Supplement: AL SB79 | 2022 | Regular Session | SB79 for Education Policy
For additional supplements on Alabama SB79 please see the Bill Drafting List
Bill Title: Education, K-12, procedural due process protection for suspensions and expulsions provided, findings, hearing officers, Sec. 16-1-14 am'd.
Status: 2022-02-16 - Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy [SB79 Detail]
Download: Alabama-2022-SB79-SB79_for_Education_Policy.html
Bill Title: Education, K-12, procedural due process protection for suspensions and expulsions provided, findings, hearing officers, Sec. 16-1-14 am'd.
Status: 2022-02-16 - Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy [SB79 Detail]
Download: Alabama-2022-SB79-SB79_for_Education_Policy.html
| Committee: Education Policy | Sponsor: Smitherman |
| Analyst: Daniel Davenport | Date: 02/07/2022 |
FISCAL NOTE
Senate Bill 79 as introduced establishes a uniform disciplinary hearing process, conducted by a local board of education or its neutral designee, for students facing long-term suspension or expulsion. This would increase the obligations of local boards of education to provide: (1) written notice of disciplinary hearings; (2) substantial evidence of how a student violated the code of student conduct, or state law, at disciplinary hearings; and (3) electronic or written records of any hearing to each party upon request. This bill would also increase the administrative obligations of the State Board of Education by an undetermined amount to adopt rules related to establishing the uniform disciplinary hearing procedures.
| Tim Melson, Chairperson Education Policy |
