AL SB145

State Emergency Management Agency must develop uniform guidelines by December 31, 2020, in cooperation with the Alabama Association of Emergency Managers and Association of County Commissions of Alabama, for identifying and volunteering safer place facilities during severe weather events.

Guidelines must include methods for notifying communities about safer places, an application process for property owners/entities to volunteer structures, and descriptions of appropriate use and availability conditions.

Safer place facilities must be nondiscriminatory based on race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, or religion, and facility owners are not required to provide staff, food, water, medicine, electricity, air conditioning, or other services.

No state or local government entity may provide compensation or financial support to individuals or entities for designating or operating a safer place facility.

Individuals using safer place facilities assume all risks and do not acquire invitee or licensee status, and volunteers operating facilities are protected under Alabama's Volunteer Service Act.