HB442 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Danny Garrett Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

To create the Alabama Fits All Scholarship Program; require the State Board of Education to contract with a program manager to administer the program; to authorize the program manager to establish scholarship accounts on behalf of eligible students; to prohibit a program manager from accepting scholarship funds in certain circumstances; to require fiscal safeguards and accountability measures; to require eligible schools and service providers to meet certain standards to be eligible to receive scholarship funds; to authorize the program manager to distribute scholarship funds; to require the State Board of Education to provide limited oversight of the program manager, including an appeal process for the program manager's administrative decisions; to prohibit certain regulations of eligible schools and eligible service providers; to require criminal history background information checks for employees and officers of a program manager; to provide for program funding; and to require the program manager and the board to submit reports on the program to the Legislature.

Description

This bill would create the Alabama Fits All Scholarship Program.

This bill would require the State Board of Education to contract with a program manager to administer the program and would authorize the program manager to establish scholarship accounts on behalf of eligible students to pay for approved education goods and services.

This bill would prohibit a program manager from accepting scholarship funds in certain circumstances and would require other fiscal safeguards, auditing, and accountability measures.

This bill would require eligible schools and service providers to meet certain standards to be eligible to receive scholarship funds and would establish an annual and private portfolio submission to the program manager as an eligibility qualification.

This bill would authorize the program manager to administer the program and distribute scholarship funds and would require the State Board of Education to provide limited oversight of the program manager, including an appeal process for the program manager's administrative decisions.

This bill would require criminal history HB442 INTRODUCED background information checks for employees and officers of a program manager, would provide for program funding, and would also require the program manager and the State Board of Education to submit reports on the program to the Legislature.

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