SB263 Alabama 2023 Session

Updated Jan 14, 2026

Senate Bill

Enacted

Current Status

Regular Session 2023

Session

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Donnie Chesteen Senator
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2023
Title: Relating to the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013; to amend Sections 16-6D-3, 16-6D-4, 16-6D-6, 16-6D-8, and 16-6D-9, Code of Alabama 1975; to change the terms failing school and nonfailing school to priority school and qualifying school, respectively; to revise and add definitions; to expand scholarships for eligible students attending nonfailing or qualifying schools; to revise the poverty threshold for determining the qualifications of an eligible student; to provide for the qualifying expenses of eligible students with unique needs; to revise the method of determining the amount of educational scholarship awards; to increase the maximum cumulative amount of tax credits that may be issued each year; to require a scholarship granting organization to maintain a reserve balance and to verify the qualifications of an eligible student with unique needs; and to authorize the Department of Revenue to bar qualifying schools or educational service providers from participating in the program under certain circumstances.
Description: Under existing law, the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013, establishes an educational tax credit program that provides scholarships for students attending failing schools to transfer to nonfailing public or private schools.
This bill would change the terms failing school and nonfailing school to priority school and qualifying school, respectively.
This bill would revise or add definitions relating to educational service providers, the poverty threshold for eligible students, eligible students with unique needs, qualifying expenses for those students, private tutoring, and resident school district.
This bill would expand scholarships for eligible students attending nonfailing or qualifying schools.
This bill would revise the method of determining the annual amount awarded pursuant to an educational scholarship and would phase in an increase in the maximum cumulative amount of tax credits that may be issued each year.
This bill would require a scholarship granting organization to maintain a 10 percent reserve balance at all times and to verify the qualifications of an eligible student with unique needs.
SB263 INTRODUCED This bill would also authorize the Department of Revenue to bar a qualifying school or educational service provider from participating in the program under certain circumstances.