HB465 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Lesley Vance

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Greg WrenMary Sue McClurkinK.L. BrownTerri CollinsWilliam RobertsLynn GreerDan WilliamsPaul W. LeeApril WeaverBarry MooreEd HenryMike HubbardRichard BaughnMac ButtramKurt WallaceDonnie ChesteenJim PattersonMicky HammonPhil WilliamsHoward SanderfordMac McCutcheonGregory CanfieldJay LoveVictor GastonMike BallJack WilliamsHarry ShiverJoe FaustChad FincherSteve McMillanJamie IsonJim McClendonRandy WoodJim BartonSteve ClouseBarry MaskDuwayne BridgesAllen Farley

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Education employees, procedures regarding employment actions of revised, Teacher Tenure Law and Fair Dismissal Act repealed, Students First Act, Sec. 16-24B-7, 16-24-1 to 16-24-22, inclusive, 36-26-100 to 36-26-116, inclusive, repealed

Description

<p class="bill_description">This bill would establish the Students First

Act of 2011.</p><p class="bill_description">This bill would provide rights, remedies,

and obligations with respect to employment actions

affecting or involving certain employees or

categories of employees of county and city boards

of education, the Alabama Institute for Deaf and

Blind, the Alabama Industrial School for Boys, the

Alabama Industrial School for Girls, the Alabama

Industrial School at Mt. Meigs, and two-year

educational institutions operated under the

authority and control of the Department of

Postsecondary Education.</p><p class="bill_description">This bill would repeal existing statutes

that are in conflict or that are otherwise

inconsistent with this bill, including, but not

limited to, the Fair Dismissal Act, the Teacher

Tenure Law, and the law prescribing procedures for

teacher transfers.</p><p class="bill_description">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.</p><p class="bill_description">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.</p>

Subjects

Education