HB241 Alabama 2022 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Terri Collins Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2022

Title

Workforce Development, Alabama Credential Quality and Transparency Act and the Alabama Workforce Council Committee on Credential Quality and Transparency, would establish the Alabama Terminal on Linking and Analyzing Statistics (ATLAS) on Career Pathways Act, and would establish the Alabama College and Career Readiness Act estab, public database on educational and occupational credentials and competencies created, workforce database for students, job seekers, and employers re credentials and competencies created

Description

This bill would establish the Alabama Credential Quality and Transparency Act and the Alabama Workforce Council Committee on Credential Quality and Transparency; would establish the Alabama Terminal on Linking and Analyzing Statistics (ATLAS) on Career Pathways Act; and would establish the Alabama College and Career Readiness Act.

This bill would provide for full, free, open, public, and interoperable essential data about all educational and occupational credentials and competencies available to the residents of the state.

This bill would provide a database through which students, job seekers, and employers may search, compare, and analyze common information about credentials and competencies before making decisions about the quality and value of credentials and the education and workforce programs related to those credentials.

This bill would also establish a statewide definition of college and career readiness.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, 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 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.

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. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Workforce Development