| Bill | Bill Description | Sponsor | Committee | Status | Last Action Date | Related Bills | Amendments |
| HB0084 | ALABAMA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT OF 2013 (PRIVATE SCHOOL TAX CREDITS). Originally introduced as the Local Control School Flexibility Act of 2013, this bill would establish the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013 authorizing the establishment of innovative schools and school systems in the State of Alabama. This bill would allow the State Board of Education to enter into a school flexibility contract with a local school system to allow for programmatic flexibility or budgetary flexibility, or both, from state laws, including State Board of Education rules, regulations, and policies in exchange for academic and associated goals for students that focus on college and career readiness. This bill would require the local board of education to submit a document of assurance that the local board shall provide consistency in leadership and a commitment to the standards, assessments, and academic rigor expected in Alabama. This bill would require the local school system to submit a proposed innovation plan recommended by the local superintendent of education and approved by the local board of education to the State Superintendent of Education in order to qualify for innovation status. This bill would authorize the State Board of Education to promulgate any necessary rules and regulations as required for implementation. ADDITIONALLY, this bill would provide for a refundable income tax credit to reimburse Alabama taxpayers who are the parents of students enrolled in or assigned to attend a failing public K-12 school in the state to offset the cost of transferring the student to a non-failing public school or nonpublic school of the parent's choice, provided they file an income tax return or application for the refundable tax credit on forms prescribed by the Department of Revenue. This bill would also limit the tax credit to 80% of the average annual state cost of attendance for a public K-12 student during the applicable tax year. This bill would create within the Education Trust Fund, the Failing Schools Income Tax Credit Account and would authorize the Comptroller to annually transfer into the account proceeds of sales tax revenues in an amount sufficient for the Department of Revenue to pay the income tax credits. This bill would also authorize a tax credit for individual and corporate contributions to organizations that provide educational scholarships to qualifying schools.
| Rep. Chad Fincher | ENACTED | ACT 2013-64 | 3/14/2013 | | |
| HB0089 | * STATE EMPLOYEES - HIGH DEDUCTIBLE HEALTH PLAN THROUGH SEIB. This bill would authorize the State Employees' Insurance Board (SEIB) to offer a High Deductible Health Plan with a federally qualified Health Savings Account and a Health Reimbursement Arrangement to eligible state employees, state retirees, and their dependents.
| Rep. Jim McClendon | ENACTED | ACT 2013-245 | 5/16/2013 | | |
| HB0091 | CODE RED SAFETY BILL. This bill would require that the comprehensive school safety plan required for all public K-12 schools include a specific code red school safety plan for events involving acts of violence or the threat of violence.
This bill includes safety, security, severe weather, fire, and code red drills within the collective designation of an emergency drill, and would provide that code red school
safety drills be done at the beginning of each semester of
the school year. This bill further would provide for the designation of a code red safety alert level for a school experiencing perceived immediate threats to the school involving acts of violence, such as terrorism, a person possessing a firearm or a deadly weapon, or any other threat of violence.
| Rep. Alan Baker | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0101 | * STATE GOVERNMENT - ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES RED TAPE REDUCTION ACT. This bill would require an agency that
proposes a rule which may have an adverse impact on
a business under certain conditions to prepare and
file a Business Economic Impact Statement prior to the adoption of the rule, with the Joint Committee on Administrative Regulation Review. The bill would also require agencies to review all agency rules every five years.
| Rep. April Weaver | ENACTED | ACT 2013-88 | 4/12/2013 | | |
| HB0102 | THE 21ST CENTURY WORKFORCE ACT - CAREER TECH BOND ISSUE. This bill would authorize the Alabama Public School and College
Authority to sell and issue up to $50 Million in
aggregate principal amount of bonds in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the authority for the purpose of providing funds for career and technical education equipment for local boards of
education.
| Rep. Mac Buttram | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0105 | CRIMINAL TRESPASS ON SCHOOL BUS. Existing law provides for the crimes of criminal trespass in the first degree, second degree, and third degree as it relates to property and dwellings. This bill would establish the crime of trespass on a school bus in the first degree, and in addition, the bill will be known as the Charles “Chuck” Poland, Jr. Act named for the school bus driver who recently lost his life in Midland City, AL while protecting the children on his bus from a deadly shooter.
| Rep. Alan Baker | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0166 | ETF BUDGET - FY '2014. This bill makes appropriations for the support, maintenance and development of public education in Alabama, for debt service, and for capital outlay for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014.
| Rep. Jay Love | ENACTED | ACT 2013-264 | 5/20/2013 | | Spreadsheet |
| HB0301 | REPORTING OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE. Under existing law, certain entities and persons are required to report known or suspected child abuse or neglect. This bill would clarify that school employees, teachers, and officials at both public and private K-12 schools are required to report. This bill would also provide that any public or private employer who disciplines or penalizes an employee for reporting suspected child abuse or neglect is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor.
| Rep. Dickie Drake | ENACTED | ACT 2013-201 | 5/8/2013 | | |
| HB0404 | LOCAL LEGISLATION [FRANKLIN COUNTY]- VOLUNTEER SCHOOL SECURITY FORCES. This local bill allows for the formation of volunteer emergency security forces at public schools consisting of current and retired school employees and local citizens to serve as reserve deputy sheriffs and/or reserve police officers. Local law enforcement would be responsible for training and supervising the “emergency security force”. This bill was amended to allow training for school bus drivers on gun violence prevention, and the use and safe keeping of mace, stun guns, tasers, and other non-lethal weapons.
| Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow | ENACTED | ACT 2013-268 | 5/21/2013 | | |
| HB0498 | LOCAL SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION – LOCAL LEGISLATION [CRENSHAW COUNTY] This bill would repeal the Alabama Code Section (41-21-100) referencing elected school superintendents in Crenshaw County and make all future school superintendents in that county appointed.
| Rep. Charles Newton | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0505 | ETF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS. This bill makes several supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013 in varying amounts for the following entities: Department of Rehabilitation Services ($1 million), Alabama Institute for Deaf & Blind ($1 million), Department of Archives & History ($400,000), the Legislature ($500,000), Public Library Service ($250,000), Alabama School of Math & Science ($150,000), Alabama School of Fine Arts ($150,000), Department of Homeland Security ($430,000), and from the Education Technology Fund to the State Department of Education for Alabama's Science in Motion Program ($2,316,462).
| Rep. Jay Love | ENACTED | ACT 2013-214 | 5/13/2013 | | |
| HB0506 | PAY RAISE (2%) AND LIABILITY INSURANCE – PUBLIC EDUCATION EMPLOYEES This bill would increase the salaries of public K-12 education employees by two percent (2%). This bill would require the Department of Finance, in consultation with the State Department of Education, to implement a program to purchase or provide a policy of education employee liability insurance to insure certificated personnel and support personnel employed by a local board of education and student teachers and would authorize the Department of Finance to implement and administer the provisions of this act.
| Rep. Jay Love | ENACTED | ACT 2013-215 | 5/13/2013 | | |
| HB0517 | PSCA BOND - $30 MILLION FOR DAMAGED PUBLIC SCHOOLS. This bill authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue up to $30,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of bonds in addition to all other bonds previously issued by the authority for the purpose of providing funds to rebuild and equip as follows: (1) Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall be allocated to the Mobile County School System to pay for capital improvements to Murphy High School for damage caused by a tornado on December 25, 2012, and (2) Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall be allocated to the State Department of Education to be distributed to the following schools in the following amounts to pay for capital improvements to those schools for damage caused by tornadoes on April 27, 2011: Alberta City Elementary - $3,000,000, Phil Campbell High School - $6,396,000, University Place Elementary School - $2,500,000, Holt Elementary School - $2,500,000, and Plainview High School - $604,000
| Rep. Napoleon Bracy | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0600 | SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS – LOCAL LEGISLATION [ETOWAH COUNTY] This bill would allow retired law enforcement officers to serve on a part-time basis as school resource officers in the public schools in Etowah County, and would require part-time school resource officers to be certified by the Alabama Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission, but to waive certification and recertification requirements relating to physical qualifications.
| Rep. Craig Ford | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0658 | AMENDATORY LANGUAGE – ALABAMA ACCOUNTABILITY ACT. This bill amends Sections 4, 5, 8, and 9 of the Alabama Accountability Act of 2013, Act 2013-64 (HB 84), and specifies that no public or non-public school may be forced to enroll a student pursuant to the provisions set forth in the act.
| Rep. Jim Carns | ENACTED | ACT 2013-265 | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0662 | CITY BOARDS OF EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS – LOCAL LEGISLATION [TUSCALOOSA COUNTY]. This bill would revise the qualifications for membership on the local board of education and would conform local law with the applicable general law governing the operation of a city board of education relating to compensation, audits, and meetings of the board.
| Rep. Chris England | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HB0669 | LOCAL SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT POSITION - [CULLMAN COUNTY]. This bill would make the position of school superintendent in Cullman County appointed rather than elected at the time of expiration of the current term of office of the Cullman County superintendent of education.
| Rep. Mac Buttram | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| HJR205 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION - SUPPORTING THE FORMATION OF A SCHOOL SAFETY STAKEHOLDER GROUP AND ENCOURAGING THIS GROUP TO HOLD REGULAR MEETINGS. WHEREAS, Homeland Security Director Spencer Collier recently held a meeting with 17 other federal, state, and local agencies and groups that are directly involved with or have an interest in school safety; now therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That we support Director Collier's initiative to bring all stakeholder groups in the education, law enforcement, and emergency management communities around the same table to discuss school safety issues in Alabama's schools, and encourage Director Collier to continue holding regular meetings with these groups. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That we request that legislative leadership or their representatives be given the opportunity to participate in future meetings so the Legislature can stay abreast of the latest information on this very important topic.
| Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin | ENACTED | ACT 2013-185 | 5/8/2013 | | |
| HJR226 | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION - SUPPORTING AND ENCOURAGING THE FURTHERANCE OF AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH TO IMPROVE SUPPORT SERVICES OFFERED AT EACH SCHOOL DESIGNED TO DETECT AND TREAT MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL DISORDERS FOR ALABAMA'S STUDENTS. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That we support and encourage the furtherance of agreements between the Alabama Department of Mental Health and the Alabama State Department of Education that would increase support services offered at each school in terms of early detection and treatment of psychological and emotional disorders. RESOLVED FURTHER, That we recommend that the Department of Education work in unison with the various family resource centers to provide additional support that will assist school districts in developing and implementing strategies that can be used to improve the social and emotional well-being of students. RESOLVED FURTHER, That we recommend that the Department of Education create continuing education programs for teachers that will allow them to stay informed of techniques and strategies designed to recognize signs of potential emotional and psychological problems in students.
| Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin | ENACTED | ACT 2013-186 | 5/8/2013 | | |
| SB0057 | * STATE GOVERNMENT - OFFICE OF FLEET MANAGEMENT CREATED. This bill would establish the Office of Fleet Management within the Department of Transportation to manage the purchase, lease, operation, maintenance, and disposal of all motor vehicles needed to provide necessary motor vehicle transportation for state officers and employees.
| Sen. Cam Ward | ENROLLED | FINAL PASSAGE - Sent to Governor | 5/20/2013 | | |
| SB0060 | EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION ACT OF 2013. This bill would clarify the authority of the State Board of Education, through the State Superintendent of Education, to exercise direct control over the decision making and operational functions of city and county boards of education when such boards are placed under educational intervention by action of the State Board of Education.
| Sen. Dick Brewbaker | ENACTED | ACT 2013-310 | 5/23/2013 | | |
| SB0117 | * STATE GOVERNMENT - OFFICE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. This bill would create the Office of Secretary of Information Technology within state government, and establish a Permanent Legislative Oversight Committee on Information Technology. This new office shall have authority over all state agencies with regard to information technology, with exceptions.
| Sen. Phil Williams | ENACTED | ACT 2013-68 | 3/19/2013 | | |
| SB0146 | * STATE GOVERNMENT - NEPOTISM. This bill would prohibit nepotism within state government. The bill states that any person within the fourth degree of affinity or consanguinity (i.e., Great Great, Grandparent Great, Aunt/Uncle First Cousin, and/or Grand Nephew/Niece) of the agency head or appointing authority, the appointing authority's designee, deputy director, assistant director, or associate director shall be ineligible to serve in any capacity (including personal service contracts) with the state under authority of such an appointment, and any appointment so attempted shall be void. The bill further states that any person within the fourth degree of affinity or consanguinity (i.e., Great Great, Grandparent Great, Aunt/Uncle First Cousin, and/or Grand Nephew/Niece) of a public employee shall not be the immediate supervisor for or in the chain of command of, or participate in the hiring, evaluation, reassignment, promotion, or discipline of, the public employee within any state department, board, bureau, committee, commission, institution, corporation, authority, or other agency of the state.
| Sen. Arthur Orr | ENACTED | ACT 2013-242 | 5/15/2013 | | |
| SB0288 | CHILDREN FIRST TRUST FUND. Under existing law, Children First Trust Fund programs are required to be funded through a separate appropriation in a separate act. This bill would make an appropriation of $39,004,803 from the Children First Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014, to the entities and for the purposes designated in Section 41-15B-2.2, Code of Alabama 1975. This bill would provide for the deposit of tobacco settlement revenues into the Children First Trust Fund, would require the State Director of Finance to notify each agency in writing of the amount of each agency's anticipated allocation, would require quarterly allocation to each agency, and would condition allocations upon the receipt of tobacco funds. This bill would provide for the transfer to the State General Fund during fiscal year 2014 that portion of Children First Trust Fund receipts currently allocated for the State Board of Education. This bill would make an appropriation of $45,168,359 from other tobacco settlement funds for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2014. This bill would also make a conditional appropriation and allocation of any additional tobacco revenue on recommendation of the Director of Finance, the Chairman of the House Ways and Means General Fund Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance and Taxation-General Fund Committee, and approval of the Governor.
| Sen. Jabo Waggoner | ENACTED | ACT 2013-255 | 5/20/2013 | | |
| SB0303 | TEACHERS’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM BOARD OF CONTROL MEMBERSHIP. Under current law, the general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the Teachers' Retirement System of Alabama is statutorily vested in a 14-member Board of Control. This bill would alter the membership of the Board of Control by adding representatives from our public 4-year higher education institutions. It also removed the Executive Secretary of the Alabama Education Association from serving on the Board.
| Sen. Gerald Allen | ENACTED | ACT 2013-239 | 5/13/2013 | | |
| SB0383 | SCHOOL SECURITY PERSONNEL/SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICERS TO CARRY FIREARMS. Under existing law, law enforcement officers and certain persons issued a license to carry a concealed weapon are permitted to carry a deadly weapon, or firearm, on K-12 school property. This bill would authorize a local board of education to employ persons as school security personnel or school resource officers and would allow such persons employed as school security personnel or school resource officers, with certain qualifications, to carry firearms while on duty.
| Sen. Dick Brewbaker | ENACTED | ACT 2013-288 | 5/21/2013 | | |
| SJR006 | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION - ENCOURAGING GOVERNOR BENTLEY TO END THE FREEZE ON STATE EMPLOYEE MERIT RAISES. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That we hereby encourage Governor Bentley to take all steps necessary to immediately end the freeze on state employee merit raises.
| Sen. Dick Brewbaker | ENACTED | ACT 2013-11 | 2/14/2013 | | |