HB41 Alabama 2016 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Alabama Ahead Act, provisions re pen-enabled, phase-in, reassignment, and advisory committee deleted, oversight committee established, use of funds for high-quality standards-based broadband wifi infrastructure provided, effective date amended, Secs. 16-16B-1, 16-16B-2 am'd., Act 2012-560 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, the Alabama Ahead Act, commencing with the 2012-2013 school year, phased in the provision of textbooks and other instructional materials to students and teachers in electronic format through pen-enabled tablets and mobile computers. The law requires the State Department of Education to establish an advisory committee</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill, commencing with the 2016-2017 school year, would delete the requirement that the tablets and mobile computers be pen-enabled, would delete the phase-in provisions, would delete the reassignment provisions, would delete the requirement for the establishment of an advisory committee and would establish the Alabama Ahead Oversight Committee</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would amend the Alabama Ahead Act to provide that funds be used to purchase and install, maintain, or upgrade as a first priority, a high-quality standards-based broadband Wi-Fi infrastructure in every regular use classroom and library in every public school; and use remaining funds to purchase mobile digital resources</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide local school systems with the option of participating in the plan</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 16-16B-1 and 16-16B-2, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the Alabama Ahead Act; commencing with the 2016-2017 school year, to delete the requirement that tablets and mobile computers be pen-enabled; to delete the phase-in provisions; to delete the reassignment provisions; to delete the requirement for the establishment of an advisory committee; to establish the Alabama Ahead Oversight Committee; to make participation by local school systems voluntary; to provide that funds be used to purchase and install, maintain or upgrade a high-quality, standards-based, broadband Wi-Fi infrastructure and mobile digital computing devices to enable access to digital instructional materials in all public school classrooms; and to amend Section 14 of Act 2012-560, 2012 Regular Session, to delete the requirement that implementation of the act be contingent upon separate legislative enactment. </p>

Subjects

Education