HB459 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Earl F. Hilliard

Democrat

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Schools, public schools K-12, new construction to include a safe room or hallway approved by Building Commission, Education Department to coordinate with Building Commission to implement

Description

Existing law does not require public school buildings to have a specific tornado safe space.

This bill would require any new construction of a public K-12 school to include a Federal Emergency Management Agency approved safe room or hallway.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Education