HB733 Alabama 2010 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Alan Harper

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2010

Title

Pickens Co., drug enforcement fee in certain cases in circuit, district, and municipal courts, authorized, distrib. to district attorney drug enforcement fund

Summary

HB733 creates a drug enforcement fee in Pickens County courts and lays out how the money is split to fund law enforcement and drug-enforcement efforts.

What This Bill Does

The bill adds a drug enforcement fee in all juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases in Pickens County circuit, district, and municipal courts. Fees are $20 for non-drug cases, $75 for misdemeanor drug cases, and $100 for felony drug cases. Money is distributed monthly: $5 stays with the court clerk as an admin fee; $10 from municipal court cases goes to the municipality's law enforcement fund; $10 from circuit/district court cases goes to the Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund; the remaining amount goes to the Pickens County Drug Enforcement Fund managed by the district attorney to support the drug task force and related enforcement activities. The fee is in addition to other costs and is collected in all relevant cases, even if the defendant is not found guilty, and it cannot be waived unless all other costs are waived. The act becomes effective on the first day of the third month after it is signed by the Governor.

Who It Affects

• Defendants in Pickens County juvenile, traffic, criminal, and quasi-criminal cases will pay the new drug enforcement fee, with the amount depending on case type.
• Local law enforcement and court-related entities in Pickens County will receive portions of the fee (municipal police funds, Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund, and the clerk’s administrative fee) and support from the district attorney’s Drug Enforcement Fund for enforcement activities.

Key Provisions

• Imposes a drug enforcement fee in Pickens County courts: $20 for non-drug cases, $75 for misdemeanor drug cases, and $100 for felony drug cases.
• Distributes the fee monthly as follows: $5 to the court clerk as administrative fee; $10 to municipal police funds for municipal cases; $10 to the Sheriff’s Law Enforcement Fund for circuit/district cases; the remainder to the Pickens County Drug Enforcement Fund for the district attorney to support the drug task force and related law enforcement needs.
• Creates the Pickens County Drug Enforcement Fund, to be managed by the District Attorney for the 24th Judicial Circuit, to pay for the drug task force’s expenses, required grant matching funds, salaries, and other law enforcement purposes.
• Requires the fee to be collected in all cases where costs are assessed, including guilty verdicts, bond forfeitures, penalties, warrants, or any other case, and it cannot be waived unless all other costs are waived.
• Effective date: the act becomes law on the first day of the third month after passage and governor’s approval.

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Subjects

Pickens County