SB 22 — Relating to Emergency Management; to amend Section 31-9-10, Code of Alabama 1975, to provide contract letting requirements for local emergency management organizations; to amend Section 31-9-60, Code of Alabama 1975, to increase supplemental funding for assistance to local emergency management organizations; to amend 31-9-61, Code of Alabama 1975, to establish standards for course work for local emergency management director certification; to amend Section 31-9-62, Code of Alabama 1975, to change salary supplements for local emergency management directors and revise local emergency management organization eligibility for federal funds; and to make nonsubstantive, technical revisions to update the existing code language to current style.

SB22 ENGROSSEDENROLLED 6YTL3Z-26YTL3Z-3 By SenatorsSenator Jones,Jones Chesteen RFD:

07-Mar-23 PFD:2023 Regular Session Page 0 SB22 Enrolled Enrolled, An Act, 3 Relating to Emergency Management;

23-Feb-23 Page 0 SB22 Engrossed 2 4 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT 8 Relating to Emergency Management;

"§31-9-10 (a) Each political subdivision of this state is hereby authorized and directed to shall establish a local organization for emergency management in accordance with the state emergency management plan and program and may confer or Page 1 SB22 Engrossed authorize the conferring, upon members of the auxiliary police, the powers of peace officers, subject to such restrictions as shall be imposed.

The governing body of the political subdivision is authorized to appoint a director, who shall have direct responsibility for the organization, administration, and Page 1 SB22 Enrolled operation of such the local organization for emergency management, subject to the direction and control of such the governing body.

(2) To appoint, employ, remove, or provide, with or without compensation, air raid wardens, rescue teams, auxiliary fire and police personnel, and other emergency Page 2 SB22 Engrossed management workers;

(3) To establish Establish a primary and one or more Page 2 SB22 Enrolled secondary control centers to serve as command posts during an emergency, and to coordinate with other political subdivisions to establish the same.

To waive procedure and formalities otherwise required by law pertaining to the performance of public work, entering into contracts, the incurring of obligations, the employment of temporary workers, the utilization of volunteer workers, the rental of equipment, the purchase and distribution with or without compensation of supplies, materials, and facilities, and the appropriation and expenditure of public funds.Notwithstanding Article 3 of Chapter 16 of Title 41, let contracts to the extent necessary Page 3 SB22 Engrossed to address the conditions described in Section 31-9-2(a), provided that the governing body does the following:

Adopts a resolution or ordinance declaring the Page 3 SB22 Enrolled conditions, the action taken, and the reasons for taking the action.

If a public safety curfew is imposed as authorized herein, it shall be enforced by the appropriate law 95 enforcement agency within the political subdivision.

A public safety curfew imposed under this subsection subdivision shall not apply to employees of utilities, cable, and telecommunications companies and their contractors engaged in activities necessary to maintain or restore utility, cable, 95 and or telecommunications services or to official emergency management personnel engaged in emergency management activities.

Page 4 SB22 Engrossed (c)(1) In the event the Governor or the Legislature proclaims a state of emergency affecting a political subdivision as set forth in Section 31-9-8, the chair or president of the governing body of the political subdivision may execute a resolution on behalf of the governing body Page 4 SB22 Enrolled declaring that any of the conditions described in Section 31-9-2(a) has occurred or is imminently likely to occur.

The officer shall return the firearm to the individual before discharging releasing that Page 5 SB22 Engrossed individual unless the officer arrests that individual for engaging in criminal activity or seizes the firearm as evidence pursuant to an investigation for the commission of a crime or, at the discretion of the officer, the individual poses a threat to himself or herself or to others." Page 5 SB22 Enrolled "§31-9-60 (a) There is established a Local Emergency Management Agency Assistance Fund to provide supplemental funding for local emergency management agencies organizations created and operating under Section 31-9-10, for the purposes and under the conditions set out in this article.

The local emergency management agency organization supplement shall be funded by an annual allocation from the budget of the State of Alabama Emergency Management Agency sufficient to make annual disbursements up to twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) seventeen thousand dollars ($17,000),($17,000) or up to the amount as adjusted by the Consumer Price Index pursuant to Section 31-9-62(f), for each local emergency management agency organization in the state certified as meeting the criteria and procedures for payment as set out in this article.

Page 6 SB22 Engrossed (2) b.

Two hundred hours of course work in emergency management as recommended by the Alabama Association of Emergency Managers and approved established by the Director of Page 6 SB22 Enrolled the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.

(a) (b)(1) Each state-recognized local emergency management agency organization that employs and retains a Page 7 SB22 Engrossed local emergency management director who completes the requirements to be a certified local emergency management director and is so designated by the Director of the Alabama Emergency Management Agency certified local emergency management director shall receive an annual salary supplement from the Alabama Emergency Management Agency in an amount Page 7 SB22 Enrolled necessary to provide the local director with a total salary of forty thousand dollars ($40,000) per year.

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(b) If the amount of the supplement provided in subsection (a) is less than twelve thousand dollars ($12,000), Page 8 SB22 Enrolled the local agency shall be eligible for the additional allocation of federal funds as provided in subsection (c).

These funds shall be divided equally among those the state-recognized local emergency management agencies organizations qualifying as provided hereinthat employ and retain a certified local emergency Page 9 SB22 Engrossed management director.

However, the total supplement received by Page 9 SB22 Enrolled any local agency from the provisions of subsection (a) and the additional allocation of federal funds provided in this subsection shall not exceed a total of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per year.

Any funds appropriated shall be budgeted and allotted pursuant to the Budget Management Act in accordance with Article 4 (commencing with Section 41-4-80) of Chapter 4 of Title 41, and only in the amounts provided by the Legislature in the general appropriations act or other appropriations act.act." Section 2.

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DepartmentPage 10 SB22 Enrolled ________________________________________________ President and Presiding Officer of Labor,the BureauSenate ________________________________________________ Speaker of Laborthe Statistics."House Sectionof 2.Representatives SB22 Senate 04-Apr-23 I hereby certify that the within Act originated in and passed the Senate, as amended.

ThisPatrick actHarris, shallSecretary. become effective on the first day of the third month following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

PageHouse 10of SB22Representatives EngrossedAmended Senate Read for the first time and referredpassed: ................07-Mar-23 to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund Read for the second time and placed ................21-Mar-23 on the calendar:

127-Apr-23 amendmentSenate Readconcurred forin theHouse thirdamendment time02-May-23 andBy: passed ................04-Apr-23 as amended Yeas 29 Nays 0 Abstains 0 Patrick Harris, Secretary.

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