HB106 Alabama 2016 Session

This bill would require existing non-volunteer fire departments in the state that have firefighters on duty eight hours or more per day to install in the fire station building, within five years of the effective date of this act, a diesel exhaust system that captures the apparatus exhaust

This bill would require any new construction of a fire station to include in the design the installation of a diesel exhaust system, or if the design process is complete and construction has already commenced, this bill would require a diesel exhaust system be installed within five years of the effective date of this act

This bill would exempt a fire station with an existing filter-type system unless the system needs replacing

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama 1901 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 general law would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621

If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue

Relating to non-volunteer fire departments; to require a diesel exhaust system be installed in the fire station building within a certain time frame and under certain conditions; to provide exemptions; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds.