HB91 Alabama 2013 Session

Under existing law, each local board of education is required to adopt a comprehensive school safety plan and to conduct safety and security drills.

This bill would require that the comprehensive school safety plan include a specific code red school safety plan for events involving acts of violence or the threat of violence.

This bill would include safety, security, severe weather, fire, and code red drills within the collective designation of an emergency drill.

This bill would provide for the designation of a code red safety alert level for a school experiencing perceived immediate threats to the school involving acts of violence, such as terrorism, a person possessing a firearm or a deadly weapon, or any other threat of violence.

This bill would provide for code red school safety drills at the beginning of each semester of the school year.

This bill would also require emergency drills, in lieu of fire drills, as required by the State Fire Marshal, to be conducted at least once each month in K-12 educational institutions.

To amend Sections 16-1-44 and 36-19-10, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to school safety plans and mandatory fire drills; to require the inclusion of a code red school safety plan in the comprehensive school safety plan to address events involving acts of violence or the threat of violence; to designate safety, security, severe weather, fire, and code red drills collectively as emergency drills; to provide for the designation of a code red safety alert level for a school experiencing perceived immediate threats of violence; to provide for code red school safety drills at the beginning of each school semester; and to require emergency drills, in lieu of fire drills, as required by the State Fire Marshal, to be conducted at least once each month in K-12 educational institutions.