HB603 Alabama 2025 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Chip BrownRepresentative

Republican

Session

2025 Regular Session

Title

Alabama Resilience Council

Summary

HB603 would make the Alabama Resilience Council a permanent, appointed advisory group in the executive branch and create a Chief Resilience Officer to lead a statewide resilience plan and risk assessment.

What This Bill Does

If passed, the bill establishes the Alabama Resilience Council as a permanent entity within the executive branch and sets its rules, duties, and procedures. It creates a Chief Resilience Officer to coordinate council activities and develop the statewide resilience plan and risk assessment. The plan must include a comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment, a prioritized list of resilience actions, an implementation strategy, and regular updates, with an initial plan due within two years and updates every two years.

Who It Affects

• State government agencies and the Governor: become voting members of the council and participate in coordinated resilience planning and decision-making.
• Private sector and Alabama residents: encouraged to participate and benefit from increased resilience planning, awareness, risk information, and potential shared resources and funding opportunities.

Key Provisions

• Establishes the Alabama Resilience Council as a permanent, appointed advisory group within the executive branch and outlines its rules, duties, and procedures.
• Authorizes the Governor to appoint a Chief Resilience Officer to coordinate the council and lead development, maintenance, and implementation of the statewide resilience plan.
• Requires a statewide resilience plan and a statewide comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment, including evaluation of impacts from extreme weather and disasters and consideration of future scenarios.
• Defines council membership: voting members include the Governor and heads of specified state agencies; non-voting members include federal and other partners; ensures diverse representation.
• Outlines council duties: develop resilience strategies, enhance public awareness, engage private sector participation, simplify risk information for non-technical audiences, pursue funding, and support hazard mitigation planning.
• Specifies Chief Resilience Officer duties: inventory resilience assets, identify collaboration opportunities, review programs, improve data communication, pursue funding, and coordinate with state agencies.
• Requires the statewide resilience plan to include risk and vulnerability assessment components, resilience actions with costs and timelines, and an implementation strategy with roles and metrics.
• Plan initial completion within two years of the Governor appointing the Chief Resilience Officer and updates at least every two years; effective date is October 1, 2025.

AI-generated summary using openai/gpt-5-nano on Feb 22, 2026. May contain errors — refer to the official bill text for accuracy.