SB176 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Senate Bill

Expired

Current Status

Regular Session 2017

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Clay Scofield
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: State departments or agencies, state employees and contractors with access to federal tax information, current and applicants, subject to state and national criminal history records checks, fingerprints required, request to be made to ALEA, fees, reports of results returned to departments or agencies, confidential and excluded from public record public disclosure requirements
Description: In order to continue receiving federal tax information from the Internal Revenue Service, the Service’s guidelines now require that state departments conduct criminal history records checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on state employees and contractors who have access to federal tax information. Pursuant to the requirements of Public Law 92-544, states must authorize criminal history records checks by the Bureau on employees or contractors through legislation.
This bill will authorize state departments and agencies to process Bureau history checks on employees and contractors through the procedures of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency.
Subjects: State Agencies