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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 Senate Bill SB229

Introduced
3/6/25  
Religious instruction, elective credit for release time further provided for
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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School buses, law requiring the transportation of community college and trade school students on, repealed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 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB284

Introduced
4/4/24  
Introduced
4/4/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Refer
4/4/24  
Public K-12 education, fentanyl prevention and drug poisoning awareness required in grades 6 through 12.
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB294

Introduced
4/4/24  
Introduced
4/4/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Refer
4/4/24  
Refer
4/16/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
4/16/24  
Public preK-12 schools, campus chaplains, public schools authorized to hire or accept as volunteers, local boards of education and governing bodies required to vote on whether to allow, limitations provided
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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 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB296

Introduced
4/4/24  
Introduced
4/4/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Refer
4/4/24  
Refer
4/23/24  
Report Pass
4/10/24  
Class 1 municipalities, public K-12 schools in prohibited from denying participation in athletics based on student's transfer status
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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 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB311

Introduced
4/9/24  
Introduced
4/9/24  
Report Pass
4/17/24  
Refer
4/9/24  
Public K-12 schools; nonpublic school transfer students excluded from certain assessments determining school or school district grade.
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB439

Introduced
4/9/24  
Introduced
4/9/24  
Report Pass
4/17/24  
Refer
4/9/24  
Refer
4/30/24  
Report Pass
4/17/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Refer
4/30/24  
Enrolled
5/9/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Passed
5/20/24  
Enrolled
5/9/24  
Passed
5/20/24  
Public K-12 education, employment, qualifications, and training of technology directors
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB277

Introduced
4/1/25  
Refer
4/1/25  
Public K-12 schools, sex education curriculum further provided for, sexual risk avoidance established as sex ed curriculum, policies of local boards of education related to sex ed further provided for, parent or guardian notice of sex ed curriculum required, Attorney General authorized to enforce
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Alabama 2023 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB43

Introduced
2/23/23  
Refer
2/23/23  
Report Pass
4/5/23  
Report Pass
4/5/23  
Engrossed
4/19/23  
Refer
4/19/23  
Report Pass
5/24/23  
To amend Section 16-28-4, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the minimum age for attendance at public schools; to require a child to complete kindergarten or demonstrate first grade readiness before entering the first grade; to provide for circumstances under which a child who is under five years of age on September 1 may be admitted to public kindergarten; to provide for circumstances under which a child who is under six years of age on December 31 may be admitted to public school first grade; 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 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 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB349

Introduced
4/30/24  
Introduced
4/30/24  
Teacher certification; American History and Civics Initiative, created within the Department of Education; online course of study and endorsement for high school teachers, provided for; one-time stipend, provided for; State Board of Education, required to adopt rules
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Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Bill HB178

Introduced
2/5/25  
Refer
2/5/25  
Report Pass
4/9/25  
Engrossed
4/17/25  
Ten Commandments; required to be displayed in the common area of public K-12 schools
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Alabama 2024 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Bill SB98

Introduced
2/14/24  
Introduced
2/14/24  
Report Pass
2/21/24  
Refer
2/14/24  
Refer
4/3/24  
Report Pass
2/21/24  
Refer
4/3/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Engrossed
4/3/24  
Enrolled
5/8/24  
Report Pass
5/1/24  
Passed
5/17/24  
Enrolled
5/8/24  
Passed
5/17/24  
Public K-12 school security; School Security Program, established to require school security inspections and grading; School Security and Fire Safety Fund, established to provide grants; School Mapping Data Program, established to provide criteria for school maps; Department of Education and ALEA, authorized to adopt rules