HB38 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Jim Hill Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Indigent Defense Advisory Boards, immunity for board members, annual meetings required, governing rules to be adopted by the Office of Indigent Defense Services, Sec. 15-12-4 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, a voluntary indigent defense advisory board is created in each judicial circuit to analyze, study, and determine the method of indigent defense systems to be used in the circuit.

This bill would require the advisory board to meet at least once a year rather than once a quarter, would provide civil immunity for actions taken by the advisory board, and would authorize the Office of Indigent Defense Services to adopt rules to be followed by the advisory board.

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Subjects

Crimes and Offenses