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Senate Education Policy Committee

Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Senate Education Policy Committee Bills & Legislation

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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB102

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/13/25  
Refer
2/13/25  
Report Pass
2/19/25  
Enrolled
3/6/25  
Passed
4/2/25  
Dual enrollment programs, all local education agencies required to allow student participation in programs offered by two-year and four-year colleges and universities
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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School buses, law requiring the transportation of community college and trade school students on, repealed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 Senate Bill SB257

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Alabama Educational Television Foundation Authority, authorized to secure additional funds
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB459

Introduced
3/19/25  
Refer
3/19/25  
Report Pass
4/2/25  
Refer
4/9/25  
University of South Alabama; membership of Board of Trustees revised, meetings of the board further provided for
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB56

Introduced
3/7/23  
Refer
3/7/23  
Report Pass
3/21/23  
Report Pass
3/21/23  
Engrossed
4/4/23  
Refer
4/4/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Enrolled
6/1/23  
Relating to public K-12 schools; to add Section 16-39-13 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to require local boards of education to install, maintain, and operate video cameras in certain self-contained classrooms providing special education services, if the funding to do so is available; and to provide protections for the use of video recordings.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB109

Introduced
3/7/23  
Refer
3/7/23  
Report Pass
3/22/23  
Report Pass
3/22/23  
Engrossed
4/6/23  
Refer
4/6/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Enrolled
5/26/23  
Relating to credentials and the workforce; to create the Alabama Credential Quality and Transparency Act as a new Division 9, commencing with Section 41-29-350, Article 3, Chapter 29, Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; to create the Alabama Terminal on Linking and Analyzing Statistics on Career Pathways Act as a new Division 10, commencing with Section 41-29-360, Article 3, Chapter 29, Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; and to establish the Alabama College and Career Readiness Act by adding Section 41-29-298 to the Code of Alabama 1975; to provide for the creation of a free, searchable public online registry of educational and occupational credentials; to restrict the release of personally identifiable information; to provide procedures for handling data breaches; to establish a statewide definition of college and career readiness; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Section 111.05 of the Constitution of Alabama of 2022.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB110

Introduced
3/21/23  
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 SB52

Introduced
3/7/23  
Refer
3/7/23  
Report Pass
3/21/23  
Report Pass
3/21/23  
Engrossed
4/4/23  
Refer
4/4/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Enrolled
4/25/23  
Relating to the Alabama Safe at Schools Act; to add Section 16-30A-3.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975 and to amend Sections 16-30A-5 and 16-30A-7, Code of Alabama 1975; to include adrenal insufficiency as a condition for which the State Board of Education is required to develop guidelines to train school employees under the act; to authorize certain school employees to administer injectable medications to students with an adrenal insufficiency; and to require local boards of education to ensure that students with an adrenal insufficiency have their medical needs met and are not excluded from certain activities.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB46

Introduced
3/7/23  
Refer
3/7/23  
Report Pass
3/21/23  
Report Pass
3/21/23  
Engrossed
4/6/23  
Refer
4/6/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Report Pass
4/19/23  
Enrolled
5/16/23  
Relating to the mobility of P-12 teachers; to provide and adopt the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact to allow licensed teachers to practice among compact states in a limited manner; to provide eligibility requirements for licensed teachers to teach pursuant to the compact; to provide for a coordinated licensure information system, joint investigations, and disciplinary actions; to establish the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact Commission, and provide for membership, powers, duties, and rulemaking functions of the commission; and to provide for oversight of the compact, enforcement of the compact, default procedures, dispute resolution, withdrawal of compact states, and amendments to the compact.
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB30

Introduced
2/23/23  
Refer
2/23/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Report Pass
4/12/23  
Engrossed
4/19/23  
Refer
4/19/23  
Report Pass
5/10/23  
To amend Sections 16-6C-2, as amended by Act 2022-374, 2022 Regular Session, 16-6D-3, 16-6D-4, 16-6D-6, 16-6D-8, and 16-6D-9, as amended by Act 2022-390, 2022 Regular Session, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the public K-12 school grading system and the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to change the designation of a failing school to a lowest sixth percent school and the designation of a nonfailing school to a highest 94th percent school; and to require the State Board of Education to reflect those changes in terminology when amending or adopting rules.
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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 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 2022 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB291

Introduced
3/2/22  
Education, Alabama Community College System, workforce reform, requires certain reporting, provides further for duties of board of trustees, Secs. 16-60-111, 16-60-111.4 am'd.
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Alabama 2022 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB442

Introduced
3/3/22  
Refer
3/3/22  
Engrossed
3/30/22  
Education, public K-12 schools, school sports, requires public K-12 schools and local boards of education to accept certain forms of payments for admission to school sporting events