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SB361 Alabama 2015 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021
SB361 Alabama 2015 Session
Senate Bill
Enacted
Current Status
Regular Session 2015
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2015
Title
School hiring, nepotism prohibited, Sec. 41-1-5 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, a person may be hired by a board of education where a relative within the fourth degree of affinity or consanguinity of that person is an existing employee, so long as the relative will not be the person's immediate supervisor and where the relative has no involvement in the hiring of that person.

This bill would prohibit a superintendant, a principal or other supervisor, or a member of a board of education from taking any direct or indirect role in the hiring of a relative.

This bill would prohibit a person from being hired by a board of education where a relative would be the person's immediate supervisor.

This bill would allow a person to be hired by a board of education where a relative would be in the chain of command of that person so long as the relative would not be the person's immediate supervisor.

This bill would prohibit a person from evaluating the performance of any subordinate who is a relative.

This bill would provide a cause of action for an applicant who is injured because of a violation of the provisions of this act.

This bill would define relative.

This bill would also provide penalties for violating this act.

Subjects
Employment

Bill Actions

S

Assigned Act No. 2015-486.

H

Signature Requested

H

Concurred in Second House Amendment

S

Enrolled

S

Shelnutt motion to Concur In and Adopt adopted Roll Call 1321

S

Concurrence Requested

H

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1233

H

Rich motion to Table adopted Roll Call 1232

H

Henry Amendment Offered

H

Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 1231

H

Rich Amendment Offered

H

Rich motion to Table adopted Roll Call 1230

H

Education Policy Amendment Offered

H

Third Reading Passed

H

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 1 amendment

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy

S

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 699

S

Third Reading Passed

S

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education and Youth Affairs

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

April 30, 2015 Senate Passed
Yes 29
Absent 6

Rich motion to Table

June 2, 2015 House Passed
Yes 45
No 34
Abstained 6
Absent 20

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

June 2, 2015 House Passed
Yes 70
No 23
Abstained 2
Absent 10

Shelnutt motion to Concur In and Adopt

June 3, 2015 Senate Passed
Yes 31
No 1
Absent 3

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature