HB23 Alabama 2023 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chip Brown Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2023

Title

Relating to volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads; to make legislative findings that volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads fulfill a public purpose; to authorize volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads to purchase kitchen equipment and supplies for their stations; to authorize a tax credit for mileage to firefighters and squad members; and to specify that county commissions are not responsible for the expenditures and activities of volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads.

Description

This bill would make legislative findings that volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads are public in nature and fulfill a necessary public purpose.

This bill would provide for the health and safety of firefighters and rescue squad members by permitting volunteer fire departments and volunteer rescue squads to use restricted funds to buy kitchen equipment for the fire station and food and liquids for the nourishment of firefighters and squad members. This bill would further authorize mileage reimbursement to volunteer firefighters and volunteer rescue squad members for travel to and from a fire call or a rescue event.

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Subjects

Volunteer FIre Departments, purchase kitchen equipment, reimburse volunteer firefighters