Bill > HB170

This bill appropriates a total of $524,276,588 from the Education Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025, to various educational and related entities for specific purposes. * **Local Boards of Education:** $133,000,000 for TEAMS contracts ($5,000,000), textbook adoption ($28,000,000), and school bus purchases or debt retirement ($100,000,000). Funds for school buses can be flexed for other educational purposes if a school system is current on bus purchases. * **State Department of Education (One-Time Expenses):** $161,114,000 allocated for various initiatives including Ed Farm for coding workforce training ($5,000,000), AEDs in Schools ($5,000,000), School Safety initiatives ($50,000,000), College and Career Readiness Grants ($20,000,000), Charter School Grants ($10,300,000), Heman Drummond Center for Innovation ($5,000,000), Principal and Assistant Principal Supplements ($14,000,000), Speech Pathologists ($350,000), Summer and Afterschool Program ($30,000,000), Struggling Readers Beyond Grade 3 ($10,000,000), American Village Semiquincentennial Commission ($3,464,000), North Alabama STEM Center ($7,500,000), and development of a US History, Government, and Civics course ($500,000). * **Department of Economic and Community Affairs:** $20,000,000 for broadband infrastructure deployment in rural communities, online training programs, certifications, job placement assistance in technology fields, and administrative expenses, administered in collaboration with the Alabama Digital Expansion Authority. * **Alabama Department of Revenue:** $50,513,000, with $50,000,000 designated for the CHOOSE Act Fund to support Education Savings Accounts and $513,000 for Education Savings Account administration. * **University of Alabama System:** $42,087,475 for increasing research capacity, deferred maintenance, renovation of existing facilities, or ongoing capital projects. * **Auburn University:** $19,000,000 for increasing research infrastructure and instrumentation, technology systems, deferred maintenance, renovation of existing facilities, or ongoing capital projects. * **University of South Alabama:** $11,080,106 for increasing research capacity, deferred maintenance, renovation of existing facilities, or ongoing capital projects. * **Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium:** $7,000,000 for a new dormitory ($5,000,000) and waterline infrastructure improvements ($2,000,000). * **Alabama Community College System:** $28,861,836 for deferred maintenance, renovation of existing facilities, or expenses associated with ongoing capital projects. * **Various Universities and Institutions:** Significant appropriations are also made to Alabama A&M University ($3,222,688), Alabama State University ($3,530,844), Athens State University ($3,022,700), Auburn University at Montgomery ($3,062,202), Jacksonville State University ($3,232,743), University of Montevallo ($3,028,237), University of North Alabama ($3,099,716, including $1,500,000 for the Lauderdale County Workforce Center), Troy University ($4,612,751), University of West Alabama ($3,058,290), Tuskegee University ($3,000,000), Alabama School of Cyber Technology and Engineering ($1,000,000), Alabama School of Fine Arts ($1,000,000), Alabama School of Mathematics and Science ($1,000,000), Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind ($1,000,000), and Firefighters’ Personnel Standards and Education Commission/Fire College ($1,200,000). * **Other Entities:** Smaller appropriations include $4,000,000 to the Educational Television Commission, $2,100,000 to the Council on the Arts, $5,000,000 to the Department of Workforce for a veterans transition program, $2,000,000 to the Alabama Supercomputer Authority, $250,000 to the Music Hall of Fame, and $200,000 to the Public Library Service for the Supreme Court Law Library.