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AL HB90

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/7/2023

Primary Sponsor

John Rogers

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Origin

House of Representatives

Regular Session 2023

AI Summary

  • School boards must provide public school instruction and special services to students with intellectual disabilities up to their twenty-sixth birthday if they have not earned an Alabama High School Diploma.

  • Eligible students may receive education beyond the current minimum of 12 consecutive years if necessary to complete their schooling before turning 26.

  • Students with intellectual disabilities who turn 26 on or after August 1 are entitled to begin and complete the school year in which they turn 26.

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

Legislative Description

Relating to special education; to add Section 16-39-3.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide that certain students with an intellectual disability are entitled to certain educational services up to the student's twenty-sixth birthday.

Education, public school education for certain students with intellectual disability, provided until age 26

Last Action

Carry Over by House Ways and Means Education

4/19/2023

Committee Referrals

Ways and Means Education3/7/2023

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