SB314 Alabama 2015 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2015

Title

Students with Dyslexia, identification and education of, required of schools

Description

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would define dyslexia and require each public school district to identify students with dyslexia and provide them with appropriate educational services including dyslexia-specific intervention</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, or a city or county board of education, 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</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> Relating to students with dyslexia; to define dyslexia and require each public school district to identify students with dyslexia and provide them with appropriate educational services including dyslexia-specific intervention; 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. </p>

Subjects

Education