SB394 Alabama 2017 Session

Updated Jul 24, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor: Clay Scofield
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2017
Title: Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency, traffic fatalities, traffic homicide investigator certification
Description: Under existing law, a law enforcement officer who investigates a traffic accident must file a uniform accident report within 24 hours of the officer's completion of the investigation.
This bill would require every fatality resulting from a traffic accident to be investigated by a county, municipal, or state law enforcement officer certified as a traffic homicide investigator by the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA).
This bill would provide that if a fatality resulting from a traffic accident occurs in a county or municipality that does not have a certified traffic homicide investigator, a neighboring county or municipality may provide a certified traffic homicide investigator for the investigation at no cost to the other county or municipality and would provide that if a certified traffic homicide investigator is not provided by a neighboring county or municipality, ALEA shall provide a certified traffic homicide investigator at no cost to the county or municipality.
This bill would provide general training requirements for the certification of a traffic homicide investigator.
This bill would also provide the Secretary of ALEA with rulemaking authority to implement this act.
Subjects: Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Judiciary