SB67 Alabama 2013 Session

Updated Feb 25, 2026

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Dick Brewbaker
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2013
Title: Unfunded mandates, remove exception for local boards of education from Amendment 621, Amendment 621, (Section 111.05 of Recompiled Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended), am'd., const. amend.
Summary: SB67 would remove the local board of education exemption from Alabama's unfunded mandates rule, making school expenditures subject to local approval or funding.
What This Bill Does
If passed, the amendment changes the unfunded mandates rule so that any general law or state order that would require a new or increased expenditure by a city, county, their instrumentality, or a local board of education cannot become effective without local approval or funded support. This applies the same local-funding/approval requirements to local school boards as to other local governments. It includes boards of education defined in the amendment, such as those associated with the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Alabama School of Fine Arts, and the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science.

Who It Affects
Municipalities and counties (and their instrumentalities): must have local approval or funding before new/expanded expenditures become effective.
Local boards of education (including related state schools named in the amendment): would no longer be exempt from unfunded mandates and must have local approval or funding before expenditures are required by state laws or orders.

Key Provisions
Removes the exemption that previously allowed local boards of education to bypass local approval or funding when a state law or order would require expenditures.
General laws or state orders that would require new or increased local expenditures for municipalities, counties, their instrumentalities, or boards of education must be approved by local governing bodies or funded by the Legislature or a local revenue source.
Applies to boards of education as defined in the amendment, including the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Alabama School of Fine Arts, and the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science.
Proposes the amendment to be decided by a statewide vote and become part of the Constitution if a majority of voters approve.

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Subjects: Unfunded Mandates