SB304 Alabama 2019 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2019

Title

Teachers, provisional teaching certificates, length of time for which emergency certificate is valid is extended from one year to two years, Secs. 16-3-16, 16-23-3, 16-23-16.1, 16-24C-3 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, the State Superintendent of Education is authorized to issue emergency teaching certificates, which are valid for one year, to certain individuals when otherwise certified teachers are not available</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would rename emergency certificates as urgent certificates, would extend the validity of an urgent teaching certificate to two years, with the ability of being renewed twice, for a maximum validity of six years, and would make technical corrections to update the language of the amended code sections</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 16-3-16, 16-23-3, 16-23-16.1, and 16-24C-3, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to provisional teaching certificates; to rename an emergency certificate as an urgent certificate; to extend the length of time for which an urgent certificate is valid from one to two years, with the ability of being renewed twice, for a maximum validity of six years; and to make technical corrections to update the language of the amended code sections. </p>

Subjects

Education