Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Senate Education Policy Committee Bills & Legislation

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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB171

Introduced
2/2/22  
Refer
2/2/22  
Refer
2/9/22  
Engrossed
3/2/22  
Refer
3/3/22  
Enrolled
3/30/22  
Chaptered
3/30/22  
Alabama Numeracy Act, established for K-5 public school students, Elementary Mathematics Task force and Postsecondary Mathematics Task Forces created, Office of Mathematics Improvement created, use of assessments, intervention services, summer programs, and mathematics coaches provided, use of Common Core State Standards in K-12 schools terminated and prohibited
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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB170

Introduced
2/2/22  
Refer
2/2/22  
Engrossed
2/10/22  
Refer
2/10/22  
Enrolled
4/6/22  
Chaptered
4/6/22  
Education, school grading system, certain English language learners exempt from proficiency assessments considered in grading public K-12 schools, State Superintendent of Education to amend state plan under Every Student Succeeds Act, Sec. 16-6C-2 am'd.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB261

Introduced
4/5/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Engrossed
4/19/23  
Refer
4/19/23  
Report Pass
4/26/23  
Report Pass
4/26/23  
Enrolled
5/25/23  
Relating to two-year and four-year public institutions of higher education; to amend Section 16-1-52, Code of Alabama 1975, to prohibit a biological male from participating on an athletic team or sport designated for females; to prohibit a biological female from participating on an athletic team or sport designated for males; to prohibit adverse action against a public K-12 school or public two-year or four-year institution of higher education for complying with this act; to prohibit adverse action or retaliation against a student who reports a violation of this act; and to provide a remedy for any student who suffers harm or is directy deprived of an athletic opportunity as a result of a violation of this act.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB180

Introduced
4/5/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Relating to public K-12 education; to amend Section 16-6B-2, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for the teaching of history in a fact-based and inclusive manner.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB181

Introduced
4/5/23  
Refer
4/5/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Relating to K-12 public education; to amend Section 16-1-14, Code of Alabama 1975; to provide legislative findings; to provide a uniform system of procedural due process protections for students facing suspension or expulsion for violating the student code of conduct or state law; and to require the State Board of Education to adopt rules to implement this act.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB202

Introduced
4/11/23  
Refer
4/11/23  
Report Pass
5/2/23  
Refer
5/2/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
Relating to education; to establish the Parental Rights in Children's Education (PRICE) Act relating to K-12 education; to secure the fundamental constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children; to create the PRICE Program; to establish a three-year phase-in period; to provide definitions; to establish the roles and responsibilities of the Parent Advisory Board, the Commissioner of Revenue, and the Department of Revenue; to create a process for granting education savings accounts; to establish funding mechanisms for the costs of education savings accounts and the administration of the program; to specify qualified expenses; to create requirements for education service providers; to establish an auditing, denial, and appeal mechanism for expenses, parents, participating students, and education service providers; to provide safeguards against any additional state control over or interference with nonpublic schools, their students, and their families; and to provide for legal remedies.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB342

Introduced
4/18/23  
Refer
4/18/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
Relating to alternative teacher preparation programs and teacher certification; to amend Section 2 of Act 2022-239, 2022 Regular Session, now appearing as Section 16-23-3.1, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide additional requirements for programs.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB363

Introduced
4/20/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Report Pass
5/3/23  
Engrossed
5/16/23  
Refer
5/16/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
Relating to the Alabama School Choice and Student Opportunity Act; to amend Sections 16-6F-5, 16-6F-6, and 16-6F-10, Code of Alabama 1975, to change the appointment process for the Alabama Public Charter School Commission; to authorize the commission to hire staff; to require commissioners to receive annual training; to provide additional guidelines for the authorizing and application review process; to provide further for the operational and categorical funding of public charter schools in their first year of operation; and to clarify the per pupil federal, state, and local funding of conversion public charter schools during their first year of operation.
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB447

Introduced
3/18/25  
Refer
3/18/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Engrossed
4/15/25  
Refer
4/17/25  
School buses, law requiring the transportation of community college and trade school students on, repealed
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB179

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Campus chaplains; public K-12 schools authorized to hire or accept as volunteers, local boards of education and governing bodies authorized to vote on whether to allow, limitations provided
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB133

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Juvenile court, required to provide written notification to local superintendent or principal of private K-12 school if student charged with or adjudicated delinquent for certain serious crimes; authorized to provide written notice of charges for or adjudication of delinquency for lesser crimes
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB234

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/19/25  
Engrossed
3/20/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Public K-12 schools; mobile emergency rapid response systems required, State Board of Education required to adopt rules, funding sources provided for
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB232

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
3/5/25  
Engrossed
3/18/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Juvenile court, required to provide written notification to local superintendent or principal of private K-12 school if student charged with or adjudicated delinquent for certain serious crimes; authorized to provide written notice of charges for or adjudication of delinquency for lesser crimes
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB140

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/19/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Report Pass
3/19/25  
Enrolled
5/1/25  
Passed
5/12/25  
Coach Safely Act; procedures and penalties for noncompliant youth athletic associations, provided
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB33

Introduced
2/6/24  
Introduced
2/6/24  
Report Pass
2/7/24  
Refer
2/6/24  
Engrossed
3/21/24  
Report Pass
2/7/24  
Engrossed
3/21/24  
Report Pass
4/25/24  
Refer
3/21/24  
Enrolled
5/9/24  
Report Pass
4/25/24  
Passed
5/17/24  
Enrolled
5/9/24  
Passed
5/17/24  
Public K-12 education, employment of assistant superintendents, assistant chief school finance officers, and assistant principals by contract provided for local boards of education