HB15 Alabama 2017 Session
Updated Jul 24, 2021
Summary
- Primary Sponsor
Barbara Bigsby BoydRepresentativeDemocrat- Session
- Regular Session 2017
- Title
- Resisting arrest, arrest only if perpetrator is concurrently arrested for a separate unrelated crime, Sec. 13A-10-41 am'd.
- Description
Under existing law, a person commits the crime of resisting arrest if he or she intentionally prevents or attempts to prevent the lawful arrest of himself or herself or of another person.
This bill would prohibit the arrest of a person for the crime of resisting arrest unless the law enforcement officer is concurrently arresting the person for a separate, unrelated crime.
- Subjects
- Arrests
Bill Actions
H
Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Bill Text
Documents
Source: Alabama Legislature