HB11 Summary

• State Board of Education must adopt COVID-19 safety protocols for public K-12 schools in consultation with the Alabama Department of Public Health that prohibit mask mandates and preserve parental authority over child health care decisions.

• Rules must maintain constitutional freedoms, retain parents' ability to decide whether children wear masks, and protect children with disabilities or health conditions from harmful protocols.

• Parents retain the right to voluntarily require their own children to wear masks in school regardless of state rules.

• Schools violating anti-mask mandate rules face a 5 percent reduction in Foundation Program Fund allotments in the succeeding fiscal year, with reductions applied only to the violating school.

• Act becomes effective on the first day of the third month following passage and approval by the Governor.