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2010 Legislative Tracking Legislation headings in BLUE and noted with a * pertains to state employees/state government related issues.
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| HB0037 | Rep. Chad Fincher | ENACTED | ACT 2010-264 |
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3/30/2010 |
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| REVOCATION OF TEACHING CERTIFICATE. This bill would require the State Superintendent of Education to revoke the teaching certificate or other educational certificate of any person convicted of a Class A felony or sex offense involving a child. | ||||||
| HB0038 | Rep. Demetrius Newton | ENACTED | ACT 2010-497 |
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4/21/2010 |
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| SEXUAL CONTACT WITH STUDENT. This bill would make it a crime for a school employee to engage in a sex act or have sexual contact with a student, male or female, regardless of the age of the student. | ||||||
| HB0043 | Rep. Richard Lindsey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-556 |
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4/22/2010 |
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| FOUNDATION PROGRAM - TEACHER UNITS. Allows the State Superintendent of Education to use an alternative calculation method provided by the SDE for determining teacher units in extreme circumstances. Please note: This applies to the first 20 days after Labor Day and does not permit waivers for not making up days lost due to natural disasters. | ||||||
| HB0065 | Rep. Mac Gipson | ENACTED | ACT 2010-735 |
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4/30/2010 |
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| GRADUATED DRIVER'S LICENSE AND LEARNER'S PERMIT CHANGES. This bill amends various conditions relating to driver's licenses and learner permits. | ||||||
| HB0074 | Rep. Jack Page | ENACTED | ACT 2010-691 |
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4/29/2010 |
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| VIETNAM VETS/HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA. This bill would allow honorably discharged Vietnam vets to receive a high school diploma who due to military service were not able to do so. | ||||||
| HB0079 | Rep. James Buskey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-210 |
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3/22/2010 |
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| POSTING OF JOB VACANCIES WITHIN EDUCATION AGENCIES. This bill would require the posting of notices of vacancies in the offices of State Superintendent of Education, appointed county superintendent of education, appointed city superintendent of education, Chancellor of Postsecondary Education, and chief executive officer of any two-year school or college under the auspices of the State Board of Education, the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind, the Alabama School of Fine Arts, the Department of Youth Services School District, and the Alabama High School of Mathematics and Science. | ||||||
| HB0100 | Rep. Greg Canfield | ENACTED | ACT 2010-692 |
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4/29/2010 |
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| COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL REDUCED SPEED SCHOOL ZONE ACT. This bill would authorize a county commission to establish reduced speed school zones along roads or highways except interstate highways outside of the corporate limits of a municipality under certain conditions and would also provide for the maintenance of the signs. | ||||||
| HB0144 | Rep. Arthur Payne | ENACTED | ACT 2010-129 |
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3/2/2010 |
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| SEX OFFENDERS PROHIBITED FROM DRIVING SCHOOL BUS. This bill would prohibit sex offenders from obtaining a commercial driver's license, driving/operating a passenger vehicle or driving/operating a school bus (P and S endorsement). | ||||||
| HB0274 | Rep. Richard Lindsey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-610 |
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4/22/2010 |
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| EDUCATION TRUST FUND BUDGET (FY '11). 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, 2011. | ||||||
| HB0276 | Rep. Richard Lindsey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-595 |
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4/22/2010 |
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| AMENDING FY '10 ETF APPROPRIATIONS BILL. This bill would amend the fiscal year 2010 Education Appropriation Bill (ACT 2009-339) by changing a portion of the funding source on the General Obligation Bonds, 2005-A from the Capital Improvement Trust Fund to the Education Trust Fund. | ||||||
| HB0277 | Rep. Richard Lindsey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-561 |
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4/22/2010 |
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| CHILDREN FIRST TRUST FUND ALLOCATION. This bill provides for transfer to the State General Fund during fiscal year 2011 that portion of Children First Trust Fund receipts currently allocated for the State Board of Education. | ||||||
| HB0281 | Rep. Ken Guin | ENACTED | ACT 2010-696 |
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4/29/2010 |
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| ETF SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION FOR WALKER COUNTY AND LEE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEMS. This bill makes a supplemental appropriation of $951,351 from the ETF for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, to the Walker County School System to provide for capital improvements at Oakman Elementary School, which suffered extensive tornado-related damage on December 10, 2008. This bill also makes a supplemental appropriation of $71,351 from the ETF for capital improvements at Wacoochee Junior High School, a system-owned instructional center, and a system-owned central office building, each of which suffered extensive tornado damage on February 27, 2009. | ||||||
| HB0459 | Rep. Earl Hilliard | ENACTED | ACT 2010-746 |
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4/30/2010 |
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| REQUIRING SAFE ROOM/SAFE HALLWAY IN NEW PUBLIC K-12 SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION. This bill would require any new public K-12 school construction to include an Alabama Building Commission approved safe space or hallway. | ||||||
| HB0678 | Rep. Jay Love | ENACTED | ACT 2010-604 |
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4/22/2010 |
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| * STATE EMPLOYEES - FURLOUGHS. Under existing law, there is no specific authority for the furlough of Merit System employees. This bill would establish terms for furloughs and would also authorize a state department or appointing authority to implement a voluntary furlough program with the approval of the State Personnel Department; provided that such voluntary furlough plan is applicable to an entire department. | ||||||
| HB0724 | Rep. Richard Lindsey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-576 |
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4/22/2010 |
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| PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND APPROPRIATION. This bill would allow the Legislature to appropriate Public School Funds to local boards of education in the Education Trust Fund Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2011 for the purpose of paying operating expenses and would also allow local boards of education, during fiscal year 2011 only, to expend Public School Funds on any operating expenses. | ||||||
| HB0743 | Rep. Richard Lindsey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-720 |
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4/29/2010 |
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| PSCA BOND ISSUE - SCHOOL BUS FLEET RENEWAL. This bill authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue $66.5 million of additional bonds for school bus fleet renewal. | ||||||
| HJR030 | Rep. Johnny Mack Morrow | ENACTED | ACT 2010-636 |
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4/23/2010 |
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION - ALABAMA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION REQUESTED TO CONSIDER AUTHORIZING BASS FISHING AS A RECOGNIZED SCHOOL SPORT. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That the Alabama High School Athletic Association is requested to consider authorizing high school sport fishing as a recognized school sport in Alabama schools. | ||||||
| HJR053 | Rep. Richard Lindsey | ENACTED | ACT 2010-155 |
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3/5/2010 |
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION - SUPPORT EXPRESSED FOR JOBS FOR MAIN STREET ACT OF 2010. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That this resolution is offered in full support of the Federal Jobs for Main Street Act of 2010. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution be provided for each member of Alabama's Congressional Delegation calling for its full support of this act. | ||||||
| SB0050 | Sen. Quinton Ross | ENACTED | ACT 2010-256 |
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3/30/2010 |
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| TRS PARTICIPATION BY SSA. This bill authorizes the School Superintendents of Alabama, its executive officers and employees to continue to participate in the Teachers' Retirement System. | ||||||
| SB0162 | Sen. Ted Little | ENACTED | ACT 2010-725 |
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4/30/2010 |
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| PACT PROGRAM - ETF APPROPRIATION. This bill would provide for additional funds to be appropriated from the ETF to the Alabama Prepaid Affordable College Tuition (PACT) Program in the fiscal year beginning September 30, 2013 and continuing if necessary, into the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027. | ||||||
| SB0292 | Sen. Hank Sanders | ENACTED | ACT 2010-221 |
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3/22/2010 |
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| ** TRS AND ERS FUNDING PERIOD CHANGE. This bill would increase the maximum funding period for which the accrued liability contribution is calculated for the Teachers' Retirement System and Employees' Retirement System from 20 years to 30 years. | ||||||
| SB0442 | Sen. Tom Butler | ENACTED | ACT 2010-551 |
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4/21/2010 |
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| BRAC INFRASTRUCTURE AND PSCA CONSTRUCTION OF NEW SCHOOL FACILITIES. This bill authorizes the Alabama Public School and College Authority to sell and issue bonds and to apply such proceeds for the construction of new school facilities as well as the renovation of existing school facilities in the several school systems located in those areas of North Alabama that will be directly impacted by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). | ||||||
| SB0512 | Sen. Hank Sanders | ENACTED | ACT 2010-731 |
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4/30/2010 |
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| ALABAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AUTHORITY BONDS. This bill amends Section 16-16-14.1 of the Code of Alabama, and authorizes the APSCA to issue and sell its bonds under the provisions of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 or any other governmental program providing reductions in interest payments or conditions acceptable to the Authority. | ||||||
| SJR008 | Sen. Roger Bedford | ENACTED | ACT 2010-133 |
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3/4/2010 |
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION - DISAPPROVAL BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION REVIEW OF THE STATE PERSONNEL BOARD PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO RULE 670-X-18-.01, ENTITLED "LAYOFFS".BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That the decision of the Joint Committee to disapprove the proposed amendment to Rule 670-X-18-.01, entitled "Layoffs," is sustained. | ||||||
| SJR009 | Sen. Roger Bedford | ENACTED | ACT 2010-33 |
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2/4/2010 |
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| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION - AMENDMENT TO RULE 290-4-1, ENTITLED "EDUCATION ACCOUNTABILITY", DISAPPROVAL BY JOINT COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATION REVIEW SUSTAINED, STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION URGED TO ADOPT REVISED RULE. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That because the State Board of Education refused to accept the proposed amendment and resubmit the revised rule proposed by the Joint Committee, the decision of the Joint Committee to disapprove the proposed amendment to Rule 290-4-1, entitled "Education Accountability," is sustained. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Legislature recommends the Department of Education and the State Board of Education reconsider the proposed amendment and revised rule suggested by the Joint Committee on August 12, 2009, to be entitled the Alabama Educator Code of Ethics. | ||||||
| SJR021 | Sen. Arthur Orr | ENACTED | ACT 2010-22 |
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1/22/2010 |
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| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION - SELECT COMMISSION ON HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AND STUDENT DROPOUTS EXTENDED. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That the life of the Alabama Select Commission on High School Graduation and Student Dropouts created by Act No. 2009-229, SJR24, 2009 Regular Session (Acts 12 2009, p. 407), is extended to December 31, 2010, whereupon the commission shall stand dissolved and discharged of any further duties. | ||||||
| SJR095 | Sen. Quinton Ross | ENACTED | ACT 2010-207 |
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3/11/2010 |
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| SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION - STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION URGED TO REQUIRE MONEY MANAGEMENT COURSE IN CURRICULUM FOR SENIOR HIGH STUDENTS. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That the State Department of Education and the Alabama State Board of Education are urged to require local school districts to provide courses of instructions for 11th and 12th grade students that shall provide them with a basic understanding of money and money management, personal finance, business, the economy, and investing. | ||||||
| SJR159 | Sen. Quinton Ross | ENACTED | ACT 2010-457 |
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4/16/2010 |
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| HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION - URGING THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, IN THE COURSE OF REAUTHORIZING THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT (ESEA), TO DIRECT FEDERAL FUNDING THEREUNDER IN ACCORDANCE WITH CURRENT FUNDING FORMULA. BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That we hereby urge and exhort the Congress of the United States, in the course of reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, to draw from the experiences of local educators who know students best and focus the limited federal dollars that will be directed to the State of Alabama on areas that will be best served through current funding formula, rather than competitive grants, which lead to inequality and are not financially stable under the present economic climate. | ||||||
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