HB375 Alabama 2018 Session

Sponsors

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Custodial sexual misconduct, crimes further defined, community corrections program, alcohol or drug abuse court referral and treatment program included, Secs. 14-11-30, 14-11-31 am'd.

Description

<p class="bill_description"> Under existing law, a person commits the crime of custodial sexual misconduct if he or she is employed by certain governmental agencies and engages in sexual conduct with another person in the custody of the Department of Corrections, Department of Youth Services, a sheriff, a county, or a municipality</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would further define the term employee</p><p class="bill_description"> This bill would further define the crime to provide that a person commits the crime of custodial sexual misconduct if he or she is an employee and engages in sexual conduct with a person under the supervisory, disciplinary, or custodial authority of a community corrections and punishment program or an alcohol or drug abuse court referral and treatment program</p><p class="bill_description"> Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose</p><p class="bill_description"> The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment</p><p class="bill_entitled_an_act"> To amend Sections 14-11-30 and 14-11-31, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to custodial sexual misconduct; to provide further definitions; to further define the crime to protect persons under the supervisory, disciplinary, or custodial authority of a community corrections and punishment program or an alcohol or drug abuse court referral and treatment program; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended. </p>

Subjects

Crimes and Offenses