SB415 Alabama 2014 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Shadrack McGill

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2014

Title

Schools, students taught at home by either private tutor or under church school law may participate in public K-12 extracurricular activities

Description

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.

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Subjects

Education