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AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety

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  • Uh this bill is uh part of our military package this year and uh it has to do as far as our schools and
  • It's basically what it is doing is uh allowing the uh recruiters to have uh the school systems to work
  • with them to set aside one day each school year uh for the armed services vocational aptitude battery
  • our schools and it's a very simple bill. our schools and it's a very simple bill.
  • systems to work with them to the school systems to work with them to set<00:07:41.840> aside<
TX
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  • by written regulations adopted by a school board or a school district's board of trustees.
  • It simply affords school districts, charter schools, private schools, and junior colleges the ability
  • The kid is in school and high school, pretty much known, pretty much expected.
  • Texas law allows schools to place students in out-of-school suspension for a maximum of three school
  • In fact, school behavior and school discipline has only gotten worse.
Summary: The committee heard a series of school safety and discipline bills, beginning with SB 870, which would codify an attorney general opinion allowing local school boards to decide whether school marshals may openly carry, conceal carry, or store a firearm in a secure safe on campus. The bill was laid out with no public testimony and left pending. The chair then moved to a combined discussion of SB 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1924, all focused on school discipline, teacher authority, and student safety. Senators Perry and Creighton described the package as a response to rising classroom disruptions, assaults on teachers, and concerns that districts lack effective tools to maintain order. SB 1871 would expand teacher removal authority, require return-to-class plans before a student removed for certain conduct can return, make some serious offenses mandatory for placement in juvenile justice settings, and provide telehealth mental health services through a consortium. SB 1872 would require expulsion to a JJAEP for assaults on teachers or school volunteers and extend certain expulsion-eligible conduct to off-campus offenses. SB 1873 would restore the prior understanding that in-school suspension is not subject to a three-day limit. SB 1874 would grant teachers immunity from disciplinary action for reporting discipline violations or acting in compliance with Chapter 37. SB 1924 would restore authority for local police and school district police to issue Class C citations for school offenses and require criminal referrals for students posing an imminent threat or assaulting a teacher, with a substitute clarifying referral rules when a citation has already been issued. The committee adopted the substitutes for the bills and moved them forward. Invited witnesses from teacher and administrator groups largely supported the overall goal of stronger discipline and safer classrooms, while asking for refinements. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association testified that teachers need more autonomy to remove disruptive or violent students and that classroom removals should not mean removal from learning. Superintendents from San Angelo, Grandview, and Wiley ISDs supported the bills’ emphasis on safety, expanded ISS flexibility, mandatory placement for serious offenses, and telehealth mental health services, but asked for more local control, flexibility for Districts of Innovation, more than one campus behavior coordinator in large districts, clearer timelines for return-to-class plans, and more precise definitions for disruptive conduct. Several witnesses stressed that teacher retention and student learning are being harmed by current discipline problems, while some members raised concerns about vague standards and the risk of overuse or public humiliation through citations and removals.
TX
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  • schools, and junior colleges with the discretion to decide whether their designated school marshal or
  • Members, let me be clear that this bill does not compel school districts to establish a school marshal
  • It simply affords school districts and chartered. schools, private schools, and junior colleges the ability
  • School behavior and school discipline have only gotten worse.
  • School issues are prevalent.
TX
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  • Then the school board.
  • Our school is Fredericksburg Independent School District.
  • schools.
  • Children's school Two boys in public school one in middle school and the other in first grade.
  • our schools, our school libraries, our schools in general, these children.
TX
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  • One other issue that I think is part of the problem, in our JP school, in our magic trick classes that
  • One example is terroristic threat, a charge often constitutes an empty threat and often is used in school
  • Like you cannot really finish school.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Technology and Telecommunications 2ND REVISED Apr 16th, 2026 at 08:45 am

Technology and Telecommunications

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  • So is it the intent that these would be inclusive of charter, private, public school?
  • Are those inboxes of local principals, local superintendents, local school board members.
  • I think it's Welsh Public Schools is moving from 1 to 1, so it's happening.
  • We have a technology screen time problem in our schools.
  • I just wanted my local schools to solve the problem because they're an elected school board.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Education Policy

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  • Yes, local school boards determine which schools... ...school boards determine which schools participate
  • For example, Hoover has implemented this only at the high school level, and other school districts do
  • It's either you're going to be in a private school, or you're going to be in In private school, you're
  • going to be in public school, or you're going to be in a different school.
  • You know, the school is free to set their own policies in order to make sure this works with the school
Bills: SB278, HB459, HB61
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Ways and Means Education

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  • This bill passed off in public schools.
  • And second... ...local school systems for that.
  • And how the local school systems are dealing with that?
  • ...school systems are dealing with that currently.
  • Nine out of ten kids that go to Crossville High School and Middle School cannot speak English.
Bills: HB61, HB327, HB253, HB297
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Ways and Means Education

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  • High School athletics equipment.
  • Schools for EVA Elementary School outdoor activity center. $375,000 to Orange Beach Culinary School.
  • <00:35:50.240> If wage for a high school graduate. If wage for a high school graduate.
  • middle school divisors. middle school divisors.
  • Micro schools are school grant program.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education May 14th, 2026

Education

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  • However, if you are a school bus driver on probation, there's some loophole that says the school board
  • However, if you are a school bus driver on probation, there's some loophole that says the school board
  • What is they say about every SEC school? No other SEC school is releasing this information.
  • And why at the school level, sir?
  • School-based health centers support families, support schools, and help ensure students are healthy,
Summary: The Senate Education Committee met with four members present and took up a long agenda of education-related bills. Early items included SCR 65, which would create a K-12 student success task force to study statewide career and academic pathway advising; the committee adopted a substantive amendment adding designees and then reported the resolution favorably. The committee also reported favorably on SCR 119, honoring Coach D.D. Breaux, after brief remarks about her LSU gymnastics legacy and the request that LSU study naming its gymnastics training facility in her honor. Several bills affecting school operations and student support were heard and reported favorably, including HB 434 on probationary school bus driver employment and superintendent authority over dismissal; HB 484 expanding scholarship benefits for children and spouses of fallen or disabled firefighters and police officers; HB 749 and HB 1059 on savings accounts and TOPS math eligibility alignment; HB 218 adding food insecurity questions to student questionnaires, which was amended and reported favorably; HB 325 expanding TOPS Tech eligibility through dual enrollment and part-time use; HB 476 requiring Safe Haven law postings in middle and high school restrooms; HB 1249 clarifying access to school-based health centers, with an amendment adopted; HB 1242 allowing more than one early learning center license at the same location under certain circumstances; HB 632 improving data protections and functionality for LA First; and HB 352 on behavioral health services for public school students, which was amended to address IEP and dispute-process concerns before being reported favorably. Two bills drew extended debate over transparency, privacy, and school autonomy. HB 608 would create confidentiality for intercollegiate athletics revenue-sharing documents; LSU representatives argued the bill was needed to protect student-athletes and competitive information, while PAR and the Louisiana Press Association opposed it as an improper secrecy carve-out for state-generated revenue. Despite the opposition, the committee reported HB 608 favorably. HB 1112, which would exempt BESE-approved non-public pre-K programs from certain licensure and safety requirements and adjust related definitions, was amended and then heard with testimony from the Pelican Institute in support, arguing it corrects overreach from prior law and protects private school autonomy and parental choice.