SB507 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Paul Sanford

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Local boards of education, prohibited from restricting outside sports participation and public and nonpublic schools required to admit and grant immediate eligibility to transfer students

Description

Existing law does not prohibit a local board of education from restricting the participation of students in unaffiliated athletic activities or programs and does not provide for the eligibility of transfer students to participate in public or nonpublic high school athletics.

This bill would prohibit a local board of education from restricting the participation of an enrolled student in athletic activities or programs that are not affiliated with the enrolling school.

This bill would require each public and nonpublic high school in the state to grant immediate eligibility to participate in school athletics to any student who transfers into the school.

This bill would also specify that no public or nonpublic school team utilizing these students would be impeded from competing against any other public, nonpublic, or church school team.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 190, 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