HB633 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Ron Johnson

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Law enforcement officers, death and disability benefits for municipal police officers, state troopers and certain other state law enforcement officers, extended to all law enforcement officers, definition of occupational disease to include cancer, AIDS, and hepatitis, Secs. 36-30-20, 36-30-21, 36-30-22, 36-30-23 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, a policeman employed by a municipality, except in Jefferson County or a municipality which has elected to be covered by workers' compensation, and a state trooper or other law enforcement officer employed by the Department of Public Safety, Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, or the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is entitled to death and disability benefits for a service connected occupational disease based on a condition or impairment caused by hypertension, heart disease, or respiratory disease.

This bill would provide that the provisions of this law would apply to any law enforcement officer with the power of arrest employed by the state or any municipality or county and would expand the definition of occupational disease to include cancer, AIDS, and hepatitis under certain conditions.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901 prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621. If this bill is not enacted by a 2/3 vote, it will not become effective with regard to a local entity unless approved by the local entity or until, and only as long as, the Legislature appropriates funds or provides for a local source of revenue.

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Subjects

Law Enforcement Officers