HB241 Alabama 2022 Session

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

Relating to credentials and the workforce; to create the Alabama Credential Quality and Transparency Act as a new Division 9, commencing with Section 41-29-350, Article 3, Chapter 29, Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; to establish the Alabama Workforce Council Committee on Credential Quality and Transparency; to 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; to create the Alabama Terminal on Linking and Analyzing Statistics (ATLAS) on Career Pathways Act as a new Division 10, commencing with Section 41-29-360, Article 3, Chapter 29, Title 41, Code of Alabama 1975; to 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; to establish the Alabama College and Career Readiness Act by adding Section 41-29-298 to the Code of Alabama 1975; relating to education, credentials, and the workforce; to establish a statewide definition of college and career readiness and for other purposes relating to workforce development; and in connection therewith to have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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, as amended.