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16-6D-4
Section 16-6D-4 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACADEMIC YEAR. The 12-month period beginning on July 1 and ending
on the following June 30. (2) DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE. The Alabama Department of Revenue. (3)
EDUCATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP. A grant made by a scholarship granting organization to an eligible
student to cover all or part of the tuition and mandatory fees for one academic year charged
by a qualifying school to the eligible student receiving the scholarship; provided, however,
that an educational scholarship shall not exceed six thousand dollars ($6,000) for an elementary
school student, eight thousand dollars ($8,000) for a middle school student, or ten thousand
dollars ($10,000) for a high school student per academic year. The term does not include a
lump sum, block grant, or similar payment by a scholarship granting organization to a qualifying
school that assigns the responsibility in whole or in part for...
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16-8-42.1
Section 16-8-42.1 Authority for risk management cooperative. (a) Definitions. For the purpose
of this section, the following terms shall have the meanings subscribed to them by this section:
(1) RISK MANAGEMENT COOPERATIVE. An entity or entities, to be formed by local boards of education
in any combination of 25 or more for the purpose of pooling resources and funds to jointly
purchase insurance or to self-insure such boards of education, their members and employees,
against risks to which they are exposed. (2) MEMBER BOARDS OF EDUCATION. A city board of education,
county board of education, Department of Youth Services School District, Alabama Institute
for Deaf and Blind, State Board of Education or other public education governing board which
elects to pool its resources and funds with one or more other boards of education for the
purpose of forming a risk management cooperative. (b) Boards of education in any combination
of 25 or more may establish a risk management cooperative for...
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40-18-402
Section 40-18-402 Renewal of Alabama Commission. (a) There is hereby created the Renewal of
Alabama Commission. (b) The commission shall be comprised of all of the following persons:
(1) The Director of Finance, or his or her designee. (2) The Secretary of Commerce, or his
or her designee. (3) The Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee, or its successor
committee, if any, or his or her designee. (4) The Chair of the Senate Finance and Taxation
Education Committee, or its successor committee, if any, or his or her designee. (5) Three
persons appointed by the Governor, at least one of whom shall be a resident of an area of
the state the source of whose primary power supply is the Tennessee Valley Authority or its
lawfully authorized distributor. (6) One person appointed by the Speaker of the House, who
shall be an employee, board member, or trustee of an Alabama public community college or four-year
institution of higher education. (7) One person appointed by the President...
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16-13-144
Section 16-13-144 Prohibition and penalty for exceeding budget; waiver of penalty. (a) No local
board of education shall spend or obligate itself to spend more money in any fiscal year than
the estimate of income available to that board of education for that year, plus balances on
hand at the beginning of the fiscal year, which estimate shall be approved by the State Superintendent
of Education, if the excess expenditure or excess obligation to spend results in a deficit
for that fiscal year, except as provided in Section 16-13-145. The estimate of income shall
include estimates of income from revenue receipts from all sources and estimates of nonrevenue
receipts from all sources, but excluding all funds derived from loans other than loans obtained
by the issuance of school warrants authorized by the laws of the state. This section shall
not apply to any fiscal year where there is proration of education funds going to local boards
of education. No funds shall be transferred by any...
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16-22-17
Section 16-22-17 Payroll deductions for participation in statewide programs. (a) When used
in this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively: (1)
EMPLOYEE. Any person employed full-time as provided by law by those employers enumerated in
this section and adult bus drivers. (2) EMPLOYER. All public city and county boards of education;
the Board of Trustees of the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind; the Alabama Youth Services
Department District Board in its capacity as the Board of Education for the Youth Services
Department District; the Board of Directors of the Alabama School of Fine Arts; the Board
of Trustees of the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science; the State Board of Education
as applied to the payroll office of two-year postsecondary education institutions; and the
Board of Trustees of Alabama A and M University. (3) PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION or ORGANIZATION.
The employees' local professional organization representing the...
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41-5A-6
Section 41-5A-6 Chief examiner - Recovery audits for overpayments of state funds. (a) For the
purposes of this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) CHIEF EXAMINER.
The Chief Examiner of Public Accounts. (2) OVERPAYMENT. Any payment in excess of amounts due
and includes failure to meet eligibility requirements, failure to identify third party liability
where applicable, any payment for an ineligible good or service, any payment for a good or
service not received, duplicate payments, invoice and pricing errors, failure to apply discounts,
rebates, or other allowances, failure to comply with contracts or purchasing agreements, or
both, failure to provide adequate documentation or necessary signatures, or both, on documents,
or any other inadvertent error resulting in overpayment. (3) RECOVERY AUDIT. A financial management
technique used to identify overpayments made by a state agency with respect to individuals,
vendors, service providers, and other entities in...
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45-37-242
Section 45-37-242 Taxation for public school purposes. (a) The Legislature finds and confirms
that pursuant to paragraph (f) of Amendment 373 to the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, the
County Board of Education of Jefferson County, the board, and the Jefferson County Commission
of Jefferson County, the county commission, after separate public hearings thereon, have each
proposed that the county commission increase above the limit otherwise provided in the constitution,
the rate at which the ad valorem tax, hereinafter described, is levied on the taxable property
in the Jefferson County School District, consisting of all areas of Jefferson County outside
of the municipalities of Birmingham, Bessemer, Fairfield, Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia
Hills, Tarrant City, and Midfield, the school district. (b) The Legislature hereby approves
the aforesaid proposal and authorizes the county commission to increase the rate at which
the ad valorem tax levied pursuant to the election held in the...
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11-2-20
Section 11-2-20 Requirement of additional bonds of county officials, etc. - Authority. (a)
Except where otherwise specifically provided by law for county taxing officials and judges
of probate, the bond for each county official shall be one-half of one percent of the amount
budgeted in the then current county budget for activities conducted by or under the direction
of the individual county official, but the bond amount for any county official shall not exceed
fifty thousand dollars ($50,000). The bond for any county employee required to post bond shall
be set in an amount determined proper by the county commission. In the alternative, the county
commission may execute a blanket bond covering the performance of duties of all county employees
in an amount determined by the county commission to adequately protect all county funds and
revenue. (b) When in the judgment of the county commission, the bond provided for in this
chapter for a county official or county employee is insufficient...
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16-1-20.6
Section 16-1-20.6 Released time for student participation in religious instruction. (a) This
section shall be known and may be cited as the Alabama Released Time Credit Act. (b) The Legislature
finds and declares all of the following: (1) That the United States Supreme Court, in its
decision in Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952), upheld the constitutionality of released
time programs for religious instruction for public school students during the school day.
(2) That the United States Constitution and state law allows local school districts to offer
religious released time education for the benefit of public school students. (3) That the
purpose of this section is to incorporate a constitutionally acceptable method of allowing
school districts to offer released time classes and, in grades where credit is earned, to
award students elective credit for classes taken during the school day in released time programs.
(c) As used in this section, the term released time means a period of...
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16-1-40
Section 16-1-40 Education Trust Fund proration relief. (a) During fiscal year 2009 and any
fiscal year in which proration is declared by the Governor in an amount equal to or greater
than three percent, local boards of education, with the recommendation of the local superintendent,
may transfer Education Trust Fund line item appropriations including the Public School Fund,
except Public School Fund monies dedicated to a specific capital outlay project or debt service
and except for Alabama Public School and College Authority funds which are allocated for a
specific capital outlay project, between and among appropriated line item categories. No state
funds shall be transferred from funds appropriated for salaries, fringe benefits, or student
materials allocations. (b) Prior to any implementation of the flexibility provisions of this
section, the local board of education shall produce a plan indicating the source and amount
to be transferred from each line item and show that the transfer...
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