AlabamaAlabama law directs officials to coordinate statewide resilience planning
Starting October 1, 2026, the law directs state officials to coordinate resilience work and prepare a plan to assess risks and guide action.
What it does
Alabama law provides for a state council and a Chief Resilience Officer to coordinate government, community, and business work on risks.
The Chief Resilience Officer must assess statewide risks and set out ranked actions, community preparedness steps, and a way to carry out and track the work.
Alabama law provides a fund for resilience work and an insurance department office to develop and carry out risk and resilience programs.
Argument forA statewide risk review may help officials and residents prepare by identifying vulnerable communities and sharing ways to reduce hazards.
Argument againstOfficials may have to choose among competing risks, since the plan must rank actions by costs, benefits, and expected results.
More detail
Alabama law provides for an appointed council to coordinate resilience work and a Chief Resilience Officer to lead statewide planning. The council includes state agency leaders or their designees and Governor-appointed, nonvoting representatives from specified sectors. Its membership must reflect the state's diversity. The Commissioner of Insurance designates the Chief Resilience Officer within the Department of Insurance. The council begins when the Governor rescinds Executive Order No. 736.
The Chief Resilience Officer must prepare and maintain a statewide plan for assessing risks and guiding resilience work. The plan covers hazards and risks to Alabama communities, infrastructure, the economy, the environment, government functions, and natural systems. The plan must include a risk review, ranked actions, community preparedness strategies, and a way to carry out and track the work. Actions using natural features receive priority when they are cost-effective and have long-term advantages over alternatives. The initial plan is due within two years after the law takes effect. It must be reviewed and updated at least every two years.
Alabama law provides for a fund to support resilience work and an Office of Risk and Resilience within the Department of Insurance. The fund supports the council and Chief Resilience Officer. The office works within the Department of Insurance. The fund may receive federal, state, or private money, but spending must follow applicable law and appropriation rules. The office develops and carries out risk and resilience programs. The commissioner appoints its senior director and may hire staff. The law takes effect October 1, 2026.
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- Introduced
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Apr 17EnactedBecame Law
- Apr 8Livingston Motion to Concur In and Adopt House Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1228Major
- Vote recorded Livingston Motion to Concur In and Adopt House Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1228. Result: pass.Upper
- Apr 8Ready to Enroll
- Apr 8EnrolledTo Governor
- Apr 8Signature Requested
- Apr 8Delivered to GovernorMinor
- Apr 7Third Reading in Second House
- Vote recorded Third Reading in Second House. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1241. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1240. Result: pass.Lower
- Vote recorded Brown motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 1239. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 7Ways and Means General Fund Engrossed Substitute Offered (Ways and Means General Fund)Minor
- Apr 7Brown motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 1239Major
- Apr 7Brown 1st Substitute OfferedMinor
- Apr 7Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1240Major
- Apr 7Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1241Passed House
- Mar 11Reported Out of Committee Second House (Ways and Means General Fund)
- Mar 11Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Ways and Means General Fund)Minor
- Feb 5Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (State Government)Minor
- Feb 5Re-referred to Committee in Second House (Ways and Means General Fund)Minor
- Feb 4Reported Out of Committee Second House (State Government)
- Jan 27Third Reading in House of Origin
- Vote recorded Third Reading in House of Origin. Result: pass.Upper
- Vote recorded Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 157. Result: pass.Upper
- Jan 27Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 157Passed Senate
- Jan 27Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on State GovernmentMinor
- Jan 27Pending Committee Action in Second House (State Government)
- Jan 21Reported Out of Committee House of Origin
- Jan 21Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)Minor
- Jan 14Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic DevelopmentMinor
- Jan 14Pending Committee Action in House of Origin (Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development)Introduced
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