HB106 Alabama 2016 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Tommy Hanes Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2016

Title

Fire Departments, non-volunteer, diesel exhaust system installed in the fire station building, required within certain time frame and under certain conditions

Description

This bill would require existing non-volunteer fire departments in the state that have firefighters on duty eight hours or more per day to install in the fire station building, within five years of the effective date of this act, a diesel exhaust system that captures the apparatus exhaust.

This bill would require any new construction of a fire station to include in the design the installation of a diesel exhaust system, or if the design process is complete and construction has already commenced, this bill would require a diesel exhaust system be installed within five years of the effective date of this act.

This bill would exempt a fire station with an existing filter-type system unless the system needs replacing.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama 1901 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 general law would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621.

If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue.

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Subjects

Fire Departments