HB291 Alabama 2013 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Steve Hurst Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2013

Title

State Board of Education, required to adopt rule requiring second adult on all school buses while transporting students, Sec. 16-27-1 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the State Board of Education is responsible for prescribing rules regarding the transportation of students.

This bill would require the board to prescribe a rule mandating the presence of a second adult on each school bus during the transportation of pupils to and from school or school-related activities.

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.

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Subjects

Education