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SB296
RFSHYNY-1
By Senator Smitherman
RFD: Education Policy
First Read: 04-Apr-24
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5 RFSHYNY-1 04/03/2024 GP (L)lg 2024-1381
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First Read: 04-Apr-24
SYNOPSIS:
This bill would provide that in a Class 1
municipality, a student who transfers from one public
K-12 school to another shall be enrolled in classes and
may participate in activities, including athletic
activities, in the same manner as all other students.
This bill would also prohibit public K-12
schools in a Class 1 municipality from denying, or from
being a member of any athletic association that denies,
a student's participation in an athletic activity based
on when he or she transferred to that school.
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to Class 1 municipalities; to require students
who transfer from one public school in a Class 1 municipality
to another to be enrolled in classes and eligible for
participation in activities in the same manner as all other
students; and to provide prohibitions relating to the denial
of transfer student participation in athletic events.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) This section shall only apply to Class 1
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Section 1. (a) This section shall only apply to Class 1
municipalities.
(b) For the purposes of this section, the following
terms have the following meanings:
(1) ATHLETIC ACTIVITY. The same meaning as Section
16-30D-2, Code of Alabama 1975.
(2) SCHOOL. A public K-12 school in a Class 1
municipality.
(c)(1) Beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, any
student who transfers from one school to another school shall
be enrolled in classes and may participate in activities,
including athletic activities, at the school to which he or
she transferred in the same manner as all other students
enrolled at that school.
(2) No public K-12 school may deny, nor be a member of
an athletic association that denies, student participation in
or eligibility for an athletic activity at the school where
the student is enrolled based on the date in which he or she
transferred to or enrolled in that school.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2024.
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