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HB61
NRRZA8T-2
By Representative DuBose
RFD: Ways and Means Education
First Read: 04-Feb-25
PFD: 07-Nov-24
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PFD: 07-Nov-24
A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
Relating to public K-12 education; to authorize home
school students to participate in certain career and technical
education programs at K-12 public schools; to provide
exemptions for full-time career and technical education
schools; and to require the State Board of Education and local
boards of education to adopt appropriate rules and policies.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) For the purposes of this section, the
following terms have the following meanings:
(1) CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION or CTE. An area of
study that blends academic, occupational, and life skills
leading to a credential, employment, or further education.
(2) HOME SCHOOL STUDENT. A student who is instructed by
a private tutor pursuant to Section 16-28-5, Code of Alabama
1975, or who is taught at home and is enrolled in a private
school or a church school as defined in Section 16-28-1, Code
of Alabama 1975.
(3) STATE BOARD. The State Board of Education.
(b) Beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, a home
school student may participate in any career and technical
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school student may participate in any career and technical
education program offered by a public school, provided that:
(1) The home school student enrolls as a nontraditional
public school student; and
(2) The home school student pays any course fees in an
amount equal to the fee charged to an enrolled public school
student.
(c) In the event that a CTE program has limited
enrollment capacity, a home school student who wishes to
enroll in the CTE program shall be considered for enrollment
after current public school students are enrolled.
(d)(1) The state board shall adopt rules to implement
and administer this section.
(2) Each local board of education shall adopt a policy
reflecting the requirements of this section and rules adopted
by the state board.
(e) This act does not require any full-time,
stand-alone career and technical education school to allow
home school students to participate in its career and
technical education programs. However, any full-time,
stand-alone career and technical education school may choose
to allow home school students to participate in its career and
technical education programs pursuant to this section.
Section 2. This act shall become effective on October
1, 2025.
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1, 2025.
House of Representatives
Read for the first time and referred
to the House of Representatives
committee on Ways and Means
Education
................04-Feb-25
Read for the second time and placed
on the calendar:
1 amendment
................05-Mar-25
Read for the third time and passed
as amended
Yeas 99
Nays 1
Abstains 2
................08-Apr-25
John Treadwell
Clerk
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