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SB45
165751-6:n:03/18/2015:HOUSE EDUCATION POLICY COMMITTEE/ajh SB45 By Senator Marsh RFD Education
and Youth Affairs Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would create the Alabama School Choice
and Student Opportunity Act. This bill would create the Alabama Public Charter School Commission
and would provide for the membership, powers, duties, and liabilities of the commission. This
bill would provide for the application process for establishing public charter schools and
conversion charter schools and would provide for charter terms, charter contracts, and preopening
requirements and conditions. This bill would provide for accountability of charter schools
pursuant to a performance framework, ongoing oversight and corrective action, and renewal,
revocation, and nonrenewal of charters. This bill would provide for the operation and autonomy
of public charter schools. This bill would also provide for funding and facilities. A BILL
TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To create the Alabama School Choice and...
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HB192
165300-1:n:03/05/2015:KMS/mfc LRS2015-938 HB192 By Representatives Collins, Moore (B), Pringle,
Johnson (K), Henry, Williams (P), Shiver, Gaston, Weaver, Fridy, Davis, Brown, Hammon, Greer,
Wood, Rowe, Butler, Fincher, Tuggle and Hubbard RFD Education Policy Rd 1 05-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS:
This bill would create the Alabama School Choice and Student Opportunity Act. This bill would
create the Alabama Public Charter School Commission and would provide for the membership,
powers, duties, and liabilities of the commission. This bill would provide for the application
process for establishing public charter schools and conversion charter schools and would provide
for charter terms, charter contracts, and preopening requirements and conditions. This bill
would provide for accountability of charter schools pursuant to a performance framework, ongoing
oversight and corrective action, and renewal, revocation, and nonrenewal of charters. This
bill would provide for the operation and autonomy of public...
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SB317
166679-1:n:03/31/2015:KMS/tj LRS2015-1182 SB317 By Senators Bussman and Holtzclaw RFD Education
and Youth Affairs Rd 1 31-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the Alabama School Choice and
Student Opportunity Act provides for the creation of public charter schools in the state.
This bill would prohibit any charter public school established in the state from being a virtual
school. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT To prohibit any public charter school established in
the state from being a virtual school. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section
1. (a) For the purposes of this section, a virtual school is not brick and mortar bound where
all student services and courses are conducted through Internet technology. A virtual school
differs from the traditional school through the physical medium that links administrators,
teachers, and students. (b) Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, no
public charter school created pursuant to the Alabama School Choice and...
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HB107
164572-1:n:02/12/2015:KMS/th LRS2015-524 HB107 By Representatives Tuggle, Williams (P) and
Butler RFD Education Policy Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would establish the Virtual
Public Schools Act. This bill would provide families with an alternative choice to access
educational resources via the Internet in a virtual or remote setting. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT Relating to public K-12 education; to establish the Virtual Public Schools Act; to
provide for the establishment of virtual public schools by the State Board of Education, Department
of Postsecondary Education, or local board of education; to provide for the responsibilities
and duties of virtual public schools; to provide for the annual evaluation of each virtual
public school; and to require the State Department of Education to promulgate rules to implement
the act. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. This act shall be known and
may be cited as the Virtual Public Schools Act. Section 2. The purpose...
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HB694
168098-1:n:04/23/2015:LLR/th LRS2015-1633 HB694 By Representative Johnson (K) RFD Ways and
Means Education Rd 1 21-MAY-15 SYNOPSIS: This bill would create the Education Savings Account
program which would allow parents to use the funds in the account which would have been allocated
to their child at their resident school district for an education program of the parents'
choosing. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT Relating to education; to create the Education Savings
Account program which would allow parents to use the funds in the account which would have
been allocated to their child at their resident school district for an education program of
the parents' choosing. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. This act shall
be known and may be cited as the Education Savings Account Act. Section 2. As used in this
act, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department
of Education or an organization chosen by the state. (2) ELIGIBLE...
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HB664
169400-1:n:05/13/2015:KMS/agb LRS2015-2045 HB664 By Representative Collins RFD Education Policy
Rd 1 14-MAY-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the State Board of Education is required to appoint
the members of the Alabama Public Charter School Commission. This bill would require that
the members of the commission be appointed by the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, President
Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To amend Section 6 of Act 2015-3, 2015 Regular Session, to provide that for the members
of the Alabama Public Charter School Commission to be appointed by the Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. Section 6 of Act 2015-3, 2015 Regular
Session, is amended to read as follows: "Section 6. "(a) Eligible authorizing entities.
"(1) A public charter school shall not be established in this...
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SB179
Center. Operations and Maintenance and Program Support, Alabama Cooperative Extension System
32,204,625 1,893,360 34,097,985 Operations and Maintenance and Program Support, Auburn University
at Montgomery 22,775,297 52,649,123 75,424,420 Of the above appropriation, $250,000 shall
be expended for the Institute for Accountability and Government Efficiency and $114,915 shall
be expended for the Senior Resource Center. College of Veterinary Medicine-Development of
Customized Therapeutics for Breast Cancer and Health Related Research (MRI) 1,100,000
1,100,000 Cyber Security Center for Research related to Economic Development Initiatives and
associated education programs 1,000,000 1,000,000 Auburn Aviation Center 1,500,000 1,500,000
SOURCE OF FUNDS: ETF 247,790,987 Federal and Other Funds 940,151,184 Total Auburn University,
Board of Trustees 247,790,987 940,151,184 1,187,942,171 Jacksonville State University, Board
of Trustees: Operations and Maintenance and Program Support 37,095,160...
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SB71
SB71 By Senator Marsh ENROLLED, An Act, To amend Sections 16-6D-4 and 16-6D-9, Code of Alabama
1975, relating to the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to clarify and confirm that the
intent of the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013 is educational choice; to amend certain current
definitions and add new definitions; to amend the reporting period for scholarship granting
organizations from a calendar year to an academic year; to clarify and confirm that educational
scholarships are provided to eligible students, not to particular schools; to require scholarship
granting organizations to determine the income eligibility of a scholarship recipient every
other year; to require all participating private schools to be accredited by one of the six
regional accrediting agencies, the National Council for Private School Accreditation, AdvancEd,
the American Association of Christian Schools, or one of their partner accrediting agencies,
within three years from the date their notice of intent to...
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SB329
SB329 ENGROSSED By Senators Coleman, Dunn, Brewbaker and Singleton A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN
ACT To amend Section 16-6D-4, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to definitional phrases for the
Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to provide further for the definition of failing school.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:Section 1. Section 16-6D-4, Code of Alabama 1975,
is amended to read as follows: ยง16-6D-4. "For the purposes of this chapter, the following
terms shall have the following meanings: "(1) EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIPS. Grants made by
a scholarship granting organization to cover all or part of the tuition and mandatory fees
charged by a qualifying school to an eligible student receiving a scholarship. "(2) ELIGIBLE
STUDENT. A student who satisfies all of the following: "a. Is a member of a household
whose total annual income the year before he or she receives an educational scholarship under
this program does not exceed an amount equal to 150 percent of the median household...
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HB46
163668-2:n:02/20/2015:KMS/mfc LRS2014-3640 HB46 By Representative Chesteen RFD Ways and Means
Education Rd 1 03-MAR-15 SYNOPSIS: Under existing law, the Alabama Ahead Act authorizes the
Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue up to $100,000,000 in bonds
to fund the purchase of digital textbooks for public high school students, with implementation
of the act contingent upon separate legislative enactment. This bill would amend the Alabama
Ahead Act to provide that the bonds be used to purchase and install, as a first priority,
a high quality standards-based broadband Wi-Fi infrastructure in every classroom in every
public school; and use remaining funds to purchase mobile digital computing devices to enable
access to digital resources in the state in lieu of digital textbooks for public high school
students. This bill would specify priorities and standards for wireless infrastructure and
a cost model. This bill would provide an implementation plan consisting of a...
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