Title 16

(a) Any provision of this chapter or of any other statute or rule to the contrary notwithstanding, the employment of a teacher whose certificate is revoked by the State Superintendent of Education pursuant to Section 16-23-5, shall thereby be summarily terminated. (b) If a convic…

No public K-12 teacher shall be permitted to terminate his or her employment within 30 calendar days before the first day of the next school term for students, unless the termination is mutually agreed upon. A public K-12 teacher may terminate his or her employment at any other t…

An employee who has attained tenure or nonprobationary status and has been denied a hearing before an employer subject to the requirements of this chapter may appeal for relief directly to the Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Office of Administrative Hearings, Division of Ad…

(a) Leave of absence for a period of one year for good cause may be granted to an employee by an employer without impairing the tenured or nonprobationary status of the employee. For valid reason, the employer may extend the leave of absence for one additional year. (b) Leave of …

(a)(1) Employees who have attained tenured status under the Teacher Tenure Law or nonprobationary status under the Fair Dismissal Act as of July 1, 2011, in the case of tenured teachers, shall be deemed tenured teachers under this chapter and, in the case of nonprobationary emplo…

The purpose of this chapter is to improve the quality of public education in the State of Alabama by doing all of the following: (1) Providing for fundamental fairness and due process to employees covered by this chapter. (2) Restoring primary authority and responsibility for mai…

For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. The chief administrative and executive officer of an entity, institution, agency, or political subdivision of the state that is subject to this chapter and includes, …

No action may be proposed or approved based upon personal or political reasons on the part of the employer, chief executive officer, or governing board. A teacher shall attain tenure, and a classified employee shall attain nonprobationary status as follows: (1) Except as otherwis…

(a) Probationary classified employees who are not employees of a two-year educational institution operated under the authority and control of the Department of Postsecondary Education may be terminated at the discretion of the employer upon written recommendation of the chief exe…

(a) Tenured teachers and nonprobationary classified employees may be terminated at any time because of a justifiable decrease in the number of positions or for incompetency, insubordination, neglect of duty, immorality, failure to perform duties in a satisfactory manner, or other…

(a) Except as otherwise specified, employees may be transferred or reassigned at any time as the needs of the employer require to any position for which they are qualified by skill, training, or experience by the president of a two-year educational institution alone or upon the r…

Whenever this chapter affords an employee the right to be heard by the governing board or the president of a two-year institution under the authority and control of the Department of Postsecondary Education before a decision on the recommendation of the chief executive officer or…

Nothing in this chapter shall restrict the authority of the chief executive officer or the president of a two-year institution under the authority and control of the Department of Postsecondary Education to place an employee on paid administrative leave or to make reasonable and …

For the purposes of this chapter the following terms, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following respective meanings: (1) RETIREMENT SYSTEM. The Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama as defined in Section 16-25-2. (2) PUBLIC SCHOOL. A…

(a) All employees of city and county boards of education and special schools under the direct control of the State Board of Education now covered in the Employees’ Retirement System of Alabama under the provisions of Section 36-27-6 who would have been eligible for coverage in th…

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Association of School Boards may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whatever source and in wha…

(a) The governing body of any local union or state organization of the American Federation of Teachers may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its officers and employees, from …

(a) The governing body of the School Superintendents of Alabama, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, may elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whatever source and in whatev…

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Higher Education Partnership, Inc., by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, may elect to have its officers and employees, from whatever source and in whateve…

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Council for School Administration and Supervision may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whate…

(a) The governing body of the Alabama Vocational Association may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whatever source and in whatever …

(a) The governing board of the Alabama Congress of Parents and Teachers may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whatever source and i…

(a) The governing board of the Alabama Opportunities Industrialization Center may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and employees, from whatever source…

Any person now serving as an elected superintendent of education in this state may become a member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama within 90 days after the ratification of an amendment to the Constitution of Alabama 1901 allowing elected superintendents of education…

(a) Any governing body of any community action agency organized pursuant to Sections 11-80-4.1, 11-96-3 or 11-96-6 may by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System elect to have its executive officers …

(a) The governing body of the Developing Alabama Youth Foundation may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to the rules prescribed by the Board of Control of the Teachers’ Retirement System, elect to have its executive officers and full-time employees, from whatever source a…

(a) This section shall apply only to the employees and executive staff members of the Tennessee Valley Rehabilitation Center, Inc., who were active and contributing members of the Teachers’ Retirement System on August 1, 1994 through John C. Calhoun Community College. (b) The Boa…

(a) Under such rules and regulations as the Board of Control shall adopt, each person who was a teacher prior to October 1, 1940, and who under the provisions of this chapter makes up contributions plus eight percent compound interest on such contributions for the time said teach…

Teachers, as defined in subdivision (3) of Section 16-25-1 or subsection (d) of Section 16-25-5, as amended may use their accrued sick leave, up to a maximum number of accrued sick leave days allowed by law, to be included as membership service in determining the total years of c…

(a) Active and contributing members of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed eight years for any period of prior service while they were full-time employees of an employer who is authorized to join the system pursuant to…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may purchase credit in the Teachers’ Retirement System for prior service with the Alabama State Council on the Arts if the member has not received credit in the system for the same prior service and has not…

THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2022-424 IN THE 2022 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2022. TO SEE THE AMENDED VERSION, SEE THE VERSION LABELED PENDING. (a) Any provision of this chapter, to the contrary notwithstanding, active and contributing members of the Teachers’ Retireme…

Terminated. (Acts 1997, No. 97-637, p. 1163, §1; Act 2001-1101, 4th Sp. Sess., p. 1162, §1.)

(a) Active and contributing members of the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) or the Employees’ Retirement System (ERS) may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed eight years for any period of prior service while they were full-time employees of an employer …

(a)(1) Any person who, as of July 1, 1990, is an officer or a regular employee of an employer participating in the Teachers’ Retirement System and who has previously been employed by another employer eligible for participation in the Employees’ Retirement System pursuant to Secti…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed two years for prior service as a full-time employee of the Southeastern Educational Laboratory Program for the period of time between Septem…

(a) An active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System who has 10 years of creditable service in the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama may purchase up to four years service credit in the system for prior service rendered as a full-time employee with the Dep…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System or the Employees’ Retirement System may elect to purchase prior service credit in the system for employment that the member had with the United States Civil Service at any military base of the United States…

(a) Any active, vested, and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed 8 years for prior service as a full-time employee of the Federal Bureau of Mines. The certification of prior service claimed under …

(a) Whenever used in this section, all words and phrases defined in Section 36-27-1, shall have the same meanings ascribed to them in such section, unless the context clearly indicates that a different meaning is intended. (b) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ R…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System may claim and purchase service credit in the system for any prior service described and limited as follows: (1) Not more than one year for time spent on medical leave approved by the state or local employer…

(a) Any active, vested, and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System who has been employed in public education for a minimum of 10 years may claim and purchase service credit in the system not to exceed five years for prior service between 1974 and 1989 rendered to …

(a) All employees of state junior colleges and state technical colleges who have been in such service for five years or more and who are participating in the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama on May 4, 1989, may elect to purchase credit for any time they were on leave of abs…

(a) Any acting and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama may elect to purchase credit for prior service rendered as a full-time employee in the office of a clerk of the circuit court in the State of Alabama or as a full-time employee with the Alabama S…

(a) Any active and contributing member of the Teachers’ Retirement System of Alabama shall be eligible to receive up to five years of creditable service for employment in a support personnel position in the State of Alabama, if the member claiming the credit has not less than 10 …