SB25 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Cam Ward
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2011
Title: Student harassment prevention, reassignment of students to another school, Education Department to post model policy on Internet website, immunity for reporting harassment, Student Harassment Prevention Act renamed the Alex Moore Anti-Bullying Act, Secs. 16-28B-1, 16-28B-4, 16-28B-5, 16-28B-9 am'd.
Description: Existing law provides for the adoption of policies by public school systems pertaining to the prevention of harassment of one student against another student and requires the Department of Education to develop a model policy for local boards of education pertaining to student harassment prevention.
This bill would rename the Student Harassment Prevention Act the Alex Moore Anti-Bullying Act.
This bill would provide that a student can be reassigned to another school for the purpose of separating the student from his or her harassment victim.
This bill would direct the Department of Education to post its model policy on its website.
This bill would provide that a person shall be immune from civil liability for reporting harassment.
Subjects: Education

Indefinitely Postponed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary