Alabama House Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter (R) has introduced a measure that would require all schools in the state to start the day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

The legislation, known as House Bill 399, would shift oversight of the pledge away from the state's school board, according to Al.com. Instead, state law would stipulate that every school in the state recite the pledge at the start of each day.

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“I guess this gives it some teeth,” Ledbetter, who said the school board had no way of forcing the rule, told Al.com. “It gives leaders of the schools and principals a law in place where they won’t be afraid for their students to say it.”

The Hill has reached out to the state lawmaker for additional comment.

Al.com, citing National Conference of State Legislatures, noted that 43 U.S. states currently require schools to start the day with the Pledge of Allegiance. However, a Supreme Court decision from 1943 bars schools from forcing students to stand for or recite the pledge.

Ledbetter said that the law, if passed, would not require students to recite the pledge.

"There may be some religious objections," he said, "We certainly don't want anybody made to do it. But it does keep the Pledge in our schools."

Ledbetter said he filed the bill after discovering that his granddaughter wasn't reciting the pledge despite Alabama Board of Education requirement.

The measure is scheduled for a committee hearing on Wednesday, according to the local news affiliate WHNT.