To create the Alabama Fits All Scholarship Program; require the State Board of Education to contract with a program manager to administer the program; to authorize the program manager to establish scholarship accounts on behalf of eligible students; to prohibit a program manager from accepting scholarship funds in certain circumstances; to require fiscal safeguards and accountability measures; to require eligible schools and service providers to meet certain standards to be eligible to receive scholarship funds; to authorize the program manager to distribute scholarship funds; to require the State Board of Education to provide limited oversight of the program manager, including an appeal process for the program manager's administrative decisions; to prohibit certain regulations of eligible schools and eligible service providers; to require criminal history background information checks for employees and officers of a program manager; to provide for program funding; and to require the program manager and the board to submit reports on the program to the Legislature.
Summary
Alabama Fits All Scholarship Program, State Board of Education contracted out program for parents to pay for education goods and services for their students
Bill status
introduced
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2023
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced May 9, 2023
Last action May 9, 2023
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May 9, 2023
Introduced
Introduced and Referred (Ways and Means Education)
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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors
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Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
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Danny Garrett
RRepublican
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