SB543 Alabama 2010 Session

This bill would relate to the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Commission and the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center and would further provide for the members of the commission and the operation of the commission and center. The bill would authorize the commission to charge fees for information related to noncriminal background checks, establish the crime of misuse of ACJIC information, authorize the commission to establish the Alabama Statistical Analysis Center, authorize research and development. The bill would authorize any licensing agency to conduct a background check. The bill would also authorize the interstate exchange of criminal history information and ratify the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact

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. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in Amendment 621

To amend Sections 41-9-590, 41-9-591, 41-9-592, 41-9-594, 41-9-595, 41-9-596, 41-9-597, 41-9-600, 41-9-601, 41-9-621 to 41-9-623, inclusive, and 41-9-630, Code of Alabama 1975; to further provide for the operation, powers, and duties of the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Commission and the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center; to further provide for crimes and penalties related to violations; to authorize any licensing agency to conduct a background check; to authorize the interstate exchange of criminal history information and to ratify the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901.