SB367 Alabama 2021 Session

This bill would require the installation of drinking fountains, water coolers, or water bottle filling stations in certain public K-12 school buildings

This bill would require schools to allow students, teachers, and staff to use the drinking fountains, water coolers, or water bottle filling stations

This bill would set requirements for the number of drinking fountains, water coolers, or filling stations and the maintenance of those filling stations

This bill would also regulate the use of water bottles by students, teachers, and staff of public K-12 schools

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended by Amendment 890, 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. 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 drinking water in public K-12 schools; to require the installation of drinking fountains, water coolers, or water bottle filling stations in certain public K-12 school buildings; and to regulate the use of drinking fountains, water coolers, water bottle filling stations, and water bottles by individuals in public K-12 schools; 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, as amended by Amendment 890, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended.