HB385 Summary

• Redesignates "comprehensive school safety plans" as "school emergency operations plans" and "code red school safety plans" as "school lockdown safety plans" throughout Alabama education code.

• Requires each school emergency operations plan to include four specific alert levels with defined procedures: Heightened Awareness, Secure Your Area of Responsibility, Secure Perimeter, and Lockdown.

• Mandates that school lockdown safety plans address security-related threats, fire-related threats, and severe weather-related threats with specific protocols for notification and emergency response.

• Requires principals to conduct school lockdown drills during the first six weeks of fall and spring semesters and hold annual employee training on lockdown procedures.

• Amends the fire marshal's authority to require emergency drills at schools and other public facilities to include fire drills, severe weather drills, and school lockdown drills monthly.