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.
County and Municipal Government first Amendment Offered
Pending third reading on day 26 Favorable from Governmental Affairs
County and Municipal Government second Amendment Offered
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar
Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs
Engrossed
Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 764
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 763
C&MG Amendment #2 Offered
Motion to Adopt adopted Roll Call 762
County and Municipal Government Amendment #1 Offered
Third Reading Passed
Read for the second time and placed on the calendar 2 amendments
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on County and Municipal Government
Source: Alabama Legislature