Alabama SB137: 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

What the bill says

An Act, To create the Alabama Resilience Council as an appointed advisory group within the executive branch of state government, and to provide for the rules, duties, and procedures of the council; to authorize appointment of, and provide for the responsibilities of, a Chief Resilience Officer; to require a statewide resilience plan that includes a statewide comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment; and to create the Office of Risk and Resilience within the Department of Insurance.

From the enrolled text:

An Act, To create the Alabama Resilience Council as an appointed advisory group within the executive branch of state government, and to provide for the rules, duties, and procedures of the council; to authorize appointment of, and provide for the responsibilities of, a Chief Resilience Officer; to require a statewide resilience plan that includes a statewide comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment; and to create the Office of Risk and Resilience within the Department of Insurance. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA: Section 1. The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Alabama is susceptible to various natural and manmade disaster events, posing threats to the safety of its citizens, integrity of its infrastructure, prospects for its economic growth, and maintenance and protection of its unique natural resources. These threats also pose significant fiscal and operational risks to functions of the state and local government. (2) For the purposes of this act, the term "resilience" shall be considered the capacity of individuals, communities, businesses, and systems to anticipate, prepare for, adapt to, and rapidly recover from adverse events. For the purposes of this act, resilience shall be guided by five principles: (i) individual responsibility; (ii) collective continuity and function; (iii) factual assessment of risk; (iv) integrated Page function; (iii) factual assessment of risk; (iv) integrated SB137 Enrolled resilience efforts; …

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