction on the number of online courses that may be taken by students in grades 9-12, deletes the clock hour requirement, adds a section for homebound students, and clarifies the existing rule by adding additional details.
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02(12)
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Online Instruction |
Adopted 09/2007 |
Postsec. |
Defines distance education in agreement with definitions of regional and national accrediting agencies and provides guidelines on how students enrolled in distance education courses and programs are to be counted for various reports that are the Commission's responsibility.
Title: AAC 300-2-3-.04
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Adopted 08/2007 |
P-12 |
Repeals and replaces rules to require background clearance for admission to the internship and to clarify field experience requirements for graduate programs. Adds an option for teachers of American Sign Language. Prepares individuals for certification in Sport Management. Changes the program review cycle from five to seven years. Makes editorial changes to ensure consistency and clarity in wording. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/docs/ed/MsofWord3ED3.pdf
Title: AAC 290-3-3
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Economic/Workforce Development |
Signed into law 06/2007 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Creates a task force to study and recommend strategies to assist existing industries in the State; provides that the task force will review programs and strategies that will help retrain workers, coordinate retraining and expansion activities with local chambers of commerce and with divisions and programs within 2 and 4 year educational institutions specializing in job development and expansion of existing industry.
Title: H.J.R. 153
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership--Principal/School Leadership--Tenure |
Act No. 2007-467 06/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to the employment of probationary and contract principals; provides for the recommendation of the Chief Executive Officer to the Employing Board regarding the employment of probationary principals; requires the chief executive officer to make a written recommendation to the employing board regarding the continued employment of principals; provides that failure of the officer to make such a recommendation does not prejudice the principal.
Title: H.B. 669
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2007 |
P-12 |
Relates to the salaries of public education employees; provides for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect pay increases of at least seven percent beginning with the fiscal year 2007-08; provides that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step; requires the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule. Act 2007-296.
http://www.rsa.state.al.us/Legislation/pdf/HB385-enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 385
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Reallocates to the State Executive Commission on Community Services Grants an appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Community Services Grants.
Title: S.J.R. 3A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Makes a supplemental appropriation from the Education Trust Fund in the State Treasury to the State Department of Education, for Enterprise High School to cover
repairs to facilities damaged in tornado. (Act 2007-133)
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACTIONViewFrame.asp?TYPE=Instrument&INST=HB141&DOCPATH=searchableinstruments/2007RS/Printfiles/&PHYDOCPATH=//alisdb/acas/searchableinstruments/2007RS/PrintFiles/&DOCNAMES=HB141-int.pdf,HB141-eng.pdf,HB141-enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 141
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 03/2007 |
Postsec. |
Sustains the disapproval by the Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review of the Commission on Higher Education proposed amendment to Rule 300- 2-1-.02, entitled Review and Approval or Disapproval of Proposed Postsecondary Course Offerings in Alabama by Non-Alabama Institutions.
Act No. 2007-067
Title: S.J.R. 8
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Act No. 2007-007 03/2007 |
P-12 |
Proposes a Constitutional Amendment; requires the assets, proceeds, and income of the Retired State Employees' Health Care Trust and the Retired Education Employees' Health Care Trust be used exclusively for the purpose of providing health care benefits to retired state employees and retired education employees.
Title: S.B. 4A
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Preparation |
Adopted 03/2007 |
Postsec. |
Repeals and replaces the present standards for the professionalstudies component of Class B teacher education programs with the Alabama QualityTeaching Standards developed by the Governor's Commission on Quality Teaching. ALABAMA 7840 (Rule Adoption 3/08/07)
http//www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/docs/ed/index.html
Title: AAC 290-3-3-.04
Source: www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us |
Postsecondary |
Adopted 02/2007 |
Postsec. |
Clarifies the Commission's definition of "non-resident institution." ALABAMA 7823
Rule Adoption 02/06/07
http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/docs/hged/index.html
Title: AAC 300-2-1-.02
Source: http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.usl |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Approved by voters 11/2006 |
P-12 |
Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to require at least 10 mills of property tax are levied for every school district in the state.
http://www.sos.state.al.us/downloads/dl3.cfm?trgturl=election/2006/general/statecert-constitutionalamendments-2006-08-31.pdf&trgtfile=statecert-constitutionalamendments-2006-08-31.pdf
Title: Statewide Amendment Number Two
Source: http://www.sos.state.al.us |
State Policymaking--Ballot Questions |
Approved by voters 11/2006 |
P-12 |
Proposes an amendment to the state constitution to provide for the election of the Macon County Board of Education from four single-member districts and the county at large, and to provide for staggered six-year terms of office.
http://www.sos.state.al.us/downloads/dl3.cfm?trgturl=election/2006/general/statecert-constitutionalamendments-2006-08-31.pdf&trgtfile=statecert-constitutionalamendments-2006-08-31.pdf
Title: Statewide Amendment Number Three
Source: http://www.sos.state.al.us |
Curriculum |
Adopted 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules allowing any Alabama public school system that has adequate certified physical education teachers in Grades K-8 to request of theState Superintendent of Education an exemption of the one credit of physical education in Grades 9-12 to substitute for physical activity-based subjects(e.g., R.O.T.C., Marching band, and athletics) and other subject areas underexceptional circumstances for physical education under specified conditions. ALABAMA 7596
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Rule Adoption 08/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding approaches to certification.
ALABAMA 7595
Title: AAC 290-3-2-.02
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
High School--Graduation Requirements |
Rule Adoption 05/2006 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules providing consistency with the Alabama High School Diploma option format and alignment of the required one-half credit of Computer Applications, which will allow the student to choose an additional one-half credit elective. Defines the three required sequenced program of courses necessary to meet completer and concentrator status, which have been negotiatedwith and approved by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational andAdult Education.
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02 (8)(h)1,2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum--Arts Education |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the administration and faculty of the Alabama School of Fine Arts to identify talented and gifted students whose career interests lie in the arts, and with appropriate counseling, enter into a contract with the student and his or her parents or guardians to allow the student to be exempted from up to three Carnegie Units of study from the state's required curriculum for high school graduation. The exemption shall not apply to the obligation of the student to pass the Alabama High School Exit Exam before graduation from the school.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb306.htm
Title: H.B. 306
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Exempts any athletic event conducted by a public or nonpublic primary or secondary school under the auspices of the Alabama High School Athletic Association from 4% sales tax. The tax amount which would have been collected pursuant to this subdivision will continue to be collected by the school, but will be retained by the school which collected it and used for school purposes.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb564.htm
Title: H.B. 564
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School Safety |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Declares that a person who shoots or discharges a firearm into an occupied school bus or school building is guilty of a Class B felony and a person who shoots or discharges a firearm into an unoccupied school bus or school building is guilty of a Class C felony.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb125.htm
Title: H.B. 125
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/ |
Student Supports--Counseling/Guidance |
Signed into law 04/2006 |
P-12 |
Requires public elementary and secondary school counselors to be certified by National Board for Certified Counselors, provides for annual stipend the same as for counselor certified by National Board for Professional Teaching Standards; provides appropriation from Education Trust Fund and forfeit of annual stipend for not obtaining certification by certain time.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/sb49.htm
Title: S.B. 49
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/ |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Increases the required school term from 175 to 180 full instructional days for use in the computation of Foundation Program allowances to local boards of education, beginning with the 2006-07 school year.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb333.htm
Title: H.B. 333
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/ |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Veto overridden: Legislature has overridden Governor's veto 03/2006 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Makes appropriations for the support, maintenance and development of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb272.htm
Title: H.B. 272
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/ |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 03/2006 |
P-12 |
Relates to the salaries of public education employees; provides for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule to reflect pay increases of at least five percent beginning with the fiscal year 2006-07; provides that each employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increases according to placement on the appropriate salary step; requires the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2006rs/bills/hb294.htm
Title: H.B. 294
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.usb |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 07/2005 |
P-12 |
Amends Section 16-6B-2 to specify that American Sign Language is a foreign language for purposes of satisfying certain curriculum requirements; and to apply such provision to hearing-impaired students for the 2005-2006 school year and to all students beginning with the 2006-2007 school year.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2005fs/bills/sb94.htm
Title: S.B. 94
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
to governor 07/2005 |
P-12 |
From the fiscal note: Increases the obligations of the Education Trust Fund for funding the calculated cost of the K-12 Foundation Program due to the expected increase in pupils in average daily membership (ADM) calculated using the first 20 school days following Labor Day compared to the currently used first 40 days of school. Based upon the first 20 school days ADM following Labor Day for the school year 2004-05, increases the calculated cost of the Foundation Program by an estimated $16.1 million for fiscal year 2005-06 and by similar amounts each fiscal year thereafter.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/Action%20Item.htm
Title: S.B. 48
Source: http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 05/2005 |
P-12 |
Includes "common purchases" as element that may be funded as classroom instructional support. States that any funds allocated by the legislature for student materials must be given directly to each teacher as specified in the allocation for use directly in his or her classroom as determined exclusively by the teacher. States that funds provided per school for common purchases must be expended according to the decisions of the local school budget committee. States that the budget committee of a school may propose the expenditure of up to $100 from the student materials allotment of the school to supplement the common purchases funding appropriated by the legislature, subject to teacher approval. Provides for repeal of expenditure provision.
http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2005rs/bills/hb258.htm
Title: H.B. 258
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
P-3 |
Emergency Rule Adoption 11/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules allowing special education services staff employed by the Alabama Department of Education or local school system to provide critical special education services to children in licensed child care centers without meeting requirements for child care center staff, provided the staff meet requirements of the local school system or the department of education. Facilitates compliance with state and federal laws. Increases the availability of special education services, such as speech therapy and physical therapy, to children enrolled in licensed child care centers.
Title: AAC 660-5-26-.01
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 11/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows public education employees to participate in a flexible employees benefits program and creates the Public Education Flexible Employees Benefits Board for such program's administration.
Title: H.B. 5
Source: StateNet |
Accountability |
Issued 08/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
The governor issued Executive Order No. 02-2003 on January 30, 2003, creating the Governor's Commission of Education Spending. The Commission was to engage in a thorough examination of how education dollars have been spent in Alabama during the past ten years. http://www.governorpress.state.al.us/pr/ex-02-2003-01-30.asp
The Highlights of the Initial Report focused on: (1) Management and Accountability Reforms for K-12; (2) Student Assessment and Accountability for K-12; (3) Management and Accountability Reforms for the Alabama College System; (4) Management and Accountability Reforms for University Governance; (4) Reforms in Terms of Public Employment; and (5) Education Trust Fund Accountability.
The Working-Group Sessions (December 2003) made the following proposals: (1) Achieve the maximum savings possible from non-state and non-education agencies; (2) Freeze the state appropriations to PEEHIP at the Fiscal 2004 level; (3) Allocate higher education cutbacks to institutions; and (4) Allocation K-12 education cutbacks to school systems. http://www.alabama.gov/onlineservices/egov_pdfs/ESCReport11404.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 02-2003
Source: Alabama State Web site |
Health |
Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules reducing the minimum training hours for unlicensed school personnel from 24 to 12 in order for the school nurse to delegate assistance with medications. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIIN8/p315.htm#T2
Title: AAC 610-X-6-.06
Source: Alabama State Web site |
High School |
Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules amending language to include the requirements for the Alabama Occupational Diploma. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/docs/ed/3ED1.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site |
High School |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules amending language to move the requirements for the Alabama Occupational Diploma to 290-3-1-.02(8)(g).
Title: AAC 290-8-9-.10
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2004 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules amending language to include the requirements for the Alabama Occupational Diploma. ALABAMA REG 6717 (SN)
Title: AAC 290-8-9-.05(10)(d)
Source: StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Urges schools to provide instruction on healthy lifestyle choices including programs for physical education; urges restrictions on granting waivers for physical education. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 97
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Health |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
Postsec.,
Community College |
Encouraging all college age students to be vaccinated against Hepatitis B. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: H.J.R. 709
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
High School |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Concerns honorably discharged veterans who served in United States Armed Forces during certain dates and who did not receive high school diploma due to service to receive diploma. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1029
Title: H.B. 24
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Relating to the Teacher Tenure Law: transfers, suspensions, and contract cancellations, hearing procedures, different procedures for major and minor (seven days or less) suspensions, use of hearing officers including arbitrators from Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, appeals to Court of Civil Appeals in certain cases, State Tenure Commission abolished, contingent on constitution amendment. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: H.B. 42
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Relates to public school employees, Fair Dismissal Act, transfers, terminations, suspensions, procedure before local board of education, appeals procedure to hearing officer including arbitrator from Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, different procedures for minor suspensions (less than seven days), appeals to Court of Civil Appeals. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?
Title: H.B. 43
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Technology |
Signed into law 05/2004 |
P-12 |
Recognizes and establishing the Alabama Virtual Library as an educational entity for public school students; may receive funds from Education Trust Fund Rainy Day Account. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.B. 393
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Governance |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12,
Postsec.,
Community College |
Relates to the licensing and regulating of certain schools offering courses of instruction; amends specify schools exemptions from licensing requirements; amends specification of the licensing authority of the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education, to increase the maximum required surety for postsecondary proprietary institutions. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: H.B. 196
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Minority/Diversity Issues |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
Postsec. |
Urges the Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security to designate a university-based center for homeland security that responds to national technical manpower shortages of minorities in science and engineering. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: H.J.R. 339
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality |
Signed into law 04/2004 |
P-12 |
Public school teachers authorized to contract with local boards of education to work less than full time under certain conditions, provisions for retired teachers. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: H.B. 544
Source: Alabama LEgislative Web site |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Adopted 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows high schools to confer the High School Diploma on students with disabilities who have failed a subject area test of the Graduation Exam in the area in which they have a disability(s), using alternate requirements for/instead of assessment in conjunction with the attainment of required course credits and all other requirements for graduation. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIIN6/p188.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Allows students with disabilities who fail one portion of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam and meet certain other criteria to receive the Alabama High School Diploma. http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIIN6/p189.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-4-2-.02
Source: Alabama State Web site |
Desegregation |
Signed into law 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Amended S.J.R. 16 (Act 2003-500, 2003 2nd Sp. Sess) that related to the Alabama Interim Brown versus Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission, members increased, authority expanded, dissolution date extended to January 1, 2005. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 32
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
High School |
Emergency Rule Adoption 03/2004 |
P-12 |
Provides emergency regulation to effective change for those eligible for a regular high school diploma in the Spring of 2004. ALABAMA REG 6513 (SN)
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02-.01; -4-2-.02-.01
Source: StateNet |
Desegregation |
Signed into law 09/2003 |
P-12 |
Creates to the Alabama Interim Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp
Title: S.J.R. 16
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Amendment did not pass - bill became law without GOVERNOR'S signature 09/2003 |
P-12 |
Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, establishing the Alabama Excellence Initiative Fund which may be used to fund programs including, but not limited to, the furtherance of excellence in public education, college scholarships, health care benefits for senior citizens and job training programs to attract new high paying jobs and otherwise provide for distributing state tax revenues; to adjust income and property taxes; to establish the General Fund Rainy Day Account; to provide for the replenishment of the General Fund Rainy Day Account and the Education Trust Fund Rainy Day Account. (Proposed by Act No. 2003-78 [H.B. 1])
http://www.sos.state.al.us/election/2003/scae/index.cfm and http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/SESSBillsStatusSelection.asp
Title: Statewide Amendment No. 1 (H.B. 1)
Source: Alabama Secretary of State Web site |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Rule Adoption 09/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the changes including the addition of wording to address THE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2001. Changes the name of the Alternative Fifth-Year Program to the Alternative Class A Program. Modifies relevant forms, and other minor changes for consistency. ALABAMA REG 6255 (SN)
Title: AAC 290-3-2, -3
Source: StateNet |
Special Education |
Emergency Rule Adoption 07/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding the development and implementation of procedures to ensure children with disabilities are provided with a free appropriate public education. ftp://ftp.alsde.edu/documents/65/AOD_NCLB_July_2003.rtf
Title: AAC 290-8-9-.10 (8) (9) ER 74
Source: Alabama State Web site |
Civic Education |
Issued 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Designates the American Village Citizenship Trust Statewide Educational Center and Classroom Laboratory in American History, Civics, and Government, as created by §16-44A-30 as the state's American History and Civics Initiative. Creates and charges the American Village Cornerstone of Liberty Commission to work jointly with the Board of Trustees of The American Village Citizenship Trust:
1. To attain the goal for Alabama to educate and inspire its students in critical academic areas of American history and civics, as a foundation for building good citizens.
2. To help invite and host local, state, regional, and national leaders at national ceremonies to lay the "Cornerstone of Liberty" at the American Village Citizenship Trust.
3. To review and make recommendations to secure state and national private and public support for the Cornerstone of Liberty American History and Civics Initiative of The American Village Citizenship Trust, which has as its goal to educate and inspire 100,000 students on-site annually at the state's American history and civics classroom, and also to reach hundreds of thousands of other students in their own local classrooms through a voluntary classroom outreach program in American history and civics, with the mission to help students know American history, cherish the ideals of liberty, and serve our country as good citizens.
4. To recommend other ways in which Alabama can help respond to the call to action issued by United States President George W. Bush, and to help lead this country in a return to the principles set forth by our Founders, that knowledge of American history and civics is an essential foundation for good citizenship.
http://www.governorpress.alabama.gov/pr/ex-08-2003-06-05.asp
Title: Executive Order 2003-08
Source: http://www.governorpress.alabama.gov |
Desegregation |
Became law without GOVERNOR'S signature. 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution; removes references to segregation of schools by race; repeals section relating to poll taxes. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1026
Title: H.B. 587
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
To establish the Foundation Program funding divisors for the state allocation of teacher units and to express intent that adequate instructional support and classified staff be provided for the public schools, the Department of Youth Services School District and the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004. To also express intent that the Education Trust Fund Appropriations Act be enacted no later than September 30, 2003. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: S.B. 1
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Finance--District |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to public schools; provides for the School Fiscal Management and Responsibility Act; requires the State Superintendent of Education to employ a chief education financial officer to oversee the financial integrity of schools; requires school boards to adopt fiscal management policies and receive certain monthly and annual reports; establishes requirement relating to financial audits of school funds.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: S.B. 24
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Finance--Funding Formulas |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Foundation Program revised: minimum school days increased to 180 days by 2008, allocation for professional days and leave, additional instructional support allowance, average daily membership based on first 20 school days after Labor Day, pupil-teacher ratios for funding, assignment of teachers based on enrollment with waiver provisions; contingent on voter approval of constitutional amendment (HB1). http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: S.B. 4
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to individual and corporate income tax to provide for funding for the public education; distribution of revenue to Education Trust Fund and Alabama Excellence Initiative Fund; contingent on voter approval of constitional amendment (HB1) http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: H.B. 19
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Health |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Provides for the self-administration of asthma medication by students attending public or nonpublic schools upon written parental and medical authorization; provides immunity for school personnel. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1026
Title: H.B. 56
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Leadership |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Amends the Administrator Accountability Act (formerly Teacher Accountability Act), including assistant principals, instruction supervisors, and financial officers; provides for contract employment for term, cancellation for cause provisions during contract, use of mediation for hearings, $5,000 bonus for those with current continuing service status, appeals to Court of Civil Appeals; contingent on voter approval of constitutional amendment (HB1). http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: S.B. 10
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
Postsec. |
Relates to postsecondary and higher education' authorizes the State to pay the tuition of any qualified student pursuing a degree at any public state college, university, or junior college; provides for the administration of the tuition assistance plan by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: H.B. 40
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Instructs the code commissioner to prepare legislation recompiling Title 16 (Education) of the Code of Alabama 1975. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1026
Title: H.J.R. 37
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality--Recruitment and Retention |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Directs the State Board of Education to create a program for payments to teachers who agree to teach in underserved areas or subject matter areas where teacher shortages exist; relates to scholarships to students who agree to be certified in subject matter areas where teacher shortages exist; relates to teach in underserved areas areas where teacher shortages exist; contingent on voter approval of constitutional amendment (HB1). http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: S.B. 7
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Teaching Quality--Tenure or Continuing Contract |
Signed into law 06/2003 |
P-12 |
Relates to the Teacher Tenure Act; streamlines the contest and appeals processes for teachers; clarifies the procedures to be followed when a teacher is suspended; provides that teachers would have contract cancellation, transfer, and suspension contests heard by a hearing officer from the Federal Mediation and conciliation Service; provides for the hearing officer's decision in cancellations and suspensions. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/ACASLogin.asp?SESSION=1027
Title: S.B. 2
Source: Alabama Legislative Web site |
Governance--School Boards |
Rule Adoption 05/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules regarding requirements for local boards of education to have a qualified, highly- trained individual to supervise the financial operations of the local board of education. ALABAMA REG 6101 (SN) http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIN6/p217.htm#T3
Title: AAC 290-2-5
Source: StateNet |
School Safety--No Child Left Behind--Safe Schools |
Adopted 03/2003 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules adding section (e) to the existing rule which will allow notification for schools that have been identified as persistently dangerous. ALABAMA REG 6102 (SN) http://www.alabamaadministrativecode.state.al.us/UpdatedMonthly/VolXXIN6/p218.htm#T1
Title: AAC 290-3-1-.02(l)(e)
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Adopted 11/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the superintendent to initiate discussions and negotiations with the plaintiff parties in Allen v. State Board of Education in order to move as expeditiously as possible toward the implementation of the regulations for the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and toward the development of subject-specific tests for use in the Alabama Prospective Teacher Testing Program. Providing the discussions and negotiations are successful, the state board authorizes the state superintendent to pursue the development of subject-specific tests for use in the implementation of the regulations for the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and for use in the Alabama Prospective Teacher Testing Program.
Source: http://www.alsde.edu/html/boe_resolutions2.asp?id=754 |
Assessment--High Stakes/Competency |
Adopted 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Establishes rules amending the current rule by delaying implementation of the social studies subject- area test of the Alabama High School Graduation Exam by one year. ALABAMA REG 5859 (SN)
Title: AAC 290-4-2-.02
Source: StateNet |
No Child Left Behind--Report Cards |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
"Parents Right to Know" annotated document about NCLB.
http://www.alsde.edu/html/doc_download.asp?id=20029308446§ion=57
Source: Alabama Department of Education Web site |
No Child Left Behind--Supplemental Services |
Active 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Supplemental Education Services RFP; closing date: November 15, 2002. ftp://ftp.alsde.edu/documents/57/Supplemental%20Service%20Provider%20RFP2.doc
Source: Alabama Department of Education Web site |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure |
Adopted 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Repeals and establishes rules implementing the Alabama Prospective Teacher Testing Program. Requires prospective teachers to pass a basic skills test in reading and mathemathics designed to measure whether an applicant for initial teacher certification has a competence in those skills that is sufficient to protect the interest of the public school children of Alabama, effective for persons applying for certification on or after January 1, 2003.
Title: AAC 290-3-2
Source: StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Certification and Licensure--Highly Qualified Teachers |
Passed 10/2002 |
P-12 |
Resolution requires prospective state teachers to be tested in basic math and reading skills. The tests are a precondition for all teachers who apply for certification beginning January 1, 2003. A writing test also is expected to be implemented next spring. Teachers must score at least at Level 4 to pass each section of the test. Currently, there are two components of the test: the Reading for Information Test and the Applied Mathematics Test. Both were developed using the WorkKeys System established by ACT Inc., and validated by Worldwide Interactive Network, for use in Alabama. A writing test is expected in the spring of 2003. ftp://ftp.alsde.edu/documents/55/10-10-02%20Teacher%20Testing.doc
Title: Resolution
Source: |
Assessment |
Adopted 09/2002 |
P-12 |
During the summer of 2003, the state board will review the data on the reading and language subject-area tests of the AHSGE and determine if the passing scores should be revised to a higher level; during the 2002-2003 school year Alabama will administer a new norm-referenced test in Grades 3-8; pilot new kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 reading assessments; pilot a new writing assessment for Grade 10; and during the 2003-2004 school year Alabama will implement a new criterion-referenced test in reading/language arts and mathematics in Grades 4, 6, and 8; implement a new writing assessment in Grade 10; implement new kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 reading assessments; and review the data on the mathematics and science subject-area tests of the AHSGE and determine if the passing scores should be raised to a higher level.
Source: http://www.alsde.edu/html/boe_resolutions2.asp?id=736 |
Adult Basic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
Postsec. |
Transfers adult basic education services from the State Department of Education to the Postsecondary Education Department; provides for the State Board of Education to coordinate the transfer of adult basic education services. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb465.htm
Title: H.B. 465
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
At-Risk (incl. Dropout Prevention)--Drugs/Alcohol |
Act No. 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requests Governor's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Task Force to study and report on the problem of teenage in-vehicle alcohol and drug use. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/resolutions/hjr62.htm
Title: H.J.R. 62
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Attendance |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Extends active duty military protections and rights to members of the National Guard called or ordered by the Governor to State active duty for 30 consecutive days or more for emergencies or federally funded duty, other than training for homeland security; relates to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act; provides for a military leave of absence from educational institutions.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb464.htm
Title: H.B. 464
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Amends the State Child Protection Act; subjects all employees with unsupervised access to children in an education setting to criminal history background information checks; provides for check procedure; allows checks to be performed on current employees, contingent on certain funding requirements.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/sb21.htm
Title: S.B. 21
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund to the Law Institute for the support and maintenance for a program promoting youth in Government; provides that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb162.htm
Title: H.B. 162
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund to the Governor's Commission on Physical Fitness. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb161.htm
Title: H.B. 161
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Curriculum--Mathematics |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to the membership of the Board of Trustees of the state High School of Mathematics and Science; provides that the Assistant State Superintendent of Education in charge of curriculum development, the Chairman of the House Standing Committee on Ways and Means Education, and the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education and named other members may designate a person to serve on the board in his or her stead. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb289.htm
Title: H.B. 289
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Finance--Private Giving |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Changes the application of the Uniform Management of Educational Institutional Funds Act to "institutions" rather than "educational institutions." http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb96.htm
Title: H.B. 96
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama; levies additional taxes, either an additional ad valorem tax or an additional ad valorem tax and an additional sales and use tax, in Barbour County for public schools or for the county general fund, or both; provides for a referendum to provide choices of the tax or taxes to be levied.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb645.htm
Title: H.B. 645
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
P-3 |
Act No. 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund to the East Alabama Regional Planning and Development Commission for the East Alabama Child Development Center in Anniston for the support and maintenance for a program of child care, educational, health and nutritional services for pre-school children in 14 east central Alabama counties; provides that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb152.htm
Title: H.B. 152
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Postsecondary Affordability--Financial Aid |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund to the Alabama Sports Festival in Montgomery, Alabama for the support and maintenance of a program providing academic scholarships and promoting Olympic-style competition; provides that the appropriation if subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975; requires an operations plan and an audited financial statement prior to the release of funds. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb146.htm
Title: H.B. 146
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Scheduling/School Calendar |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Requires K-12 public schools and public 2-year postsecondary institutions to be closed on Memorial Day. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb24.htm
Title: H.B. 24
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relating to the salaries of public education employees, to provide for a revision of the State Minimum Salary Schedule and to reflect pay increases of three percent beginning with the fiscal year 2002-2003; to provide that each certificated employee of certain boards of education shall receive the pay increase according to placement on the appropriate salary step and in addition to the salary earned during the previous year; to require the appropriate increases on the State Minimum Salary Schedule; to provide support employees with a three percent cost-of-living adjustment; to provide the employees of other public educational institutions and schools with a three percent cost-of-living adjustment; to provide for an across-the-board salary increase of all two-year postsecondary salary schedules, and to establish other requirements on the two-year postsecondary salary schedules; to establish definitions; to establish miscellaneous pay provisions; to require appropriations in the annual budget act to meet the re
quirements of this act; and, in connection therewith, would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb340.htm
Title: H.B. 340
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund, Impaired Drivers Trust Fund and Federal and Local Funds to the Department of Rehabilitation Services. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb154.htm http://www.rehab.state.al.us/overview.html
Title: H.B. 154
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Special Education |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Appropriates a certain amount from the Education Trust Fund to the State Board of Education for the support and maintenance of special programs, schools, and services for special education; provides that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975; requires an operations plan and an audited financial prior to the release of funds. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb145.htm
Title: H.B. 145
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Student Supports--Mentoring/Tutoring |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Appropriates specified funds from the Education Trust Fund to the State Department of Education for the support and maintenance for a tutorial program for the fiscal year; provides that the appropriation is subject to certain provisions of the Code of Alabama 1975; requires an operations plan and an audited financial statement prior to the release of funds. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb143.htm
Title: H.B. 143
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Teaching Quality |
Pocket Veto by GOVERNOR. 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Relates to certain public school teachers; provides for authority to contract with a local board of education to work less than full-time so long as their salaries reflect employment for less than a full day; provides that if such teacher is receiving benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System, the teacher shall conform to the criteria and prescribed limits for outside income. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb605.htm
Title: H.B. 605
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides for a cost-of-living adjustment for certain retirees and beneficiaries of the Employees' Retirement System and the Teachers' Retirement System.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb227.htm
Title: H.B. 227
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Allows purchase of credit towards teacher's retirement system in the State for those persons who were full-time employees of the Southeastern Educational Laboratory Program between September 1, 1967, and March 31, 1969. Sets deadline for purchase of such credit. http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb12.htm
Title: H.B. 12
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay--Retirement/Benefits |
Signed into law 04/2002 |
P-12 |
Reopens the Teachers' Retirement System for purchase of certain prior service credit in the system by active and contributing members who were either on approved medical leave, or employed full-time with the Legislature, or employed full-time with a subsidiary organization of an employer which has participated in the system since its inception.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb169.htm
Title: H.B. 169
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Adult Basic Education |
Act No. 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes Public School and College Authority to sell and issue aggregate principal amount of Bonds, in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the Authority; provides funds to pay the cost of workforce development, education and training and the acquisition and construction of training facilities and equipment for the benefit of companies that engage in the business of manufacturing or assembling certain vehicles.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/sb517.htm
Title: S.B. 517
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the governing body of the City of Cullman to increase the rate at which there is levied and collected by the city, on all taxable property situated within Cullman, the special ad valorem tax for the support and furtherance of education.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb440.htm
Title: H.B. 440
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/ |
Religion |
Signed into law 03/2002 |
P-12 |
Urges the State Superintendent of Education and State Board of Education to encourage principals and teachers in public schools to display the national motto, "In God We Trust". http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/resolutions/sjr86.htm
Title: S.J.R. 86
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the governing body of the City of Athens to increase the rate at which there is levied and collected, on all taxable property situated, the ad valorem tax, to a maximum rate, for any tax year of the City; increases the amount to be used for public schools. purposes.http://alisdb.legislature.state.al.us/acas/searchableinstruments/2002rs/bills/hb339.htm
Title: H.B. 339
Source: alisdb.legislature.state.al.us |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 02/2002 |
P-12 |
Divides the state into State Board of Education districts; specifies such districts based upon the 2000 federal census.
Title: S.B. 187
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 01/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides for the election and operation of the Birmingham City Board of Education; provides for the election of the initial members of the board on a certain date.
Title: H.B. 135
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 01/2002 |
P-12 |
Provides for a deferred retirement option plan for active and contributing members of the Teachers' Retirement System and the Employees' Retirement System.
Title: S.B. 82
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
To governor 12/2001 |
P-12 |
Reduces state appropriations from the Education Trust Fund by by 3.85 percent for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002.
Title: S.B. 30D
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Bilingual/ESL |
Signed into law 09/2001 |
P-12 |
Urges to State Board of Education to to provide funding that is sufficient to provide an adequate number of English as a second language teachers.
Title: H.J.R. 44C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 09/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to urging the Boards of Education to incorporate patriotic education as part of the daily Pledge of Allegiance.
Title: H.J.R. 152C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance |
Signed into law 09/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to Alabama Public School and College Authority bonds; provides that local boards of education may use bond proceeds for the purchase and repair of equipment and building and other capital outlay projects and for the retirement of indebtedness, and to change the redemption option to ten years.
Title: H.B. 6C
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue eighty-two million dollars aggregate principal amount of bonds, in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the authority.
Title: S.B. 626
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--State Budgets/Expenditures |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Appropriates for the support, maintenance and development of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002.
See the attached budget below.
Title: H.B. 307
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to local superintendent of education, newly elected or appointed, required to complete financial and legal training program; relates to committee establishment to develop and implement.
Title: S.B. 93
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
Establishes the Higher Education Governance Joint Interim Legislative Committee to study and produce innovative recommendations and action initiatives for improving the governance of higher education in the state.
Title: S.J.R. 134
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Affordability--Tuition/Fees--Prepd/College Savings Plans |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
Postsec. |
Provides for the Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program by redefining certain words and terms; provides prepaid tuition contracts under the program and additional duties of the board; creates and establishes the Alabama College Savings Investment (ACES) Plan; creates the ACES Program, to provide for contracts and savings agreements under the ACES Program; provides for the general administration of the ACES Program; provides for a fiduciary trust fund.
Title: S.B. 302
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Religion |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to school athletic events and graduation ceremonies; provides a brief period of quiet reflection required at the opening of school athletic events and graduation ceremonies; deletes language stating that provisions relating to the period of quiet reflection shall not prevent student initiated voluntary school prayer at school or school related events that are nonsectarian and nonproselytizing in attitude.
Title: H.B. 200
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Relates to educational employees and certain other employees; provides for accumulation of unlimited days of sick leave; amends various sections.
Title: S.B. 91
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Equitable Access |
Signed into law 05/2001 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Digital Divide Coalition Study Committee. This committee will attempt to place more computers in Alabama classrooms.
Title: H.J.R. 217
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology--Teacher/Faculty Training |
To governor 05/2001 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to teacher education programs; requires instruction and proficiency in the use of computers and other instructional technology in all teacher education programs beginning with the junior class of 2003; requires the State Board of Education to identify appropriate benchmarks concerning the use of technology by public school students.
Title: S.B. 212
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Levies a special ad valorem tax for public school purposes at the rate of 12 mills on each one dollar on the value of property in Mobile County; provides for certain exemptions.
Title: S.B. 363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 04/2001 |
P-12 |
Relating to the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County; establishing the Lewis Spratt Act; providing for the election and operation of the board of education for the City of Birmingham; providing that the members of the board shall be elected from defined districts; providing for the selection of a chair and vice chair; providing for the terms of office, qualifications, and compensation of the members; prescribing procedures for electing the members and for filling vacancies on the board; and providing certain transitional provisions.
Title: S.B. 3
Source: From the Legislation |
Health |
Signed into law 03/2001 |
P-12 |
Prohibits the location of a petroleum product tank farm within one and one-half miles of any existing school; provides for the site to be approved by resolution of the local governing body.
Title: H.B. 363
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Lotteries |
Approved by voters 11/2000 |
P-12 |
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER 11 (ACT NO. 2000-401) Amends the State Constitution; legalizes the operation of bingo games for prizes or money for charitable or educational purposes in the Town of White Hall in Lowndes County.
Title: V. 13
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Approved by voters 11/2000 |
P-12 |
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER 4 (ACT NO. 2000-242) Amends the State Constitution; repeals the provision that no district school ad valorem tax shall be voted upon or collected except in those counties that are levying and collecting a special countywide ad valorem tax.
Title: V. 6
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Approved by voters 11/2000 |
Postsec. |
AMENDMENT NUMBER 5 (ACT NO. 2000-590) Amends the State Constitution; provides that Board of Trustees of Auburn University consist of 1 member from each Congressional district in the state, 1 member from Lee County, current State Superintendent of Education, 2 at-large members, plus 3rd at-large member upon current Superintendent of Education vacating office, and Governor; provides for appointment, terms of office, and submittal and confirmation by Senate.
Title: V. 7
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Approved by voters 06/2000 |
P-12 |
(PROPOSED AMENDMENT NUMBER 1) Amends the Constitution of Alabama to require the election of city boards of education in any municipality with a population exceeding 125,000, provides by local law for the creation of such elected city boards of education.
Title: V. 2
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Accountability--Rewards |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Establishes the Governor's Academic Achievement Program; provides financial rewards to public schools and local boards of education that improve their academic status.
Title: S.B. 122
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to the assessment of student achievement in the public schools; removes the requirement that the board implement a nationally normed test in specified grades; requires that the board implement an assessment program in specified grades and assessment and remediation program in specified grades to prepare for the graduation examination.
Title: S.B. 551
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Assessment |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to Stanford Achievement Tests (SAT) given to students in public schools as required by the State Department of Education; provides for tutoring services for reading and other subjects in which a student scores or is assessed at a below average range.
Title: S.B. 169
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. |
Relates to campus police departments of colleges or universities in this State which offers medical, nursing, or health care education, or which operate a hospital facility, including the University of Alabama in Birmingham and the University of South Alabama, to authorize such police departments to request criminal background checks for prospective employees of the college or university and to charge each prospective employee a background check fee.
Title: H.B. 485
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Civic Education |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Joint Legislative Committee on Civic Education; designates Alabama's Legislators Back to School Day.
Title: S.J.R. 100
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Authorizes a class 6 city, with respect to commercial property, for a period of up to 15 years, to abate all or any part of the portion of municipal ad valorem taxes in excess of 20 mills allocated for educational purposes.
Title: H.B. 494
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Leadership |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides for the Teacher Accountability Act; provides for performance-based contracts for principals; provides for alternative principal certification procedures; provides hearing procedures to challenge employment action taken against a principal; establishes linkage with the Teachers' National Average Salary Bill; relates to the Teacher Tenure Law; provides for the appeal of transfers of teachers; adds failure to perform duties to grounds for termination.,
Title: H.B. 285
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Office of School Readiness within the Department of Children's Affairs; provides for the operation and management of a voluntary pre-kindergarten program.
Title: S.B. 132
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary |
Vetoed 05/2000 |
Postsec. |
Exempts from competitive bidding the renewal of all existing contracts that do not involve the expenditure of State funds and that are made for the selection of service contractors by or on behalf of public two-year and four-year colleges and universities of the state.
Title: S.B. 478
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Postsecondary Institutions--Community/Technical Colleges |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
Postsec. |
Relates to viability and non-viability of programs of instruction as reviewed by the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; provides that students completing certain programs of instruction in two-year technical and vocational colleges shall be deemed graduates for the purposes of determining viability standards of the program.
Title: S.B. 356
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides an equivalent percent cost-of-living adjustment for certain public education employees with the beginning of the 2000-2001 fiscal year; requires a revision of the state salary matrix for certificated personnel; requires revisions of local salary schedules to reflect the cost-of-living adjustments for the 2000-2001 fiscal year.
Title: H.B. 202
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
School/District Structure/Operations--Transportation |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Requires that all new school buses be equipped with crossing control arms; requires a new or increased expenditure of local funds.
Title: H.B. 701
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Provides further for the conditions under which a person retired under the Teachers' Retirement System or the Employees' Retirement System may be employed by an employer participating in either of the systems without having his or her retirement allowance suspended.
Title: S.B. 485
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Teaching Quality--Compensation and Diversified Pay |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
To appropriate for the fiscal year beginning 10/1/2001, and for each fiscal year thereafter 41.15% of any increase in Education Trust Fund revenues from the previous fiscal year as estimated by the Director Of Finance and approved by the Governor for teacher salary increases until such time the national average for teachers' salaries is reached as determined by the Director of Finance and approved by the Governor.
Title: H.B. 204
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Technology |
Signed into law 05/2000 |
P-12 |
Creates the Office of Information Technology as a department of the executive branch of government; provides for the administration of such programs and services as may be necessary for the operation and management of a program specifically providing the children of Alabama citizens with technology in the public schools and public institutions of higher eduction.
Title: S.B. 358
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Background Checks |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12,
Postsec. |
Relates to the Child Protection Act of 1999; relates to criminal background checks; removes from the definition of a Local Employing Board all 2-year schools under the auspices of the State Board of Education and all 4-year institutions from the State.
Title: H.B. 132
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Curriculum |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Allows driver's education teacher to administer the written, vision, oral, or driving portion of the examination.
Title: S.B. 241
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Finance--Taxes/Revenues |
Signed into law 04/2000 |
P-12 |
Proposes an amendment to the Constitution; repeals the provision that no school district district ad valorem tax shall be voted upon or collected except in those counties that are levying and collecting a special countywide ad valorem tax.
Title: H.B. 123
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
Governance--School Boards |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Under existing law, city and county school board members are authorized to receive reasonable compensation for their services not to exceed a specified amount per month; permits city and county school boards to increase the maximum compensation not to exceed a specified amount per month upon approval of a majority vote of the members at the boards annual meeting.
Title: S.B. 209
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
P-3 |
Signed into law 03/2000 |
P-12 |
Relates to preschool programs; requires preschools receiving funding under the early childhood block grant program to become accredited.
Title: H.J.R. 96
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |
State Policymaking |
Signed into law 02/2000 |
P-12 |
Pertains to the Governor's Commission on Instructional Improvement and Academic Excellence in Alabama's Public Schools; extends the Commission through end of 1999-2003 quadrennium, duties, members, progress reports, expenses.
Title: S.J.R. 4
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet |