HB549 Alabama 2021 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Allen TreadawayRepresentative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2021

Title

Emergency management, clarifies that emergency management personnel provide public safety services, Sec. 31-9-3 am'd.

Summary

HB549 clarifies that emergency management personnel provide public safety services as part of Alabama's emergency management.

What This Bill Does

HB549 amends the emergency management statute to explicitly include public safety functions in the definition of Emergency Management. It lists examples such as firefighting, police services, medical and health services, rescue, evacuation, communications, radiological/chemical defense, and other civilian protection activities as part of emergency management. The change clarifies the scope of emergency management at state and local levels without creating new agencies or funding. It aims to ensure emergency management responsibilities cover essential public safety services.

Who It Affects

• Emergency management personnel and agencies whose duties include public safety services; their responsibilities are clarified to include these functions within emergency management.
• Local governments and public safety organizations (e.g., fire, police, EMS) whose emergency management activities are recognized as part of emergency management.

Key Provisions

• Provision 1: Amends Section 31-9-3 to explicitly define Emergency Management as including public safety services, with an enumerated list of examples (firefighting, police, medical/health, rescue, evacuation, communications, radiological/chemical defense, etc.).
• Provision 2: Establishes the act's effective date as the first day of the third month following its passage and the Governor's approval.

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Subjects

Emergency Management