HB385 Alabama 2019 Session
Bill Summary
Under current law, each local board of education is required to adopt a comprehensive school safety plan for each school under its authority. This overarching plan must include a specific plan relating to threats to the safety of school property, students, employees, or administrators, referred to as a code red school safety plan
This bill would redesignate this comprehensive school safety plan as a school emergency operations plan, and would change terms from code red plan to school lockdown safety plan, and from code red drill to school lockdown drill, to help participants understand the reason for the plan and the drills
This bill would also require a local board of education creating or revising a school emergency operations plan to utilize the four tiers of lockdown alert level currently adopted by the State Superintendent of Education
Relating to public K-12 education and school safety plans; to amend Sections 16-1-44 and 36-19-10 of the Code of Alabama 1975; to redesignate comprehensive school safety plans as school emergency operations plans; to redesignate code red school safety plans and code red drills as school lockdown safety plans and school lockdown drills; and to require that each school lockdown safety plan include additional four-tiered specific plans of action for school personnel to follow in case of an alert.
Bill Actions
| Action Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2019 | H | Delivered to Governor at 6:26 p.m. on May 31, 2019. |
| May 31, 2019 | H | Assigned Act No. 2019-533. |
| May 31, 2019 | H | Clerk of the House Certification |
| May 31, 2019 | S | Signature Requested |
| May 31, 2019 | H | Enrolled |
| May 31, 2019 | H | Passed Second House |
| May 31, 2019 | S | Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1485 |
| May 31, 2019 | S | Third Reading Passed |
| May 31, 2019 | S | Ward motion to Carry Over to the Call of the Chair adopted Voice Vote |
| May 31, 2019 | S | Third Reading Carried Over to Call of the Chair |
| May 29, 2019 | S | Read for the second time and placed on the calendar |
| May 28, 2019 | S | Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Education Policy |
| May 23, 2019 | H | Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 1007 |
| May 23, 2019 | H | Third Reading Passed |
| April 25, 2019 | H | Read for the second time and placed on the calendar |
| April 9, 2019 | H | Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Education Policy |
Bill Calendar
| Type | Date | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hearing | May 29, 2019 | ****Room Change to Room 320**** at 10:00 | Senate ED Hearing |
| Hearing | May 29, 2019 | Room 825 at 10:00 | Senate ED Hearing |
| Hearing | April 24, 2019 | Room 206 at 13:30 | House EP Hearing |
| Hearing | April 24, 2019 | Room 206 at 14:00 | House EP Hearing |
Bill Text
Bill Votes
Bill Documents
| Type | Link |
|---|---|
| Bill Text | HB385 Alabama 2019 Session - Enrolled |
| Bill Text | HB385 Alabama 2019 Session - Introduced |