SB202 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Larry Stutts Senator

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to education; to establish the Parental Rights in Children's Education (PRICE) Act relating to K-12 education; to secure the fundamental constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children; to create the PRICE Program; to establish a three-year phase-in period; to provide definitions; to establish the roles and responsibilities of the Parent Advisory Board, the Commissioner of Revenue, and the Department of Revenue; to create a process for granting education savings accounts; to establish funding mechanisms for the costs of education savings accounts and the administration of the program; to specify qualified expenses; to create requirements for education service providers; to establish an auditing, denial, and appeal mechanism for expenses, parents, participating students, and education service providers; to provide safeguards against any additional state control over or interference with nonpublic schools, their students, and their families; and to provide for legal remedies.

Description

This bill would create the Parental Rights in Children's Education (PRICE) Act for K-12 education.

This bill would secure the fundamental constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children according to their religious faith, beliefs, values, and morals.

This bill would create and provide for the PRICE Program and would establish a three-year phase-in period.

This bill would establish the roles and responsibilities of the Parent Advisory Board, the Commissioner of Revenue, and the State Department of Revenue.

This bill would provide for the funding of the PRICE ESA Fund and the PRICE Administration Fund for the costs of administrating the PRICE Program.

This bill would provide for the implementation and administration of the PRICE Program and the use of education savings accounts.

This bill would specify the qualified expenses that may be paid from an education savings account.

This bill would retain the autonomy of nonpublic schools and prevent additional state control over or interference with nonpublic schools, their students, SB202 INTRODUCED and families.

This bill would provide for the auditing, denials, and appeals of the PRICE Program and the suspension of parents, participating students, and education service providers.

This bill would also provide for legal remedies.

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