HB426 Summary

• Railroad companies must provide and maintain heated rooms at all terminals and headquarters with wash basins, shower-baths, inside toilets, and lockers for employee use.

• Railroad companies must maintain drinking water at all permanent assembly points where maintenance-of-way employees meet at the beginning and end of work days.

• Mobile labor camps housing maintenance-of-way employees must provide heat and air conditioning, adequate wash basins/showers/toilets, lockers, potable water, minimum 80 square feet per occupant (maximum 4 per car), emergency weather radios, smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, and emergency evacuation instructions.

• The Alabama Public Service Commission shall investigate complaints about inadequate sanitary facilities and may enforce compliance through mandamus proceedings in circuit court; the State Board of Health shall adopt rules regulating mobile camps and set inspection fees based on occupant capacity in 50-person increments, with fees deposited in the State General Fund.

• Mobile camps must notify local health departments within two business days of employee arrival and permit health inspections; food preparation in commissary or cook cars requires certified food handlers and compliance with food handling guidelines.