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HB251
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By Representatives Robertson, Paschal, Hassell, Oliver, Wood
(R), Sellers, Shaw, Crawford, Whitt, Starnes, Brown, Jones,
Jackson, Carns, Hill, Rehm, Smith, Rafferty
RFD: Education Policy
First Read: 27-Feb-24
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First Read: 27-Feb-24
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to public K-12 schools; to prohibit public
K-12 schools from taking certain actions regarding dependent
children of active duty military parents; and to prohibit
public K-12 schools from membership in athletic associations
that take these same actions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) For the purposes of this section, the
term "athletic association" means any athletic organization
operating in this state that has authority over its member
institutions' athletic programs, that receives public funds in
any form, and whose member institutions make use of public
facilities.
(b)(1) No public K-12 school may deny a dependent child
of a full-time active duty military parent immediate
eligibility to participate in an interscholastic athletic
contest on the basis of the child enrolling in a new school
due to the child and his or her parent making a bona fide move
pursuant to permanent change of station orders received by the
parent, regardless of the date upon which the child enrolls in
the new school within the school attendance zone of the bona
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the new school within the school attendance zone of the bona
fide move.
(2) A public K-12 school and an athletic association
may require a parent to provide his or her permanent change of
station orders to substantiate a bona fide move that
necessitates a child's enrollment in a new school.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2024.
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1, 2024.
House of Representatives
Read for the first time and referred
to the House of Representatives
committee on Education Policy
................27-Feb-24
Read for the second time and placed
on the calendar:
1 amendment
................04-Apr-24
Read for the third time and passed
as amended
Yeas 103
Nays 0
Abstains 0
................11-Apr-24
John Treadwell
Clerk
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