HB231 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Reed Ingram Representative

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Public K-12 education; Pledge of Allegiance and prayer required each day, constitutional amendment

Description

This bill would propose an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama of 2022, relating to public K-12 schools, to require each local board of education to adopt a policy requiring that The Pledge of Allegiance be conducted to the United States flag and a prayer consistent with Judeo-Christian values be conducted at the commencement of each school day in each public K-12 school.

This bill would authorize violations of this amendment to be reported to the State Superintendent of Education and for investigation by the State Department of Education.

This bill would require the State Superintendent, upon the determination that there has been a continued pattern of intentional refusal to comply with this amendment, to withhold twenty-five percent of state funding allocated to the offending local board of education.

This bill would also authorize the Legislature to further reduce the funding to a local board of education following continued violations.

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Subjects

Constitutional Amendments Statewide