HB79 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

House Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2010

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: James E. Buskey
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2010
Title: Education, State Superintendent of Education, county and city superintendents of education, Chancellor of Postsecondary Education Department, certain chief executive officers, vacancies, posting of notices required, Secs. 16-4-1.1, 16-60-111.9 added; Secs. 16-9-11, 16-12-1, 16-60-111.1 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, notices of employee personnel vacancies are required to be posted at public K-12 schools and postsecondary education institutions.
This bill would require the posting of notices of vacancies in the positions of State Superintendent of Education, appointed county superintendent of education, appointed city superintendent of education, Chancellor of Postsecondary Education, and chief executive officer of any two-year school or college under the auspices of the State Board of Education, the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Alabama School of Fine Arts, the Department of Youth Services School District, and the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science.
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.
Subjects: Education