HB722 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jeff McLaughlin

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Schools, Foundation Program, minimum instructional days altered, Sec. 16-13-231 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, to receive the maximum benefits from the Foundation Program Fund, local boards of education are required to provide a minimum school term of at least 180 days.

This bill would decrease the length of the required minimum school term by five days and subsequently establish a 175 full instructional day school term as the required minimum school term for the computation of Foundation Program Fund benefits.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Education