SB415 Alabama 2014 Session

This bill would provide that a student who is instructed by a private tutor or at a church school and who is at a ninth grade level or higher may enroll in a public school for the purpose of participating in a career technical program.

This bill would require participating students to adhere to the same requirements as public school students concerning activity fees, standards of behavior, responsibility, performance, conduct, academic standards, and residency requirements.

This bill would permit a student enrolling in a public school to participate in a career technical program to also participate in extracurricular activities of the public school.

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.

Relating to education; to permit a child instructed at home either by a private tutor or under church school law and who is at a certain grade level to enroll in a public school for the purpose of participation in a career technical program under certain conditions; to provide certain requirements; to authorize participation in extracurricular activities of the public school; to provide an exception for participation; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.