SB202 Alabama 2023 Session

Sponsors

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

<p class="bill_description"> This bill would create the Parental Rights in Children's Education (PRICE) Act for K-12 education</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would create and provide for the PRICE Program and would establish a three-year phase-in period</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would establish the roles and responsibilities of the Parent Advisory Board, the Commissioner of Revenue, and the State Department of Revenue</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would provide for the implementation and administration of the PRICE Program and the use of education savings accounts</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would specify the qualified expenses that may be paid from an education savings account</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> 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</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would also provide for legal remedies</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> 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 SB202 INTRODUCED families; and to provide for legal remedies. </p>