A proposed health care sciences-focused high school championed by Gov. Kay Ivey for more than a year would be created under a bill filed recently.

The bill’s filing by Rep. Cynthia Almond, R-Tuscaloosa, and Sen. Bobby Singleton D-Greensboro, came after the results of a feasibility study on the school were published. Among the findings of that study, which lawmakers commissioned for $500,000 last September, was that Demopolis was the ideal location for the school, as Ivey had originally proposed.

“It addresses the state’s need for health care workers, and that’s really something that’s trying to directly address the problem we’ve identified as a body,” Almond told Alabama Daily News on Thursday. “So I’m very excited to get behind anything trying to address the problems that we have.”