HB387 By Representative Henry RFD State Government Rd 1 10-MAR-16

SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, no person who has been an employee of the State Board of Education or who has been employed as a professional educator within five years before election is eligible to serve as a member of the board.

This bill would remove those prohibitions.

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT

To amend Section 16-3-3, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the qualifications for serving as a member of the State Board of Education; to remove prohibitions against employment by the board and employment as a professional educator within five years before election.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 16-3-3 of the Code of Alabama 1975, is amended to read as follows:

§16-3-3.

"The members of the board shall be qualified electors of the State of Alabama, and each member shall be a qualified elector in the district which he or she represents. No person who is an employee of the board or who is or has been engaged as a professional educator within five years next preceding the date of the election shall be eligible for membership on the board. For the purposes of this section the term "professional educator" shall include teacher, supervisor or principal of any public or private school; instructor, professor or president of any public or private university, college or junior college or trade school; any state, county or city superintendent of education; or other person engaged in an administrative capacity in the field of education."

Section 2. This act shall become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

Education

Board of Education, State

Code Amended