HB88 Alabama 2024 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ernie Yarbrough Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2024

Title

True School Choice for Alabama Act, established to provide education savings accounts (ESAs) for parents of children to use in providing education services for those children.

Description

This bill would create the True School Choice for Alabama Act.

This bill would secure the fundamental constitutional rights of parents to direct the education of their children in grades K-12 according to their faith, beliefs, values, and morals.

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

This bill would create and provide for the funding of the True School Choice ESA Fund and the True School Choice Administration Fund for the costs of administrating the True School Choice Program.

This bill would provide for the implementation and administration of the True School Choice 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, and families.

This bill would provide for the auditing, denials, and appeals of the True School Choice Program HB88 INTRODUCED and the suspension of parents, participating students, and education service providers.

This bill would also provide for legal remedies.

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Subjects

Education