Under existing law, the Alabama Board of Athletic Trainers oversees the licensure of athletic trainers. This bill would create the Athletic Trainer Secondary School Incentive Program, administered by the board, to incentivize the recruitment and retention of athletic trainers in rural and Title I secondary schools. This bill would allow the board to adopt rules relating to the administration of the program, and to award grants to qualifying local boards of education, and would cap the total amount of stipends that may be awarded per school year. This bill would allow a local board of education to apply for a grant if certain criteria are met. This bill would require grants awarded to local boards of education to be issued as stipends to athletic trainers who provide the required athletic training services. This bill would also limit each secondary school to one grant per school year, and each athletic trainer to one stipend per school year, and provide that if more than one athletic trainer provided athletic training services to a school, that any grant be HB388 HB388 INTRODUCED INTRODUCED divided among them.

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Introduced: 34-40-2