SB347 Alabama 2010 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Rodger SmithermanSenator
Democrat
Session: Regular Session 2010
Title: Mandatory school attendance, increased from age 17 to 18, alternative education program further provided for, Sec. 16-28-3, 16-28-3.1 am'd.; Act 2009-564, 2009 Reg. Sess. am'd.
Description: This bill would increase the maximum age of children required to attend school from 17 to 18 and would clarify the option of attending alternative school for students who violate a local board of education code of conduct.
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

Pending third reading on day 29 Favorable from Finance and Taxation Education

Place on the calendar.

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation Education