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HB244
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By Representatives Butler, Stadthagen, Yarbrough, Robertson,
Harrison, Whorton, Rehm, Wood (D), DuBose, Shaver, Standridge,
Shedd, Gidley, Lamb, Shaw, Paschal, Lipscomb, Kiel
RFD: Education Policy
First Read: 11-Feb-25
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First Read: 11-Feb-25
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to education; to amend Section 16-40A-5, Code
of Alabama 1975; to prohibit classroom instruction in public
school prekindergarten through the twelfth grade related to
gender identity or sexual orientation; to prohibit education
employees from displaying certain flags and insignia in public
preK-12 schools; and to prohibit education employees from
referring to a student by pronouns inconsistent with the
student's biological sex.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. Section 16-40A-5, Code of Alabama 1975, is
amended to read as follows:
"ยง16-40A-5
(a) An individual or group of individuals providing
classroom instruction to students in kindergarten
prekindergarten through the fifthtwelfth grade at a public
K-12 preK-12 school shall not engage in classroom discussion
or provide classroom instruction regarding sexual orientation
or gender identity in a manner that is not age appropriate or
developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with
state standards.
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state standards.
(b) No teacher, or other public preK-12 employee, may
display a flag or other insignia relating to or representing
sexual orientation or gender identity in a classroom of a
public preK-12 school.
(b)(c) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules
for the implementation and enforcement of this section."
Section 2. This act shall become effective on July 1,
2025.
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2025.
House of Representatives
Read for the first time and referred
to the House of Representatives
committee on Education Policy
................11-Feb-25
Read for the second time and placed
on the calendar:
1 amendment
................09-Apr-25
Read for the third time and passed
as amended
Yeas 74
Nays 15
Abstains 7
................17-Apr-25
John Treadwell
Clerk
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