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AL Code § 16-33C-16 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-16 - Appropriations From the Education Trust Fund to the Pact Trust Fund.

Section 16-33C-16Appropriations from the Education Trust Fund to the PACT Trust Fund. (a) There is annually appropriated from the Education Trust Fund to the PACT Trust Fund the following amounts in the following fiscal years: (1) For the fiscal year ending 2016 -- $33,952,000; (2) For the fiscal year ending 2017 -- $63,622,000; (3) For the fiscal year ending 2018 -- $62,783,000; (4) For the fiscal year ending 2019 -- $61,539,000; (5) For the fiscal year ending 2020 -- $60,738,300; (6) For the fiscal year ending 2021 -- $31,881,600; (7) For the fiscal year ending 2022 -- $32,181,600; (8) For the fiscal year ending 2023 -- $33,494,400; (9) For the fiscal year ending 2024 -- $33,728,700; (10) For the fiscal year ending 2025 -- $38,449,500; (11) For the fiscal year ending 2026 -- $39,201,000; (12) For the fiscal year ending 2027 -- $32,500,000. (b) Beginning with the fiscal year ending September 30, 2017, for budgetary purposes and annual budget calculations, fifty-five percent (55%) of the appropriations made in this section shall be considered to be a portion of the funding received by colleges and universities, and the remainder shall be considered to be the same as appropriations made for debt service. (Act 2010-725, p. 1800, §3; Act 2012-198, p. 328, §1; Act 2015-538, 2nd Sp. Sess., §3.)
AL Code § 16-33C-17 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-17 - Charge of Mandatory Fees or Tuition per Credit Hour.

Section 16-33C-17Charge of mandatory fees or tuition per credit hour. Repealed by Act 2012-198, §3, effective April 12, 2012. (Act 2010-725, p. 1800, §4.)
AL Code § 16-33C-18 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-18 - Limits on Increase in Mandatory Fees and Tuition.

Section 16-33C-18Limits on increase in mandatory fees and tuition. On behalf of all current and future postsecondary students, the Legislature strongly encourages all public institutions of higher education to limit any annual percentage increases in mandatory fees and tuition to the average percentage amount such fees and tuition were annually increased over the previous 10-year period, to the extent such limitation is possible. (Act 2010-725, p. 1800, §11.)
AL Code § 16-33C-19 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-19 - Changes to Pact Rules, Procedures, or Policies.

Section 16-33C-19Changes to PACT rules, procedures, or policies. Repealed by Act 2012-198, §3, effective April 12, 2012. (Act 2010-725, p. 1800, §12.)
AL Code § 16-33C-20 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-20 - Certification That Appropriations No Longer Necessary.

Section 16-33C-20Certification that appropriations no longer necessary. In the event that the PACT Program's Board of Directors receives an actuarial report certifying that any appropriation made in Section 16-33C-14, Section 16-33C-15, or Section 16-33C-16 is no longer necessary, the PACT Program's Board of Directors shall certify to the Legislature that no future appropriations are necessary. (Act 2010-725, p. 1800, §5; Act 2012-198, p. 328, §1.)
AL Code § 16-33C-21 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-21 - Disposition of Funds.

Section 16-33C-21Disposition of funds. Any funds in the PACT Trust Fund remaining after the payment of all of the obligations of the fund shall be transferred to the Education Trust Fund in the fiscal year immediately following the year in which the last obligations are met. (Act 2010-725, p. 1800, §6.)
AL Code § 16-33C-22 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-22 - Dissolution of Pact Program.

Section 16-33C-22Dissolution of PACT Program. Once all benefits or obligations owed to the PACT contract holders have been paid, the PACT Program shall be dissolved and the provisions of this chapter shall be void. (Act 2010-725, p. 1800, §13.)
AL Code § 16-33C-23 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-23 - Actuary Deficits.

Section 16-33C-23Actuary deficits. The PACT Board is expressly authorized to negotiate, accept, and implement a legally binding resolution with PACT purchasers and beneficiaries to address any actuarial deficit in the PACT Trust Fund, which includes all powers granted elsewhere in this chapter and all other powers necessary or convenient under this section. (Act 2012-198, p. 328, §2.)
AL Code § 16-33C-24 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-24 - Able Program Generally.

Section 16-33C-24ABLE Program generally.  (a) The ABLE Program includes the ABLE Trust Fund, and may be marketed under a different name than ABLE. The ABLE Trust Fund is hereby created and comprised of separate ABLE Savings Accounts established pursuant to this chapter. The ABLE Trust Fund receives contributions to ABLE Savings Accounts. One or more persons may make contributions to an ABLE Savings Account. (b) Available sources of funds, public or private, including any administrative fees received from ABLE contracting parties, shall be deposited in the State Treasury Operations Fund. All ABLE Program expenses, including operating, administrative and marketing, shall be paid from the State Treasury Operations Fund. For reporting purposes, ABLE Program expenses will be segregated by unit or such other accounting method as provided in the State's STAARS system, or similar system.  (c) Property and income of the ABLE Program and ABLE Trust Fund shall be exempt from all taxation by the state and by all of its political subdivisions. (d) The Examiners of Public Accounts shall annually audit the ABLE Program. (Act 2015-442, §2.)
AL Code § 16-33C-25 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 33C - Wallace-Folsom Prepaid College Tuition Trust Fund.|Section 16-33C-25 - Administration of Programs.

Section 16-33C-25Administration of programs.  (a) In acquiring, investing, reinvesting, exchanging, retaining, selling, and managing property for the benefit of the ABLE Program and ACES Program, the Savings Board, and any person, investment manager, or committee to whom the Savings Board delegates any of its investment authority, shall act as trustee and shall exercise the judgment and care under the circumstances then prevailing which persons of prudence, discretion, and intelligence exercise in the management of their own affairs, not in regard to speculation but to permanent disposition of funds, considering the probable income as well as the safety of their capital. (b) No Savings Board member nor any person, investment manager, or committee to whom the Savings Board delegates any of its investment authority who acts within the standard of care set forth in subsection (a) shall be held personally liable for any losses, damages, or claims suffered by the ABLE Program or ACES Program on investments made pursuant to the chapter. (c) The assets of the ABLE Program and the ACES Program shall be preserved, invested, and expended solely pursuant to and for the purposes of this chapter and shall not be loaned or otherwise transferred or used by the state for any other purpose. A savings agreement, or any other agreement entered into by or on behalf of the ABLE Program or the ACES Program, does not constitute a debt or obligation of the state. A contributor is solely entitled to amounts on deposit in or accrued to the respective savings account. (d) To the extent necessary to administer the ABLE Program and ACES Program or to comply with federal, state, or local tax reporting requirements, the programs shall obtain all necessary social security numbers and such other data as the Savings Board deems necessary for such purposes, whether from a contributor or from another state agency. (e) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, a contribution to, and continued investment in, an ABLE savings account under the ABLE Program for a designated beneficiary by the guardian or conservator of that designated beneficiary are permitted for all purposes under state law. (Act 2015-442, p. 1419, §3; Act 2018-280, §1.)
AL Code § 16-34-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 34 - Illiteracy.|Section 16-34-1 - Removal of Illiteracy Duty of State Board of Education.

Section 16-34-1Removal of illiteracy duty of State Board of Education. The State Board of Education shall be charged with the responsibility for the removal of illiteracy in Alabama. It shall have the power to make research and to collect data and shall endeavor to enlist the services of any and all community agencies of the state for the removal of illiteracy. The State Board of Education is authorized to receive and expend any funds which may be given to it from time to time from public, private or other sources and shall adopt such rules and regulations as may seem to it most satisfactory for carrying on the work outlined in this section. (School Code 1927, §421; Code 1940, T. 52, §399.)
AL Code § 16-34-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 34 - Illiteracy.|Section 16-34-2 - County and City Boards to Cooperate With State Board.

Section 16-34-2County and city boards to cooperate with state board. It shall be the duty of county and city boards of education to cooperate with the State Board of Education in the removal of illiteracy in the territory under their respective jurisdictions, and to this end the said boards may appropriate from public school funds such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (School Code 1927, §422; Code 1940, T. 52, §400.)
AL Code § 16-34-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 34 - Illiteracy.|Section 16-34-3 - Authority to Cooperate With Federal Government.

Section 16-34-3Authority to cooperate with federal government. The State Board of Education and county and city boards of education are hereby authorized to cooperate with the federal government in making effective any law enacted or that may be enacted by congress for the removal of illiteracy and for maintaining adult education programs and classes in Alabama and in the counties and cities thereof. (School Code 1927, §423; Acts 1939, No. 496, p. 721; Code 1940, T. 52, §401.)
AL Code § 16-34-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 34 - Illiteracy.|Section 16-34-4 - Legislative Appropriation for Illiteracy and Adult Education Programs and Classes.

Section 16-34-4Legislative appropriation for illiteracy and adult education programs and classes. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to expend the State Illiteracy Fund appropriated for the removal of illiteracy and for otherwise maintaining adult education programs and classes; provided, that the State Board of Education is authorized to provide from said fund the necessary professional and clerical assistants to carry on said program. (School Code 1927, §424; Acts 1939, No. 496, p. 721, §2; Code 1940, T. 52, §402.)
AL Code § 16-34-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 34 - Illiteracy.|Section 16-34-5 - Council on Adult Education.

Section 16-34-5Council on Adult Education. (a) The State Board of Education shall establish a Council on Adult Education prior to October 1, 1991. The membership of the council shall be as follows: (1) The Governor or his designated representative; (2) The State Superintendent of Education; (3) The Chancellor of the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education; (4) The Executive Director of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education; (5) A member of, as selected by, the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision; (6) A member of, as selected by, the Alabama Association of School Boards; (7) A member of, as selected by, the Alabama Education Association; (8) A member of, as selected by, the Alabama Parent Teacher Association; (9) The Director of the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs; (10) The Governor's education liaison; and (11) Five members of the business/professional community appointed by the Governor. (b) The Council on Adult Education, created by this section, shall: (1) Develop long-range recommendations, for submission to the Legislature and the State Board of Education, designed to establish a coordinated system of adult education in the State of Alabama, including a full assessment of the costs of any such recommendations; (2) Develop recommendations, for submission to the Legislature and the State Board of Education, designed to coordinate existing adult education programs offered by the State of Alabama through different agencies; (3) Inventory all existing adult education programs in the State of Alabama and recommend to the Legislature and the State Board of Education whether such programs should be abolished, expanded, or continued at present levels; (4) Develop recommendations, for submission to the Legislature and the State Board of Education, to encourage business and industry to employ participants in adult education programs; (5) Establish priorities and performance standards prior to December 31, 1992, and design measurement devices and procedures to determine level of accomplishing specific objectives; and (6) Complete the above directives and submit a written annual report to the Legislature and the State Board of Education beginning with the 1993 Regular Session of the Legislature. (c) The Council on Adult Education, created by this section, shall be provided with support staff by the Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education and the State Department of Education. (Acts 1991, No. 91-323, p. 602, §17.)
AL Code § 16-35-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 35 - State Courses of Study Committee.|Section 16-35-1 - Composition; Appointment, Qualifications and Terms of Members.

Section 16-35-1Composition; appointment, qualifications and terms of members. The State Board of Education shall appoint a courses of study committee as set forth below for the purposes and functions as hereinafter provided. The State Courses of Study Committee shall consist of 28 members to be selected as follows: (1) One elementary teacher (grades K through six) and one secondary teacher (grades seven through 12) from each of the seven congressional districts who are teaching in the course of study areas to be revised during their terms of office; (2) Four members from the state at-large actively engaged in a supervisory or administrative capacity in the field of education and who are knowledgeable or who have had previous teaching experience in the course of study areas to be revised during their term of office; (3) Three members who are employees of state institutions of higher learning and who are specialists in the course of study areas to be revised during their terms of office; and (4) Seven additional members appointed by the Governor, one from each of the seven congressional districts, each of whom shall be either a business or professional representative not employed in the field of education. The Governor's appointees shall have expertise and be actually involved in the course of study field under consideration and shall be confirmed by the Senate. Additional standards for membership on the State Courses of Study Committee may be established by the State Board of Education other than those prescribed hereinabove. Said standards shall be sent to every local board of education and every county and city superintendent. Local boards of education, through their superintendents, shall nominate persons to serve on these committees. Local boards shall furnish credentials of each person recommended, including a summary of each person's qualifications for membership on the committee. All nominations along with said credentials shall be forwarded to the State Superintendent of Education. The State Board of Education, upon the recommendations of the State Superintendent of Education, shall appoint all members of the State Courses of Study Committee from the nominees made by the local boards of education. The Governor's appointments need not be nominated by a local board of education, nor recommended by the State Superintendent of Education, nor approved by the State Board of Education. The term of office of the members of said committee shall be for a period of one year, beginning on the first day of May 1984; provided, however, that the terms of office for the Governor's initial appointees shall begin immediately upon their initial appointment. The members shall hold office until their successors are appointed. (Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 221, p. 288, §1; Acts 1984, No. 84-235, p. 356, §1; Acts 1991, No. 91-323, p. 602, §5.)
AL Code § 16-35-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 35 - State Courses of Study Committee.|Section 16-35-2 - Oath and Compensation of Members.

Section 16-35-2Oath and compensation of members. Before transacting any business, each member of the State Courses of Study Committee and its secretary shall take an oath before someone authorized to administer oaths to discharge faithfully the duties imposed upon him or her as a member or as secretary of said State Courses of Study Committee, and that he or she has no interest as an author, an associate author, a publisher, a representative of authors or publishers, and that he or she is in no way connected with the distribution of books, or pecuniarily interested directly or indirectly in the business or profits of any person, firm or corporation anywhere engaged in manufacturing, publishing or selling school books. Members of the State Courses of Study Committee shall be paid a per diem at the rate provided by state law during the time they are in session; provided, that the committee shall not remain in session at any one time for a longer period than 30 days and in addition shall receive travel expenses at the rate provided by state law for mileage from their homes to the place of meeting and return, the per diem and mileage to be paid from the appropriations made to the State Department of Education. (Acts 1959, No. 581, p. 1458, §2; Acts 1995, No. 95-314, p. 634, §29.)
AL Code § 16-35-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 35 - State Courses of Study Committee.|Section 16-35-3 - Duties Generally.

Section 16-35-3Duties generally. The Courses of Study Committee shall conduct continuing studies and evaluations of the courses taught in the public elementary and secondary schools of the state. It shall prepare the contents of the courses of study for each grade of the elementary and secondary schools and revise the same from time to time. In evaluating the course of study, consideration shall be given to the required basic content, texts used and available, the educational objective of the course, changing scientific, technological and cultural developments, as well as established facts of American history, tradition and patriotism. The committee shall from time to time, but not less than once in each two years, prepare a report of its recommendations with respect to the compulsory minimum content of courses of study and of recommended revisions of courses, materials, subject content and treatment in specific courses and subject areas. The report shall be submitted to the State Superintendent of Education and to the members of the State Textbook Committee for separate written recommendations to the State Board of Education for such action as may be considered advisable. (Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 221, p. 288, §2.)
AL Code § 16-35-4 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 35 - State Courses of Study Committee.|Section 16-35-4 - Minimum Course Content; Maximum Number of Courses.

Section 16-35-4Minimum course content; maximum number of courses. The State Board of Education, on the recommendations of the State Superintendent of Education, shall prescribe the minimum contents of courses of study for all public, elementary and high schools in the state, and shall fix the maximum number of courses which are compulsory in each grade of the elementary schools. (School Code 1927, §426; Code 1940, T. 52, §403.)
AL Code § 16-35-5 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 35 - State Courses of Study Committee.|Section 16-35-5 - Studies Required to Be Taught in Elementary School.

Section 16-35-5Studies required to be taught in elementary school. In every elementary school in the state there shall be taught reading, spelling and writing, arithmetic, oral and written English, geography, history of the United States and Alabama, elementary science, health education, physical education and such other studies as may be prescribed by the State Board of Education. (School Code 1927, §431; Code 1940, T. 52, §408.)
AL Code § 16-37-1 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 37 - Vocational Education.|Section 16-37-1 - Acceptance of Provisions of Federal Act.

Section 16-37-1Acceptance of provisions of federal act. The State of Alabama hereby accepts all of the provisions and benefits of an act passed by the United States Congress entitled "an act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, to provide for cooperation with the states in the promotion of vocational education, to provide for cooperation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries, to provide for cooperation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," (20 U.S.C.A., §§11 through 28) approved February 23, 1917. (School Code 1927, §403; Code 1940, T. 52, §381.)
AL Code § 16-37-2 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 37 - Vocational Education.|Section 16-37-2 - Treasurer Custodian of Federal Funds; Disbursement of State Money.

Section 16-37-2Treasurer custodian of federal funds; disbursement of state money. The Treasurer is hereby designated and appointed custodian of all moneys received by the state from the appropriations made by the act of Congress accepted in Section 16-37-1, and he is authorized to receive and to provide for the proper custody of the same and to make disbursements thereof in the manner provided in the act and for the purpose therein specified. He shall also pay out any moneys appropriated by the State of Alabama for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter upon the order of the State Board of Education. (School Code 1927, §404; Code 1940, T. 52, §382.)
AL Code § 16-37-3 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 16 - Education.|Chapter 37 - Vocational Education.|Section 16-37-3 - Superintendent in Charge of Vocational Education.

Section 16-37-3Superintendent in charge of vocational education. The State Superintendent of Education shall designate, by and with the advice and consent of the State Board of Education, such assistants as may be necessary to properly carry out the provisions of this chapter. The State Superintendent of Education shall also carry into effect such rules and regulations as the State Board of Education may adopt and shall prepare such reports concerning the condition of vocational education in the state as the State Board of Education may require. (School Code 1927, §405; Code 1940, T. 52, §383.)