🚨 ALABAMA PARENTS & EDUCATORS: PAY ATTENTION 🚨

Alabama Senate Bill 4 (SB 4) — the national LifeWise playbook — is now in Alabama and pending in the Senate Education Policy Committee.

🔎 Read the bill text yourself:
👉 https://legiscan.com/AL/text/SB4/id/3257820/Alabama-2026-SB4-Introduced.pdf

This is not new policy.
SB 4 is boilerplate “may → shall” legislation mirroring the same national model used state-by-state to scale programs like LifeWise Academy.

States like Ohio, Oklahoma, Iowa, Indiana, and Montana have already been pushed to make released-time religious instruction mandatory following coordinated LifeWise-backed legislative campaigns.

📌 Important context: this already failed in Alabama last year.
In the 2025 session, lawmakers introduced HB 342 (Rep. Susan DuBose), which would have required school boards to adopt religious release-time policies. That bill failed in committee after lawmakers raised concerns about local control and disruption to the school day.
A companion bill, SB 229 (Sen. Shay Shelnutt), was also introduced — and did not advance.

SB 4 is the same policy effort, refiled.

📌 Here’s what that means — plainly:

Alabama law already allows religious release time.
SB 4 makes it MANDATORY.

Right now, local school boards may adopt a released-time policy.
SB 4 says they SHALL.

That single word removes local control and forces every public school district to create a pathway for religious instruction during the school day — whether communities want it or not.

⚠️ SB 4 would REQUIRE districts to:
• Adopt a released-time religious instruction policy
• Allow students to leave campus during the school day
• Count religious instruction as school attendance
• Build it into schedules as an elective-credit option

This is not neutral housekeeping.
This is institutionalizing religious instruction inside the public school day statewide.

✉️ TAKE ACTION
📣 Contact members of the Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee and tell them to OPPOSE SB 4.

📎 Committee contact list:
👉https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HwNkjLalC67XT6RNanLCl26ic3W9y7H3DNn_JSj5a_A/edit?usp=sharing

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