SB46 Alabama 2023 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to the mobility of P-12 teachers; to provide and adopt the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact to allow licensed teachers to practice among compact states in a limited manner; to provide eligibility requirements for licensed teachers to teach pursuant to the compact; to provide for a coordinated licensure information system, joint investigations, and disciplinary actions; to establish the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact Commission, and provide for membership, powers, duties, and rulemaking functions of the commission; and to provide for oversight of the compact, enforcement of the compact, default procedures, dispute resolution, withdrawal of compact states, and amendments to the compact.

Description

This bill would establish the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact.

This bill would facilitate the mobility of P-12 licensed teachers across state lines and among compact member states.

This bill would authorize state licensing authorities in compact states, which would include the State Department of Education, to legally recognize, in a manner consistent with terms of the compact, teachers licensed within those states.

This bill would provide eligibility requirements for licensed teachers to teach pursuant to the compact.

This bill would provide accommodations for licensed teachers who are active duty personnel and their spouses.

This bill would provide for a coordinated licensure database for reporting licensure, investigative information, and disciplinary actions.

This bill would establish the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact Commission, and would provide for membership, powers, and duties.

This bill would also provide for the rulemaking functions of the commission, oversight of the compact, enforcement of the compact, default procedures, dispute SB46 INTRODUCED resolution, withdrawal of compact states, and amendments to the compact.

Relating to the mobility of P-12 teachers; to provide and adopt the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact to allow licensed teachers to practice among compact states in a limited manner; to provide eligibility requirements for licensed teachers to teach pursuant to the compact; to provide for a coordinated licensure information system, joint investigations, and disciplinary actions; to establish the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact Commission, and provide for membership, powers, duties, and rulemaking functions of the commission; and to provide for oversight of the compact, enforcement of the compact, default procedures, dispute resolution, withdrawal of compact states, and amendments to the compact.

Subjects

Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, facilitates the mobility of licensed teachers among compact member states.