PRIA Logo™
AlabamaSB1372026 Regular SessionSenate

Alabama Resilience Council established, membership, responsibilities, and duties of council as an advisory group within the executive branch provided; appointment of Chief Resilience Officer; statewide resilience plan required

Sponsored By: Steve Livingston (Republican)

Enacted

State Government

Personalized for You

How does this bill affect your finances?

Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.

Free to download

Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

Alabama creates fund for resilience work

The law creates the Alabama Resilience Council Fund in the State Treasury to support the council and Chief Resilience Officer. The officer may receive and spend federal, state, or private money as allowed by law; no specific amount is provided. Payments require Comptroller warrants based on itemized vouchers approved by the Insurance Commissioner. Money deposited under Section 27-2-39 may be spent only as budgeted and allotted, within amounts set by appropriation acts. Unspent balances not committed to expenses carry over instead of returning to the State General Fund.

Alabama creates insurance risk planning office

The law creates the Office of Risk and Resilience within the Alabama Department of Insurance. It develops and carries out programs addressing state risks and resilience and promoting a healthy insurance market. The Insurance Commissioner appoints its senior director and may hire staff, including one employee outside the State Merit System. The commissioner sets that employee’s pay; the law provides no direct household benefit or specific funding amount.

Alabama creates statewide disaster planning leadership

The law establishes the Alabama Resilience Council to coordinate state agencies, local governments, and private groups on disaster preparedness. The council begins when the Governor rescinds Executive Order No. 736. Members include the Governor or a designee, the Chief Resilience Officer, representatives of 15 state agencies, and Governor-appointed nonvoting representatives. Membership must reflect Alabama’s racial, gender, geographic, urban, rural, and economic diversity. The Insurance Commissioner must designate a Chief Resilience Officer within the Department of Insurance. The officer coordinates the council, inventories available resources, reviews programs, improves agency data practices, and seeks funding. Under the council’s oversight and with its input, the officer must develop, maintain, and carry out a statewide resilience plan. The first plan is due within two years after the law’s effective date, with reviews and updates at least every two years afterward. It must assess risks and vulnerabilities, rank actions, address community preparedness, and explain how actions will be carried out. Priorities include cutting costs, protecting critical infrastructure, reducing future disaster harm, and using cost-effective natural features with long-term advantages. The council also shares risk information and supports hazard mitigation planning. The Alabama Emergency Management Agency remains responsible for maintaining and carrying out the state hazard mitigation plan.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Steve Livingston

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 478 • No: 2

Senate vote • 4/8/2026

Livingston Motion to Concur In and Adopt House Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1228

Yes: 26 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1241

Yes: 96 • No: 1 • Other: 6

House vote • 4/7/2026

Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1240

Yes: 95 • No: 0 • Other: 8

House vote • 4/7/2026

Third Reading in Second House

Yes: 98 • No: 0 • Other: 6

House vote • 4/7/2026

Brown motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 1239

Yes: 96 • No: 1 • Other: 6

Senate vote • 1/27/2026

Third Reading in House of Origin

Yes: 33 • No: 0

Senate vote • 1/27/2026

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 157

Yes: 34 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Enacted

    4/17/2026Senate

  2. Livingston Motion to Concur In and Adopt House Amendment - Adopted Roll Call 1228

    4/8/2026Senate

  3. Ready to Enroll

    4/8/2026Senate

  4. Enrolled

    4/8/2026Senate

  5. Signature Requested

    4/8/2026House

  6. Delivered to Governor

    4/8/2026Senate

  7. Third Reading in Second House

    4/7/2026House

  8. Ways and Means General Fund Engrossed Substitute Offered

    4/7/2026House

  9. Brown motion to Table - Adopted Roll Call 1239

    4/7/2026House

  10. Brown 1st Substitute Offered

    4/7/2026House

  11. Motion to Adopt - Adopted Roll Call 1240

    4/7/2026House

  12. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass as Amended - Adopted Roll Call 1241

    4/7/2026House

  13. Reported Out of Committee Second House

    3/11/2026House

  14. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

    3/11/2026House

  15. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

    2/5/2026House

  16. Re-referred to Committee in Second House

    2/5/2026House

  17. Reported Out of Committee Second House

    2/4/2026House

  18. Third Reading in House of Origin

    1/27/2026Senate

  19. Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass - Adopted Roll Call 157

    1/27/2026Senate

  20. Read for the first time and referred to the House Committee on State Government

    1/27/2026House

  21. Pending Committee Action in Second House

    1/27/2026House

  22. Reported Out of Committee House of Origin

    1/21/2026Senate

  23. Read for the Second Time and placed on the Calendar

    1/21/2026Senate

  24. Read for the first time and referred to the Senate Committee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

    1/14/2026Senate

  25. Pending Committee Action in House of Origin

    1/14/2026Senate

Bill Text

Related Bills

Back to State Legislation