HB53 Alabama 2013 Session

This bill would authorize the formation of volunteer emergency security forces at public K-12 schools in the state consisting of current and retired school employees and local citizens

This bill would provide for the role of the sheriff and the chief of police in the training and supervision of emergency security forces

This bill would provide for implementation of the act by the State Department of Education and each local board of education

This bill would also provide for indemnification

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, 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 bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment

Relating to public K-12 education; to authorize the formation of volunteer emergency security forces at public schools in the state consisting of current and retired school employees and local citizens; to provide for the role of the sheriff and the chief of police in the training and supervision of emergency security forces; to provide for implementation of the act by the State Department of Education and local boards of education; to provide for indemnification; and in connection therewith to have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.