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SB184 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021
SB184 Alabama 2017 Session
Senate Bill
Expired
Current Status
Regular Session 2017
Session
1
Sponsor

Summary

Session
Regular Session 2017
Title
Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission, education requirement to become a law enforcement officer amended to include nonpublic education, Sec. 36-21-46 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, applicants for appointment as law enforcement officers are required to be graduates of State Department of Education accredited or approved high schools or to possess a high school equivalency certificate issued by general educational development.

This bill would include graduation from a nonpublic education program as qualifying education for applying to become a law enforcement officer in the state.

Subjects
Peace Officers' Standards and Training Commission

Bill Actions

H

Pending third reading on day 11 Favorable from Public Safety and Homeland Security

H

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

H

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security

S

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 126

S

Third Reading Passed

S

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

S

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Governmental Affairs

Bill Text

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

February 23, 2017 Senate Passed
Yes 24
Absent 11

Documents

Source: Alabama Legislature