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SB206
GRSS626-1
By Senators Jones, Butler, Allen, Givhan, Livingston, Melson,
Sessions, Carnley, Bell, Kelley, Shelnutt, Kitchens, Stutts,
Elliott, Roberts, Waggoner, Gudger, Williams, Price, Chesteen,
Orr, Stewart, Coleman, Beasley
RFD: Veterans and Military Affairs
First Read: 06-Mar-24
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8 GRSS626-1 02/20/2024 ZAK (L)cr 2024-765
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First Read: 06-Mar-24
SYNOPSIS:
This bill would prohibit public K-12 schools
from taking certain actions in regard to a dependent
child of an active duty military parent.
This bill would also prohibit public K-12
schools from membership in an athletic association that
takes these same actions.
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.
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facilities.
(b)(1) No public K-12 school may deny, nor be a member
of an athletic association that denies, 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 or the school attendance zone in which the new school
is located.
(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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