HB288 Alabama 2013 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Paul DeMarco

Republican

Co-Sponsors

Phil WilliamsWayne JohnsonJohn MerrillJim CarnsBarry MooreDickie DrakeLaura HallMike BallJim PattersonDan WilliamsArthur PayneHoward SanderfordMac McCutcheonAlan HarperJack Williams

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

Flexible School Calendar Act, local board of education may opt out of calendar parameters by written notices to State Superintendent of Education, Sec. 16-13-231, as amended by Act 2012-482, 2012 Reg. Sess., am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description">Under existing law, the Flexible School

Calendar Act of 2012 requires each local board of

education to establish an academic school calendar,

beginning with the 2012-2013 school year and ending

with the last day of the third month of the

2013-2014 school year, with the first day of

instruction for students no earlier than the Monday

two calendar weeks before Labor Day, unless August

31 is a Monday, then on Monday, August 17, and the

last day of instruction for students shall be no
later than the Friday immediately before Memorial

Day.</p><p class="bill_description">This bill would allow a local board of

education to opt out of the temporary academic

school calendar parameters by providing written

notice to the State Superintendent of Education.</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