Under existing law, each local board of education is required to annually adopt and distribute a code of student conduct that details specific grounds and procedures for addressing student disciplinary actions.
This bill would provide a uniform statewide system of procedural due process protections relating to the suspension and expulsion of public school students for violating the student code of conduct or state law.
This bill would also provide for the annual training of impartial hearing officers by the State Department of Education, for the duties of those hearing officers, and for the adoption of any necessary rules to implement this act by the State Board of Education.
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 806
Third Reading Passed
Smitherman motion to Carry Over adopted Voice Vote
Third Reading Carried Over
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy
Source: Alabama Legislature