SB226 Alabama 2011 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Cam Ward

Republican

Co-Sponsor

Gerald O. Dial

Session

Regular Session 2011

Title

Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center Commission and the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center, members, operation, powers, duties, fees, information relating to homeland security, crime of misuse of ACJIC information established, Statistical Analysis Center established, National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact ratified and implemented, Secs. 41-9-590, 41-9-591, 41-9-592, 41-9-594, 41-9-595, 41-9-597, 41-9-600, 41-9-601, 41-9-621, 41-9-622, 41-9-623, 41-9-625, 41-9-630 am'd.

Description

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, including the providing of information relating to homeland security. 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 and authorize research and development.

The bill would also ratify and provide for the implementation of the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Act relating to the authorized interstate exchange of criminal information for noncriminal purposes and would authorize any licensing agency or board to require a criminal background check as a part of its licensing requirements.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, 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 the amendment. 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 the amendment.

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Subjects

Criminal Justice Information Center